Digital Media Archive
Revolution in Development: Mexico and the Governance of the Global Economy. Seminar by Professor Christy Thornton (Johns Hopkins University).
April 27th, 2021
Full video here.
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The Last Good Neighbor: Mexico in the Global Sixties. Seminar by Professor Eric Zolov from Stony Brook University.
April 20th, 2021
Full video here.
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La reforma eléctrica mexicana y la transición energética. Seminario por César Hernández, Doctor en Derecho y Ex-Subsecretario de Electricidad.
13 de abril del 2021
Video completo aquí.
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Gral. Cienfuegos and AMLO: A Turning Point for Militarization in Mexico? Seminar by Professor Alejandro Madrazo Lajous from Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas.
February 23rd, 2021
Full video here.
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En Torno a Museo del Universo: Los Juegos Olímpicos y el Movimiento Estudiantil de 1968, seminario por Profesor Ariel Rodríguez Kuri de Colegio de México.
February 16th, 2021
Full video here.
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Reset or Turbulence in US-Mexico Relations, seminar by Amb. Arturo Sarukhan, President, Sarukhan + Associates, LLC and former Mexican Ambassador to the US (2007-13)
February 2nd, 2021
Full video here.
_______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________José Vasconcelos and the Ideology of MORENA, seminar by Nicolás Medina Mora, editor at Revista NEXOS
January 26th, 2021
Full video here.
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Mexico’s Miliary Expansion, seminar by Professor Catalina Pérez Correa from the Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas
January 19, 2021
Full video here.
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The Mexican Economy under AMLO: An Analysis, a talk by Juan Carlos Moreno Brid
October 19, 2020
PowerPoint and video here.
A Laboratory for the Drug Wars: The Invention of the “Juárez Cartel” in the Era of National Security
April 16, 2019
Full event video here.
Mexico’s New Economic Prospects, a talk by Graciela Márquez Colín
November 16, 2018
Full event video here.
Article by The Chicago Maroon here.
Mexico & Trump: Views From Mexico
February 7, 2017
Full event video here.
Article by The Chicago Maroon here.
Impunidad e incapacidad institucional debilitan al Estado mexicano: Emilio Kourí en CNN
Interview here.
México: democracia y libertades
January 27, 2016
Lecture by Carmen Aristegui, Mexican journalist.
- Coverage and interview by Vocalo.
- Coverage by Radio La Nueva República.
- Interview by El BeiSMan.
- Interview by WBEZ.
- Q & A from the lecture and here.
- Excerpt from the lecture here.
- Interview by Hoy.
- Review by UChicago Student here.
- Full recording of conference, courtesy of El BeiSMan.
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Human Rights in Mexico
February 25, 2015
Discussion with Alejandra Ancheita, Executive Director of PRODESC, and Professor Emilio Kourí discussed Mexico’s current state of human rights. Watch here.
Listen to WBEZ’s Worldview interview with Alejandra Ancheita.
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Cesar Chavez, Man, Myth and Legacy
October 20, 2014
Miriam Pawel’s Mexican Studies Seminar recorded via CAN TV:
Link: http://youtu.be/DDh34Wm_SNw
Mexico Opens Energy Sector to Investors
August 28, 2014
Professor Emilio Kourí discussed Mexico’s new rules on energy investments on WBEZ’s World View. Listen here.
Latin American History at UChicago: The Katzworth Years
May 3 – 4, 2013
A conference to reflect on the legacy of John Coatsworth and Friedrich Katz.
Watch here.
The Economics and Politics of Drugs and Violence in Mexico
March 1, 2011
A discussion with Gerardo Esquivel, Tinker Visiting Professor at the University of Chicago and professor of economics at El Colegio de México, and Eduardo Guerrero, policy consultant at Lantia Consultores.
2010
Recordings of a series of interviews of Professor Friedrich Katz by Claudio Lomnitz, discussing the Mexican revolution in contemporary historical context.
Revolution and Exile in Mexican History: Homage to Friedrich Katz (1927-2010)
November 4, 2010
A book presentation and remembrance.
Mexico’s Recent Road to Stability
October 20, 2010
Lecture by Manuel Sánchez, Deputy Governor of the Bank of México.
The Informal Economy in Mexico
May 6, 2010
Lecture by Santiago Levy, Inter-American Development Bank.
Mexican Oil and Gas Policies
March 4, 2009
Lecture by Adrian Lajous, President of Petrométrica, SC.
Watch or listen here.
Indigenous Rights: The Case of Chiapas
May 21, 2007
Lecture by Jorge Fernandez-Souza, magistrate judge and professor of law at the Universidad Autonoma Metropolitana.
Watch or listen here.
The Modern Human Rights Movement in Mexico
May 17, 2007
Lecture by Marieclaire Acosta, Organization of American-States, co-founder Academia Mexicana de Derechos Humanos, and founder Comisión Méxicana para la Promoción y Defensa de los Derechos Humanos.
Watch or listen here.
Labor Rights: The Case of Ciudad Juárez
May 3, 2007
A discussion with Bertha Lujan, Secretaria del Trabajo, Gobierno “legitimo” de México (de Andrés Manuel López Obrador), former controlora, Cd. de México (2000-2006), and lead organizer of Frente Auténtico del Trabajo.
Watch or listen here.
Mexico’s 2006 Elections and the Fragility of Democratic Institutions
November 13, 2006
Lecture by Francois Prud’homme, El Colegio de México.
Mexico’s 2006 Elections and the Challenges for the New Government
November 2, 2006
Lecture by Maria Amparo Casar, Centro de Invetigación y Docencia Económicas, A.C.
Right vs. Left & the Newborn Mexican Democracy: Can the Three Survive?
October 16, 2006
Lecture by Lorenzo Meyer, El Colegio de México.
Watch or listen here.
NAFTA and Mexico, Ten Years Later
January 13, 2005
Lecture by Cuauhtémoc Cárdenas, founder of the Party of the Democratic Revolution (PRD).
Mexico: Problems of a New Democracy
October 21, 2004
Lecture by Jésus Silva-Herzog Márquez, professor of law, Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México (ITAM).
Consolidating Democracy in Mexico
April 23-24, 2004
Keynote address by Jose Woldenberg, former president of the Federal Electoral Institute.
Panel featuring Jacqueline Peschard, former member of the Federal Electoral Institute; Lorenzo Meyer, El Colegio de Mexico; and Jorge Chabat, Centro de Investigacion y Docencia Economica
Watch or listen here.