September 16, 2003
Mexican Center celebrates Mexican politics and culture throughout September
Declaring September “Mexico Month,” the UT Austin Mexican Center is sponsoring a series of events at UT Austin that will celebrate and explore Mexican politics and culture. A full schedule and detailed description of the events is available at http://www.utexas.edu/cola/llilas/centers/mexican/calendar/current.html.
Beginning the week of September 15, the series will feature an international conference on Mexico’s 2003 mid-term elections, as well as a book presentation on September 16 by Victoria Rodríguez author of “Women in Contemporary Mexican Politics”. The week will end with a concert performance by distinguished Mexican cellist Maestro Carlos Prieto at Bates Recital Hall on September 21.
The second week of events will feature an exhibit of the recently acquired Ignacio Vallarta Papers at the Rare Books Room of the Benson Latin American Collection on September 25, and a conference on remittances and financial services for Mexican migrants in Central Texas on September 26.
“We chose September because it is the month that Mexico celebrates its independence, or ‘fiestas patrias,’” said Mexican Center Director Peter Ward, who is also a faculty member at the LBJ School. “This September is of particular political importance because the new congress was inaugurated and President Vicente Fox gave his state of the nation address on September 1.”
The Mexican Center of the Teresa Lozano Long Institute of Latin American Studies was established in 1980 to promote greater knowledge and understanding of Mexico, and to coordinate the advancement of Mexican studies at the UT Austin.
For additional information contact the Mexican Center at 512/232-2423.
2003 Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs
P.O. Box Y
Austin, TX 78713-8925
16 September 2003
Comments to: lbjweb@uts.cc.utexas.edu
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