2019 Apr 17
From 1910 to the 4th Transformation: Actors, Institutions, and Objectives in Mexico’s Revolutionary Politics
12:30pm to 2:00pm
Location: 
Graduate School of Design, Sackler 222
Speakers: Javier Garciadiego, Professor of History, El Colegio de México; John Womack, Robert Woods Bliss Professor of Latin American History, Emeritus, Harvard University
Moderator: Diane Davis, Charles Dyer Norton Professor of Regional Planning and Urbanism,...
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2019 Apr 16
Eduardo Matos Moctezuma Lecture Series presents: The Mexican Revolution of 1910: A Sociohistorical Interpretation
6:00pm
Location: 
Geological Lecture Hall, 24 Oxford Street, Cambridge
Speaker: Javier Garciadiego Dantán, Historian and Author; Director, Academia Mexicana de la Historia; Former President of El Colegio de México
A rigged election and a political crisis among competing elites, middle classes, and rural workers: What could go wrong? The Mexican...
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2019 Mar 25
Robert F. Kennedy Visiting Professor Lecture: Linguistic ideologies and social identities: implications for inclusive practices in public higher education institutions in Mexico
6:00pm
Location: 
CGIS South, S216, 1730 Cambridge Street
Speaker: Rosa Montes Miró, Robert F. Kennedy Visiting Professor; Benemérita Universidad...
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2019 Feb 01
The Mexico Conference 2.0: Same Challenges, Different Expectations
Fri - Sat, Feb 1 to Feb 2, 2:00pm - 8:00pm
Location: 
Day One (1pm-8pm) Askwith Auditorium, Graduate School of Education; Day Two (9am-6:30pm): Littauer Building, Harvard Kennedy School
The MX Conference is a student initiative that seeks to bring Mexico to the forefront. It provides a forum for the learning and debate of Mexico’s challenges and opportunities given its recent transition of power; and in addition; highlight the Harvard community and campus to external attendees. The Conference’...
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2018 Nov 16
Coffee Chat with Professor Irma Eréndira Sandoval, Mexico's incoming Secretary of Public Function
3:30pm
Location: 
Harvard Law School, WCC 1023 Classroom

2018 Nov 05
Film Screening & Harvard Premier of: Song for Cesar: The Music and The Movement
6:00pm
Location: 
CGIS South, Tsai Auditorium (S010), 1730 Cambridge Street

Please join us for a film screening followed by discussion featuring:
Davíd Carrasco, Professor, Neil L. Rudenstine Professor of the Study of Latin America, with a joint appointment with the Department of Anthropology in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences
Abel Sánchez, Film...
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2018 Nov 01
Día de los Muertos Celebration
4:00pm to 8:00pm
Location: 
Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology, 11 Divinity Avenue, Cambridge

Remember and celebrate your departed loved ones at this year’s Día de los Muertos altar, savor traditional Mexican hot chocolate and pan de muerto, and enjoy live music. The Catrina/catrín costume contest is at 6:30 pm.
Free and open to the public. ...
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2018 Oct 26
Mexican Literature, Culture, and Film across Borders: Translation, Migration and Frontiers
9:00am to 7:00pm
Location: 
Boston Univeristy, Pardee School of Global Studies, 121 Bay State Road, Boston, MA 02215
“Mexican Literature, Culture, and Film across Borders: Translation, Migration and Frontiers,” a two-day conference organized by the Center of Latin American Studies at Boston University. The central aim of the conference is to bring prominent scholars who will explore cultural and sociopolitical phenomena related to Mexico, often neglected by national histories, and to engage with theories on translation and migration in the field of literary and film studies.
24 scholars from across North America and Mexico have committed to present their work at the conference. Among...
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2018 Oct 23
Can Access to Information Increase Community Monitoring & Service Provision? Evidence from a School Intervention in Mexico
12:00pm
Location: 
CGIS South, S250, 1730 Cambridge Street
Speaker: Ana De la O, Associate Professor of Political Science, Yale University
Ana Lorena De La O is associate professor of Political Science at Yale University, where she is affiliated with the MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies, the Institution of Social and Policy Studies, and the Jackson Institute for Global Affairs. Her research relates to the political economy of poverty alleviation, clientelism and the provision of...
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2018 Oct 22
Environmental Health Capacity Building In Latin America
1:00pm to 2:30pm
Location: 
Harvard Chan School of Public Health, 665 Huntington Ave, Building 1, Room 1302, Boston
Presenters:
Douglas Dockery, John L. Loeb and Frances Lehman Loeb Research Professor of Environmental Epidemiology, Department of Environmental Health, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Rick Rogers, Principal Research Scientist, Department of Environmental Health, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Ramon Sanchez, Director, Sustainable Technologies and Health Program, Center for Climate, Health and the Global Environment (C-CHANGE), Department of Environmental Health, Harvard T.H. Chan...
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2018 Oct 15

Conversations on Journalism & Mexico

12:00pm to 2:00pm

Location: 

CGIS South, S250, 1730 Cambridge Street

The New England Chapter of the National Association of Hispanic Journalists presents: Conversations on Journalism & Mexico

Featuring: Alfredo Corchado, Marcela Turati, & Maria Garcia

See flyer below for details.



2018 Oct 02
Changing Course? Understanding Mexico's 2018 Election
12:00pm
Location: 
CGIS South, S250, 1730 Cambridge Street
Speaker: Gustavo Flores Macías, Associate Professor of Government, Cornell University
Moderators: Steve Levitsky, Professor of Government and Fran Hagopian, Jorge Paulo Lemann Senior Lecturer on Government
Gustavo A. Flores-Macías is Associate Professor of Government at Cornell University and the 2017-18 Democracy and Development Fellow at Princeton University. He is the author of After Neoliberalism? The Left and Economic Reforms in Latin America (Oxford University Press, 2012) and editor of the volume The...
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2018 Sep 11
Student Info Session: Mexico January Winternship Programs
1:00pm
Location: 
CGIS South, S216, 1730 Cambridge Street
Spend January in Mexico! Please come to the Mexico Winternship info session to learn how you could spend J-term in a pre-professional experience. The Winternships program enables you to build your resume, explore the culture and histories of Mexico and Mexico City, improve your Spanish, and enjoy the "Vitamin T" diet (tamales, tacos, tortas). 
The info session will review:
• Program Overview

• Internship Offerings

• Application Details

  ...
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2018 Apr 19
Looking Out for the Queer in Latin American Film: The Place Without Limits / El Lugar Sin Límites
5:00pm
Location: 
Harvard Film Archive, 24 Quincy St, Cambridge
Special screening for the Harvard community:
Film introduced by Sergio Delgado Moya, Associate Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures at Harvard University.

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2018 Apr 17
Film Screening & Discussion: Rush Hour
6:00pm to 8:00pm
Location: 
CGIS South, Tsai Auditorium (S010), 1730 Cambridge Street
Panelists:
• Diane Davis, Charles Dyer Norton Professor of Regional Planning and Urbanism; Chair, Department of Urban Planning and Design, GSD

• Luciana Kaplan, Director

• Onésimo Flores, Founder, Jetty
A feature documentary about the odyssey involved in commuting to and from work in three large contemporary cities: Los Angeles, Istanbul and Mexico City. Rush Hour is an intimate approach to the personal stories of three commuters who spend hours of their lives going...
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2018 Apr 10
Eduardo Matos Moctezuma Discovers Himself: Excavations of the Great Aztec Temple
6:00pm
Location: 
Peabody Museum, Geological Lecture Hall, 24 Oxford Street

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Speaker: Eduardo Matos Moctezuma, Professor Emeritus, National School of Anthropology and History, Mexico
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2018 Mar 26
Social Origins of Legal Rule in Nineteenth-Century Mexico
5:00pm
Location: 
CGIS South, S216, 1730 Cambridge Street
Speaker: Timo Schaefer, Adjunct Professor, Brandeis University, Department of History; Boston University, Pardee School of Global Studies
Moderator: Kirsten Weld, John L. Loeb Associate Professor of the Social Sciences
In the nineteenth century, Mexicans faced the challenge of constructing republican legal institutions in a society shaped by centuries of colonial rule. This talk examines how people attempted to meet that challenge in towns and in hacienda (agricultural estate) settlements. More broadly, it analyzes in what...
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2018 Feb 26
Mexican Cities Initative: 2017 Summer Research Fellowship Program Presentation
6:00pm to 9:00pm
Location: 
Frances Loeb Library, Gund Hall, Harvard Graduate School of Design

The Mexican Cities Initiative Summer Research Fellowship has been...
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2018 Feb 20
Legacies of Revolution: Peasant Militias and the Rule of Law in Mexico
12:00pm to 2:00pm
Location: 
CGIS South, S250, 1730 Cambridge Street
Speaker: Mariano Sánchez-Talanquer, Academy Scholar, Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies
Moderator: Steven Levitsky, Professor of Government, Harvard University

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2018 Feb 02
The Mexico Conference 2018: The Path(s) Forward
5:00pm to 6:30pm
Location: 
Harvard Graduate School of Education (13 Appian Way) and Harvard John F. Kennedy School of Government (79 JFK St)
This conference, organized by Harvard students, aims to promote debate around the path forward for Mexico over the coming 20 years for the country to become one of the 21st century's success stories.

The 2018 Conference will address the...
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