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The Bildner Center’s Mexican Studies Group cordially invites you to the following event:
Mexico Colloquium
La Primera Fiesta Mexicana: Hacia un México de inditos, tehuanas, chinas y charros
Ricardo Pérez Montfort Edmundo O'Gorman Visiting Scholar, Columbia University
Professor of History, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
Research Professor, Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios Superiores en Antropología Social
(CIESAS)
WHEN: Friday, March 22, 2010, 4:00 PM
WHERE: The Graduate Center, Rooms 9206/9207
365 Fifth Avenue (@ 34th Street) NOTE: Prof. Pérez Montfort’s Presentation will be in Spanish About the Speaker:
Ricardo Pérez Montfort is Professor of History at Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
(UNAM), Research Professor at Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios Superiores en Antropología
Social (CIESAS), and Edmundo O’Gorman Visiting Scholar at Columbia University (2010). He
specializes in 19th and 20th century Mexican political and cultural history, and has published
seventeen books and over seventy-five articles on themes including popular movements during
the Mexican Revolution, drugs, popular culture, everyday life, nationalism, and Caribbean
culture. Recent publications include, Historiadores de México en el siglo XX (with Enrique
Florescano) (FCE, l995) Hábitos, normas y escándalo; Prensa, criminalidad y drogas durante el
porfiriato tardío (with Alberto del Castillo y Pablo Piccato, CIESAS-Plaza y Valdés, l997, Yerba,
goma y polvo. Drogas, ambientes y policías en México 1900-1940 (ERA-CONACULTA-1999),
Avatares del nacionalismo cultural (CIESAS-CIDEHM, 2000), Mexicanos entre dos siglos (with
Beatriz Paredes y Rodrígo Díaz) (Porrúa-CIESAS- Poder Legislativo, 2003), Expresiones
populares y estereotipos culturales en México, Siglos XIX y XX. Diez Ensayos. (CIESAS, México,
2007) and Cotidianidades, imaginarios y contextos: Ensayos de historia y cultura en México 1850-
1950 (CIESAS-México-2009).
Pérez Montfort has also directed a number of documentary films on Mexican history and
culture, including Siglo XX: La vida en México and Apuntes de Música Popular Mexicana (produced
by the Secretary of Public Education). In 2006, with Ana Paula de Teresa, he produced the
documentary Voces de la Chinantla, which received the prize for best Latin American
documentary at the Festival de la Memoria, Tepoztlán, Morelos (2007) and honorable mention
at the Premio Fray Bernardino de Sahagún, INAH (2008). PLEASE RESERVE by sending e-mail to [email protected]
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