Businessman/Philanthropist Miguel Alemán to Speak at UT

On Tuesday, November 18, 2008, the Mexican Center and LLILAS host the talk Nuevos retos que México tendrá que enfrentar (New Challenges Ahead for Mexico) by Miguel Alemán Velasco, former governor and senator from the state of Veracruz.

From Art to Energy—Brazil Week 2008 Has Something for Everyone

The Brazil Center of LLILAS presents Brazil Week 2008, November 10–14. Brazil Week is a flagship annual event for the Brazil Center, highlighting the diversity and depth of Brazilian studies and exchange with Brazil on the campus of the University of Texas at Austin.

Kurt Weyland Honored with Hamilton Book Award

Kurt Weyland, Lozano Long Professor in Latin American Politics, was one of four runners up for the UT Co-op’s Robert W. Hamilton Book Awards for his book Bounded Rationality and Policy Diffusion: Social Sector Reform in Latin America, published by Princeton University Press in 2007.

UT Alum Wins Austin Film Festival Award

Gabriela Yepes, a 2008 MFA of UT’s Radio-Television-Film Department, received the Austin Film Festival’s Best Student Short Film Award for her writing and direction of Danzak, the story of Nina, a 10-year old girl whose life dramatically changes when she is asked to fulfill her dying father’s last wish.

Mexican Center to Host Symposium on Olmec

In fall 2008, the Mexican Center of LLILAS will host a symposium on Olmec art and archaeology. Olmec: The Origins of Ancient Mexican Civilization will take place on November 20–21, 2008, and will explore the most recent scholarship by senior specialists in the field.