OPEN DOORS PRESENTS LATIN AMERICANISTS FROM UNM, NMSU

April 17, 2003

OPEN DOORS PRESENTS LATIN AMERICANISTS FROM UNM, NMSU

The Open Doors Series presents, "Worlds of Labor in South America: Class, Gender and Political Culture," a joint presentation by University of New Mexico Assistant History Professor Liz Hutchison and New Mexico State University Assistant History Professor Iñigo Garcia-Bryce, on Monday, April 21, 10 a.m. in Zimmerman Library's Willard Reading Room.

Hutchison, on the UNM faculty since 1998, conducts research on women and work in early 20th century Chile. Her book, "Labors Appropriate to their Sex: Gender, labor, and politics in urban Chile, 1900-1930," brings together her interest in women, labor and human rights in Chile.

"I've studied the way Chilean organizations developed under military dictatorships and the re-democratization there in the late 1980s," she said. During the course of her research in that country she had to overcome many hurdles to research women's labor history in a place where women's work was not legitimized, she said.

Garcia-Bryce, a Peruvian now in his fourth year at NMSU, will present his research on artisans and labor history in the mid-19th century. The topic is the focus of a book, "Crafting the Republic: Lima's artists and nation building in Peru, 1821-1879" to be published by UNM Press in 2004. He has studied at Harvard, Stanford and la Universidad Católica del Perú.

Both professors are concerned with the merger of politics, culture and the labor movement, Hutchison said.

"This joint venture is important for Latin American studies on the UNM campus and demonstrates outreach with another state institution," said Carolyn Mountain, DILARES director.

The event is sponsored by the Division of Iberian and Latin American Resources and Services (DILARES), the Latin American and Iberian Institute, and the Center for Southwest Research.

Call 277-0818 for more information.

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