[Sci-tech-public] 2015 IAP History Seminar Series: Tuesday, February 3

[Margo F Collett]

You are warmly invited to

"Why Do They Want Dormitories if They Like to Sleep with Peasants in the Fields?": Rural Normalistas and the Struggle for Education in Mexico's Long 1960s"

 Tanalís Padilla
Associate Professor, Dartmouth College

This talk will discuss the activism of rural normalistas, students who studied in Mexico's teacher-training schools, during the 1960s. Established in the two decades following the 1910-1920 revolution, these institutions had a dual purpose: to provide a career opportunity for sons and daughters of poor, rural dwellers and to form agents of state consolidation. But during the second part of the twentieth century the rural normales became hotbeds of political radicalism. Focusing on the unique nature of normalista consciousness, the links students forged with agrarian struggles and the state's response, my talk will examine the significance of their mobilizations in the context of local, national and global events during this tumultuous decade.

Tuesday, February 3
E51-275
4:00-5:30 PM

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