Barry Carr
Visiting Professor
Contact
Office: 2209 Dwinelle Hall
Hours: W 10-11
Phone: (510) 642-8760
Email: barrycarr@berkeley.edu
Residence/Citizenship
British and Australian Citizen, permanent resident of Australia.
Address
45 Molesworth Street, Kew, Victoria, Australia, 3101
Phone: +613 9853 1127 Fax +613 9853 4331
email: b.carr@latrobe.edu.au
Academic Qualifications
Oxford University
1964-1967, B.A. (Honours) in History
1967-1973, D. Phil. The period from October 1968 to November 1969 was spent attached as Investigador Visitante at the Centro de Estudios Históricos of El Colegio de México in Mexico City. The doctoral thesis was presented in 1973.
Teaching, Research and Administrative Experience
United Kingdom
University of Glasgow
1970-1972, Research Fellow, Institute of Latin American Studies,.
Australia
La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia
1972-1979 Lecturer in History
1979-1988 Senior Lecturer in History
1989-2007 Reader in History
2008- Honorary Associate; Senior Fellow Institute of Latin American Studies
Swinburne University
2008+ Professor, Institute of Social Research
Mexico
El Colegio de México, Mexico City
2007-2008 Visiting Research Professor, Center for Historical Studies (CEH)
United States
University of California: Berkeley
Fall semester 2008 Visiting Professor, History Department
1994-1997 Member, Central America Committee, Community Aid Abroad/OXFAM
Courses on Latin American and European history:
Latin American History Through Film and Popular Culture (2 and 3 year)
The Mexican and Cuban Revolutions (1st year level)
The Atlantic Rim 1400-2000 (1st year level)
Genocides and Holocaust in Europe, Africa, Central America (2/3 year)
Conquest of the Americas: Spain and the Conquest of the Aztec, Maya and Inca (1st year)
The Cuban and Bolivian Revolutions (3rd year level)
Spanish and Portuguese Colonial Empires (1st year level)
Peasants and Politics in Latin America (2nd and 3rd year level)
Consciousness, Economy, Formal Ideology and Mobilization: The Testimonies of Men & Women Activists in Latin America and Britain (Third Year and Honours level)
The European Left and the Russian Revolution (3rd year level)
Development and Underdevelopment in Historical Perspective (3rd year level)
Slavery, Race and Revolution: Cuba 1880-1998 (2nd/3rd year)
The Transition from Feudalism to Capitalism (4th year/Honours level)
Marxism and Communism in Britain 1880-1968 (3rd year level)
Postgraduate Supervision
I have experience of supervision of research up to and including the doctoral level. Current (and recent) students have prepared dissertations on: the Political Economy of Mexico's Foreign Debt; Drugs and National Security in US-Mexican Relations; El Mozote: The United States and State Terror in El Salvador; Leaseholds and Life: A Study of Land and Lives in North East Brazil; Agrarian Radicalism in Mid-nineteenth Century Ireland; The Politics of Teacher Unionism in Mexico; The Making of B. Traven's Vision of Mexico; 'Administración Obrera' in Mexico 1938-1941; A History of Feminism in Mexico; The Intellectual Origins of the Popular Front in Britain; Low Intensity Conflict in Central America and the Philippines; Post-Modernism and History; The Guatemalan Peace Process in the 1990s; Indigenous Activism and Memory in Australia and Mexico; Operation Peter Pan in Cuban-US Relations 1959-1962; Rise and Fall of Pulque in Mexico 1870-1950; Contemporary Mexican Art Cultures 1980-2004; The Carvajal Case, The Inquisition and Cryptojudaism in Early Colonial Mexico. Rural Emigrants in Lima, Peru 1960-2000; The Nueva Canción Movement in Chile 1960-1991; The Spirit of Development: Community Welfare, Grassroots Religion, and Transculturation in Contemporary Cuba; Afro-Cubans in Cuban Contemporary Literature 1990-2005; The Politics of Memory: Violence, & Reconciliation in Argentina and Uruguay 1982-2005; Mexican Politics and The Construction of History 1988-2007; Remembering the Literacy Campaign in Sandinista Nicaragua; Disputes over Kosher Slaughter in Melbourne, 1947-1957.
Administrative Positions
I was founding Chair of La Trobe's Institute of Latin American Studies (ILAS) in the period 1975-1977. In 1985 I became ILAS Chairman again for a two-year term which was renewed in 1987. Between June and December 1992 and January and July 1998 I was Acting Chairperson of ILAS. I began a two year period as Director of ILAS in late September 1999 and have continued to the present (February 2008 ).
Fellowships and Awards
January 1984 - July 1984. Andrew Mellon Visiting Research Fellow, Center for US-Mexican Studies, University of California, San Diego.
December 1992-June 1993. Visiting Research Fellow, Center for US-Mexican Studies, University of California, San Diego (UCSD).
1995-1996 Recipient of Australian Research Council (ARC) Small Research Grant
Canadian Government Traveling Fellowship 1999-2000.
Friedrich Katz Visiting Professor of Latin American History, Universidad Autónoma de Ciudad Juárez (UACJ), Mexico, November 2000
LTU Central Research Fund Grant 2003 $20,000
Australian Research Council Discovery Grant 2005-2007 (with Steve Niblo) $117,000
Visiting Professor, Center For Historical Studies, El Colegio de México (August 2007-January 2008)
Visiting Latin American Fellowship, Greater Philadelphia Latin American Studies Consortium (GLASC) Jan-Feb 2008
Research Activities
My research to date has concentrated on six main areas:
(1) Transnationaal Labor and Working Class History: The Development of Labor Internationalism and Transborder Worker and Union Networking in the United States, Canada and Mexico In the Era of NAFTA - ‘Globalization From Below’ and Transnational Citizenship?.
(2) The social, political and economic history of work and workers in the Cuban sugar industry 1900-1940.
(3) History of Mexican workers and the labour movement in the period 1910-1930.
(4) The history of Mexican Marxism and Communism in the twentieth century and, more generally the history of the Left in Latin America.
(5) The Historiography of Regional Studies of the Mexican Revolution.
(6) History of Tourism and Leisure in Mexico 1940-2008
The results of my work in each of these fields has been published or is in the process of being published.
I also have an ongoing interest in the following topics: state-labour relations in post-revolutionary societies (particularly, Nicaragua and Cuba); Latin American peasant movements in the twentieth century; the evolution of Latin American Communism; the politics of memory and the challenges of democratization in post genocide and civil war environments.
Assessments of ms. for scholarly and literary journals
Hispanic American Historical Review (US)
Bulletin of Latin American Research (UK)
Latin American Research Review (US)
Latin American Perspectives (US)
Canadian Journal of Latin American Studies (Canada)
The Americas (US)
Journal of Latin American Studies (UK)
American Historical Review (US)
International Review of Social History (Amsterdam)
Australian Journal of International Affairs
Journal of Iberian and Latin American Studies (Australia)
Radical History Review (US)
Social Science History (US)
Arena (Australia)
Reviews and Reviews of Manuscripts
Book reviews and reviews of manuscripts for the following journals:
Journal of Latin American Studies [UK]
Bulletin of Latin American Research [UK]
Hispanic American Historical Review [USA]
The Americas [USA]
Latin American Perspectives [USA]
Inter-American Review of Bibliography [USA]
Cuban Studies/Estudios Cubanos [USA]
Political Studies [Australia]
Political Power and Social Theory [USA]
Australian Outlook [Australia]
The Australian Journal of Politics and History [Australia]
Law and History Review [USA]
Arena [Australia]
Latin America Review of Books [UK]
Science and Society [UK]
Australian Society [UK]
The Age [UK]
Times Literary Supplement (UK)
Editorial Responsibilities
I am a member of the editorial board of eight international and Australian journals:
Journal of Iberian and Latin American Studies (Australia) I was Managing Editor of this journal for the period 1995-1999 and again 2006-2008).
Latin American Perspectives (Participating Editor) United States of America
Bulletin of Latin American Research (Editorial Advisory Board), United Kingdom
Espiral (Universidad de Guadalajara), Mexico
Memoria (Centro de Estudios del Movimiento Obrero) Mexico
Arena Magazine (Member of Editorial Board) Australia
Perspectivas Historicas/Historical Perspectives (Mexico)
Journal of Tourism History (UK- from 2009)
I was a member of the board of H-LatAm, an international electronic history discussion list for Latin American historians in its first 2 years.
Member of the General Committee of the Conference of Latin American History (CLAH) of the American Historical Association for 1997-1999.
Member of the International Scholarly Relations Committee of the Conference on Latin American History (CLAH), an affiliate of the American Historical Association.
Head of the Labor Studies Section of the Latin American Studies Association of the US (LASA), November-1998-March 2000.
Board Member, Australian National Center for Latin American Studies, ANU (ANCLAS) 2008+
Research Grant Assessments
I have assessed applications for research grants and Fellowships for the CONACYT (Mexico), Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada and for the Australian Research Grants Committee (later ARC).
Professional Assessments for promotion
I have been invited to provide evaluations of the work of overseas scholars as part of promotion (to full professorship and exceptional merit professorships), assessment and academic review. I have provided assessments for the University of California, San Diego, University of California, Santa Barbara, Scripps College, York University (Toronto); the University of New Mexico; the University of Texas-Austin, the University of Illinois; the University of Washington, Bradley University (Illinois). In Australia I have provided assessments for scholars at a number of universities including the University of New South Wales, Flinders, Macquarie, Murdoch and La Trobe.
National and Internatioal Honors etc
Founding President, CELAO (Consejo de Estudios Latinoamericanos de Asia y Oceania /Latin American Studies Council of Asia and Oceania) 2005-2007
Founding President AILASA (Association of Iberian and Latin American Studies of Australasia) 1991
Publications
Books
(with Avi Chomsky and Pamela Smorkaloff), The Cuba Reader (Duke University Press: 2003).
La Izquierda Mexicana a Través del Siglo XX (Mexico: Ediciones Era, 1996).
(with Steve Ellner) The Latin American Left Since Allende. (Boulder & London: Westview Press and the Latin America Bureau, 1993).
Marxism and Communism in Twentieth Century Mexico, (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1992.)
[with Elaine McKay] Low Intensity Conflict: Theory and Practice in Central America and South-East Asia, Bundoora, Institute of Latin American Studies, La Trobe University, 1988.
[editor and contributor] The Mexican Left, the Popular Movements and the Politics of Austerity, 1982-1985. Center for US-Mexican Studies, UCSD, Monograph No. 18, 1986.
El movimiento obrero y la política en México 1910-1929, (SepSetentas: Mexico City, 1976), 2 volumes.
El movimiento obrero y la política en México 1910-1929, (Ediciones Era: Mexico City, 1981), 282 pages. This is a revised and expanded edition of the above work.
Books under consideration and evaluation
Mexican Communism at the End of the Cárdenas Presidency (Under review by several Mexican publishers.)
The Cuban Sugar Industry: Workers, Immigrants and Soviets 1915-1935 (in preparation 90% complete)
.Chapters in Books
'The Casa del Obrero Mundial, Constitutionalism and the Pact of February 1915.' in M. Meyer and J. Vázquez, Work and Workers in the History of Mexico/El trabajo y los trabajadores en la historia de México (Tucson and Mexico City, 1979), pp. 603-631. Subsequently published in Nora Hamilton & Timothy F. Harding (eds), Modern Mexico: State, Economy, and Social Conflict (Beverly Hills: Sage Publications, 1986), pp. 205-231.
'The Mexican Left, The Popular Movements and the Politics of Austerity 1982-1985'. The introduction to a volume of essays carrying the same title. Center for US-Mexican Studies, University of California, Monograph Series, 18, pp. 1-18, San Diego, 1986.
'The PSUM: The Unification Process on the Mexican Left 1981-1985' in Judith Gentleman (ed.), Mexican Politics in Transition (Boulder:Westview Press, 1987).
'Low Intensity Conflict: The El Salvador Laboratory" in Barry Carr and Elaine McKay (eds.), Low Intensity Conflict: Theory and Practice in Central America and South-East Asia (Bundoora: Institute of Latin American Studies, La Trobe University/Clayton: Centre of Southeast Asian Studies, Monash University, 1988), pp. 29-38.
'The Left and Its Potential Role in Political Change' in W. Cornelius, P. Smith and J. Gentleman (eds.), Mexico's Alternative Political Futures, Center for US-Mexican Studies, University of California, Monograph Series, San Diego, 1989, pp. 367-387.
'Cuba: Socialism and Democracy' in S. Niblo and R. Ireland, Cuba: Thirty Years of Revolution (Bundoora: Institute of Latin American Studies, 1990).
'The Development of Communism and Marxism in Mexico. A Historiographical Essay'. in Roderic A. Camp, Charles Hale, Josefina Zoraida Vázquez (eds.), Los intelectuales en el poder en México. Intellectuals and Power in Mexico (Mexico City & Los Angeles: El Colegio de México & UCLA Latin American Center, 1991), pp. 377-394.
'Labor and the Political Left in Mexico' in Kevin Middlebrook (ed.), Unions, Workers and the State in Mexico, Center for US-Mexican Studies, University of California, San Diego, Monograph Series, La Jolla, 1991.
'The Fate of the Vanguard Under a Revolutionary State: Marxism's Contribution to the Construction of the Great Arch' in Gilbert Joseph & Daniel Nugent (eds.), Everyday Forms of State Formation: Revolution and the Negotiation of Rule in Modern Mexico (Durham: Duke University Press, 1994), pp. 326-352.
'Crossing Borders: Labor Internationalism in the Era of NAFTA' in Gerardo Otero (ed), Neoliberalism Revisited: Economic Restructuring and Mexico's Future (Boulder & London: Westview Press, 1996), pp. 209-231.
'"Omnipotent and Onmipresent"? Labor Shortages, Worker Mobility and Employer Control in the Cuban Sugar Industry 1910-1934' in Avi Chomsky and Aldo Lauria (eds), At the Margins of the Nation-State: Identity and Struggle in the Making of the Laboring Peoples of Central America and the Hispanic Caribbean, 1860-1950 (Durham: Duke University Press, 1998), pp. 260-291.
"Latin American Studies in Australia" in Knowing Ourselves and Others; The Humanities in Australia in the 21 Century. Vol. 2, Chapter 16 (Canberra Australian Academy of the Humanities, 1998).
'From Caribbean Backwater to Revolutionary Opportunity: Cuba's Evolving Relationship with the Comintern 1925-1934' in Tim Rees and Andrew Thorpe (eds), International Communism and the Communist International (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1998), pp. 234-253.
'Workers of the Americas Unite!: Labor Internationalism and The Challenge of NAFTA' James in Goodman, Globalization and Resistance (Sydney & London: Pluto Press, 2002).
"Identity, Class and Nation: Black Immigrant Workers, Cuban Communism and Sugar Insurgency, 1925-1934' in Shalini Puri (ed.) Marginal Migrations:The Circulation of Cultures within the Caribbean, 2003 (London: Macmillan Caribbean, 2003)
"El Nuevo Internacionalismo Obrero y Sindical en América Latina; un Caso de la Globalización desde Abajo" in Yamada, Mutsuo (ed), Experiences And Prospects of Globalization in Latin America and the Caribbean (Osaka, Japan: JCAS Symposium Series, No. 23, 2005), pp. 169-186.
"Hacia una historia de los comunismos mexicanos: desafios y sugerencias" Elvira Concheiro, Massimo Modonesi and Horacio Crespi (eds), El comunismo: otras miradas desde América Latina (Mexico City: UNAM & CIICH, 2007).
"La crisis del Partido Comunista Mexicano y el caso Trotsky 1939-1940", Elvira Concheiro, Massimo Modonesi and Horacio Crespi (eds), El comunismo: otras miradas desde américa latina (Mexico City: UNAM & CIICH, 2007)
Other Publications
'"A Pact of Alliance With The Revolution': Art and Politics in Modern Mexico' in Anthony White (ed), Frida Kahlo, Diego Rivera and Mexican Modernism, Canberra, National Gallery of Australia, 2002, pp. 17-19.
Articles
"The Peculiarities of the Mexican North 1880-1928: An Essay in Interpretation", Institute of Latin American Studies, Glasgow University Occasional Paper No. 4, 1971.
"Las peculiaridades del norte Mexicano 1880-1928: Ensayo de interpretación", Historia Mexicana, vol. XXII, no. 3 (1973), pp. 320-346. Spanish version of the Glasgow paper.
"The Mexican Revolution Revisited," Latin America Review of Books, No. 1, 1973, pp. 135-140.
"Recent Regional Studies of the Mexican Revolution", Latin American Research Review, vol. XV, No. 1, 1980, pp. 3-14.
"Los orígenes del PCM.", Nexos, Abril de 1981, pp. 37-47.
"Impresiones del 19 Congreso del Partido Comunista Mexicano", Cuadernos
Políticos, No. 29 (Aug.-Oct. 1981), pp. 83-92.
"Temas del comunismo Mexicano", Nexos, Junio de 1982.
"Marxism and Anarchism in the Formation of the Mexican Communist Party 1910-1919", Hispanic American Historical Review, vol. 63 (2), 1983, pp. 277-305.
"The United States and Central America", Arena, 64 (Winter 1983), pp. 9-16.
"Mexican Communism 1968-1981: Eurocommunism in the Americas?" Journal of Latin American Studies, May 1985, vol. 17, pp. 201-228.
"The US Contra Nicaragua", Arena, 71, 1985, pp. 90-98.
"The Elections of July 1985 and the Mexican Left", The Journal of Communist Studies, vol. 2, no. 1 (1986), pp. 76-79.
"Crisis in Mexican Communism: The Extraordinary Congress of the Mexican Communist Party", (Part 1) Science and Society, vol. L, no. 4 Winter 1986/7, pp. 391-414.
'Crisis in Mexican Communism: The Extraordinary Congress of the Mexican Communist Party' (Part 2) Science and Society, vol. 51:1, Spring 1987, pp. 43-67.
'The Mexican Communist Party and Agrarian Mobilizations in the Laguna 1920-1940: A Worker-Peasant Alliance?', Hispanic American Historical Review, vol. 67, no. 3, August 1987, pp. 371-404.
'Washington's Foundering Fathers: The Contras and Contragate', Australian Left Review, no. 100, August 1987, pp. 31-34.
'Trotsky in Mexico', Journal of Communist Studies, vol. 4:1 (March 1988), pp. 98-101.
'The Creation of the Mexican Socialist Party', Journal of Communist Studies, vol. 4:3 (September 1988), pp. 339-341.
'The U.S. Invasion of Panama', Arena, No. 90, March 1990.
'Introduction' to Heidi Zogbaum, B. Traven: A Vision of Mexico (Wilmington: Scholarly Resources, 1992).
'The Shining Path', Arena Magazine, Vol. 1, No. 1 (October-November 1992), p. 4.
'Hacia un nuevo internacionalismo obrero"' Memoria, No. 60 (November 1993), pp. 18-23.
'Border Crossings: The Zapatista Uprising and the Future of Mexico', Arena Magazine, No. 10 (April-May 1994), pp. 38-41.
'El Internacionalismo obrero en la epoca del TL', Memoria, Jan-February 1995, No. 74, pp. 48-56.
'Mill Occupations and Soviets: The Mobilization of Sugar Workers in Cuba 1917-1933', Journal of Latin American Studies, 28 (Spring 1996), pp. 129-158.
[with Jim Levy, Martin Scurrah] "The Tyranny of Distance
LASA Forum , Vol. XXVII: 1, Spring 1996, pp. 13-16.
'Marxismo y modernidad en México', Memoria, No. 100 (June 1997), pp. 57-62.
Essays on " Communism and Communist Parties", "Industrial Labor 1910-1940", "Partido de la Revolución Democrática""Vicente Lombardo Toledano", "Lucio Cabañas", "Leon Trotsky" for the Encyclopedia of Mexico: History, Society & Culture ed. Michael Werner (Chicago: Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, 1997)
'From the Mountains of the Southwest: Recent Writing on the Zapatistas of Chiapas', Journal of Iberian and Latin American Studies, Vol. 3: 2 (December 1997), pp. 109-123.
'Identity, Class and Nation: Black Immigrant Workers, Cuban Communism and Sugar Insurgency, 1925-1934', Hispanic American Historical Review, 8: 1 (February 1998), pp. 83-116.
"Desde las montañas del Sureste mexicano: una revisión de los escritos recientes acerca de los zapatistas", Memoria, 114 (August 1998), pp. 4-13.
'Globalisation from Below? Labour Internationalism under NAFTA, International Social Science Journal (Paris/UNESCO), March 1999, pp. 49-59.
'El Comintern y el movimiento revolucionario de Cuba en 1933', Memoria, March 1999, pp. 27-32.
'From the Mountains of the Southwest: Recent Writing on the Zapatistas of Chiapas', Journal of Iberian and Latin American Studies, Vol. 3: 2 (December 1997), pp. 109-123.
'Identity, Class and Nation: Black Immigrant Workers, Cuban Communism and Sugar Insurgency, 1925-1934', Hispanic American Historical Review, 8: 1 (February 1998), pp. 83-116.
(with Jeff Browitt and Steven Niblo) 'Colombia in the Crucible: Civil War, Citizenship and the Disintegration of the State', Journal of Iberian and Latin American Studies, Vol. 7: 2 (December 2001), pp. 1-18. Special Issue on Colombia.
' "A Pact of Alliance With The Revolution': Art and Politics in Modern Mexico' in Anthony White (ed), Frida Kahlo, Diego Rivera and Mexican Modernism, Canberra, National Gallery of Australia, 2001, pp. 17-19.
Edited a special edition on Australian history of the Mexican historical journal Istor (and write the introductory essay), Istor, November-December 2005, pp. .
Entries and essays on Carlos Baliño, 'Blas Roca', 'St. Louis Affair', 'Frank País', 'Rubén Martínez Villena', 'Raúl Roa', 'Struggle Against Batista', '1961 Literacy Campaign' for Luis Martínez Fernández (ed) Cuba Encyclopedia, Oryzx Press, 2002.
Entries and essays on 8 topics (including Fidel Castro, Che Guevara, Francois (Papa Doc) Duvalier; the US Intervention in the Dominican Republic 1965, the 1945 Chapultepec Conference, El Salvador, Bolivia, Venezuela for the Spencer Tucker (ed) Encyclopedia of the Cold War (to be published in the US in 2006 by ABC-CLIO)
'Border Crossings: Radical, Worker and Union Transnationalisms in Mexico and Latin America 1910-2006", Dialogue: Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia, Vol. 25 (2/2006), pp. 33-43.
Other Publications
Coauthored Human Rights in the Philippines: Report of an Australian Fact-Finding Mission to the Philippines, Nov 28-Dec 5, 1987.
Refereed Conference Proceedings
"Los Estudios Sobre América Latina en Australia" ,in Yamada Mutsuo (ed), Estudios Latinoamericanos en Asia y Oceania (Osaka: Japan Center for Area Studies Occasional Paper No. 23, 2004) pp. 29-36.
"La globalización desde abajo: el internacionalismo sindical en el marco del TLCAN", Japan Centre for Area Studies Osaka, JCAS Symposium Series 23, 2005
"Bringing Australasia and Latin America Together; Recent Developments in Latin American Studies in Australia", presented to conference on Latin Humanism in the Far East, Macao, January 6-8, 2005. Published in late 2005 in the Conference proceedings of the Conference on Latin Humanism.
Broadcasts and print media
Since 1972 I have been frequently involved in the preparation, production and delivery of several hundred radio broadcasts on topics concerned with Latin America. These have included radio documentaries (on Guatemala and on Mexican Petroleum); news commentaries (scripts on a variety of contemporary topics); radio talks (on development dilemmas facing Mexico in the nineteen eighties); radio book reviews etc. The radio activity has involved work for the ABC (Australian Broadcasting Commission - a national radio network), Radio Australia, 3RRR-FM (an educational station), 3CR (a community radio station in Melbourne) and a number of commercial radio stations in Melbourne and around Australia. I also coordinated, presented and produced a fortnightly educational radio magazine "The History Show" for 3RRR-FM in 1983. I have also been frequently interviewed on Latin American topics by TV stations and networks (SBS TV, ABC TV in Australia, Canada (CBC), USA (NBC), Mexico.
I have written op/ed articles on Latin American topics for several newspapers, notably the Melbourne daily Herald and Sunday Herald in the 1980s.
Papers and Lectures Delivered at Conferences/Participation as Discussant and Commentator; lectures at Universities:
Lecture, "Fridamania: The Cult of Frida Kahlo as a Political, Social and Cultural Phenomenon." St Joseph's University, Philadelphia, January 24, 2008.
Lecture, "Latin America Turns to the Left", Rutgers University, Camden Campus, New Jersey, January 28, 2008.
Paper, "The Rise of 'Pink Tide' in Latin America Villanova University, January 30, 2008.
Lecture, West Chester University, Pennsylvania: Lecture "Revolution in Mexico: 1810, 1910, 2010?", February 4, 2008.
Lecture, "The Rise of 'Pink Tide' in Latin America II", Haverford College, Philadelphia, February 5, 2008.
Lecture; "Whither Cuba?" Swarthmore College, February 6 , 2008.
Lecture: "Is Latin America Moving Left?", Temple University, Philadelphia, February 7, 2008
Keynote Lecture at conference Primera Reunión Internacional sobre la historia de las Izquierdas en América Latina', Universidad Nicolaita de Michoacán & El Colegio de Michoacán, Morelia, November 28-29, 2007.
Paper/presentation ('Crossing Borders: Radical, Worker and Union Transnationalism in Mexico and Latin America, 1910-2007'), Latin American History Workshop, University of Chicago, November 15, 2007.
Lecture ('El impacto de las jornadas de 1968. Prácticas e imaginarios de las izquierdas mexicanas'), Universidad Autónoma de Baja California-Mexicali, November 8, 2007.
Presentation ('Enrique Semo: Historiador e intelectual marxista') , Mesa de Homenaje a Enrique Semo, Congreso Mexicano de Historia Económica, Cuernavaca, October 31, 2007.
Seminar Paper ('Acapulco and Cancun: Two Patterns of Tourism History (1940-2007) & An Agenda for Writing Tourism History of Mexico'), Tourism Studies Working Group, University of California, Berkeley, October 26, 2007
Lecture ('El largo 1968 en México'), Universidad de Guadalajara, October 24, 2007
Paper (' The Long 1968: Its Impact on the Politics and Imaginarios of the Mexican Left'), Latin American Studies Association (LASA) conference, Montreal, Canada, September 8, 2007
Seminar Paper "Impacto de 1968 sobre la izquierda y el movimiento urbano-popular en México 1968-1990". History Programme, Universidad Nicolaita de Michoacán, Morelia, Mexico, October 11, 2005.
Lecture " Un caso de globalización desde abajo? La evolución de las relaciones transnacionales entre trabajadores, sindicatos y grupos de izquierda de los Estados Unidos y México 1910-1990", Department of History, Universidad de Sonora, Hermosillo, Mexico, October 13, 2005
Seminar Paper ""Escribir la historia de México contemporáneo 1946-2006: desafíos y oportunidades", Department of History, Universidad de Sonora, Hermosillo, Mexico, October 14, 2005.
Conference Paper "Escribiendo la historia del comunismo mexicano". Reunión sobre La historia del comunismo latinoamericano, UNAM, Mexico City, November 6-9, 2005.
Paper "The Wobblies ( IWW) and Transnational Labor History and Activism: Precedents and Opportunities". Presented to centenary conference "The IWW at One Hundred Years', Brown University, Providdence RI, USA, March 4-6, 2005.
Paper "Bringing Australasia and Latin America Together; Latin American Studies in Australia", presented to conference on Latin Humanism in the Far East, Macao, January 6-8, 2005.
Lecture "Is Latin America Moving to the Left?" Presented to the Australian Institute of International Affairs, Melbourne, November 2004.
Paper on "Unions and Workers under Lula; Challenges and Opportunities". Presented to the ILAS conference 'Brazil Under Lula', Institute of Advanced Studies, La Trobe, October 31-Nov 1, 2004.
Paper "Narco-Corridos and the Corrido Tradition in Mexico'. Presented to the AILASA Conference, Flinders University, Adelaide, Australia, July 2004.
Paper "Worker and Social Movement Responses to Crisis in Argentina in the Era of Mercosur, National and Transnational Dimensions 1990-2003", Presented at conference on The Argentina Crisis: The End or the Beginning of a New Era?, Center for Latin American Studies, University of Auckland, July 24-25, 2003.
Paper "Los Estudios Sobre América Latina en Australia". Presented to the Conference on Latin American Studies in Asia and Oceania, Japan Center for Area Studies, National Museum of Ethnology,Osaka, Japan, February 2003.
Paper "United States and Mexican Unions During the Cold War 1946-c1955" presented to conference on The Cold War in Mexico, Central America and the Caribbean November 9-11, 2002, Mexico City.
Paper 'Mobility and Resistance: Cuban Sugar Workers 1910-1934'' at the biannual conference of the Australian Association of Caribbean Studies, (AACS)ANU, Canberra, February 8-10, 2001
'Border Crossings: Radical, Worker and Union Transnationalisms In Mexico and Latin America 1910- 2000', Paper at Commonwealth Fund Conference, University of London, late June 2001.
Paper 'Globalization from Below? Transnational Labor and Social Movement Cooperation in Mercosur During the 1990s' at the conference of AILASA (Association of Iberian and Latin American Studies of Australasia), July 4-7, 2001
Paper 'Las nuevas formas del internacionalismo obrero e sindical en la epoca del TLC: La 'globalización desde abajo?' at a special seminar of the Escuela Nacional de Antropología e Historia (ENAH), Mexico City, August 27, 2001
Commentator at two panels of the Washington conference of LASA "Historical Perspectives on Armed Struggles in Twentieth Century Mexico and Guatemala" and "Between Boom and Bust: Landed Elites, Commercial Economies and Politics in Central America and the Hispanic Caribbean, 1910-1930", Washington DC, September 4-7, 2001.
Paper: "How Cuban Was Cuban Communism: The First Decade of the PCC in the Light of Comintern Records" presented to the conference of the Latin American Studies Association LASA), Miami, March 2000
Paper : "Azúcar, comunismo y la revolucion de 1933" presented to the conference of the Latin American Studies Association, (LASA) , Miami, March 2000
Paper "Remembering the Student-Popular Movement of 1968 in Mexico", Paper presented to the ILAS conference" Violence, Memory and National Reconciliation", La Trobe University, October 13-14, 2000.
'Trabajadores del Mundo Uníos o Desuníos: respuestas sindicales y obreras al Tratado de Libre Comercio (NAFTA)', IDES, Buenos Aires, Argentina, 30 November 1999.
'Cross-Border Worker and Union Cooperation: Mexico-US-Canada, 1910-1999'. Paper at X Conference of Mexican and North American Historians, Fort Worth, Texas, USA, November 19-22. 1999
"Forms of Worker Resistance and the Labor Process in Cuban Sugar 1915-1935". Paper presented at the Association of Caribbean History conference in Havana, 12-16 April 1999.
"The Long-Term Impact of the 1968 Student-Popular Movement on the Mexican Left". Paper presented to the conference "Thirty Years After: The Political, Social and Cultural Legacies of Mexico's 1968 Student-Popular Movement", University of California-San Diego, October 23-24, 1998.
"Globalization From Below? Worker and Union Responses to NAFTA 1994-1998- A Balance Sheet". Paper presented to the XXI International Congress of the Latin American Studies Association (LASA), Chicago, September 24-26, 1998.
Commentator on panel "Crisis, Change and the Labor Movement in Mexico" (LASA), Chicago, Sep 24-26, 1998.
Paper "1898-1902: Independence or New Masters? - The End of Spanish Colonialism in Cuba" at conference "From Far And Near: The Genesis of the Balance of Power in the Asia-Pacific Region", UNSW, Sydney, May 15-16, 1998.
Paper "Regional Economic Integration and Labor Internationalism: A Historian's Reflections on Mexico-US-Canada Worker and Union Cooperation in the Period 1990-1009" at Fourth International Conference on the Americas, University of South Florida (USF), Tampa, Florida, January 28-31, 1998.
Commentator on panel "The Legacy of Che Guevara" American Historical Association (AHA), Seattle, January 6-8, 1998.
Commentator on panel "The Specter of Communism in Latin America", American Historical Association, Seattle, January 6-8, 1998.
"What About the Workers? Labor Internationalism and the North American Free Trade Agreement 1994-1997: A Preliminary
Assessment", III Conference of Association of Iberian and Latin American Studies of Australasia (AILASA), University of Auckland, July 17-19, 1997.
"From Caribbean Backwater to Revolutionary Opportunity: Cuba's Evolving Relationship with the Comintern 1925-1935", Latin American Studies Association (LASA), Guadalajara, Mexico, April 1997.
[Discussant] on panel on "Mexico in the 1940s" at the American Historical Association, New York, January 2-6,1997.
"Popular Culture and Popular Struggle: The Tributaries of the Neo-Zapatistas in Mexico 1940-1996". Conference on Popular Culture in Latin America, Institute of Latin American Studies, La Trobe University, August 30-31, 1996.
"A New Era for Labor Internationalism? The Experience of NAFTA 1994-1996", American Sociological Association (ASA) conference, [Panel on 'Globalization of Social Movements'], New York, August 1996
"Labor Rights Conditionality: Social Clauses and the Experience of the North American Free Trade Agreement", CAA Conference, Feb 1996, Melbourne.
"Organization and Social Mobility among Cuban Sugar Workers 1910-1935", Conference on "May Day and International Labor Movement", Instituto de Historia, Havana, Cuba, April 1995
"The Zapatista Rebellion in Chiapas: A Post-Modern Peasant Movement?", Paper for Conference of AILASA, University of Queensland, Brisbane, July 1995.
"Haitian and British West Indian Migrant Workers in the Cuban Sugar Industry 1910-1935", First Conference of Caribbean Studies Association of Australia, University of Queensland, July 1995.
"Mexican Responses to Globalization: the Chiapas Rebellion and Transborder Labor Networking." Round Table Discussion at the Law and Society conference, La Trobe University, December 15, 1994.
"Labor Internationalism in the Era of NAFTA: Past and Present." Paper written for the conference on Labor, Free Trade, and Economic Integration in the Americas: National Labor Union Responses to a Transnational World, Duke University, August 25-27, 1994 [could not attend the conference due to ill health].
"Accommodation and Resistance: British West Indian & Haitian Sugar Workers and Labor Insurgency in Cuba 1925-1934." Paper presented to the CLAH panel on West Indian Workers in Cuba and Costa Rica, American Historical Association, San Francisco, January 6-9, 1994.
"The Cuban Sugar Mill Occupations of 1933: A Re-examination." Paper to the Latin American History Seminar, Latin American Centre, Oxford University, November 16, 1993.
"Labour and the Impact of NAFTA: An Examination of Transnational Labour Contacts." Mexico-Central America Seminar, Institute of Latin American Studies, University of London, November 15, 1993.
"Transnational Labor Responses to Globalization and Regional Economic Integration: Mexican, US and Canadian Worker Links in the Era of NAFTA." Paper presented to the First National Conference of the Association of Iberian and Latin American Studies of Australasia, Sydney, September 30-October 2, 1993.
"El internacionalismo obrero en la epca del TLC: una respuesta obrera a la globalización del capital" Paper presented to the conference on "La clase obrera, los nuevos sujetos sociales y las alternativas socialistas del presente", Centro de Estudios Sobre los Movimientos Sociales: University of Guadalajara, Mexico, September 8-10, 1993.
"Is There a Future for the Left in Latin America?". Paper presented to the conference: A Pacific Encounter, Victoria University of Technology, Melbourne, September 3-4, 1993.
"The Theory and Practice of Labor Internationalism in the Era of the Globalization of Capital". Paper presented to the conference: The Work of Alain Touraine on Social Movements in Latin America, La Trobe University, July 12, 1993.
"Sugar and Soviets: The Mobilization of Sugar Workers in Cuba 1933" Paper presented to the Tenth Latin American Labor History Conference, Duke University, April 23-24, 1993.
"Rhetoric or Reality?: Labor Internationalism in the Era of NAFTA". Paper presented to the Graduate Seminar, Center for US-Mexican Studies, UCSD, April, 1993.
"Sugar and Soviets: The Mobilization of Cuban Sugar Workers 1920-1933". Paper presented to the Conference of SECOLAS, Antigua, Guatemala, February 18-20, 1993.
"Marxism and Modernity: Communism's Contribution to State Formation in Mexico". Paper presented to the Workshop on "Divergent Modernities: Reflections on Culture, Globalization and Power", Department of Sociology, La Trobe University, November 5, 1992.
"The Development of Black Consciousness in the Twentieth Century in Jamaica, the British Caribbean and Cuba". Paper given to the seminar on Black Slaves of Latin America and the Caribbean, CAE, Melbourne, May 31, 1992.
"Sugar, Soviets and Caribbean Immigrants". Paper presented to the History Department, Florida International University, February 1992.
'The Fate of the Vanguard Under a Revolutionary State: Marxism's Contribution to the Construction of the Great Arch'. Paper presented to the Workshop on Popular Culture, State Formation and the Mexican Revolution, Center for US-Mexican Studies, UCSD, February 1991.
'US-Latin American Communist Relations: The Browderist Heresy in Cuba and Mexico 1943-1946'. Paper prepared for presentation to the Conference of the Latin American Studies Association, San Juan, Puerto Rico, September 21-23, 1989.
'Cuba: Socialism and Democracy'. Paper presented to the Conference on Cuba: Thirty Years of Revolution, La Trobe University, August, 1989.
'Browderism in Mexico'. Paper presented to the Conference on Mexico in the 1930s and 1940s, La Trobe University, July 14-15, 1990.
'Socialism and Democracy in Cuba'. Paper presented to the Conference on 'Cuba: Thirty Years of Revolution', La Trobe University, August 1989.
'The Mexican Left and Popular Classes from the Late 30s to the Present Day'. Paper presented to the Conference on Political Culture, Popular Culture and Social Change in Contemporary Mexico, University of Texas, Austin, April 7-8, 1989.
'The July 1988 Elections and the Future of the Left in Mexico'. Paper presented to the Center for Latin American Studies, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, January 31, 1989.
'The Mexican Communist Party, the Comintern and the Trotsky Affair'. Paper presented to the conference on 'Trotsky: revelador politico de México cardenista', Facultad de Ciencias Politicas y Sociales, UNAM, Mexico City, May 18-22, 1987.
'The Political Left and the Labor Movement in Mexico'. Paper presented to a conference on 'Mexican Labor' at the Center for Us-Mexican Studies, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, May 14-16, 1987.
'The Mexican Communist Party and Agrarian Mobilization in the Laguna 1920-1940: A Worker Peasant Alliance?'. Paper presented to the meeting of the Latin American Studies Association, Boston, 22-25 October 1986.
'The Past, Present and Future of Latin American Studies in Australia'. Paper presented to the conference on 'Australia and Latin America' at the University of New South Wales, Sydney, Aug 22-23, 1986.
'The Unification of the Mexican Left - The PSUM: An Evaluation of its First Three Years'. Paper presented to the XXX Annual Meeting, Pacific Coast Conference on Latin American Studies (PCCLAS), California State University, Los Angeles, October 18-21, 1984.
'Recent Research on the Mexican Working Class during the Revolution'. Paper presented to a conference on 'New Perspectives on the Mexican Revolution', CILAS, UCSD, May 1984.
'The Mexican Economic Debacle and the Labour Movement: A New Era or More of the Same?'. Paper presented to the Executive Workshop on 'Mexico's Economic Stabilization: Challenges and Opportunities', organized by the Center for US-Mexican Studies, University of California, San Diego, June 2-4, 1983.
'Mexico and the Pacific Basin'. Paper presented to the National Conference of the Australian Institute of International Affairs held at the Law School of Sydney University, May 1982.
'Eduardo del Río (Rius), Los Agachados and the Development of Didactic Comic-strips in Mexico'. Paper presented to the Conference of AULLA (Australasian Universities Language and Literature Association), Massey University, Palmerston North, New Zealand, January 1982.
'The Development of Communism and Marxism in Mexico: A Historiographical Essay'. Paper presented to the VI Conference of Mexican and United States Historians at the University of Chicago, September 1981.
'Marxism, Communism and Anarchism in the Mexican Revolution 1910-1925'. Paper presented to the Conference on Latin American History, section of the American Historical Association meeting in New York, December 1979.
'Developments in the Study of the Regional History of the Mexican Revolution'. Paper presented to the Mexican-Australian Seminar on Mexican Prehistory, History and Culture held at the Humanities Research Centre at the Australian National University, Canberra, 23 September 1979.
'The Casa del Obrero Mundial, Constitutionalism and the Pact of February 1915'. Paper presented to the V Conference of Mexican and United States Historians held at Patzcuaro, Mexico, October 1977.
'Revisionist Studies of the Church-State Conflict, 1910-1929'. Paper presented to the Conference on Church and Society in Latin America at La Trobe University in 1974.
Discussant for conference on 'Popular Alternatives to the Crisis in Mexico'. Mexican Studies Program, University of California, Berkeley, October 1984.
Commentator at Conference on "The New Right in Latin America", held at La Trobe University, July 1982.
Discussant for Panel on 'Revisionist Histories of the Mexican Revolution' at the Conference of the Latin American Studies Association (LASA), Houston, Texas, November 1977.
Discussant for Panel on 'Periodisation of the Mexican Revolution', at the IV Conference of Mexican and United States Historians held at Santa Monica, California in October 1973.
Lectures and Seminars at Institutions Outside La Trobe University
"What About the Workers: Labor Internationalism and NAFTA: A Preliminary Assessment", ILAS and History Dept, University of Texas, Austin, January 26, 1998.
"Haitian and British West Indian Migrant Workers in the Cuban
Sugar Economy, 1910-1935", University of Texas-Austin, History Department, January 26,1998.
"Vudu, Cricket, Garveyism and Worker Resistance: Caribbean Migration to Cuba, 1910-1935". History Department, University of Illinois, Chicago, January 14, 1998.
"The Neo-Zapatistas of Chiapas: Postmodern Rebellion or Peasant Revolt? An Historical Perspective", University of Chicago, History Department, January 13, 1998.
"Labor Internationalism in the Era of NAFTA", University of Pittsburgh, History Department Faculty Seminar, January 13, 1997.
"Labor Social Movements in Modern Mexico", Toronto Universities Mexico Working Group, February 9, 1997.
"Cross-Border Labour Organizing in the Era of NAFTA", Department of History, University of Toronto, February 10, 1997.
"From Emiliano Zapata to the Zapatistas of Chiapas: Popular Struggles Through the Twentieth Century", CERLAC (Center for Research on Latin America and the Caribbean), York University, February 11,1997.
'From Emiliano Zapata to the Zapatistas of Chiapas: What's Old and New In Latin American Popular Struggles', Department of History, Center for Latin American Studies, Center for Labor Studies, University of Washington, Seattle, February 28, 1997.
"Labor Internationalism and NAFTA", Department of History, University of British Columbia, March 1997.
"What About the Workers? Cross-Border Worker and Union Responses to NAFTA", Department of History and Latin American Studies Program, Simon Fraser University, March 4, 1997.
"Cross-Border Union and Worker Cooperation: NAFTA and the Lessons of Labour Internationalism", Department of History, Latin American Studies Group, International Center, University of Calgary, March 6, 1997.
"The Zapatista Rebellion in Mexico 1994-1997: A Postmodern Peasant Movement?", Department of History, Texas Christian University, Fort Worth, April 1997.
"De México a Cuba, y de vuelta a México: movilidad social y formas de resistencia entre los obreros azucareros cubanos, 1910-1935', History Faculty and Postgraduate Seminar, Universidad Autónoma de Iztapalapa, Mexico City, April 15, 1997.
"Rhetoric or Reality?: Labor Internationalism in the Era of NAFTA". Talk to the Duke-UNC Program in Latin American Studies Working Group on Labor, Free Trade and Economic Integration in the Americas, Duke University, April 22, 1993.
"Recent Developments in Mexican and Cuban Labor History: Impressions". Talk given to Latin American history graduate students, UCSD, March 4, 1993.
An Introduction to the VCE unit on 'The United States and Imperialism and Colonialism in the Caribbean and Central America'. Talk to the USIS/History Teachers' Association of Victoria conference on "Introducing American History into the VCE", Melbourne, November 14, 1990.
'The Political Context of Mexican Popular Culture'. Lecture to Department of European Studies, Monash University, June 20, 1988.
'An Introduction to Central America'. Talk for Council of Adult Education (CAE) course on 'Nicaragua and Central America', April 13, 1988.
Lecture to students at the University of Adelaide and Flinders University 'Latin America since Independence: Challenges and opportunities', April 13, 1988.
'The Development of Communism in Mexico', Lecture to Institute of Latin American Studies, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, April 4, 1984.
'The Politics of Austerity and the Mexican Left'. Paper to the Mexican Studies Program, University of California, Berkeley, May 1984'.
'The Mexican Revolution'. Lecture to the Magellan Society at the A.N.U., Canberra in May 1982.
'Communism and Marxism in Mexico'. Lecture to History majors at Trinity University, San Antonio, Texas, April 16, 1981.
'The Birth of Communism in Mexico'. Lecture to History students at Ohio Wesleyan University, April 23, 1981.
'The Historiography of studies on working class movements in Mexico: Some questions and suggestions'. Paper presented to research seminar at the Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, Azcapotzalco, Mexico City, April 1981.
'The Mexican Communist Party in the Late Seventies and Early Eighties: Eurocommunism in the Americas?'. Paper presented to the Politics Department of University of California, Riverside and to the Centre for Latin American Studies at California State (Los Angeles), November 1980.
'Organized Labour and the Mexican Revolution'. Paper presented to the Centre for Social History, Warwick University, UK, December 1976.
'Workers and the State: The Mexican Case 1910-1940'. Paper presented to the seminar series on "The State in Latin America"' at the Institute of Latin American Studies, University of Glasgow, UK, December 1976.
'Historiographical and Methodological Aspects of the History of the Mexican Left 1938-1981: Notes on Research in Progress'. Lecture to CIESAS, Mexico City, November 1984.
'The Crisis in Central America' - Lecture to Joint Services Staff College, Canberra, September 1983.
'The Political Economy of Agrarian Reform in Latin America', Lectures, Politics Department, University of Melbourne, 3, 10 May, 1983.