LAC Main Seminar Series: An Injection of Fury: The Childhood Memories of an Indigenous Militant in Late-Twentieth Century Mexico

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The deadline to register is 4 May at 12 noon

Convener: Professor Eduardo Posada-Carbó

Speaker: Timo Schaefer, LAC and History Faculty, Oxford

Timo Schaefer is postdoctoral fellow in the contemporary history and public policy of Mexico at the University of Oxford. Schaefer’s first book, Liberalism as Utopia: The Rise and Fall of Legal Rule in Post-Colonial Mexico, 1820-1900 (Cambridge University Press, 2017), described the formation of a fractured geography of legal rule in post-colonial Mexico, paying special attention to the legal culture of estate (hacienda) settlements, towns, and indigenous towns. Liberalism as Utopia won the 2018 Social Science Best-Book Award from the Latin American Studies Association Mexico Section, and the 2018 Best-Book Award from the Latin American Studies Association Nineteenth-Century Section (Honorable Mention). Schaefer is currently working on an oral-history project on the culture of political militancy in Mexico during the second half of the twentieth century, as well as on a panoramic history of the Latin American utopian imagination