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Festschrift for Professor Kevin Middlebrook

07 November 2023, 2:00 pm–7:00 pm

Professor Middlebrook

This event is organised to remember and honour our colleague Kevin Middlebrook, Professor of Latin American Politics, who sadly passed away in late 2022.

This event is free.

Event Information

Open to

All | UCL staff | UCL students

Availability

Yes

Cost

Free

Organiser

Institute of the Americas

Location

IAS Common Ground
G11, ground floor, South Wing
UCL, Gower Street, London
WC1E 6BT
United Kingdom

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During his career, Professor Middlebrook made numerous key contributions to the field of Latin American politics and to the study of labour politics in the Americas. A graduate of Harvard University, he moved to the UK in 2001 to take up a post at the Institute of Latin American Studies. After joining UCL in 2012, Professor Middlebrook played a key role in the development of the Institute of the Americas, as convenor of the MSc in Latin American Politics and the MA in Latin American Studies, and as a senior member of staff with vast experience in UK, US, and Mexican academia. His masters module, Democratization in Latin America, was one of the cornerstones of the Institute’s masters programmes and extremely popular among students. He also supervised several PhD students on a broad range of topics.

At this event, close colleagues and friends of Professor Middlebrook will come together to share research that speaks to his research interests and his contributions to scholarship.


Programme

14:00 – Welcome
 
14:30-16:00 Panel 1 

  • Alan Knight – Organized Labour and Mexico's Revolutionary Regime
  • Helga Baitenmann – Women Workers’ Struggle for Equal Pay in Revolutionary Mexico
  • Paul J. Angelo – Civilian Government and Military Development: Lessons from Mexico
  • Pablo Uchoa – Armed forces and civilian governors: friends or strangers?

16:00-16:30: Break – tea/coffee
 
16:30-18:00 Panel 2

  • Graciela Bensusán – Lessons from the implementation of the reforms on freedom of association and collective bargaining, in the context of the T-MEC: implications and perspectives of Mexican trade unionism
  • Sandra Polaski – The USMCA and Mexican Labor:  International Rights, Domestic Politics and National Sovereignty
  • Laurence Whitehead – Mexico's Transition "Prospects" three decades later
  • Eduardo Zepeda – 30 years after NAFTA: T-MEC, can this time be different? Reshoring, value-chains, and the up-scaling of Mexico's development

18:00-19:00 Reception