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The Consulate General of Mexico in Toronto is very pleased to announce the participation of the Mexican historian Mauricio Tenorio Trillo at the Symposium “Creating Affinities: 1810 and 1910 in Latin American Culture” with his conference “On Bicentenials and Historical Imagination”.
Mauricio Tenorio Trillo (Mexico, 1962) is a Doctor of History at the Stanford University and currently professor of History at the Chicago University. Tenorio Trillo is the author of Artilugio de la nación moderna. México en las Exposiciones universales 1880-1930 (México, FCE, 1998, Col. Historia), De cómo ignorar (México, FCE, 2000, Col. Política y Derecho), El urbanista (FCE, 2004, Col. Tezontle, literatura), and Historia y celebración. México y sus centenarios (Tusquets, 2009, historia).
The symposium is on Saturday March 6, from 9:30am to 6pm, at Jackman Humanities Building, 170 St. George Street, main floor conference room. It is organized by the Latin American Program at the University of Toronto and co-sponsored by the Centre for Comparative Literature, the Department of History, and the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at the UoT.
Admission is free, registration is necessary: http://webapp.mcis.utoronto.ca/Events.aspx
The Complete Schedule:
9:30 – 9:45 am Registration and breakfast
9:45 – 10:00 am Opening Remarks:
Eva-Lynn Jagoe, Director, Latin American Studies Program at the University
of Toronto
10:00 -11:30 am Session 1
Affinities: anniversary/populism/uncertainty/crisis
Gustavo Verdesio (University of Michigan), “Independence Day or Two
Hundred Years of Uncertainty: The Undecidability of A Date in Post-
Independence Uruguay”
Graciela Montaldo (Columbia University), “The language of Bicentennial in
Argentina”
11:30 am – 1:00 pm Session 2
Affinities: memory/forgetting/exclusion/imagining communities
Mauricio Tenorio Trillo (University of Chicago), “On Bicentennials and the
Historical Imagination”
Álvaro Fernández Bravo (CONICET, NYU in Buenos Aires), “Centennial
Divisions: Desecration, Consecration, and Civic Rituals in Latin American
Centennial Celebrations”
1:00 – 1:45 pm Lunch (to be provided on site)
1:45 – 3:15 pm Session 3
Affinities: Inheritance/Historiography/Incorporating Unseemly Pasts
Erna von der Walde (Universidad Javeriana, Bogotá), "Una montaña
impenetrable": Independence, literary history and domestic travel in the
Colombian tertulia El Mosaico”
Paul Garner (University of Leeds), The Porfiriato: Paradigm or Mirage of a
Modern Nation-State?
3:15 - 3:45 pm Coffee Break
3:45 – 5:15 pm Session 4
Affinities: Literary democracy/time/citizenship/politics
Patrick Dove (University of Indiana), “Interregnum in La revolución es un sueño
eterno: Literature, politics and history”
Juan Poblete (University of Santa Cruz), “National literature and citizenship
1810-1910: a hundred years of symbiotic asynchrony”
5:15 – 6:00 pm Discussion
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