Katz Center for Mexican Studies

Co-Sponsored Events

Cuauhtémoc Cárdenas "Origins of the Left in Latin America."

Cuauhtémoc Cárdenas is a former governor of Michoacán, former Head of Government of the Federal District and a founder of the Party of the Democratic Revolution (PRD). He served as a senator for the state of Michoacán from 1974 to 1980 and as governor of that same state from 1980 to 1986. He won election to these two posts as a member of the then-ruling Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI). For the 1988 presidential election, Cárdenas was the candidate of a popular leftist coalition, the Democratic National Front (FDN) but lost the election against the PRI candidate: Carlos Salinas de Gortari. In 1989, Cárdenas started the PRD political party, taking many members of PRI's leftist current with him. The PRD has since become the major leftist party in Mexico. Cárdenas ran for president twice more, and was the first elected Mayor/Governor of Mexico City, which has remained a PRD-dominated area since open elections were allowed in 1997. Today, Cárdenas remains a senior member of the PRD, and is considered the 'moral leader' of this party.

April 4, 2007

Event sponsored by Latin America(n) Matters of the Harris School for Public Policy; Co-sponsored by the Katz Center for Mexican Studies, the Center for Latin American Studies, and the Student Government Organization.

 

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José Angel Gutiérrez, César Chávez Annual Commemoration

Along with César Chávez, José Angel Gutiérrez is considered to be one of the leading figures of the Chicano Movement. Gutiérrez founded the Mexican American Youth Organization (MAYO) and La Raza Unida Party to empower Chicanos through educational and political means. He is the author of The Making of a Chicano Militant: Lessons from Cristal. In 1994, he founded the Center for Mexican American Studies at the University of Texas, Arlington. Currently, he is president of the Legal Center of José Angel Gutiérrez, P.C. in Dallas, Texas and heads the Greater Dallas Foundation, a civil rights litigation unit.

March 30, 2007

Event sponsored by Movimiento Estudiantil de Aztlán; Co-sponsored by the Katz Center for Mexican Studies, the Center for Latin American Studies, the Human Rights Program, International House, and the Center for the Study of Race, Politics, and Culture.

 

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Newberry Library Borderlands and Latino Studies Seminar

2006-2007 (TBA) The Katz Center for Mexican Studies is co-sponsoring a new seminar (being organized) at the Newberry Library in Borderlands and Latino Studies under the auspices of the Newberry Library’s Scholl Center for Family and Community History.   The Borderlands and Latino Studies Seminar would take place on Saturdays during the academic year so that students and faculty from across the region can easily attend.   The seminar intends to invite between six to eight people to present their work in the seminar’s first year.  

 

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Sallie Hughes, Assistant Professor of Communication at University of Miami

"Newsrooms in Conflict: Journalism and the Democratization of Mexico." In her book Newsrooms in Conflict, Sallie Hughes examined the dramatic changes within Mexican society, politics, and journalism that transformed an authoritarian media institution into many conflicting styles of journalism with very different implications for deepening democracy in the country.

The Center for International Studies, The World Beyond the Headlines Series

October 26, 2006
Watch the video podcast:
http://chiasmos.uchicago.edu/events/hughes.shtml

 

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John B. Haviland, Professor of Anthropology at University of California San Diego

Lecture and Discussion: "Ice-Picks and Amulets: Mexican Merolicos' Magical Marketing"

October 6, 2006

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El Primer Encuentro de Organizaciones Oriundos: Academic Panel

The Katz Center for Mexican Studies co-sponsored an academic panel as part of the Chicago Mexican Consulate's Conference titled, "El Primer Encuentro de Organizaciones Oriundos." Jorge Durand and Xóchitl Bada discussed the history of Mexican hometown organizations in Chicago and the history of Mexican immigration to Chicago.

Jorge Durand is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Guadalajara and former visiting Tinker Professor at the University of Chicago. He has written extensively on migration from Mexico to the U.S. Xóchitl Bada is a doctoral candidate at the University of Notre Dame. She has published many articles on Mexican hometown organizations in Chicago.

September 29, 2006

For more information: http://www.fiestaspatriaschicago.com/encuentro.html

 

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52 Years After Hernandez V. Texas - Guest speakers Michael A. Olivas and Tracey L. Meares discussed the significance and legacy of this historic decision.

Michael A. Olivas is the William B. Bates Distinguished Chair and Director of the Institute for Higher Education Law & Governance at the University of Houston Law Center.   He is also the author of the forthcoming book, Colored Men and Hombres Aqui: Hernandez v. Texas and the Emergence of Mexican-American Lawyering (October 2006).

Tracey L. Meares is the Max Pam Professor of Law and Director of the Center for Studies in Criminal Justice at the University of Chicago Law School.

April 25, 2006
Read an article of this event:
http://maroon.uchicago.edu/news/articles/2006/04/28/law_profs_reflect_on.php

 

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 Julie Chávez, César Chávez Annual Commemoration  

Julie Chávez Rodríguez, granddaughter of César Chávez, is currently spearheading the César Chávez Foundation’s National Youth Leadership Initiative, a program designed to address academic and civic disengagement among American youth. She has also worked with the United Farm Workers on voter registration and community empowerment programs throughout California. Exposed to the farm workers movement at an early age, Rodríguez is an activist who studied U.S.-Mexican relations at the University of California, Berkeley.

April 14, 2006
Read the announcement:
http://www-news.uchicago.edu/releases/06/060406.chavez.shtml

 

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 Afro- Mexican Studies Symposium at the Mexican Fine Arts Center Museum

Scholars presented their latest research on Afro- Mexican history and culture including The University of Chicago’s Assistant Professor of English Raúl Coronado and Associate Professor of History Emilio Kourí.   Other participants included Sagrario Cruz-Carretero (University of Veracruz), Javier Villa-Flores (U of Illinois at Chicago), Ben Vinson III ( Penn State University), Maria-Rosario Jackson ( Urban Institute), Glyn Jemmott Nelson (Costa Chica Mexico), Marco Polo Hernández Cuevas ( North carolina Central University), Anita Gonzalez ( State U. of NY at New Paltz), Laura A. Lewis (James Madison University), and Martha Menchaca ( U.of Texas at Austin).

 April 1, 2006
Featured on CAN-TV:
http://www-news.uchicago.edu/releases/06/060424.symposium.shtml

 

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 Día de los Muertos

Read Chicago Maroon's article by Hana Yoo: “A more sobering Día de Los Muertos event, focusing on violence against women in the U.S. and Mexican Latino communities, takes place in Hutch Commons. A ceremonial dance group called Nahualli performs, followed by talks by Lu Rocha and Marala Goode, representatives from domestic violence organizations in Juarez and Chicago, respectively. Mexican dinner is provided. (6 to 9 p.m., free, Hutchinson Commons)”

Guest speakers: Lu Rocha and Marala Goode

November 4, 2005

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Seeing and Being Seen: Latinas/ os On Film~Latinas/os Make Film

October 4 through November 15, 2005

A new Latina/o Film Series held in conjunction with Professor Raúl Coronado’s autumn quarter course ENG-22804 ‘Latina/o Intellectual Thought, 1930’s-1980’s.’   The film series screened classic Latina/o films exploring the Latina/o experience.   The series culminated at the end of the winter quarter with guest lectures by contemporary Latina/o filmmakers and critics.

 

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Rafael Fernández de Castro, Editor of Foreign Affairs en Español

April 18, 2005

Mexico: Executive Roundtable ( Downtown Chicago)

 

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Edward James Olmos , César Chávez Annual Commemoration  
Academy Award-nominated actor and activist, Olmos is known for his roles in films such as Mi Familia and Stand and Deliver.

April 15, 2005
Read an article of this event:
< http://maroon.uchicago.edu/news/articles/2005/04/19/edward_james_olmos_c.php>