• 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; Director of the Master in Landscape Architecture Degree Programs.

• 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. To watch an archived video of President Calderon's talk, click here.

• 2.21.08 - La Ciudad (Riker, 1999) – The Coyote’s Trail film series: A narrative snapshot of a side of New York City that is rarely seen: the city of illegal immigrants, the homeless, seasonal workers, sweatshops, and laborers from Manhattan’s Latin American neighborhoods. The twisting story lines of four different vignettes are intertwined in this courageous film, which is the result of the director’s intensive collaboration with the immigrant community over a five-year period.

• 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 University

• 3.6.08 - The Turnaround of Mexico's Nacional Financiera Development Bank and the Latin American Deal of the Year
HUMA Presents: Maio 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. A Cuban boy who lives in poverty with his mother longs to visit his father in the United States, a Moroccan girl attempts to reunite with her father, and in Mexico, and a boy disobeys his father to visit a strange lagoon.

• 3.13.08 - Storied Walls: Murals of the Americas - Exhibition Opening
The Peabody Museum

• 3.13.08 - Painting Performance: The Art of Ceremony, Sacrifice, and History
The Peabody Museum presents a Special Opening Lecture by: William Saturno, Professor of Archaeology, Boston University and Director of the San Bartolo Project

• 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, Department of Urban Studies and Planning, MIT Moderated by John Womack Jr., Robert W. Bliss Professor of Latin-American History and Economics, Harvard University

• 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. Without benefits or retirement, he battles against the elements, his age, and backbreaking work, returning year after year as a guest worker.
Thursday, March 20th at 6:00pm in the Tsai Auditorium - 1730 Cambridge Street

• 3.31.08 - Why Politics Matters
The Harvard Kennedy School's JFK Jr. Forum presenst: Presidente Vincente Fox. To see the archived lecture, click here.

• 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 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

• 4.11.08 – Application Deadline for HKS-EGAP Mexico Program Student Research Grants
For field research in Mexico on issues relevant to public policy and international development

• • 4.21.08 - Mexican Drug Culture and the Music of the Narcocorridos
  ¡México Hoy! with: Alma Guillermoprieto, Fellow in the Humanities Center; Visiting Lecturer on Romance Languages and Literatures
• Moderated by John Womack Jr., Robert W. Bliss Professor of Latin-American History and Economics, Harvard University

• 4.24.08 - Energy Reform in Mexico
¡México Hoy! with: Raymundo Riva Palacio, Editor in Chief, El Grafico; Editor for External Affairs, El Universal. Moderated by John Womack Jr., Robert W. Bliss Professor of Latin-American History and Economics, Harvard University
Thursday, April 24th at 12:30pm in the CGIS South-050 - 1730 Cambridge Street

• 4.15.08 - Helping Mexican Children Become Better Readers
DRCLAS Tuesday Seminar with: Fernando Reimers, Ford Foundation Professor of International Education, Harvard University
Tuesday, April 15th at 12:00 in the CGIS South-050 - 1730 Cambridge Street

• 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. Blending the stories of town residents and day laborers, the documentary Farmingville reveals the human impact of mismanaged national policies that lead to fear, racism and violence.
Thursday, April 24th at 6:00pm in the Tsai Auditorium - 1730 Cambridge Street