Showing posts with label Mexican history. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Mexican history. Show all posts

UCSD Center for US-Mexican Studies: An Upcoming Talk

***UPDATE: Podcast recording of this event >>LISTEN HERE<<


This Thursday January 29 @ 3:30 PM in the Center for US-Mexican Studies at UCSD I'll be talking about my new book, Metaphysical Odyssey into the Mexican Revolution: Francisco I. Madero and His Secret Book, Spiritist Manual. 

The event is free and open to the public, and you can register here.

If you're nowhere near La Jolla CA, I invite you to  listen in anytime to the podcast of my talk about this same book for PEN San Miguel, recorded on January 13, 2015 at Bellas Artes in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico (in English).

Reviews for the book have been coming in, most recently from EZRA Translation Journal, Kirkus, and San Francisco Review of Books.  I invite you to read more about the book, plus access a cornucopia of Resources for Researchers on the book's website.

> Your COMMENTS are always welcome.




(Talk for the American Literary Translator's Association conference, 
Milkwaukee, November 2014)


El espiritismo seduce a Francisco I. Madero



(updated January 25, 2015)



Ciclo Arte, Historia y Pensamiento Jesuita at the Universidad Iberoamericana in Mexico City

Alert to all with interest in Mexican history: an excellent line-up for the conference on Jesuit Art, History and Thought at Mexico City's Iberoamericana University. To attend in person, contact arte.uia@ibero.mx; emilio.quesada@ibero.mx. You can also watch this conference live on the Internet at rtsp://192.203.177.79/broadcast/pensamiento_jesuita.mp4 
using Windows Player. 

My amiga Carmen Boone, the leading expert on the Virgen de Loreto, will be speaking about the Colegio de la Nueva Veracruz, this Thursday August 13th. 
  



 COMMENTS always welcome.


Looking at Mexico in New Ways: An Interview with John Tutino

John Tutino says, "The whole big picture of where we thought Mexico fit in the world is somewhere between wrong and mythical."

Marfa Mondays is back… put your seat belts on for this one hour in-depth interview with John Tutino, professor of History at Georgetown University and author of the award-winning paradigm-smasher Making a New World: Founding Capitalism in the Bajío and Spanish North America.

***Listen to the podcast anytime here.***

See also: My review for Literal of Tutino's two books, Making a New World and (as editor) Mexico and the Mexicans in the Making of the United States.

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COMMENTS

How Google Disrespected Mexican History


Just out: a profoundly important article by historian Richard J. Salvucci, about what happened to one of the priceless treasures of Mexican archives.

It should make us question the easy assumptions that digitalizing documents and books saves them for eternity, and so cheaply (a big argument thse days for cash-strapped libraries). Digitalization is more fragile, for both technical and economic reasons, than we often suppose-- and this story Salvucci tells about the sad odyssey of Paper of Record is a stunning example of that.

P.S. I have a deep affection and appreciation for old-fashioned libraries, having benefitted so much from so many of them. This is one of the reasons why my publishing firm, Dancing Chiva Literary Arts, while specializing mainly in e-books, will also be publishing limited editions beginning next year. I wonder whether e-books as we know them today will be around in even a few more years. Will the 2020 version of the Kindle or Nook download ancient (circa 2010) e-book libraries? Most people over the age of 25 have stories about once pricey but suddenly obsolete computers and computer paraphernalia. (Anyone still reading floppy discs?) In sum, as genuinely enthused as I am about digitalization, we must never forget the immense value of old-fashioned, you-can-actually-go-there-and-actually-touch-it archives and libraries.

More anon.