Oxford Events, the new replacement for OxTalks, will launch on 16th March. The two-week OxTalks freeze period starts on Monday 2nd March. During this time, there will be no facility to publish or edit events. The existing OxTalks site will remain available to view during this period. Once Oxford Events launches, you will need a Halo login to submit events. Full details are available on the Staff Gateway.
Gema Kloppe-Santamaría, Assistant Professor of Latin American History at Loyola University Chicago and currently Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow at the Freiburg Institute of Advanced Studies in Germany. Her research deals with questions of violence, religion, gender, and state formation in Latin America, with a particular focus on Mexico. She is the author of In the Vortex of Violence: Lynching, Extralegal Justice and the State in Post-Revolutionary Mexico (published by University of California Press, 2020; recipient of the 2022 Honorable Mention of the Maria Elena Martinez Book Prize, Conference on Latin American History). Dr. Kloppe-Santamaría is also lead editor of the books Violence and Crime in Latin America: Representations and Politics (University of Oklahoma Press, 2017) and Human Security and Chronic Violence in Mexico: New Perspectives and Proposals from Below (Editorial Porrúa, 2019). Her work has been supported by several grants, including most recently a 2020 Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation Distinguished Scholar Award and a 2021 Mellon Emerging Faculty Leaders Award.
