Speaker: Ieva Jusionyte, Assistant Professor of Anthropology and Social Studies Moderator: Fernando Bizzarro, PhD student, Department of Government; Graduate Student Associate, DRCLAS
In the U.S.-Mexico border region, environmental emergencies – from...
Speakers: José Esparza Chong Cuy, Executive Director and Chief Curator, Storefront for Art and Architecture Ruth Estévez, Co-founder, Executive Director and Curator, LIGA and Senior Curator-at-Large, The Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University Julieta González, Artistic Director, Museo Jumex Sarah Herda, Director, Graham Foundation Michelle Millar Fisher, Curator, Contemporary Decorative Arts, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Zoë Ryan, John H. Bryan Chair and...
Senior Common Room (Standish Hall), Winthrop House
Speaker: Marcos Ramírez (ERRE), Artist
Moderators: Doris Sommer, Ira and Jewell Williams Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures and of African and African American Studies; José Falconi, Lecturer in Fine Arts, Brandeis University
Artist Marcos Ramírez (ERRE) in conversation with Professor Doris Sommer, Ira and Jewell Williams Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures and of African and African American Studies and José Falconi (Lecturer in Fine Arts, Brandeis University)
Auditorio Jaime Torres Bodet, Museo Nacional de Antropología e Historia, Av. Paseo de la Reforma s/n, Polanco Ciudad de México
Speaker: Diana Magaloni, Deputy Director, Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Diana Magaloni will present El Códice Florentino y la Creación del Nuevo Mundo (The Florentine Codex and the Creation of the New World) Tuesday, October 8th, at 7 p.m. local time (8 p.m. EST) at the Jaime...
Askwith Lecture Hall, Longfellow Hall, Harvard Graduate School of Education; 13 Appian Way Cambridge, MA
Opening Remarks by Sarah Whiting, Dean, Harvard Graduate School of Design
Speakers: Loreta Castro Reguera, Professor, UNAM Mexico; Design Director, Taller Capital, Mexico; Visiting Scholar in Landscape Architecture, Harvard Graduate School of Design John Fernandez, Professor, MIT; Director, MIT Environmental Solutions Initiative; Director, Urban Metabolism Group Jim Matheson, Founder and principal, Flybridge Ventures; Chairman and CEO, Oasys Water; Senior Lecturer in Entrepreneurship, Harvard Business School Joyce Coffee Founder...
Bright Family Screening Room at the Emerson Paramount Center
LA CAMARISTA (THE CHAMBERMAID) Narrative, 102 mins, Lila Avilés, Mexico, 2018
Eve (Gabriela Cartol) works long hours as a maid at a luxurious hotel in Mexico City. A young, single mother who travels far to get to her place of work, Eve has aspirations for the future and hopes that her diligence will get her a coveted spot as the cleaner on an executive floor. She enrolls in the hotel's adult education program in her quest for a better life but quickly discovers that it's not necessarily the most hard-working who get noticed for advancement. Q&A with producer ...
Bright Family Screening Room at the Emerson Paramount Center
Caballerango (Horse Wrangler) Documentary, 61 mins, Juan Pablo González, Mexico, 2018 A family reflects on a young man’s disappearance in a Mexican village under the watchful eyes of the horse who saw him last. • Official Selection, 2018 International Documentary Festival Amsterdam (IDFA) • Official Selection, 2019 True/False Film Festival • Official Selection, 2019 Ambulante • Official Selection, 2019 Festival Internacional de Guadalajara (FICG) • Official Selection, 2019 Full Frame Documentary Film Festival
Speaker: Angela Garcia, Associate Professor of Anthropology, Stanford University Moderator: Ieva Jusionyte, Assistant Professor of Anthropology and Social Studies
In the past decade, drug treatment centers called anexos (annexes) have proliferated throughout Mexico...
Speaker: Viridiana Rios, Ph.D. in Government, Harvard University
Moderator: Steven Levitsky, Professor of Government, Harvard University
In contexts where corruption is widespread, why do some incumbents choose to not be corrupt? My research argues that party loyalty is a major influence to reduce corruption and test this argument using fine-grained data of 12 billion dollars audited to 3,601 local incumbents over a period of 16 years. Contributing to an unsettled and vibrant...
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,...
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’...
Diana Magaloni will present El Códice Florentino y la Creación del Nuevo Mundo (The Florentine Codex and the Creation of the New World) Tuesday, October 8th, at 7 p.m. local time (8 p.m. EST) at the Jaime...
Speakers: Javier Garciadiego, Professor of History, El Colegio de México; John Womack, Robert Woods Bliss Professor of Latin American History, Emeritus, Harvard University
Speaker: Javier Garciadiego Dantán, Historian and Author; Director, Academia Mexicana de la Historia; Former President of El Colegio de México
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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’...