The 20 Year Anniversary of the Zapatista Uprising
18 February 2014
2.30pm, Social Sciences Seminar Room, Free School Lane, Cambridge
Round-table panel discussion
Professor Rosalva Aída Hernández (Simón Bolívar Chair, CLAS, Cambridge): Brief background about the Zapatista Uprising
Professor John Gledhill (University of Manchester): Resistance, the State and Security in Mexico
Dr Sarah Washbrook (University of Oxford): Indigenous Background of Chiapaneco History
Dr Bill Booth (UCL/Radical Americas Network): Media Reactions to the Zapatista Uprising
Geoff Goodwin (UCL/Radical Americas Network): Comparative Perspective: The 1994 Indigenous Levantamiento in Ecuador
Chair: Dr Thomas Jeffrey Miley (Sociology Department, Cambridge)
Tea/coffee
4:30pm, screening of the film Corazón del Tiempo (2009) with an introduction and brief overview by Professor Rosalva Aída Hernández
Organised by the Centre of Latin American Studies, Cambridge and the Radical Americas Network. For further information, please contact Dr Juan Pablo Scarfi