Moderator: Eric Van Young, Professor,   Department of History, UC San Diego

Lunch will be provided

In 2010, Mexico celebrated the Bicentennial of its Independence, commemorating the critical Independence year, 1810. At the 2010 Latin American Studies Association (LASA) meeting in Toronto, during the panel on «The Bicentennial of the Independence Movements,» a lively discussion on the nature of Mexican and Latin American Independence and the Atlantic took place. The seminar will begin with opening remarks by participants in the LASA panel in Toronto, John Tutino of Georgetown University, and Roberto Breña of the Colegio de México, both eminent historians in the field of Mexican history and especially the Independence period. These remarks will be followed by a roundtable discussion with Tutino, Breña, and UCSD’s own Eric Van Young, one of the world’s major scholars of Mexican history, the author of The Other Rebellion (Stanford, 2001) on Mexican Independence. Tutino is author of From Insurrection to Revolution in Mexico (Princeton, 1986), and will speak on «The Americas in a Changing World: Revolutions, Nations, and Capitalism, 1750-1850.» Breña is author of El primer liberalismo español y los procesos de emancipación de América, 1808-1824 (Colegio de México, 2006), and will provide a critical perspective on «The Atlantic Approach and the Spanish American Independence Movements.» Please join us for this discussion on Mexican Independence and its legacies, between the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans.

For a complete schedule, click here to see event post on USMEX website