Mexico Working Group
Past Events
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November 30, 2012: Seminar with José Antonio Aguilar Rivera, Professor of the Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económica (CIDE), and Ted Beatty, Associate Professor of the History Department of Notre Dame: "The Roots of Mexico's Conservative Ideology.”
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November 16, 2012: Workshop paper: Victor Hernández Huerta (PhD student, Department of Political Science), “Disputed elections: Challenging electoral outcomes as a negotiation tool.”
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November 16, 2012: Presentation: Allert Brown-Gort (Kellogg Fellow), “The Latino vote during the U.S. 2012 presidential election.”
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November 1, 2012: Día de los muertos: The University of Notre Dame will celebrate this year with a special ofrenda created by Notre Dame students and a lecture by Javier Osorio, a PhD candidate in political science at Notre Dame.
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October 26, 2012: Workshop paper: Felicia Moralez (PhD student, Department of History), tentative title: “Rites of Passage: Mexican American Women and the American Middle Class.”
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October 26, 2012: Discussion on “Mexicans in Indiana” with Consul Juan Manuel Solana, Consulate of Mexico, Indianapolis.
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September 6, 2012: First Diálogo with Elisa Servín, Professor of the Instituto Nacional de Antropologia e Historia, and Guillermo Trejo, Associate Professor of the Political Science Department of Notre Dame: “The Left in Mexico Today: Is there a future for the 132 Movement?”
For those interested in the 132 Movement, we recommend the reading by Jaime Pensado, "Utopian Dream: Student Activism."
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September 5, 2012: Workshop paper: Elisa Servín (Professor of the Instituto Nacional de Antropologia e Historia), “Frank Tannenbaum and the Cuban Revolution.”
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April 13, 2012: Workshop paper: Esteban Manteca (PhD student, Department of Political Science), “New Fruits from Rotten Seeds: Political Parties' Internal Democracy and Political Participation of Mexican Citizens.”
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February 22, 2012. Lecture by Cuauhtémoc Cárdenas, “Elections in Mexico: Change or Continuity.”
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February 17, 2012. Research presentation by Javier Osorio (PhD student, Department of History), “Democratization and Drug Violence in Mexico.”
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January 20, 2012. Workshop paper: Robert Costello Palermo (PhD student, Department of History), “The General, the President, and the Pontiff: Pan-Hispanism, Anticlericalism and the Right in Interwar Mexico and Spain.”
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January 12, 2012: “Constructing Mexican Democracy.” In this first-ever event of its kind (co-organized with Mexico’s Federal Electoral Institute, IFE), the presidents of Mexico’s seven major political parties shared their visions for Mexico’s future in dialogue with leading Mexico experts from area universities. Topics on the agenda included the economy, security, education and democracy.
