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DESCRIPTION:\nWhen and Where: \nFriday, April 01, 2022 1:00 pm to 2:30 pm
  \n via Zoom \n\nDescription: \nThe A\nual Ato Quayson Lecture in Diaspora
  and Transnational Studies is a year-end event named for the University Pr
 ofessor and the founding director of the Centre: Professor Ato Quayson. Hi
 s bold research set the Centre’s agenda for more than a decade, and this 
 named lecture now serves as an opportunity for students and scholars alike
  to participate in the futures that his intellectual vision made possible 
 by hosting and engaging an international scholar of great distinction.This
  year, we are honored to host Professor Claudio Lomnitz, Campbell Profes
 sor of Anthropology and Director of the Center for the Study of Ethnicity 
 and Race at Columbia University.  This year's lecture, titled Islands of 
 Rights, Sea of Extorsion: On Mexico’s New State explores Mexico's many di
 mensions from Lomnitz's many decades of work on the island using both acad
 emic and artistic perspectives. Register Here!  Speaker BiographyProfessor
  Claudio Lomnitz works on the history, politics and culture of Latin Amer
 ica, and particularly of Mexico. He received his PhD from Stanford in 198
 7, and his first book, Evolución de una sociedad rural (Mexico City, 19
 82) was a study of politics and cultural change in Tepoztlán, Mexico. Aft
 er that he developed an interest in conceptualizing the nation-state as a 
 kind of cultural region, a theme that culminated in Exits from the Labyri
 nth: Culture and Ideology in Mexican National Space (California, 1992). I
 n that book, he also concentrated on the social work of intellectuals, a
  theme that he developed in various works on the history of public culture
  in Mexico, including Modernidad Indiana (Mexico City, 1999) and Deep Me
 xico, Silent Mexico: An Anthropology of Nationalism (Minnesota, 2001).Ar
 ound fifteen years ago Lomnitz began working on the historical anthropolog
 y of crisis and published Death and the Idea of Mexico (Zone Books, 2005)
 , a political and cultural history of death in Mexico from the sixteenth 
 to the twenty-first centuries. After that, he initiated a detailed histor
 y on exile and ideology in the Mexican Revolution, which culminated in th
 e publication The Return of Comrade Ricardo Flores Magón (Zone Books, 201
 4). His most recent book is Nuestra América: My Family in the Vertigo of T
 ranslation (Other Press, 2021), which is an essay in family history, th
 at explores, which is an essay in family history, that explores the conn
 ection between the destruction of Europe and (Latin) American consciousnes
 s by way of the early twentieth century history of his own family.In addit
 ion to his academic publications, Lomnitz also writes in nonacademic genr
 es. For many years he has been a regular contributor to the Mexico City pr
 ess. He writes a biweekly column in the newspaper La Jornada, and a month
 ly column in Nexos. He has also written two plays in collaboration with hi
 s brother, Alberto Lomnitz, who is a theater director in Mexico City. Th
 e first, El verdadero Bulnes, won Mexico’s National Drama Award in 2010\
 ; our most recent, a musical titled La Gran Familia, was produced by Mex
 ico's National Theater Company last fall (2018).Lomnitz is currently worki
 ng on two interconnected projects that also deal with fantasies of the fam
 ily and of the state in modern Mexico. The first of these is about the fan
 tasy of order and of military order, by way of a close anthropological hi
 story of counter-revolution in Mexico (c. 1913). The second is a reading o
 f violence, organized crime and crisis in contemporary Michoacán, throug
 h the lens of family systems and transnationality. The first product of th
 is Michoacán project is a paper currently in press in the journal Represen
 tations.   \n\nAudiences \n AlumniCommunityFacultyGraduate StudentsUndergr
 aduate Students
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SUMMARY:2022 Annual Ato Quayson Lecture
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