Fall 2007

• 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 University)

• 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 - The Coyote’s Trail: a Film Series on the Mexican Immigration Experience
°Matias (C. Lomonaco & M. Spicuzza – 2004)
°De Nadie (T. Dirdamal - 2006)
°With discussion led by: Rafael Fernández de Castro (RFK Visiting Professor of Latin American Affairs, Harvard; Professor of International Relations, ITAM)

• 10.11.07 - 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)

• 10.15.07 - 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 - The Coyote’s Trail: a Film Series on the Mexican Immigration Experience"
°Alambrista: the Director’s Cut (R. Young – 1977)
°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 - The Coyote’s Trail: a Film Series on the Mexican Immigration Experience
°El Norte (G. Nava - 1984)
°With discussion led by: Rafael Fernández de Castro (RFK Visiting Professor of Latin American Affairs, Harvard; Professor of International Relations, ITAM) David Carrasco, (Neil L. Rudenstine Professor for the Study of Latin America in the Faculty of Divinity and the Faculty of Arts and Sciences)

• 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

• 11.05.07 - Security: Mexico’s Big Headache
¡México Hoy! with: Raymundo Riva Palacio (Editor in Chief, El Gráfico; Editor, External Affairs, El Universal)
Moderated by: John Womack Jr. (Robert W. Bliss Professor of Latin-American History and Economics, Harvard)

• 11.04.07 - 11.05.07 - The Strange, Sublime Art of Carlos Reygadas
°Japón (Reygadas, 2005)
°Battle in Heaven (Reygadas, 2005), with: Carlos Reygadas
°Silent Light (Reygadas, 2007), with: Carlos Reygadas

• 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 - The Coyote’s Trail: a Film Series on the Mexican Immigration Experience
°Al Otro Lado (G. Loza - 2005)

• 11.29.07 - The Coyote’s Trail: a Film Series on the Mexican Immigration Experience
°A Day without a Mexican (S. Arau - 2004)

• 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. (Robert W. Bliss Professor of Latin-American History and Economics, Harvard)

• 12.05.07 - Experiences in Binational Social and Health Mobilization among the Immigrant Population
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)