Katz Center Lectures

Lectures

Public Lecture Series, "Human Rights in Mexico"

Jorge Fernández Souza, "Indigenous Rights: The Case of Chiapas"

Jorge Fernández Souza is Magistrate Judge, Professor of Law and former Dean of Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana (México), former Delgado of Delegación Miguel Hidalgo, and lawyer for Bishop Samuel Ruiz in the Chiapas negotiations (1994-1997).

May 21, 2007
Harper Hall room 130

Audio & Video from The University of Chicago's International & Area Studies Multimedia Outreach Source

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Mariclaire Acosta, "The Modern Human Rights Movement in Mexico"

Mariclaire Acosta works for the Organization of American States, is co-founder of the Academia Mexicana de Derechos Humanos, founder of the Comisión Mexicana para la Promoción y Defensa de los Derechos Humanos, and former director of Human Rights in the Secretaría de Relaciones Exteriores.

May 17, 2007
Harper Hall room 130

Audio & Video from The University of Chicago's International & Area Studies Multimedia Outreach Source

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Bertha Lujan, "Labor Rights: The Case of Ciudad Juárez"

Bertha Lujan is the Secretaría del Trabajo in the Gobierno "Legitimo" de México (de Andrés Manuel López Obrador), former Controlora de la Ciudad de México (2000-2006), and lead organizer of Frente Auténtico del Trabajo for over two decades.

May 3, 2007
Classics room 110

Audio & Video from The University of Chicago's International & Area Studies Multimedia Outreach Source

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Emilio Álvarez Icaza, "Impunity and Justice: The Cases of 1968 and 1971"

Emilio Álvarez Icaza is President of the Comisión de Derechos Humanos del Distrito Federal.

April 30, 2007
Harper Hall room 130

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Friedrich Katz, "The Mexican Revolution and the Constitution of 1917"

Friedrich Katz is the Morton Hull Distinguished Service Professor of History, Emeritus, at the University of Chicago. For more biographical information: http://mexicanstudies.uchicago.edu/aboutcenter/laudatio.html.

April 9, 2007
Harper Hall room 103

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Renato González Mello (Columbia University)

"Peasants, Archaeologists, Architects, and Painters: the Diego Rivera Collection and the Museum of Mexican Antiquities"

May 2, 2007
Kelly Hall 114, 5848 S. University Ave.

Renato González Mello obtained his Ph.D. in Art History from UNAM in 1998. From 1989 to 1992 he acted as a curator for the collection of the Museo Carrillo Gil in Mexico City, which permitted him to specialize in the work of the Mexican muralist José Clemente Orozco. Currently a teacher and researcher at Mexico's National University, he was guest curator for the exhibition José Clemente Orozco in the United States, held at the Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College. In addition, his book La máquina de pintar: Rivera, Orozco y la invención de un lenguaje was published in 2002. He is currently working for an exhibition on political iconography, which opened at the National Museum of Art, Mexico City, in 2003. He is also Tinker visiting professor at Columbia University.

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Alan Knight (Oxford University)

"The Rise and Fall of the Myth of the Mexican Revolution," April 3, 2007
Social Sciences 122, 1126 E. 59th Street

Alan Knight is professor of Latin American history and Fellow of St. Antony's College. His chief interest is twentieth-century Latin American history, with a focus on Mexico, agrarian society, state-building and revolution. He is the author of The Mexican Revolution (2 vols, Cambridge, 1986) US-Mexican Relations, 1910-40 (San Diego, 1987); of the chapter on Mexico, 1930-1946, in The Cambridge History of Latin America (Vol. VII, 1990); and of two volumes of a three volume general history of Mexico, Mexico: From the Beginning to the Conquest, and Mexico: The Colonial Era (Cambridge, 2002). He has written several articles dealing with aspects of twentieth-century Mexico (state-building, popular movements, education and culture, current politics) and co-edited The Mexican Petroleum Industry in the 20th Century (1992). He is completing the third volume of the general history (Mexico Since Independence) and researching a socio-political study of Mexico in the 1930s. He previously taught at the University of Essex and the University of Texas at Austin, where he held the C.B. Smith Chair, and in 1986 was a visiting fellow at the Center for US-Mexican Studies at the University of California, San Diego.

Audio & Video from The University of Chicago's International & Area Studies Multimedia Outreach Source

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Reverend Walter Coleman (Adalberto United Methodist Church) & Emma Lozano (Director of Sin Fronteras)

"Elvira Arellano: Between Alien & Citizen," February 20, 2007
Social Sciences 122, 1126 E. 59th Street

How do 12 million undocumented people live in the shadows of American society? In the aftermath of September 11, the Department of Homeland Security began looking for terrorists among airport employees across the country (Operation Tarmac), conducting sweeps that led only to the arrest of numerous immigrant workers and to the break-up or displacement of many families. One of those workers, Elvira Arellano, has waged a long struggle to remain in Chicago with her 7-year-old son Saúl, a U.S. citizen. Facing a deportation order which she and her many supporters regard as cruel and unjust, Arellano and her son have taken refuge in a Chicago-area church since August of 2006. She protests: 'I am not a terrorist. I am not a criminal. I am a mom.' The standoff continues.

Reverend Walter Coleman, pastor of the Adalberto United Methodist Church where Ms. Arellano has taken refuge, and Emma Lozano, Executive Director of Centro Sin Fronteras - an immigration advocacy group arguing on behalf of Ms. Arellano's case - discussed the status of Ms. Arellano 's case and the questions which surround the case.

Article about the event coming soon.

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Miguel Ángel Berumen (Independent Scholar and Founder of the Publishing House Cuadroxcuadro)

"Pancho Villa en Fotos," February 6, 2007
Kelly Hall 114, 5848 S. University Avenue

Miguel Ángel Berumen Campos nació en Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua, en 1962. Dirigió el departamento de cine de la Universidad Autónoma de ciudad Juárez y, de manera paralela la Muestra Permanente de Cine de Calidad (1995-2001). Fue el editor e investigador iconográfico del libro La mirada desenterrada (2000) y de la Enciclopedia escolar de México (2002-2003). Es coautor de 1911,La batalla de Ciudad Juárez (2003) y de La Misión de Guadalupe (2004). Se ha hecho acreedor en tres ocasiones al Southwest Book Award.

Lecture article coming soon.

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Alejandro Madrid (University of Illinois, Chicago)

"Dancing with Desire: Cultural Embodiment and Negotitation in Nor-tec Music and Dance," January 29, 2007
Kelly Hall 114, 5848 S. University Avenue

Alejandro L. Madrid holds a PhD in musicology and comparative cultural studies from Ohio State University. His research focuses on the intersection of modernity, tradition, globalization, and identity in popular and art music and expressive culture from Mexico and the U.S.-Mexico border. His interests include a wide variety of issues, from transnationalism, representation and performance in contemporary electronic dance music to questions of continuity, change and cosmopolitanism in Latin American concert music and opera in relation to European aesthetics from the end of the 19^th century and the beginning of the 20^th century.

Alejandro’s book The Sounds of the Modern Nation. Music, Culture and Ideas in Post-Revolutionary Mexico, 1920-1930 won the prestigious biennial Casa de las Américas Award for Latin American Musicology (2005). H is latest book, Nor-tec Rifa! Electronic Dance Music from Tijuana to the World, is forthcoming in Oxford University Press. Alejandro has also received the Samuel Claro Valdés Award for Latin American Musicology (2002), and the A-R Editions Award of the American Musicological Society, Midwest Chapter (2001-2002). Alejandro was a music researcher at Mexico’s Centro Nacional de Investigación, Documentación e Información Musical “Carlos Chávez” (CENIDIM) and a Visiting Scholar at El Colegio de la Frontera Norte-Tijuana and the Lozano Long Institute for Latin American Studies of the University of Texas at Austin. He is currently an Assistant Professor of Latin American and Latino studies at the University of Illinois at Chicago.

Lecture article coming soon.

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Franc Contreras (Public Radio International Correspondent for Mexico)

"Oaxaca in Mexico's Contemporary Political Context," November 15, 2006
Kelly Hall 114, 5848 S. University Avenue

Franc Contreras has been reporting from Mexico City and around Latin America since 1996. Along with Public Radio International's program, The World, his stories have also been broadcast on NPR, the BBC, and CBC Radio in Toronto, among others. He has reported from each of Mexico's 31 states, providing analysis of the Zapatista rebellion in Chiapas, indigenous rights and cultures in Oaxaca, drug trafficking in western Sinaloa state, and he has covered immigration all along the US/Mexico border with a special focus on human rights. Franc was in Caracas, where he covered a violent national strike in 2002 by Venezuelans opposed to President Hugo Chávez. That reporting won Franc and Senior! Editor William Troop the annual radio reporting prize from the National Association of Hispanic Journalists in 2003.

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Public Lecture Series, "Mexico's Presidential Elections: Implications and Analyses"

Jean François Prud'homme, "The 2006 Mexican Presidential Elections & the Fragility of Democratic Institutions "

Jean-François Prud'homme is currently the General Academic coordinator of El Colegio de México. He holds a Ph.D. in political science from York University. He has worked on issues related to political parties, electoral reform and political participation in Mexico and Latin America. Among his recent publications are, with Guy Hermet and Ali Kazancigil, La gouvernance: un concept et ses applications (Karthala, Paris, 2005) and, with Guy Hermet and Soledad Loaeza, Del populismo de los antiguos al populismo de los modernos (El Colegio de Mexico, Mexico, 2001).

November 13, 2006
Social Sciences room 122

Audio & Video from The University of Chicago's International & Area Studies Multimedia Outreach Source

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María Amparo Casar, "The 2006 Mexican Presidential Elections & Challenges for the New Government"

María Amparo Casar received her doctorate in Political and Social Sciences from the University of Cambridge, King's College, in 1977, and she now works as a Professor of Political Studies at el Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas A.C. She has worked as a central political adviser to the Secretary of Interior in Mexico and has published in many books and academic magazines of national and international prestige. She is editor of the newspaper Reforma and commentator on the radio programs Panorama Informativo and Zona Abierta. Additionally, she has directed and participated in numerous conferences dealing with the labor sector, corporate organizations, state governments, NGO's, congress, journalism and the role of public servants. She received the King's College Prize from the University of Cambridge for the most outstanding student of her generation in 1979.

November 2, 2006
Harper room 130

Audio & Video from The University of Chicago's International & Area Studies Multimedia Outreach Source

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Lorenzo Meyer, "Right vs. Left and the New Born Mexican Democracy: Can the Three Survive?"

Lorenzo Meyer is widely recognized as a prominent historian and political analyst in Mexico. After completing his post-doctoral studies at the University of Chicago, Meyer returned to Mexico to teach in the prestigious academic institution, El Colegio de México. Today, Meyer is also an editorialist at the prestigious national newspaper Reforma, and is the host of a political TV show in the nations' largest network. Since the late 1970's Meyer has published numerous books on Mexican history, politics, culture, including most recently, The Cactus and the Olive Tree: History of Mexico and Spain Relations in the 20^th Century (Oceáno, 2002).

October 16 , 2006
Social Sciences lecture room 122

Audio & Video from The University of Chicago's International & Area Studies Multimedia Outreach Source

Read an article on the Mexican Presidential Elections:
http://clas.uchicago.edu/publications/latamchi/fall06newsletter.pdf

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James Cockcroft (State University of New York)

"The Magonistas' Relevance in Mexico's 2006 Political Warfare," October 23, 2006
John Hope Franklin Room, Social Sciences 224, 1126 E. 59th Street

Professor James Cockcroft, whose classic on the Flores Magon brothers "Precursores de la Revolución Mexicana" is in its 25th printing in Mexico, spoke on the Magonistas' relevance a century later as evidenced by the resurgence of their main programmatic points in the Zapatistas' "other campaign," the massive civic action campaign to honor López Obrador's presidential campaign, the wave of mining strikes, and the impressive "Oaxaca Commune" - all in 2006. In addition to his internet professorship at SUNY, Dr. Cockcroft is a regular contributor to academic journals anda magazines, and also runs his blog and website: jamescockcroft.com.

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Alma Guillermoprieto (Author and Contributor to The New Yorker)

"Mexico Today: A Conversation with Alma Guillermoprieto," April 20, 2006
Stuart Hall 105, 5835 S. Greenwood Ave.

Recipient of a number of awards Alma Guillermoprieto, born in Mexico, has written about Latin America for more than twenty years. She is a frequent contributor to both The New York Review of Books and The New Yorker. Ms. Guillermoprieto covered the insurrection against Anastasio Somoza in Nicaragua for The Guardian and broke the story of the massacre at El Mozote for The Washington Post. For the New Yorker, she wrote about the connection between politics and garbage in Mexico and about the bonds that link Brazilians to the heroes of their telenovelas, among other topics. In the New York Review she has written extensively about the work of Peruvian novelist Mario Vargas Llosa and of Mexico’s subcomandante Marcos, and about current events in Cuba.

Read an article of this event: http://clas.uchicago.edu/publications/latamchi/vol25no4.pdf

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Jan Rus (Taller Tzotzil Maya Publishing Project-Chiapas and Latin American Perspectives)

"Challenges Facing Chiapas' Indigenous People: Economics and Politics a Decade into the Zapatista Rebellion," April 5, 2006
Social Sciences 122, 1126 E. 59th Street

Jan Rus is the former co-chair for the Center for U.S.-Mexican Studies at the University of California, San Diego and former director of the Native Language Publishing Project, Instituto de Asesoría Antropológica para la Región Maya, A.C., San Cristóbal, Chiapas. He is also co-editor of Mayan lives, Mayan utopias : the indigenous peoples of Chiapas and the Zapatista rebellion (2003) published in Latin American Perspectives.

Read an article of this event: http://clas.uchicago.edu/publications/latamchi/vol25no4.pdf

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César Hernández (Centro de Investigación para el Desarrollo, A.C.)
Associate researcher for the Centro de Investigación para el Desarrollo, AC, (CIDAC), a non- profit think tank in Mexico.

“Mexico’s 2006 Elections: Trends and Scenarios,” November 16, 2005

Read an article of this event: http://clas.uchicago.edu/publications/latamchi/winter06newsletter.pdf

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Antonio Azuela (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México)

“Agrarian Communities and Natural Resources in Mexico,” October 26, 2005

Antonio Azuela is professor of sociology and urban-regional studies at Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico (UNAM) and co- author of several works including Desarrollo Sustentable : Hacia una Política Ambiental (1993).

Read an article of this event: < http://clas.uchicago.edu/publications/latamchi/winter06newsletter.pdf>

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Francisco Gil Díaz (Mexico’s Secretary of Finance and Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Chicago)

“Trends and Recent Developments in the Mexican Economy,” February 28, 2005

Read an article of this event: By Julia Young (available upon request, please contact the Katz Center)

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Fernando Escalante (El Colegio de México)

"The Weakness of the State in Latin America," February 22, 2005

Fernando Escalante is a historical sociologist, former Tinker Visiting Professor at the University of Chicago and professor at El Colegio de México. He is a frequent visiting professor at universities in Spain and France. Escalante is the author of six books among which is his study of civic culture in 19th century Mexico Imaginary Citizens, and other works including Political Terror and La Mirada de Dios (to be translated into English as In The Eyes of God).

Listen to this event: http://clas.uchicago.edu/events/briefings/escalante.shtml

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Jesús Silva Herzog (Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de Mexico)

“Mexico: Problems of a New Democracy,” October 21, 2004

Lic. Jesús Silva-Herzog Márquez, Professor of Law at the Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de Mexico (ITAM), is a renowned political commentator, an editorialist for the newspaper Reforma, and a member of the Editorial Board of the political magazine Nexos. Silva-Herzog was Comexi Scholar at the Mexico Institute of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars from January through March 2004, pursuing a research project on “The Democratic Problem” in Mexico." He is currently researching the changing role of civil society's involvement in the Mexican political system.

Listen to this event: http://clas.uchicago.edu/events/briefings/herzog.shtml



	Katz Center for Mexican Studies at The University of Chicago

Home Lectures Public Lecture Series, "Human Rights in Mexico" Jorge Fernández Souza, "Indigenous Rights: The Case of Chiapas" Jorge Fernández Souza is Magistrate Judge, Professor of Law and former Dean of Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana (México), former Delgado of Delegación Miguel Hidalgo, and lawyer for Bishop Samuel Ruiz in the Chiapas negotiations (1994-1997). May 21, 2007 Harper Hall room 130 Audio & Video from The University of Chicago's International & Area Studies Multimedia Outreach Source --- Mariclaire Acosta, "The Modern Human Rights Movement in Mexico" Mariclaire Acosta works for the Organization of American States, is co-founder of the Academia Mexicana de Derechos Humanos, founder of the Comisión Mexicana para la Promoción y Defensa de los Derechos Humanos, and former director of Human Rights in the Secretaría de Relaciones Exteriores. May 17, 2007 Harper Hall room 130 Audio & Video from The University of Chicago's International & Area Studies Multimedia Outreach Source --- Bertha Lujan, "Labor Rights: The Case of Ciudad Juárez" Bertha Lujan is the Secretaría del Trabajo in the Gobierno "Legitimo" de México (de Andrés Manuel López Obrador), former Controlora de la Ciudad de México (2000-2006), and lead organizer of Frente Auténtico del Trabajo for over two decades. May 3, 2007 Classics room 110 Audio & Video from The University of Chicago's International & Area Studies Multimedia Outreach Source --- Emilio Álvarez Icaza, "Impunity and Justice: The Cases of 1968 and 1971" Emilio Álvarez Icaza is President of the Comisión de Derechos Humanos del Distrito Federal. April 30, 2007 Harper Hall room 130 --- Friedrich Katz, "The Mexican Revolution and the Constitution of 1917" Friedrich Katz is the Morton Hull Distinguished Service Professor of History, Emeritus, at the University of Chicago. For more biographical information: http://mexicanstudies.uchicago.edu/aboutcenter/laudatio.html. April 9, 2007 Harper Hall room 103 ************************************************************************ Renato González Mello (Columbia University) "Peasants, Archaeologists, Architects, and Painters: the Diego Rivera Collection and the Museum of Mexican Antiquities" May 2, 2007 Kelly Hall 114, 5848 S. University Ave. Renato González Mello obtained his Ph.D. in Art History from UNAM in 1998. From 1989 to 1992 he acted as a curator for the collection of the Museo Carrillo Gil in Mexico City, which permitted him to specialize in the work of the Mexican muralist José Clemente Orozco. Currently a teacher and researcher at Mexico's National University, he was guest curator for the exhibition José Clemente Orozco in the United States, held at the Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College. In addition, his book La máquina de pintar: Rivera, Orozco y la invención de un lenguaje was published in 2002. He is currently working for an exhibition on political iconography, which opened at the National Museum of Art, Mexico City, in 2003. He is also Tinker visiting professor at Columbia University. ************************************************************************ Alan Knight (Oxford University) "The Rise and Fall of the Myth of the Mexican Revolution," April 3, 2007 Social Sciences 122, 1126 E. 59th Street Alan Knight is professor of Latin American history and Fellow of St. Antony's College. His chief interest is twentieth-century Latin American history, with a focus on Mexico, agrarian society, state-building and revolution. He is the author of The Mexican Revolution (2 vols, Cambridge, 1986) US-Mexican Relations, 1910-40 (San Diego, 1987); of the chapter on Mexico, 1930-1946, in The Cambridge History of Latin America (Vol. VII, 1990); and of two volumes of a three volume general history of Mexico, Mexico: From the Beginning to the Conquest, and Mexico: The Colonial Era (Cambridge, 2002). He has written several articles dealing with aspects of twentieth-century Mexico (state-building, popular movements, education and culture, current politics) and co-edited The Mexican Petroleum Industry in the 20th Century (1992). He is completing the third volume of the general history (Mexico Since Independence) and researching a socio-political study of Mexico in the 1930s. He previously taught at the University of Essex and the University of Texas at Austin, where he held the C.B. Smith Chair, and in 1986 was a visiting fellow at the Center for US-Mexican Studies at the University of California, San Diego. Audio & Video from The University of Chicago's International & Area Studies Multimedia Outreach Source ************************************************************************ Reverend Walter Coleman (Adalberto United Methodist Church) & Emma Lozano (Director of Sin Fronteras) "Elvira Arellano: Between Alien & Citizen," February 20, 2007 Social Sciences 122, 1126 E. 59th Street How do 12 million undocumented people live in the shadows of American society? In the aftermath of September 11, the Department of Homeland Security began looking for terrorists among airport employees across the country (Operation Tarmac), conducting sweeps that led only to the arrest of numerous immigrant workers and to the break-up or displacement of many families. One of those workers, Elvira Arellano, has waged a long struggle to remain in Chicago with her 7-year-old son Saúl, a U.S. citizen. Facing a deportation order which she and her many supporters regard as cruel and unjust, Arellano and her son have taken refuge in a Chicago-area church since August of 2006. She protests: 'I am not a terrorist. I am not a criminal. I am a mom.' The standoff continues. Reverend Walter Coleman, pastor of the Adalberto United Methodist Church where Ms. Arellano has taken refuge, and Emma Lozano, Executive Director of Centro Sin Fronteras - an immigration advocacy group arguing on behalf of Ms. Arellano's case - discussed the status of Ms. Arellano 's case and the questions which surround the case. Article about the event coming soon. ************************************************************************ Miguel Ángel Berumen (Independent Scholar and Founder of the Publishing House Cuadroxcuadro) "Pancho Villa en Fotos," February 6, 2007 Kelly Hall 114, 5848 S. University Avenue Miguel Ángel Berumen Campos nació en Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua, en 1962. Dirigió el departamento de cine de la Universidad Autónoma de ciudad Juárez y, de manera paralela la Muestra Permanente de Cine de Calidad (1995-2001). Fue el editor e investigador iconográfico del libro La mirada desenterrada (2000) y de la Enciclopedia escolar de México (2002-2003). Es coautor de 1911,La batalla de Ciudad Juárez (2003) y de La Misión de Guadalupe (2004). Se ha hecho acreedor en tres ocasiones al Southwest Book Award. Lecture article coming soon. ************************************************************************ Alejandro Madrid (University of Illinois, Chicago) "Dancing with Desire: Cultural Embodiment and Negotitation in Nor-tec Music and Dance," January 29, 2007 Kelly Hall 114, 5848 S. University Avenue Alejandro L. Madrid holds a PhD in musicology and comparative cultural studies from Ohio State University. His research focuses on the intersection of modernity, tradition, globalization, and identity in popular and art music and expressive culture from Mexico and the U.S.-Mexico border. His interests include a wide variety of issues, from transnationalism, representation and performance in contemporary electronic dance music to questions of continuity, change and cosmopolitanism in Latin American concert music and opera in relation to European aesthetics from the end of the 19^th century and the beginning of the 20^th century. Alejandro’s book The Sounds of the Modern Nation. Music, Culture and Ideas in Post-Revolutionary Mexico, 1920-1930 won the prestigious biennial Casa de las Américas Award for Latin American Musicology (2005). H is latest book, Nor-tec Rifa! Electronic Dance Music from Tijuana to the World, is forthcoming in Oxford University Press. Alejandro has also received the Samuel Claro Valdés Award for Latin American Musicology (2002), and the A-R Editions Award of the American Musicological Society, Midwest Chapter (2001-2002). Alejandro was a music researcher at Mexico’s Centro Nacional de Investigación, Documentación e Información Musical “Carlos Chávez” (CENIDIM) and a Visiting Scholar at El Colegio de la Frontera Norte-Tijuana and the Lozano Long Institute for Latin American Studies of the University of Texas at Austin. He is currently an Assistant Professor of Latin American and Latino studies at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Lecture article coming soon. ********************************************************************** Franc Contreras (Public Radio International Correspondent for Mexico) "Oaxaca in Mexico's Contemporary Political Context," November 15, 2006 Kelly Hall 114, 5848 S. University Avenue Franc Contreras has been reporting from Mexico City and around Latin America since 1996. Along with Public Radio International's program, The World, his stories have also been broadcast on NPR, the BBC, and CBC Radio in Toronto, among others. He has reported from each of Mexico's 31 states, providing analysis of the Zapatista rebellion in Chiapas, indigenous rights and cultures in Oaxaca, drug trafficking in western Sinaloa state, and he has covered immigration all along the US/Mexico border with a special focus on human rights. Franc was in Caracas, where he covered a violent national strike in 2002 by Venezuelans opposed to President Hugo Chávez. That reporting won Franc and Senior! Editor William Troop the annual radio reporting prize from the National Association of Hispanic Journalists in 2003. ********************************************************************** Public Lecture Series, "Mexico's Presidential Elections: Implications and Analyses" Jean François Prud'homme, "The 2006 Mexican Presidential Elections & the Fragility of Democratic Institutions " Jean-François Prud'homme is currently the General Academic coordinator of El Colegio de México. He holds a Ph.D. in political science from York University. He has worked on issues related to political parties, electoral reform and political participation in Mexico and Latin America. Among his recent publications are, with Guy Hermet and Ali Kazancigil, La gouvernance: un concept et ses applications (Karthala, Paris, 2005) and, with Guy Hermet and Soledad Loaeza, Del populismo de los antiguos al populismo de los modernos (El Colegio de Mexico, Mexico, 2001). November 13, 2006 Social Sciences room 122 Audio & Video from The University of Chicago's International & Area Studies Multimedia Outreach Source --- María Amparo Casar, "The 2006 Mexican Presidential Elections & Challenges for the New Government" María Amparo Casar received her doctorate in Political and Social Sciences from the University of Cambridge, King's College, in 1977, and she now works as a Professor of Political Studies at el Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas A.C. She has worked as a central political adviser to the Secretary of Interior in Mexico and has published in many books and academic magazines of national and international prestige. She is editor of the newspaper Reforma and commentator on the radio programs Panorama Informativo and Zona Abierta. Additionally, she has directed and participated in numerous conferences dealing with the labor sector, corporate organizations, state governments, NGO's, congress, journalism and the role of public servants. She received the King's College Prize from the University of Cambridge for the most outstanding student of her generation in 1979. November 2, 2006 Harper room 130 Audio & Video from The University of Chicago's International & Area Studies Multimedia Outreach Source --- Lorenzo Meyer, "Right vs. Left and the New Born Mexican Democracy: Can the Three Survive?" Lorenzo Meyer is widely recognized as a prominent historian and political analyst in Mexico. After completing his post-doctoral studies at the University of Chicago, Meyer returned to Mexico to teach in the prestigious academic institution, El Colegio de México. Today, Meyer is also an editorialist at the prestigious national newspaper Reforma, and is the host of a political TV show in the nations' largest network. Since the late 1970's Meyer has published numerous books on Mexican history, politics, culture, including most recently, The Cactus and the Olive Tree: History of Mexico and Spain Relations in the 20^th Century (Oceáno, 2002). October 16 , 2006 Social Sciences lecture room 122 Audio & Video from The University of Chicago's International & Area Studies Multimedia Outreach Source Read an article on the Mexican Presidential Elections: http://clas.uchicago.edu/publications/latamchi/fall06newsletter.pdf ********************************************************************** James Cockcroft (State University of New York) "The Magonistas' Relevance in Mexico's 2006 Political Warfare," October 23, 2006 John Hope Franklin Room, Social Sciences 224, 1126 E. 59th Street Professor James Cockcroft, whose classic on the Flores Magon brothers "Precursores de la Revolución Mexicana" is in its 25th printing in Mexico, spoke on the Magonistas' relevance a century later as evidenced by the resurgence of their main programmatic points in the Zapatistas' "other campaign," the massive civic action campaign to honor López Obrador's presidential campaign, the wave of mining strikes, and the impressive "Oaxaca Commune" - all in 2006. In addition to his internet professorship at SUNY, Dr. Cockcroft is a regular contributor to academic journals anda magazines, and also runs his blog and website: jamescockcroft.com. ******************************************************************** Alma Guillermoprieto** (Author and Contributor to The New Yorker) "Mexico Today: A Conversation with Alma Guillermoprieto," April 20, 2006 Stuart Hall 105, 5835 S. Greenwood Ave. Recipient of a number of awards Alma Guillermoprieto, born in Mexico, has written about Latin America for more than twenty years. She is a frequent contributor to both The New York Review of Books and The New Yorker. Ms. Guillermoprieto covered the insurrection against Anastasio Somoza in Nicaragua for The Guardian and broke the story of the massacre at El Mozote for The Washington Post. For the New Yorker, she wrote about the connection between politics and garbage in Mexico and about the bonds that link Brazilians to the heroes of their telenovelas, among other topics. In the New York Review she has written extensively about the work of Peruvian novelist Mario Vargas Llosa and of Mexico’s subcomandante Marcos, and about current events in Cuba. Read an article of this event: http://clas.uchicago.edu/publications/latamchi/vol25no4.pdf ********************************************************************** Jan Rus** (Taller Tzotzil Maya Publishing Project-Chiapas and Latin American Perspectives) "Challenges Facing Chiapas' Indigenous People: Economics and Politics a Decade into the Zapatista Rebellion," April 5, 2006 Social Sciences 122, 1126 E. 59th Street Jan Rus is the former co-chair for the Center for U.S.-Mexican Studies at the University of California, San Diego and former director of the Native Language Publishing Project, Instituto de Asesoría Antropológica para la Región Maya, A.C., San Cristóbal, Chiapas. He is also co-editor of Mayan lives, Mayan utopias : the indigenous peoples of Chiapas and the Zapatista rebellion (2003) published in Latin American Perspectives. Read an article of this event: http://clas.uchicago.edu/publications/latamchi/vol25no4.pdf ********************************************************************** César Hernández (Centro de Investigación para el Desarrollo, A.C.)** Associate researcher for the Centro de Investigación para el Desarrollo, AC, (CIDAC), a non- profit think tank in Mexico. “Mexico’s 2006 Elections: Trends and Scenarios,” November 16, 2005 Read an article of this event: http://clas.uchicago.edu/publications/latamchi/winter06newsletter.pdf ********************************************************************** Antonio Azuela** (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México) “Agrarian Communities and Natural Resources in Mexico,” October 26, 2005 Antonio Azuela is professor of sociology and urban-regional studies at Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico (UNAM) and co- author of several works including Desarrollo Sustentable : Hacia una Política Ambiental (1993). Read an article of this event: < http://clas.uchicago.edu/publications/latamchi/winter06newsletter.pdf> ********************************************************************** Francisco Gil Díaz** (Mexico’s Secretary of Finance and Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Chicago) “Trends and Recent Developments in the Mexican Economy,” February 28, 2005 Read an article of this event: By Julia Young (available upon request, please contact the Katz Center) ********************************************************************** Fernando Escalante** (El Colegio de México) "The Weakness of the State in Latin America," February 22, 2005 Fernando Escalante is a historical sociologist, former Tinker Visiting Professor at the University of Chicago and professor at El Colegio de México. He is a frequent visiting professor at universities in Spain and France. Escalante is the author of six books among which is his study of civic culture in 19th century Mexico Imaginary Citizens, and other works including Political Terror and La Mirada de Dios (to be translated into English as In The Eyes of God). Listen to this event: http://clas.uchicago.edu/events/briefings/escalante.shtml ********************************************************************** Jesús Silva Herzog** (Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de Mexico) “Mexico: Problems of a New Democracy,” October 21, 2004 Lic. Jesús Silva-Herzog Márquez, Professor of Law at the Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de Mexico (ITAM), is a renowned political commentator, an editorialist for the newspaper Reforma, and a member of the Editorial Board of the political magazine Nexos. Silva-Herzog was Comexi Scholar at the Mexico Institute of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars from January through March 2004, pursuing a research project on “The Democratic Problem” in Mexico." He is currently researching the changing role of civil society's involvement in the Mexican political system. Listen to this event: http://clas.uchicago.edu/events/briefings/herzog.shtml
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