Event

CENLAC (Centre for Latin America and the Caribbean), College of Science, Technology & Applied Arts of Trinidad & Tobago, the Centro de Investigaciones sobre América Latina y el Caribe, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México and the Pan-African Studies Department, University of Louisville host an international conference to mark the 100th anniversary of the Mexican Revolution: "Cien Años de la Revolución Mexicana: Revisiones y Balances" or "One Hundred Years of the Mexican Revolution: New Perspectives and Reconfigurations," at the Auditorium, Centre for Language Learning (CLL), UWI, St Augustine.

Conference Objectives:

• To bring together scholars and researchers from Latin America and the Caribbean
• To nurture interdisciplinary discussion on the Mexican Revolution and its contemporary significance

Conference Themes:

• Literature: Narratives, Poetry, Plays, Personal accounts and Autobiographies
• Fine Arts
• Music
• Theatre and Film
• History: Historiography, National and International Perspectives
• Social and Political Issues
• Education
• Workers’ and Agrarian Movements, Socialism / Communism, Anarchism and other Ideologies
• Church and Religion
• Gender, Women and Sexuality
• War, Militarism and Strong-Men Movements
• The Mexican Revolution and World History

Guest Speakers:  

• Dr. Marcela del Río Reyes, Prof. Emérita University of Central Florida
• Dr. Adalberto Santana Hernández, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
• Dr. Carlos Huamán López, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
• Dr. Herminio Núñez Villavicencio, Universidad Autónoma del Estado de México
• Dr. John Mraz, Universidad Autónoma de Puebla

Deadline for Paper & Panel Abstract Submission: 15th February, 2010