This year’s Friedrich Katz Memorial Conference, to be held at Columbia University, shall be dedicated to the exploration of the phenomenology of new ruralities in Mexico, and to establishing some of the historical parameters of this great contemporary transformation. Thus, alongside anthropology and sociology of Mexico’s new ruralities, we hope to develop at least some rudimentary guidelines for the study of their multiple historicities, with special attention to emerging class formations, new life-worlds, the renegotiation of property relations, family and community structures, environmental degradation, and political expression. These are subjects to which Friedrich Katz made robust contributions during his time, including in his classical essay on peonage and haciendas during the Porfiriato, and in his distinctive view of agrarian politics presented in his masterwork on Pancho Villa, to name two salient examples. For additional conference details please contact Renata Del Riego (
[email protected]).
