Javier Villa-Flores

Department of History  (M/C 198)
913 University Hall 601 South Morgan St.

University of Illinois,Chicago, IL 60607
Chicago, IL 60607-7117
(312) 996-7270
(312) 996-5799
E-mail: javier@uic.edu

Education

Ph.D., 2001 University of California, San Diego

M.A. in History,  1997 University of California, San Diego

         B.A. in Sociology,   1990 University of Guadalajara, Mexico

Areas of Expertise

Colonial Mexican History

Publications

Carlo Ginzburg, el historiador como teórico (Mexico: Universidad de Guadalajara, 1995)

"'Talking Through the Chest': Divination and Ventriloquism among Afro-Mexican Slave Women in Seventeenth-Century New Spain," Colonial Latin American Review (forthcoming 2005)

"On Divine Persecution: Blasphemy and Gambling in New Spain," in Susan Schroeder and Stafford Poole , eds. Religion and Society in Colonial Mexico (New Mexico University Press, in press, 2004)

"To Lose One's Soul: Blasphemy and Slavery in New Spain, 196-1669", The Hispanic American Historical Review 82:3 (August 2002), 435-468

"Frente a la tragedia la iniciativa ciudadana" (with Cristina Padilla Dieste) in Cristina Padilla y Rossana Reguillo (eds.), ¿Quién nos hubiera dicho? Guadalajara 22 de abril (Mexico: ITESO, 1993), 117-134

"Para no perder la razón" (with Cristina Padilla), Revista de la Universidad de Guadalajara (Fall 1993)

"Proyecto de diagnóstico del movimiento urbano popular en la zona metropolitana de Guadalajara en la decada de los ochentas," Boletín Servicio Social Universitario (Universidad de Guadalajara, Fall 1991), 1-8

"La muerte encinta". Paréntesis 169 (May 12, 1991, Guadalajara, Jal.)

"Apuntes sobre el juego y el saber," Paréntesis, 166 (April 22, 1991, Guadalajara, Jal.)

"Sobre la geografía política". Paréntesis, 162 (March 18, 1991, Guadalajara, Jal.)

 

Presentations

"On gallows, chickens, and birds: The career of an Inquisitorial Impostor in Seventeenth-Century Ixmiquilpan". Annual Meeting of the Rocky Mountain Council for Latin American Studies. Santa Fe, New Mexico, March 2004

"Performing the Inquisitor: Imposture and Identity Fashioning in Seventeenth-Century New Spain". Annual Meeting of the American Historical Association. Washington,D.C., January 2004

"The Speaking Arts of the Devil": Divination and Ventriloquism among Slave Women in Seventeenth-Century Colonial Mexico". International Seminar on the History of the Atlantic World, 1500-1800, August, 2003.

"Mujeres deslenguadas: Blasphemy, Sex, and Gender in New Spain," Annual Meeting of the Rocky Mountain Council for Latin American Studies. Tempe, Arizona, February 2003

"Talking Through the Chest": Divination among Afro-Mexican Slaves in New Spain. Colonial Latin America Workshop. University of Chicago, November 2002.

"Look Who's Talking: Ventriloquism and Divination among Afro-Mexican Slaves in New Spain". 2002 Annual Meeting of the American Society for Ethnohistory.Quebec City, Canada, October 2002

"Blasphemy and Gambling in Colonial Mexico". Invited presentation at the Latin American History Workshop. University of Chicago, February 2002

Commentator on a presentation given by Christopher Boyer at the Newberry Labor History Seminar, January 2002

"Blasphemy and Masculine Performativity in Colonial Mexico", Feminism Unbound: An Interdisciplinary Graduate Symposium. University of Oregon. Eugene, Oregon, May 2001

"On Divine Persecution: Blasphemy and Gambling in New Spain." Invited paper presented at Tulane University, March 2001

"To Lose One's Soul: Blasphemy and Slavery in New Spain". Paper delivered at the Second Graduate Students Conference, at the University of California, at Riverside, June 2000

"He Who Doesn't Blaspheme is Not a Man!": Blasphemy and Masculinity in New Spain, 1520-1630," Paper delivered at The Newberry Library, April 2000

"Blasphemy and its Social Consequences among African Slaves in Seventeenth-Century New Spain." Paper delivered at The John Carter Brown Library, August 1999

"Views From an Invisible Mountain: Nationalism and the Sublime in José María Velasco's Valley of Mexico Canvases." Paper delivered at Virginia Technological University, March 1999

Commentator on a paper by Araceli Ibarra and Fernando Leal Carretero, "El templo de la Hermosa Provincia: Meditaciones entre lo estético y lo social." Symposium on Pentecostal Churches. Guadalajara, Mexico, November 1993

Commentator on a paper by Pablo España, "Determinismo y libertad en el psicoanálisis." University of Guadalajara, November 1992.

"La creencia, lo imaginario y el campo de lo posible: herejía, institución y crítica de lo concreto." (coauthored with Rodolfo Moran Quiroz). "aper presented at Symposium on Religion, Beliefs, and Institutions. CIESAS de Occidente. Guadalajara, Mexico, July 1992

Service

2004, January. Organizer of a panel with David Tavárez on "Colonial Identities, Contested Boundaries: Ethnicity, Gender and the Politics of Identification in Mexico and Guatemala". Joint session with Committee on Latin American History. Annual Meeting of the American Historical Association (Washington,D.C.)

2002, October 20. Organizer of a panel on "Colonial Racial Boundaries and Transgressive Speech among Blacks, Mulattoes, and other groups in Colonial Mexico," Annual Meeting of the American Society for Ethnohistory (Quebec City, Canada)

1992, June. Organizer of seminar "Historia, narrativa y evidencia", coordinated by professor Carlo Ginzburg. June 22, 23 and 24. CICS. Universidad de Guadalajara

1988, September. Chair of conference panel "Los métodos del conocimiento II". Sept. 1988. Centro Regional de Tecnologia Educativa. University of Guadalajara, Mexico

1987, September. Chair of conference panel "Los métodos del conocimiento I". Centro Regional de Tecnologia Educativa. University of Guadalajara, Mexico

1986, September. Chair of conference panel "Revueltas a destiempo". Bookstore "El Kiosko". Organized by "Teoria y Politica, A.C." Guadalajara, Mexico

Professional Experience

August 2001--  Assistant Professor, University of Illinois at Chicago