Conference Organization and Workshops

Conference Organization and Workshops

Co-Chair, College of Arts and Sciences’ Passport to the World Program: Viva Mexico!

A year- long program over the academic year 2013-2014 in which, along with Co-Chair Christopher Pool, we coordinated numerous scholarly and cultural events celebrating the culture of Mexico.

Co-organizer with Karen Petrone, paper presenter, and facilitator, Symposium on Gender and War, University of Kentucky, Sept. 8-9, 2011 (8 papers + 2 keynote lectures).
Organizer, paper presenter and facilitator, International Colloquium, “Género, Cultura y Desarrollo,” University of Oaxaca, June 20-21, 2007.
Organizer, coordinator, and facilitator, in collaboration with Dr. Ana Rueda, Dept. of Hispanic Studies, University of Kentucky, of the Symposium: “Voces silenciadas en la historia y la literatura mexicana: Mujeres, indígenas y mestizos,” (Silencied Voices in the History and Literature of Nineteenth Century Mexico: Women, Indigenous Peoples, and Mestizos) 52º Congreso Internacional de Americanistas, Sevilla, España, July 17-21, 2006 (18 papers presented).

Organizer, coordinator, moderator, and presenter of the International Colloquium Mestizaje y Racismo en la historia de México, Centro Cultural Santo Domingo, Oaxaca, Oaxaca, July 7-8, 2003 sponsored by the Instituto de Investigaciones Sociológicas, el Instituto de Investigaciones en Humanidades, y la Biblioteca Francisco de Burgoa of the Universidad Autónoma “Benito Juárez” de Oaxaca, el Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia, Centro Regional Oaxaca, Centro de Investigación y Estudios Superiores en Antropología Social, Sede Istmo and the Oaxaca Summer Institute of the University of Arizona in collaboration with the Instituto Cultural Oaxaca. This colloquium forms part of the ongoing Colloquium Mestizaje y Racismo (coordinated by Dr. Esther Kravzov in Mexico City).

“Mexican History and Culture” Two-hour workshop for participants in the Hispanic Initiative Network, sponsored by Operation Read of the Carnegie Center, Lexington, KY, April 16, 2001

Symposium organized with Dr. Daniel Reedy, Spanish Department, In Search of Modern Mexico An International Symposium in Honor of Octavio Paz, University of Kentucky, April 21-24, 1999

"Latin American Culture and English 101" for Professors of English 101 of various Kentucky Community College, "Adding An International Dimension to Writing and Literature Courses Workshop"

Carnahan House, University of Kentucky, March 24, 1995
Lectures and Panels (1993 to the present)

“The Challenge of Feminist Biography” lecture at ceremony of award of Doctorate honoris causa at National Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece, May 9, 2017.

“Power and Gender in Nineteenth Century Mexico: The Extraordinary Career of Juana C. Romero”, Lecture for The Center for Biographical Research, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, HI, Oct. 27, 2016.
“Poder y género en el siglo XIX. La vida extraordinaria de Juana C. Romero”, Lecture at the Área de Historia, Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, Unidad Iztapalapa, Mexico City, Oct. 6, 2016.
“La naturaleza de la biografía” (The Nature of Biography), Lecture at the Dirección de Estudios Históricos, Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia, Tlalpan, Mexico City, Sept. 29, 2016.
“La mujer en la política latinoamericana” lecture for the Dept. of Spanish Language and Lterature, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece, May 17, 2016.
Lecture and Tour of the Chalet of Juana C. Romero for members of the State Legislature of the state of Oaxaca, October 19, 2015, Tehuantepec, Oaxaca, Mexico.
Keynote Lecture for the Celebration of the 100^th Anniversary of the Death of Juana Catarina Romero, organized by the municipal government of the city of Tehuantepec, “Porfirio Díaz y Juana C. Romero, protagonistas de la modernidad”, October 17, 2015, Tehuantepec, Oaxaca, Mexico.
“Benito Juárez y Porfirio Díaz en la historia oaxaqueña” (Benito Juárez and Porfirio Díaz in Oaxaca History), Lecture, School of Communications, Universidad del Mar (University of the Sea), October 15, 2015, Huatulco, Oaxaca, Mexico.
“Gender and Power in Oaxacan History: the Case of Juana Catarina Romero” The Oaxaca Institute, University of Arizona/University of British Columbia Summer Program in Oaxaca for Graduate Students in Mexican History, Instituto Cultural Oaxaca, Oaxaca, July 8, 2015
Participant in panel discussion of the book by Fabiola Bailón Vásquez, Mujeres en el servicio doméstico y en la prostitución. Sobrevivencia, control y vida cotidiana en la Oaxaca porfiriana, with Mary Kay Vaughan and Margarita Dalton, as part of the Coloquio sobre el Porfiriato, Centrol Cultural San Pablo, Oaxaca, Mexico, July 3, 2015.
Panel discussion on my book, Oaxaca entre el Liberalismo y la Revolución: La perspectiva del sur, México 1867 -1911 by Drs. Álvaro García, Israel Galán, María Angélica Miranda Juárez, Luz de Carmen Zaldivia, and Hérón García Ruiz, Law School, Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, Azcapotzalco Campus, Mexico City, Mexico, June 23, 2015.
“Poder y Género en el Siglo Diecnueve: La vida extraordinaria de Juana C. Romero,” presentation of my research to Colegio de Historia, Facultad de Filosofía y Letras, Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla, Puebla, México, June 17, 2015.
Panel discussion on my book, Oaxaca entre el Liberalismo y la Revolución: La perspectiva del sur, México 1867 -1911 by Dr. Javier Pérez Siller and Dr. Marco Velásquez, and Dra. Alicia Ramírez, Facultad de Filosofía y Letras, Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla, Puebla, México, June 16, 2015.
Participant in panel discussion of new book Caminos de Tehuantepec, by Ana Rosa Suárez Arguello sponsored by the Instituto Mora, Mexico City and the Center for Humanities, University of Oaxaca, Oaxaca, Mexico, November 27, 2014.
President of Session, “Proyectos y mitos liberales en el mundo indígena norteamericano, siglo XIX” of XIV International Meeting of Historians of Mexico, Chicago, Illinois, Sept. 19, 2014.

Panel on Afro-Brazilian Culture, Centre College, Danville, Kentucky, October 30, 2013.

“La mujer latinoamericana en la política y la guerra,” Facultad de Ciencias Sociales y Humanidades, Universidad Nacional de Patagonia, San Juan Bosco, Comodoro Rivadavia, Argentina, July 8, 2013.
“La mujer latinoamericana en la política y la guerra,” Middlebury College Summer Program in Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina, July 30, 2013.
Panel Discussion on the translated version of my book, From Liberal to Revolutionary Oaxaca: The View from the South, Mexico, 1867 – 1911 (Oaxaca entre el Liberalismo y la Revolución: La perspectiva del sur, México 1867 -1911), discussants: Verónica Oikión, Martín López, and Luis Alberto Arrioja (Colegio de rcán), and Eduardo Mijangos (Universidad Michoacana de San Nicolás), Centro de Estudios Históricos, Colegio de Michoacán, Zamora, Michoacán, Mexico, July 5, 2013.
“Poder y Género en el Siglo Diecnueve: La vida extraordinaria de Juana C. Romero,” Centro de Estudios Históricos, Colegio de Michoacán, Zamora, Michoacán, México, July 4, 2013.
“History and Biography” Lecture for History undergraduates, Humanities Institute, University of “Benito Juárez” of Oaxaca, Oaxaca, México, March 19, 2013.
Panelist “Gender and Biography” Concluding Panel, VI Coloquio Internacional “Historia de Género y de las Mujeres en México,” El Colegio de México, Mexico City, March 13-15, 2013.
Book Presentation: Género y Cultura. Instituto de Investigaciones en Humanidades, Universidad Autónoma “Benito Juárez” de Oaxaca, Nov. 22, 2012, Oaxaca, Oaxaca, Mexico.
Public Lecture, “Poder y género en el siglo XIX: La historia extraordinaria de Juana Catarina Romero, Cacica de Tehuantepec” Facultad de Filosofía y Letras, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico City, April 17, 2012.
“Gender and Power in 19^th Century Mexico: The Remarkable Life of Juana Catarina Romero” at Seminar on “Biography, An Eclectic Genre: Sources, Methods, Approaches” sponsored by the Colegio Mexiquense (Zincantepec, state of Mexico) in Oaxaca, Oaxaca, Jan. 10-11, 2012.
Moderator and Organizer of Panel, “Crossings/Travesías: Immigration Issues Today” with participation of Cristina Alcalde, Sophia Wallace, Ana Liberato, and Andrés Cruz. Sponsored by Lexington Art League at the Loudoun House, Lexington, KY, May 11, 2011. This panel was repeated for the Latin American Studies Program celebration of Hispanic Heritage Month on September 15, 2011, University of Kentucky, Lexington , KY.
Public presentation and Panel on Spanish translation of Francie Chassen-López’s 2004 study of Oaxaca, Oaxaca: Entre el Liberalismo y la Revolución: La perspectiva del sur (1867 -1911) (Oaxaca: Universidad “Benito Juárez” de Oaxaca, Comisión Centenaria del Gobierno del estado de Oaxaca, Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, 2010) at the Iztapalapa Campus of the Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, Mexico City. Carlos Martínez Assad and Brian Connaughton, discussants. June 28, 2011.
Moderator on Panel, “Immigration Policy in an Anti-Immigrant Era” with participation of Douglas Massey, Michael Jones Corres, Dan Hopkins, and Sophia Wallace, sponsored by Quantitative Initiative for Policy and Social Research, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY, March 11, 2011.
Public presentation and Panel on Spanish translation of Francie Chassen-López’s 2004 study of Oaxaca, Oaxaca: Entre el Liberalismo y la Revolución: La perspectiva del sur (1867 -1911) (Oaxaca: Universidad “Benito Juárez” de Oaxaca, Comisión Centenaria del Gobierno del estado de Oaxaca, Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, Iztapalapa Campus, Mexico City, 2010). Jaime Bailón and Francisco José Ruiz Cervantes, Discussants, Carlos Sánchez Silva, Moderator. Casino of the Macedonio Alcalá Theatre, Oaxaca, Mexico, November 27, 2010.
Seminar “Oaxaca and its Authors”, Humanities Institute, University of Oaxaca, Discussion of the Spanish translation of Francie Chassen-López’s 2004 study of Oaxaca, Oaxaca: Entre el Liberalismo y la Revolución: La perspectiva del sur (1867 -1911). Francisco José Ruiz Cervantes, Discussant. Oaxaca, Mexico, Nov. 26, 2010.
Invited presentation, “The Career of Enrique Florescano, Historian” at opening night ceremony honoring Dr. Florescano’s 45-year career as a historian of Mexico. XIII Meeting of Mexican, U.S. and Canadian Historians, Celebrating the Bicentennial of Independence and Centennial of the Mexican Revolution, Querétaro, México, Oct. 27, 2010.
Kenote Speaker, “The Remarkable Life of Juana Catarina Romero, Cacica of Tehuantepec” Symposium on Latin American and Caribbean Studies, Meeting of Latin American scholars from Kentucky Universities, Transylvania University, Lexington, KY, Oct. 16, 2010.
Invited Participation on panel honoring the long career of “Asunción Lavrin”, pioneer of Latin American women´s history, Pacific Coast Branch of the American Historical Association, Santa Clara University, Santa Clara, California, August 13, 2010
“La extraordinaria vida de Juana Catarina Romero” Rotary Club, Rotario Internacional, Oaxaca, Oaxaca, Mexico, June 10, 2010.
Invited Participation on panel to discuss Gabriela Cano’s recently published Se llamaba Elena Arizmendi, Francisco Burgoa Library, Universidad Autónoma “Benito Juárez” de Oaxaca, June 8, 2010.
“La historia extraordinaria de Juana Catarina Romero, Cacica de Tehuantepec” Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, Azcatpotzalco Campus, Mexico City, May 20, 2010.
“Exploring Nation, Gender, and Modernity: The Remarkable Live of Juana Catarina Romero” Western Kentucky University, Bowling Green, KY, March 24, 2010.
“The Cultural Revolution in Mexico: 1920 -1950” sponsored by the Graduate Student Organization of the School of Music, University of Kentucky, Niles Gallery, December 4, 2009.
“The Crisis in Mexico” Panel sponsored by Latin American Studies Program and Student Government Organization, Transylvania University, Lexington, KY, Nov. 18, 2009.
“Género, guerra y espionaje en el sur de México. Las mujeres de Oaxaca en la guerra de la Reforma, 1858-1861” in Conference Series: “Benito Juárez y los 150 años de la promulgación de las Leyes de Reforma, (1859-2009)”, University of Oaxaca, Oaxaca, Mexico, July 6, 2009.
“Gender and Power in Oaxacan History: the Case of Juana Catarina Romero” The Oaxaca Institute, University of Arizona/University of British Columbia Summer Program in Oaxaca for Graduate Students in Mexican History, Instituto Cultural Oaxaca, Oaxaca, July 8, 2009.
“Exploring Nation, Gender, and Modernity: The Remarkable Life of Juana Catarina Romero,” College of Arts and Sciences Distinguished Professor Lecture 2009, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY April 7, 2009.
“Women, War, and Body Politics in Ninteenth Century Mexico” University of Kentucky and Transylvania University Series on “Gender and War”, University of Kentucky New Student Center, March 5, 2009.

“Oaxaca during the Porfiriato: Sources and Theories” The Oaxaca Institute, University of Arizona/University of British Columbia Summer Program in Oaxaca for Graduate Students in Mexican History, Instituto Cultural Oaxaca, July 9, 2008

“Disciplinando Tehuantepec: Juana Catarina Romero y la modernización del Istmo” Colegio de México, Mexico City, June 26, 2008.
Discussant for Research Colloquium of the Graduate Program in Rural Development, Autonomous Metropolitian University, Xochimilco Campus, Mexico City. July 5-6, 2007.
“Experiencias de la Educación en Norte América” Semana Cultural 2007, Instituto de Ciencias de la Educación, Universidad Autónoma Benito Juárez de Oaxaca, Oaxaca, México March 13, 2007.
Introduction and Discussion Facilitator, Gender and Woman’s Studies Program Fall Film Series for My American Girls: A Dominican Story, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY November 1, 2006.
“Interview with Hayden Herrera, author of Frida,” Interviewer, 27^th Women Writers Conference, Lexington, Ky. April 20, 2006.
Discussant for Session “Indigenous Populations of Spanish America” 37^th Annual Meeting, Society for Spanish and Portuguese Historical Studies, Lexington, KY, April 8, 2006.
Introduction and Discussion Facilitator, Gender and Woman’s Studies Program Fall Film Series for Frida, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY, March 8, 2006.
Commentary and Discussant (with Joan Callahan and Ruth Adams), Woman’s Studies Program Spring Film Series for My Left Breast, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY, Feb. 15, 2006.
“La metodología de la investigación histórica” Instituto de Ciencias de la Educación, Universidad Autónoma Benito Juárez de Oaxaca, Oaxaca, Oaxaca, México, Junio 21, 2005
“Biografía de Juana Catarina Romero” IV Annual Celebration of Zapotec Culture (IV Semana de la Cultura Zapoteca). Universidad del Istmo, lecture at Ixtepec Campus, Oaxaca at noon and second lecture at the Tehuantepec Campus, Oaxaca at 6 pm, June 6, 2005
“Globalización e Historia” Instituto de Ciencias de la Educación, Universidad Autónoma Benito Juárez de Oaxaca, Oaxaca, Oaxaca, México, May 24, 2005.
“Juana Catarina Romero, Cacique de Tehuantepec” Municipal Government of the city of Oaxaca and Museo del Ferrocarril Mexicano del Sur, Oaxaca, Mexico, May 13, 2005
“El México de Juárez: Construyendo la nación” (Juárez’s Mexico: Constructing a Nation), Kenote Lecture inaugurated the Bicentennial Celebration of the Birth of Benito Juárez of the Universidad Autónoma Benito Juárez de Oaxaca, Law School, Oaxaca, Mexico, March 16, 2005.
“The Porfiriato in Oaxaca.” The Oaxaca Institute of the University of Arizona, Instituto Cultural Oaxaca, Oaxaca, Oaxaca, Mexico July 2, 2004
“Globalización e Historia” Instituto de Ciencias de la Educación, Universidad Autónoma Benito Juárez de Oaxaca, Oaxaca, Oaxaca, México, June 29, 2004
“Amor entre Liberales: La relación entre Porfirio Díaz y Juana Catarina Romero en la telenovela El vuelo del Aguila” Invited Lecturer for the Seminario de Etnohistoria, Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios Superiores en Antropología Social, Sede Istmo, Oaxaca, Oaxaca, México, June 8, 2004
“Juana Cata: Memoria Histórica” Lecture for IV Festival Cultural del Istmo, Casa de la Cultura, Tehuantepec, Oaxaca, México, May 30, 2004
Panel Member of “Presencia del Istmo de Tehuantepec en la Historia de Mexico” (along with Héctor Zarauz López and Carlos Sánchez Silva) IV Festival Cultural del Istmo, Casa de la Cultura, Tehuantepec, Oaxaca, México, May 27, 2004
“U.S. Relations with Latin America and Human Rights” Lecture for Amnesty International, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY Nov. 6, 2003
“Mil Silbatos: La llegada del tren a Oaxaca.” Lecture for Club Amigos del Ferrocarril Mexicano del Sur sponsored by the Municipal Government of the City of Oaxaca, July 18, 2003
Coordinator and Moderator of the all day Panel Oaxaca in Mexican History in which I lectured on “The Porfiriato in Oaxaca.” The Oaxaca Institute of the University of Arizona, Instituto Cultural Oaxaca, Oaxaca, Oaxaca, Mexico July 14, 2003
“Juana Catarina Romero, La mujer y el mito” Instituto Mora, Mexico City, Mexico, June 5, 2003
“La Educación Universitaria en los Estados Unidos” Instituto de Ciencias de la Educación, Universidad Autónoma Benito Juárez de Oaxaca, Oaxaca, Oaxaca, Mexico, May 13, 2003
“An Insurgent Reading of Oaxacan History” Latin American Studies Workshop, University of Chicago, Chicago, Ill. Feb. 20, 2003
“The Dirty War in Argentina” Panel “Human Rights and the Grandmothers of the Plaza de Mayo” Carnegie Center, Lexington, KY Oct. 10, 2002
“The Porfiriato in Oaxaca” The Oaxaca Institute of the University of Arizona, Instituto Cultural Oaxaca, Oaxaca, Oaxaca, Mexico July 9, 2002
“The View from the South: An Insurgent Reading of Mexican History” Interdisciplinary Lecture Series, Council on Latin American and Iberian Studies, Yale University, New Haven, CT, Oct. 2, 2001
“The View from the South: An Insurgent Reading of Mexican History” Social Theory Seminar, University of Kentucky, Oct. 24, 2001
“The Porfiriato in Oaxaca” The Oaxaca Institute of the University of Arizona, Instituto Cultural Oaxaca, Oaxaca, Oaxaca, Mexico July 9, 2001
“El Porfiriato en Oaxaca” in Diplomado Invitación a la historia de México. Burgoa Library, Centro Cultural Santo Domingo, Oaxaca, Oaxaca, July 10, 2001
“Una lectura insurgente: Oaxaca en la historiografía del Porfiriato y la Revolución” Burgoa Library, Universidad Autónoma Benito Juárez de Oaxaca, Oaxaca, Oaxaca, June 29, 2000
“Memory and Identity in Indigenous Mexico,” two lectures as part of the Gaines Seminar in the Humanities, Gaines Center, University of Kentucky, Nov. 11 and 16, 1999
“The Public Intellectual in Mexico” in the Public Intellectual Series, Appalachian Studies Center, University of Kentucky, Oct. 28, 1999
“El liberalismo en Oaxaca: Los usos del juarismo,” Burgoa Library, Universidad Autónoma Benito Juárez de Oaxaca, Oaxaca, Oaxaca, Aug. 11, 1999
“Modernization Theories and Their Impact on Historical Studies and Methodologies” in the series Social Science Theories and Their Impact on Historical Studies and Methodologies”, sponsored by the Dean of Undergraduate Studies, Dept. of History, and the Gaines Center for the Humanities, University of Kentucky, Nov. 18, 1998
“From Casa to Calle: Latin American Women Transforming Patriarchal Spaces” for Phi Alpha Theta, Transylvania University, Lexington, KY, March 26, 1998
"Critical Thinking and Interactive Teaching Techniques in Latin American Studies" presentation on panel "Making the Connection with Today's Students" at Indiana Consortium for International Programs "Teaching about Latin America in the 21st Century" Brown County State Park, Indiana, Nov.1-2, 1996
"Mexican Women Today and in History" Eastern Kentucky University, Richmond, KY, Oct. 24, 1996
Moderator of Panel: "The 1994 Mexican Elections: Manifestations of a Divided Society?" presenter, Joseph L. Klesner, University of Kentucky, March 31, 1995
"Women in Latin America Today" Georgetown College, Georgetown, KY November 30, 1993
"Women and Politics in Latin America" sponsored by the Vassar Club of Kentucky, Speed Museum of Art, University of Louisville, Louisville, Kentucky, May 15, 1993

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