Carmen Ramos' presentation will integrate legal, cultural, and social issues through an international and multidisciplinary perspective on historical conflicts involving women as citizens and as mothers, property, and family formation. Her work, focusing on the Mexican case, opens new avenues of inquiry on gender and modernity with both historical and contemporary significance. Ramos' vision of the turn-of-the twentieth century provides new reflections on our current entry into the twenty-first century.

Poster image:
Sueo (Dream), 1932
Diego Rivera
Mexico (1886-1957)
Lithograph, 16 1/4 x 11 3/4 in.
Inter-American Development Bank Art Collection, Washington, D.C.
Photo: Courtesy of the IDB Audiovisual Unit

Sponsored by: Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies

In conjunction with Afro-American Studies and Research Program, College of Law, Department of Economics, Department of History, Department of Political Science, Department of Sociology, Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities (IPRH), International Programs and Studies, La Casa Cultural Latina, Latina/Latino Studies Program, Office of Women in International Development, Program in Arms Control, Disarmament and International Security (ACDIS), School of Social Work, Women's Studies Program