Mexitopia: Alternate Readings of Magic and Danger in the Borderlands and Beyond
Schedule
Thu, 26 Feb, 2026 at 03:00 pm
UTC-06:00Location
2300 Red River St, Austin, TX, United States, Texas 78705 | Austin, TX
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Mexitopia: Alternate Readings of Magic and Danger in the Borderlands and BeyondDate: Thursday February 26, 2026
Time: 3:00 PM - 4:30 PM
Location: Benson Latin American Collection, second floor conference room. The Benson Latin American Collection along with the LLILAS Mexico Center present a scholarly talk by Ageeth Sluis, Butler University, titled "Mexitopia: Alternate Readings of Magic and Danger in the Borderlands and Beyond."
Ageeth Sluis is professor of Latin American history and Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies at Butler University, who works at the intersections of gender, space, and the history of the Americas. Her book Deco Body/Deco City: Spectacle and Modernity in Mexico City, 1900–1939 (2016) looks at how new ideas about femininity and female bodies influenced urban reform in Mexico’s capital city in the 1920s and 1930s. Other work has been published in several journals, including the Journal of Transnational American Studies, Journal of Urban History, and The Americas. She is currently working on Mexitopia, a book project that explores the history of anthropology, indigenismo, New Age spirituality and tourism to understand the power of place, especially popular imaginings of Mexico.
Free and open to the public. For more information, contact Paloma Díaz. <p.diaz />
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