Georgetown College

Americas Initiative Conference (1)

Mexico and Mexicans in the Making of the United States

A Conference Sponsored by the Georgetown College Americas Initiative
Georgetown University
April 27-28, 2007

Friday, April 27, 2007: Gonda Theater, Davis Performing Arts Center

Inauguration and Welcome: 12:30 pm
  
    Jane McAuliffe (Dean, Georgetown College)
    John Tutino (Chair, History Department; Coordinator, Americas Initiative)

Session I: Colonial Creations: 12:45 pm
  
    "Spanish North America and the Making of the United States"
        John Tutino (Georgetown University)

    "New Mexico and the Making of North America"
        Ramon Gutierrez (University of California, San Diego)

    Chair: Bryan McCann (Georgetown University)
    Comment: Alison Games (Georgetown University)

Session II: National Transformations: 3:00 pm

    "Rethinking Land and Labor in Northern Mexico and the U.S. Southwest: An Ecological Analysis"
        Andrew Isenberg (Temple University)

    "Mexico, Mexicans, and the U.S. Civil War"
        David Montejano (University of California, Berkeley)

    "Imagining Mexico at War: Nineteenth-Century U.S. Literature and Popular Culture"
        Shelley Streeby (University of California, San Diego)

    Chair: Erick Langer (Georgetown University)
    Comment: John McNeill (Georgetown University)
                    Chandra Manning (Georgetown University)

Reception: 5:30 pm