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May Events

TitleDate & TimeLocationDescriptionSponsor
Fundraiser
''UT Ethnomusicology Ensembles''
May 2, 2008
8:00 PM
Momo's, 6th and Rio GrandeEnjoy mariachi, conjunto, bereket, Caribbean, and South American music while helping the UT Ethnomusicology Ensembles raise funds to purchase new instruments. General admission $8, student admission $5.College of Fine Arts, Butler School of Music, UT Ethnomusicology Ensembles

Recent Events


April 18, 2008

Symposium
"Pistols, Pens, and Guitars: Celebrating 50 Years of Americo Paredes' 'With His Pistol in His Hand"'


April 18, 2008

Lecture
"Migration Trends and Migratory Policies on the Southern Border of Mexico"


April 18, 2008

Conference
"An American Story: Mexican American Entrepreneurship and Wealth Creation"


April 17, 2008

Lecture
"The Nationalization of Banks in Mexico, 25 Years Later: The Story as Told from the Inside"


April 16, 2008

Performance
"Mariachi Ensemble/South American Ensemble"


April 9, 2008

Conference
"Mexico-U.S. Migration: Rural Transformation and Development"


April 4, 2008

Lecture
"Black Mexicans and Assimilation Theory: What Strivers, Thugs, and Good Girls Can Teach Us About Immigration, Race, and Upward Mobility"


April 2, 2008

Lecture
"Niñez migrante repatriada no acompañada en la frontera norte de Mexico"


March 30, 2008

Book Signing
"The Mass Media and Latino Politics"


March 30, 2008

Open House
"Hecho a Mano/Made by Hand"


March 24, 2008

Lecture
"The Gospel of Health: The Public's Health and Preventative Medicine in Mexico, 1890s-1940s"


March 21, 2008

Film Screening
"Ya Basta!: Kidnapped in Mexico"


March 20, 2008

LLILAS Faculty Speaker Series
"Rights in Rebellion: Indigenous Struggle and Human Rights in Chiapas"


March 18, 2008

Lecture
"The Incorporation of Mexicans into the U.S. Labor Market and the Management of International Migration"


February 28, 2008

Reception
"Mexican Alumni of the College of Liberal Arts"


February 27, 2008

Film Screening
"En el hoyo"


February 21, 2008

Conference
"Abriendo Brecha V: Activist Scholarship at the Tejas Global Crossroads"

Event Archives


January 31, 2008

LLILAS Faculty Speaker Series
"Why Dominant Parties Lose: Mexico's Democratization in Comparative Perspective"


December 12, 2007

Exhibit Opening
"From Popular Culture to the Sacred: Representations of La Virgen de Guadalupe from the Collection of Gilberto Cardenas"


December 12, 2007

Exhibit Opening and Concert
"From the Sacred to Popular Culture: Representations of La Virgen de Guadalupe"


November 27, 2007

Film Screening
"Frida"


November 9, 2007

Lecture
"Political Humor in Mexico: Social Resistance and Participation"


November 1, 2007

Exhibition
"Las Calacas: A Dia de los Muertos Exhibition"


October 30, 2007

Film Screening
"Performing the Border"


October 21, 2007

Forum
"Our Choices, Global Impact: A Forum on Fair Trade and Latin America"


October 11, 2007

Dia de la Raza Fiesta 2007
"¡Que Viva Nuestra Cultura!"


October 10, 2007

Lecture
"Immigrant Narratives: Painting as Fiction"


October 5, 2007

Lecture
"Poverty in Mexico and the Government's Response"


September 27, 2007

Exhibit and Opening Reception
"Guerrero Viejo Revealed"


September 20, 2007

Lecture
"Antonio's Gun and Delfino's Dream: True Tales of Mexican Migration"


September 18, 2007

Reception and Book Signing
"'Colored Men' and 'Hombres Aqui': 'Hernandez v. Texas' and the Emergence of Mexican-American Lawyering"


September 18, 2007

Book Lecture
"'Colored Men' and 'Hombres Aqui': 'Hernandez v. Texas' and the Emergence of Mexican-American Lawyering"


September 15, 2007

Grand Opening Ceremony
"Mexican American Cultural Center"


May 4, 2007

Panel
"Cinco de Mayo and the Forging of Two Nations"


May 3, 2007

Lecture
"Mexican Immigration: The Poverty of Policy"


April 30, 2007

Film Screening
"Undocumented: Our Voice. Our Stuggle. Our Movement."


April 25, 2007

Exhibit and Reception
"A Viva Voz"


April 23, 2007

Lecture
"Jarocho Sol: Excavating the Afro in Mexico"


April 22, 2007

Forum
"Immigration: A Dilemma for American Democracy, Two Christian Perspectives"


April 20, 2007

Performance
"Plump Jack"


April 18, 2007

Lecture
"Autonomy Road: The Cultural Politics of Chicano Transfrontera Organizing in Los Angeles, California"


April 16, 2007

Lecture
"The 'Third Wave' of the Latin American Lefts: Between Populism and Social Democracy"


April 13, 2007

Conference
"President Felipe Calderón's First 100 Days in Office"


April 12, 2007

Lecture
"The Role of TRIFE in Mexico's Democratic Consolidation"


April 6, 2007

Book Party
"Reflections"


March 30, 2007

Colloquium
"Inquiring into Hate: Homophobic Violence in Mexico"


March 30, 2007

Conference
"The Future of Health Care for U.S. Retirees in Mexico"


March 27, 2007

Lecture
"Central American Migrants and Mexico's Southern Border: Human Rights and the Criminalization of Poor Workers"


March 23, 2007

Lecture
"Necessary Theater: The Role of Chicano Theater in a Society in Crisis"


March 21, 2007

Panel
"The Next Stages of U.S.-Mexico Collaboration on Science and Technology Initiatives"


March 7, 2007

Lecture
"Bilocation to the Borderlands: From 17th Century History to 21st Century Literature"


February 26, 2007

Conference
"Cross-Border Environemtnal Management"


February 25, 2007

Lecture
"From the Bottom! John Ross Reports Back from the Mexican Upheaval"


February 23, 2007

Discussion
"Census-taking and the Working of Colonial Power in the Mexican North, 1790-1825"


February 23, 2007

Lecture
"The Doodling Assistant and the Elusive Truths of the Census: Gender, Calidad, and the Workings of Colonial Power in the Mexican North, 1790-1825"


February 22, 2007

Conference
"NAFTA and U.S.-Mexico Relations: In Retrospect and Prospect"


February 13, 2007

Lecture
"Touring Mexico: The Neoliberal Turn and the Decomposition of the Mexican Imaginary"


February 2, 2007

Lecture
"The debate over the construction of democracy in Latin America"


February 1, 2007

Conference
XXVII Annual ILASSA Student Conference


January 25, 2007

Lecture
"Political Economics? Technocrats, the World Bank, and the Contested Inevitability of Pension Reform in Mexico"


December 8, 2006

Exhibit
"The Rug Hooking Project"


December 1, 2006

Holiday Celebration and Fundraiser
"Noche Navideña 2006"


December 1, 2006

Lecture
"Looking North: Mexican Images of Immigration"


December 1, 2006

Lecture
"Uprising in Oaxaca: What does it mean and what can you do?"


November 27, 2006

Symposium
"Mexican Civil Society Research Symposium"


November 20, 2006

Lecture
"Indigenous Peoples of Mexico and their Struggles for Rights: Gender Perspective on Cultural Citizenship"


November 14, 2006

Panel
"Los Retos de la Centroamérica Contemporánea y el Papel de la Integración Regional"


November 9, 2006

Lecture
"Weaving Consciousness: Women and Indigenous Identity in Chiapas, Mexico"


October 27, 2006

Conference
"Justification"


October 24, 2006

Lecture
"The Aztec House of Eagles: Digging the Underworld in Downtown Mexico City"


October 3, 2006

Lecture
"State Repression in Mexico: Recent Social Crisis and Popular Insurrection in Oaxaca and Atenco"


September 27, 2006

Lecture
"The Aftermath of the 2006 Mexican Elections"


September 25, 2006

Bienvenida and Exhibit Opening
"Serie XIII"


September 24, 2006

Concert
"Tardeada con Santiago"


September 15, 2006

Panel, Film, and Reception
"Mexican Immigration to the U.S.: Gender, Women, and Independence?"


September 8, 2006

Exhibit
"Corazón a Corazón: From Mexican Heart to Latino Heart"


September 3, 2006

Exhibit
"YLA11:Juventud Desenfranada"


August 15, 2006

Luncheon and Lecture
"U.S.-Mexico Border Health Problems Past and Present"


July 18, 2006

International Good Neighbor Council Luncheon and Lecture
"The National University of Mexico"


June 9, 2006

Exhibit Opening
"New Paintings by Jorge Puron"


May 8, 2006

Conference
"Comparative Seminar in Community Informatics"


May 5, 2006

Lecture Series
"Am©rico Paredes Distinguished Lectures"


May 1, 2006

Art Exhibit
"Presente Perfecto/Perfect Present (Homage to a Land and Its History)"


April 28, 2006

Lecture
"Drug-Induced: The Ethics, Risks, and Challanges of Journalism on the U.S.-Mexico Border"


April 23, 2006

Workshop and Discussion
"Zapatista's Sixth Declaration and the Other Campaign"


April 19, 2006

Silent Auction
"Fotos de mi Alma"


April 18, 2006

Lecture
"Crossing into Yucatan"


April 18, 2006

Luncheon and Lecture
"Border Health ¢€“Then and Now"


April 13, 2006

Lecture
"Mexican American Women's Health Behaviors During Pregnancy and Postpartum"


April 9, 2006

Discussion
"La Otra Campa±a en el Otro Lado/The Other Campaign on the Other Side"


April 7, 2006

Panel
"The Imagining of Communities: The Uses of Nationalism"


April 4, 2006

Lecture
"Patriotism and Nationalism in Mexico and Peru: An Historical Approach"


April 1, 2006

Symposium
"Consumer Cultures Meet the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands"


March 24, 2006

Panel
"Science and Technology Policy in the Americas"


March 22, 2006

Lecture
"Remembering Indigenous Futures"


March 8, 2006

Lecture
"Prisons, Social Movements, and Human Rights"


March 8, 2006

Lecture
"Decolonizing the Americas"


February 13, 2006

Exhibit and Opening Reception
"Thirty-Five Years of Struggle and Triumph: Mexican Americans in Tejas"


February 9, 2006

Book Presentation
"Trail of Feathers: Searching for Philip True"


February 9, 2006

Exhibit
"Embrujo mexicano"


February 3, 2006

Conference
"Political Parties and Voters in the Mexico 2006 Elections"


January 23, 2006

Lecture
"Guadalupe: A History of Interpretation and Devotion"


January 23, 2006

Information Session
"Civil Society Summer Institute 2006 - Puebla, M©xico"


January 19, 2006

Lecture
"Who is Going to be Mexico's Next President?"


December 12, 2005

Roundtable Discussion
"Guadalupe is Her Name, 1531-2005"


December 8, 2005

Exhibit and Opening Reception
"Guadalupe is Her Name"


November 11, 2005

Fundraiser
"A Community Radio Benefit"


November 3, 2005

Book Signing and Reception
"Erotic Journeys: Mexican Immigrants and Their Sex Lives"


October 18, 2005

Forum
"Workers' Rights are Human Rights"


October 17, 2005

Online Seminar
"Mexico News Seminar"


October 13, 2005

Celebration
"2nd Annual Dia de la Raza Celebration"


September 30, 2005

Lecture
"In Excess: Sergei Eisenstein's 'Que Viva Mexico!"'


September 20, 2005

Lecture
"U.S.-Mexico Political Relations: Immigration, Drugs, and Related Issues"


September 16, 2005

Celebration and Panel Discussion
"Mexico: Independence and the Future"


September 15, 2005

Celebration
"Diez y Seis de Septiembre"


September 8, 2005

Conference
"Accountability and the Rule of Law in Mexico on the Threshold of the 2006 Elections"


April 28, 2005

Symposium
"Democracy in Latin America: Political Change in Comparative Perspective"


April 28, 2005

Book Presentation
"Democracy in Latin America"

Dr. Peter H. Smith
Sim³n Bol­var Professor, University of California, San Diego


April 12, 2005

Conference
"Dialogues on the Mexico-U.S. Border Violence"


April 7, 2005

Conference
"Transnational Exchanges in the Texas-Mexico Borderlands"


March 31, 2005

International Conference Workshop
"The Metropolitan Question: Governance and Decentralization in the Americas"


March 23, 2005

Lecture
"Security and Justice in Mexico"

Alejandro Gertz Manero
Former Secretary of Federal Public Security Fox Administration, Mexico


March 7, 2005

Lecture
"Democracy, Transparency, and Mexico's IFAI"

Dr. Maria Marvan Laborder
IFAI


January 28, 2005

Lecture
"Women, Gender, and Democratic Consolidation in Mexico"

Luz Lajous Vargas
President of the Board for Pro Mujer in Mexico City


September 15, 2004

A Celebration of Mexico's Independence
"El Grito de la Independencia."


September 1, 2004

Beginning of Mexico Month
"Indigenous Rights and Indigenous Law in Mexico: Chiapas Plus 10"