Upcoming Harvard and Boston-Area Events on Mexico
"From the Cave of Origins to the City of Sacrifice...and Beyond: A Mesoamerican Odyssey in a Recovered 16th-Century Mexican Codex"
Davíd Carrasco, Neil L. Rudenstine Professor for the Study of Latin America, Harvard University; Director of the Moses Mesoamerican Archive at the Peabody Museum
Time: 5:30 PM
Location: Geological Lecture Hall, 24 Oxford Street, Cambridge
Contact: Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, www.peabody.harvard.edu
Wednesday, October 21, 2009
"Press Freedom in the Americas"
Anita Snow, Nieman Fellow, Harvard University; Havana Bureau Chief, Associated Press
Boris Muñoz, Nieman Fellow, Harvard University; Editor-in-Chief,"Exceso," Venezuela
Monica Campbell, Nieman Fellow, Harvard University; Freelance Journalist, Formerly Based in Mexico
Time: 12:00-2:00 PM
Location: DRCLAS, 1730 Cambridge Street, Room S250
Contact: Halbert Jones, hmjones@fas.harvard.edu
Monday, October 26, 2009
Los Gobernadores: A Federalist Perspective of Mexico
Hon. Emilio González Márquez, Governor of Jalisco
Moderator: Jesús Manuel Acuña Méndez, President, HUMA
Time: 6:00-8:00 PM
Location: CGIS South, 1730 Cambridge Street, Tsai Auditorium, Room S010
Contact: Harvard University Mexican Association, http://huma.org.mx
Tuesday, October 27, 2009
A Perspective of Cultural Projects: The Experience of the Mexican Center for Music and Sonic Arts
Dr. Rodrigo Sigal Sefchovich, General Director, Mexican Center for
Music and Sonic Arts
Moderator: Edgar Barroso
Time: 6:00-8:00 PM
Location: CGIS South, 1730 Cambridge Street, Tsai Auditorium, Room S010
Contact: Harvard University Mexican Association, http://huma.org.mx
Wednesday, October 28, 2009
Regional and Binational Challenges
Dr. Fernando Estrada Sámano, Consul General of Mexico
Dr. Jaime Bueno, Director, Office of International Affairs, State of Coahuila
Moderator: Dr. Jorge I. Domínguez, Vice-Provost for International Affairs, Harvard University
Time: 6:00-8:00 PM
Location: CGIS South, 1730 Cambridge Street, Belfer Case Study Room, Room S020
Contact: Harvard University Mexican Association, http://huma.org.mx
Thursday, October 29, 2009
Business Opportunities and Challenges in Mexico's Current Economic Environment
Claudio X. González, Chairman of the Board, Kimberly-Clark México
Moderator: Fernando Lerdo de Tejada Servitje
Time: 6:00-8:00 PM
Location: CGIS South, 1730 Cambridge Street, Tsai Auditorium, Room S010
Contact: Harvard University Mexican Association, http://huma.org.mx
Friday, October 30, 2009
Political Development
Hon. Juan Sabines, Governor of Chiapas
Moderator: Jesús Manuel Acuña Méndez, President, HUMA
Closing words by Dr. Julio Frenk, Dean, Harvard School of Public Health
Location: CGIS South, 1730 Cambridge Street, Belfer Case Study Room, Room S020
Contact: Harvard University Mexican Association, http://huma.org.mx
Sunday, November 1, 2009
Day of the Dead/Día de los Muertos: Family Program
Workshops, Demonstrations, Crafts, and Dance
Free with Museum Admission
Sugar Skull Workshop, $5 per participant
Time: 1:00-4:30 PM
Location: Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University, 11 Divinity Avenue
Contact: Peabody Museum, http://www.peabody.harvard.edu
Sponsored by the Consulate General of Mexico,
Dirección de Asuntos Culturales / SRE; Nomad, Cambridge Public Library, the Harvard Office of Faculty Development and Diversity, the Association of Harvard Latino Faculty and Staff, and the Peabody Museum, Harvard University
Monday, November 2, 2009
Day of the Dead/Día de los Muertos: Fiesta
Refreshment, Music, Dance, Altars
SOLD OUT
Time: 5:30-8:00 PM
Location: Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University, 11 Divinity Avenue
Contact: Peabody Museum, http://www.peabody.harvard.edu
Sponsored by the Consulate General of Mexico, Dirección de Asuntos Culturales/SRE, the Harvard Office of Faculty Development and Diversity, the Association of Harvard Latino Faculty and Staff, and the Peabody Museum, Harvard University
Monday, November 2, 2009
Women and Health: A Comprehensive Focus for Global Health
Julio Frenk, Dean, Harvard School of Public Health; T & G Angelopoulos Professor of Public Health and International Development, Harvard School of Public Health and Harvard Kennedy School
Time: 4:00 PM
Location: Radcliffe Gymnasium, 10 Garden Street, Radcliffe Yard
Contact: Radcliffe Institute, 617-495-8600
The international health agenda shifted from maternal to reproductive health before settling on a broader approach to women’s wellness. Julio Frenk will discuss the evolution of this approach, using as a case study the recent implementation of a comprehensive strategy in Mexico.
Alumna and former Radcliffe College trustee Maurine Pupkin Rothschild ’40, who died in 2004, and her husband Robert Rothschild ’39 established the annual Rothschild Lecture at the Schlesinger Library in 1989. Distinguished speakers in the series have included Angela Davis, Eve Ensler, Samantha Power, Adrienne Rich, Amartya Sen, and Maxine Singer.
This event is free and open to the public.
Monday, November 2, 2009
Cross Border Entrepreneurship: U.S.-Mexican Collaboration on the International Border
Dr. Alberto Correa, President, Quantum Research, The International Institute for Entrepreneurial Advancement, Inc.; Consultant to the Bi-National Sustainability Laboratory; Professor, Science and Technology Entrepreneurship, University of Texas at El Paso
Time: 6:00 PM
Location: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Building 32, Room 141 (32 Vassar Street, Cambridge)
Contact: Griselda Gomez, gomezg@mit.edu
Friday, November 6, 2009
"Autonomous Education" from Chiapas to Mexico City: Urban-Zapatista Links
Patricia Hernández, Sociologist
Time: 12:00 - 2:00 PM
Location: CGIS South, Resoruce Room, S216, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge
Contact: Monica Tesoriero, smtesor@fas.harvard.edu
Patricia Hernández, a sociologist specializing in education and gender will discuss popular education in Zapatista indigenous communities. She has worked for several years with indigenous communities to develop their primary and secondary schools, following a model of "autonomous education." She is also collaborating with a community organization in the outskirts of Mexico City to build an autonomous school that would incorporate indigenous communities' demands for land, food, peace, justice and democracy into classes on history, language and mathematics.
This event is co-sponsored by the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies, Harvard University Institute of Politics, and Fuerza Latina.
Tuesday, November 10, 2009
Youth Civic Culture in Mexico: When the Future of Democracy is in the Hands of the Young
Fernando Reimers, Ford Professor of International Education; Director, International Education Policy Program
Time: 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Location: Carr Center for Human Rights Policy Confernence Room, Rubenstein Building, Room R219, Harvard Kennedy School
Contact: Carr Center for Human Rights Policy, carr_center@hks.harvard.edu
Dr. Reimers will be discussing the importance of youth activism in Mexico's current political scene. Since the historic win of the PAN (Partido Accion Nacional) party in 2000, Mexico's flourishing democracy has created a wave of civic engagement within the society. To what extent are students a driving force within this movement?
This event is presented by the Latin American Initiative of the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School.
Thursday, November 12, 2009
Sustainable Mega-Cities: Mexico City's "Plan Verde"
Marcelo Ebrard, Mayor of Mexico City (Jefe de Gobierno, Distrito Federal)
Time: 4:00 - 5:30 PM
Location: Piper Auditorium, Graduate School of Design, Harvard University
Contact: Brooke King, bking@gsd.harvard.edu
This lecture is sponsored by the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Taubman Center for State and Local Government, Harvard Graduate School of Design, Harvard University Center for the Environment
Tuesday, November 17, 2009
Successful Crime Reduction: Two Stories of Local Security Policy Innovations in Mexico and Brazil
Claudio Beato, Lemann Visiting Scholar, DRCLAS, and Director of the Center for Studies of Criminality and Security, Minas Gerais Federal University, Brazil
Ramón Garza Barrios, Mayor of Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas, Mexico
Raúl Salinas, Mayor of Laredo, Texas
Chris Stone, Professor, Harvard Kennedy School of Government
Time: 4:30-6:00 PM
Location: DRCLAS, 1730 Cambridge Street, Room S250
Contact: Viridiana Rios, vrios@fas.harvard.edu
Wednesday, November 18, 2009
"Virtuous Sentiment and Vain Sensuality: Gender, Religion, and the Public Sphere during the War of the Reform"
Pamela Voekel, Associate Professor of History, University of Georgia
Time: 12:00-2:00 PM
Location: DRCLAS, 1730 Cambridge Street, Room S250
Contact: Halbert Jones, hmjones@fas.harvard.edu
Wednesday, November 18, 2009
Robert F. Kennedy Lecture: Re-inventing the Americas: The Border, Plant Transfer, and the Hierarchy of Control
Roberto Alvarez, Robert F. Kennedy Visiting Professor, DRCLAS, Department of Anthropology; Professor of Anthropology, University of California, San Diego
Reception to follow presentation.
Time: 6:00 - 8:00 pm
Location: CGIS South, S-050, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge
Contact: Edwin Ortiz, eortiz@fas.harvard.edu
Thursday, November 19, 2009
Much Ado About Nothing: 2012 and the Maya
Marc Zender, Research Associate, Maya Hieroglyphics, Peabody Museum
Time: 5:30 PM
Location: Geological Lecture Hall, 24 Oxford Street
Contact: Peabody Museum, http://www.peabody.harvard.edu
Saturday, November 28, 2009
Frames of Reality: New Film From Mexico
El General
2009, 83 minutes, documentary, in Spanish with English subtitles
Boston Premiere
Time is blurred in this visually arresting portrait of family and
country living under shadows of the past. Director Natalia Almada brings to life audio
recordings she inherited about her great-grandfather, Plutarco Elias
Calles, a revolutionary general who became president of Mexico in 1924.
While many cite Calles as one of the true fathers of modern Mexico,
time has hardly been kind to his reputation; he often used brutal
violence to silence his political enemies. The documentary contrasts
one family’s portrait of the man they knew with a leader seen as both
hero and villain by the nation he led.
Almada won the Directing Award for U.S. Documentary at the Sundance Film Festival 2009.
Time: 2:00 PM
Location: The Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston, 100 Northern Avenue, Boston
Contact: The Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston, http://www.icaboston.org/programs/film/el-general/
Saturday, November 28, 2009
Frames of Reality: New Film From Mexico
Intimacies of Shakespeare and Victor Hugo / Intimidades de Shakespeare y Victor Hugo
2008, 80 minutes, documentary
Yulene Olaizola’s debut film is a thought-provoking portrait of two
lonely and strangely intertwined friends. For years, Olaizola’s
grandmother Rosa told stories of a handsome young lodger. Living under
(and on top of) her roof in the 1980s, he painted strange pictures on
the walls and played an important role in Rosa’s emotional life. But
this picture of a pleasant, harmless and creative young man slowly
gives way to a shocking end.
Intimacies won Best Film at the10th Buenos Aires
International Festival of Independent Film, Best Documentary at the
Lima Latin American Film Festival, and Miami Dade College Grand Jury
Prize at the 2009 Miami Film Festival.
Time: 4:00 PM
Location: The Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston, 100 Northern Avenue, Boston
Contact: The Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston, http://www.icaboston.org/programs/film/intimacies/
Sunday, November 29, 2009
Frames of Reality: New Film From Mexico
Sin Nombre
2008, 96 minutes, color
Sin Nombre, Joji Fukanuga’s feature debut, is at once love
story and chase film, thrill ride and vision of an apocalyptic hell.
The film is set on the border, where Mexico becomes the crucible, and
the fearsome gangs of today’s Mexican countryside the gauntlet to
freedom. It is a glimpse into the lives and destinies of the people who
desperately want to leave Mexico, to risk it all for even the promise
of a better future.
Sin Nombre is the recipient of the Directing Award: U.S.
Dramatic and the Excellence in Cinematography Award: U.S. Dramatic at
the 2009 Sundance Film Festival.
Time: 4:00 PM
Location: The Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston, 100 Northern Avenue, Boston
Contact: The Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston, http://www.icaboston.org/programs/film/sin-nombre/
Monday, December 1, 2009
Mesoamerica: Health Opportunities for a Neglected Region
Introduction by Paul Farmer, MD, PhD
Chief, Division of Global Health Equity, Brigham and Women’s Hospital
Chair, Department of Global Health and Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Maude and Lillian Presley Professor of Medical Anthropology, Harvard Medical School
Co-Founder, Partners In Health
Director, Integrated Health Solutions Development
Global Health Program, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
Former Director of Mexico’s National Institutes of Health and Dean of the National School of Public Health
Time: 12:00 - 1:00 pm
Wednesday, December 2, 2009
The Great Railway Rebellion that Rocked Cold War Mexico
Robert Alegre, Assistant Professor of History, University of New England
Time: 12:00-2:00 PM
Location: 1730 Cambridge Street, Room S250
Contact: Halbert Jones, hmjones@fas.harvard.edu