On 28th November OxTalks will move to the new Halo platform and will become 'Oxford Events' (full details are available on the Staff Gateway).
There will be an OxTalks freeze beginning on Friday 14th November. This means you will need to publish any of your known events to OxTalks by then as there will be no facility to publish or edit events in that fortnight. During the freeze, all events will be migrated to the new Oxford Events site. It will still be possible to view events on OxTalks during this time.
If you have any questions, please contact halo@digital.ox.ac.uk
Benjamin T. Smith is a reader in Latin American history at the University of Warwick. He is a historian of nineteenth and twentieth-century Mexican grassroots politics and has done most of his research in the archives, villages, churches, and markets of the predominantly indigenous state of Oaxaca. He has published two monographs on the subject (Pistoleros and Popular Movements and The Roots of Conservatism in Mexico) and co-edited a volume on post-revolutionary state formation with Paul Gillingham (Dictablanda: Politics, Work and Culture in Mexico, 1938-1968). He has recently made the reluctant and potentially rash decision to move beyond his patria chica. And following his previous rather scattergun approach, he is working on a history of the post-revolutionary press (UNC Press will be publishing Stories from the Newsroom, Stories from the Street next year) and a history of the Mexican drug trade.
