MEXICAN STUDIES PROGRAM

2007-2008

• 10.02.07 - Choosing a President: Mexican Voters, Public Opinion, and the 2006 Presidential Election
Tuesday Seminar with: Jorge I. Domínguez, Antonio Madero Professor of Mexican and Latin American Politics and Economics; Vice Provost for International Affairs, Harvard

• 10.05.07 - Reflections on Commemoration at Mexico’s Bicentennial
¡México Hoy! with: Claudio Lomnitz, Professor of Anthropology; Director, Center for the Study of Race and Ethnicity, Columbia University;
Moderated by: Rafael Fernández de Castro, RFK Visiting Professor of Latin American Affairs, Harvard; Professor of International Relations, ITAM

• 10.05.07 - Fathers of Mexican Muralism: A glimpse at the Sketches, Prints and process of Orozco, Rivera and Siqueiros
Talk by: Mary Schneider Enriquez, Latin American Art Advisor, Harvard University Art Museums

• 10.09.07 - Matias (C. Lomonaco & M. Spicuzza – 2004) and De Nadie (T. Dirdamal - 2006)

The Coyote’s Trail film series: Matias tells the story of a young Mexican’s repeated journeys across the border into the US. De Nadie is a documentary that follows impoverished Central Americans over the 2500-mile journey through Mexico as the head to the US looking for work.

With discussion led by Rafael Fernández de Castro, RFK Visiting Professor of Latin American Affairs, Harvard; Professor of International Relations, ITAM

• 10.15.07 - Looking Like a ‘Presidente’: Appearance and Electability among Mexican Candidates
¡México Hoy! with: Chappell Lawson, Associate Professor of Political Science, MIT;
Moderated by: John Womack Jr., Robert W. Bliss Professor of Latin-American History and Economics, Harvard

• 10.16.07 - Exemplary Immigrants: How Mexicans and Central Americans Contribute to America's Social Capital
Tuesday Seminar with: Rafael Fernández de Castro, RFK Visiting Professor of Latin American Affairs, Harvard; Professor of International Relations, ITAM

• 10.23.07 - Alambrista: the Director’s Cut (R. Young – 1977)

The Coyote’s Trail film series: With discussion led by: Davíd Carrasco, Neil L. Rudenstine Professor for the Study of Latin America in the Faculty of Divinity and the Faculty of Arts and Sciences;
And a guest presentation by: José Cuellar aka ‘Dr. Loco’, Professor of La Raza Studies at San Francisco State University; Musician and composer of the original soundtrack of ‘Alambrista: the Director’s Cut’

• 10.29.07 - Foreign Policy: Fox’s Great Expectations and Calderon’s Confrontation with Reality
¡México Hoy! with: Rafael Fernández de Castro, RFK Visiting Professor of Latin American Affairs, Harvard; Professor of International Relations, ITAM;
Moderated by John Womack Jr., Robert W. Bliss Professor of Latin-American History and Economics, Harvard

• 11.01.07 - El Norte (G. Nava - 1984)

The Coyote’s Trail film series presents: With discussion led by: Rafael Fernández de Castro, RFK Visiting Professor of Latin American Affairs, Harvard; Professor of International Relations, ITAM;

• 11.02.07 - GSD: Before and After
The Latin GSD presents a conversation with: Alfonso Garduño, Director de la Carrera de Arquitectura, Tecnológico de Monterrey, Campus Querétaro

• 11.02.07 - Día de los Muertos/ The Day of the Dead
The Peabody Museum and the Consulate General of Mexico in Boston present:
Family- oriented events featuring a demonstration from woodcarver Ventura Fabián of Oaxaca, Mexico; crafts and sugared skull workshops, and performances from Ballet Folklórico
A temporary altar installation in addition to a display of the Peabody Museum's own Day of the Dead altar created in 2002.

• 11.04.07 - 11.05.07 - The Strange, Sublime Art of Carlos Reygadas
The Harvard Film Archive presents:

Japón (Reygadas, 2005)

Battle in Heaven (Reygadas, 2005), with: Carlos Reygadas, Director

Silent Light (Reygadas, 2007), with: Carlos Reygadas, Director

• 11.07.07 - Los Nuevos Ricos
Latin American and Latino Art Forum Event with: renown Mexican artist Carlos Amorales
In conversation with: Doris Sommer, Ira Jewell Williams, Jr. Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures and of African and African American Studies; Director of the Cultural Agency Initiative, Harvard University; and music critic and journalist Josh Kun, University of Southern California

• 11.08.07 - Al Otro Lado (G. Loza - 2005)

The Coyote’s Trail film series: With discussion led by Rafael Fernández de Castro, RFK Visiting Professor of Latin American Affairs, Harvard; Professor of International Relations, ITAM

• 11.29.07 - A Day without a Mexican (S. Arau - 2004)

The Coyote’s Trail film series: A Day without a Mexican portrays the lives of thousands of Americans after the entire Latino population of the United States disappears.

With discussion led by: Rafael Fernández de Castro, RFK Visiting Professor of Latin American Affairs, Harvard; Professor of International Relations, ITAM

• 12.03.07 - Where there are Mexicans, there is Mexico’: Mexican Immigrants in the United States
¡México Hoy! with: Julia Preston, National Immigration Correspondent for the New York Times;
Moderated by: John Womack Jr. R. W. Bliss Professor of Latin-American History and Economics, Harvard

• 12.05.07 - Experiences in Binational Social and Health Mobilization among the Immigrant Population
Social Policy Discussion with: Xóchitl Casteñeda, Director of Health Initiative of the Americas, University of California

• 12.10.07 - Mexico: How to Avoid being Kidnapped, Jailed or Killed while Reporting
¡México Hoy! with: Alfredo Corchado, Reporter for the Dallas Morning News, Mexico City Bureau;
Moderated by: Rafael Fernández de Castro, RFK Visiting Professor of Latin American Affairs, Harvard; Professor of International Relations, ITAM

• 1.28.08 – 3.16.08 – Dirty Work: Transforming Landscape in the Non-Formal City of the Americas
GSD Exhibition: Curated by John Beardsley, Senior Lecturer in Landscape Architecture; Christian Werthmann, Associate Professor of Landscape Architecture

• 2.11.08 - President Felipe Calderon addresses public at the Harvard Kennedy School's JFK Jr. Forum. President Calderon was a Mason Fellow at the Kennedy School and graduated with a Master in Public Administration (MPA) in 2000.

• 2.21.08 – La Ciudad (Riker, 1999)
The Coyote’s Trail film series: This drama about the bonds between children and absent parents follows the story of three children as they attempt to deal with realities of immigration in their societies.

• 2.26.08 - The Challenges of Mexico's Democracy: Political Reform and Its Impact for the Near Future
DRCLAS Tuesday Seminar with: Luis Carlos Ugalde, RFK Visiting Professor, DRCLAS; Former President of the Federal Electoral Institute, Mexico

• 2.27.08 - The Moral and Political Economy of Grain Trade Prohibitions in Bourbon Mexico
The Boston Area Latin American History Workshop presents: Amílcar Challú, Assistant Professor of History, Bowling Green State University

• 2.28.08 - Mexico: The Right in Power
¡México Hoy! with: Soledad Loaeza, Professor of Political Science at El Colegio de Mexico; Moderated by John Womack Jr., Robert W. Bliss Professor of Latin-American History and Economics, Harvard

• 3.6.08 - The Turnaround of Mexico's Nacional Financiera Development Bank and the Latin American Deal of the Year
HUMA Presents: Mario Laborín, Director General de Nacional Financiera

• 3.6.08 - Al Otro Lado (Loza, 2004)
The Coyote’s Trail film series: This drama about the bonds between children and absent parents follows the story of three children as they attempt to deal with realities of immigration in their societies.

• 3.20.08 - The Politics of "History" and Progress" in Modern Mexico City: INAH, Ebrard, and the Battle over Building Preservation in the Centro Historico
¡México Hoy! with: Diane Davis, Professor of Political Sociology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, MIT Moderated by John Womack Jr., R. W. Bliss Professor of Latin-American History and Economics, Harvard

• 3.20.08 - Guest Worker (Hill, 2006)
The Coyote’s Trail film series: The story of 66-year-old Candelario, who has been coming to the United States for 40 years in order to provide for his family.

• 3.31.08 - Democracy, Good Government, and Development: Mexico, an Experience in Latin America
JFK Forum Presents: President Vincente Fox

• 4.10.08 - Uncertain Types: Racial Portraiture and Ethnographic Encounter in the Late 19th- and early 20th-Century Japan and Mexico
The Edwin O. Reischauer Center, Peabody Museum and DRCLAS present: Deborah Poole, Professor of Anthropology, Johns Hopkins University
5:30 pm, Geological Lecture Hall, 24 Oxford Street. Reception follows in the Peabody Museum

• 4.15.08 - Helping Mexican Children Become Better Readers
DRCLAS Tuesday Seminar with: Fernando Reimers, Ford Foundation Professor of International Education, Harvard

• 4.24.08 – Farmingville (Sandoval, Tambini, 2004)
The Coyote’s Trail film series: The attempted murder of two Mexican day laborers catapults the Long Island town of Farmingville into national headlines, unmasking a new frontline of the border wars -- suburbia.

• 4.24.08 - Energy Reform in Mexico
¡México Hoy! with: Raymundo Riva Palacio, Editor in Chief, El Grafico; Editor, External Affairs, El Universal. Moderated by John Womack Jr., R. W. Bliss Professor of Latin-American History and Economics, Harvard

• 5.2.08 - The Future of North American Energy Security: The Challenge from the Mexican Perspective

HUMA Presents a Public Address by: Jesus Reyes Heroles, CEO of Petróleos Mexicanos (PEMEX)