• 01.28.09 – Imaginary Communities: Indians and Campesinos in Mexican Social Thought
The History Department presents: Emilio Kouri, University of Chicago
4:00pm at the Robinson Lower Library – 35 Quincy Street

• 02.25.09 – It Takes Two to Huapango: U.S.-Mexico Relations under the Obama Administration
¡México Hoy! with: Arturo Sarukhan, Mexico’s Ambassador to the United States
Moderated by: Edward Schumacher-Matos, RFK Visiting Professor, DRCLAS
12:30-2:00pm at 1730 Cambridge Street, CGIS – S030. A light lunch will be served.

• 03.03.09 – Detective Story: Tracking the Political and Developmental Origins of Police Corruption in Mexico and Beyond
Tuesday Seminar with: Diane Davis, Professor of Political Sociology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, MIT
12:00-2:00pm at 1730 Cambridge Street, CGIS – S250. A light lunch will be served.

• 03.04.09 – Mapping the Indigenous Towns: Politics, Education and Identity in 18th Century Mexico
¡México Ayer! with: Dr. Dorothy Tanck de Estrada, Professor and Researcher, Colegio de México
Moderated by: Merilee Grindle, Edward S. Mason Professor of International Development; Director of DRCLAS
12:30-2:00pm at 1730 Cambridge Street, CGIS – S030. A light lunch will be served.

• 03.05.09 – Miradas – The films of Guita Schyfter:  Las caras de la luna / The Faces of the Moon
A film screening and conversation with: filmmaker Guita Schyfter and screenwriter Hugo Hiriart
Screening starts at 6:00pm at 1730 Cambridge Street in the Tsai Auditorium (CGIS – S010)

• 03.18.09 – Demographic Policy Under Authoritarianism in Mexico and Spain: The Italian Connection
History Workshop with: Sergio Silva, Ph.D. Candidate, Harvard University
6:00-7:30 at 1730 Cambridge Street, CGIS – S250

• 03.19.09 – Miradas:  Los laberintos de la memoria / Labyrinths of Memory (2006)
A film screening and conversation with: filmmaker Guita Schyfter and screenwriter Hugo Hiriart
Screening starts at 6:00pm at 1730 Cambridge Street in the Tsai Auditorium (CGIS – S010)

• 04.08.09 – Encountering Dance: Aztec Ritual and Missionary Discourse in 16th Century New Spain
¡México Ayer! with: Paul Scolieri, Peggy Rockefeller Visiting Scholar, 2008-09
12:30-2:00pm at 1730 Cambridge Street, CGIS – S250. A light lunch will be served.

• 04.15.09 – A Slim Conflict: The New York Times' Mexican Bailout
¡México Hoy! with: Andrés Martinez, Director, Bernard L. Schwartz Fellows Program, New America Foundation
Moderated by: Edward Schumacher-Matos, RFK Visiting Professor, DRCLAS
12:30-2:00pm at 1730 Cambridge Street, CGIS – S250. A light lunch will be served

• 04.16.09 – Miradas – Xochimilco, historia de un paisaje / Story of a Landscape (1990)
A film screening and conversation with: filmmaker Guita Schyfter and screenwriter Hugo Hiriart
Screening starts at 6:00pm at 1730 Cambridge Street in the Tsai Auditorium (CGIS – S010)

• 04.21.09 – Carlos Fuentes at the JFK Forum – TENTATIVE – DETAILS FORTHCOMING

• 04.22.09 – The World of Lucha Libre: Secrets, Revelations and Mexican National Identity
¡México Hoy! with: Heather Levi, Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Temple University
12:30-2:00pm at 1730 Cambridge Street, CGIS – S250. A light lunch will be served.

• 04.30.09 – Miradas – The films of Guita Schyfter presents:  Novia que te vea / Like a Bride (1993)
A film screening and conversation with: filmmaker Guita Schyfter and screenwriter Hugo Hiriart
Screening starts at 6:00pm at 1730 Cambridge Street in the Tsai Auditorium (CGIS – S010)

• 05.06.09 – Betsabé Romero: Artists on their Art
The Art Forum Speaker Series presents:  An artist talk with Mexican Artist Bestabé Romero;
In dialogue with: Julian Zugazagoitia, Director of El Museo del Barrio in New York City.
6:00pm at 1730 Cambridge Street, CGIS – S050

• 05.14.09 – Miradas  - Sucesos distantes / Distant Happenings (1994)
A film screening and conversation with: filmmaker Guita Schyfter and screenwriter Hugo Hiriart
Screening starts at 6:00pm at 1730 Cambridge Street in the Tsai Auditorium (CGIS – S010)

For more information contact Kit Barron at chbarron(at)fas.harvard.edu