Wednesday, October 14, 2009
"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 [1]
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
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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 [3]
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 [4]
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 [5]
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 [6]
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
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 [7]
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 [8]
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 [9]
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
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.
Time: 4:00 PM
Location: Radcliffe Gymnasium, 10 Garden Street, Radcliffe Yard
Contact: Radcliffe Institute, 617-495-8600
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 [10]
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 [11]
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 [12]
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
[13]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, and
Ramón Garza Barrios, Mayor of Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas, Mexico
Time: 4:00-6:00 PM
Location: DRCLAS, 1730 Cambridge Street, Room S250
Contact: Viridiana Rios, vrios@fas.harvard.edu [14]
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 [15]
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 [16]
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
[17]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 [19]
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• With [21]¡México Hoy!, DRCLAS offers the Harvard Community different views of the panorama of Mexican society today, not as an object of policy, but as the complex of lives Mexicans now lead in their country.
- • Each year DRCLAS co-sponsors a large number of seminars, conferences, and cultural events relating to Mexico and Mexican America. In the 2009-2010 academic year, DRCLAS is working to bring Harvard closer to Mexico with such partners as the Peabody Museum, the Radcliffe Institute, the Neiman Foundation, the Tufts Latino Studies Program, and the Harvard University Mexicans Association.
Past Calendars:
Spring 2009
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[23]Fall 2008
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[25]Spring 2008
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[27] [28]Fall 2007 [29]
