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Ayotzinapa Memory Event

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Thursday, October 1, 2015 - 12:30pm to 2:30pm
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Miller Hall Lawn across from Patterson Office Tower
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Come and learn about the disappeared Mexican students and teachers and the campaign to bring them back! 

Enforcing equality: court rulings, indigenous women, and political participation in Oaxaca, Mexico

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Wednesday, September 16, 2015 - 3:00pm to 4:30pm
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231 White Hall Classroom Building
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Within the last decade, Mexico´s federal electoral courts have taken unprecedented steps to promote affirmative action in favor of women´s political participation. At the federal, state, and municipal levels, this has largely meant rulings that support legislation on gender-based quotas for public posts.  A stumbling block to this affirmative action initiative has been the predominately indigenous municipalities that hold local elections through tradition and custom instead of universal suffrage and secret ballot. Legally recognized as part of indigenous people´s collective right to self-determination, election through custom and tradition has been difficult to fit into existing juridical logics of gender equality.  In the past three years, however, a growing number of electoral conflicts appealed to the federal courts have brought the question of indigenous women´s political participation to the forefront. I examine several of these cases to explore how the courts mediate between the question of collective self-determination and individual women´s rights, how they seek to promote a liberal notion of gender equality, and how women and communities are responding to their rulings in unexpected ways.  I argue that what is at stake is more than just women´s political participation; rather, these rulings reflect contemporary contestations over gender, indigeneity, modernity, and democracy in Mexico more broadly.  
Holly Worthen is a Professor at the Instituto de Investigaciones Sociológicas at the Universidad Autónoma Benito Juárez de Oaxaca in the state of Oaxaca, Mexico.  She received her Phd in Geography from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.  Her work focuses on gender, migration, development and indigenous politics.
 

Office Hours with Matt Giancarlo and Susan Roberts

February 12, 2015

Still looking for an opportunity to travel this summer? Tune in to this week's Office Hours as we speak with Matt Giancarlo, from the Department of English, and Susan Roberts, from the Department of Geography, about the education abroad trips that they will be leading this summer. Giancarlo will be heading a trip to Arezzo, a town in Tuscany, where students can learn about Italian language, art, and culture. Roberts will lead a trip to Oaxaca, Mexico to explore social and environmental justice within Southern Mexico.

To learn more about the trip to Italy, please head to: www.as.uky.edu/arezzo-culture

To learn more about the trip to Mexico, please head to:www.as.uky.edu/oaxaca-justice

Office Hours is produced by the College of Arts & Sciences and airs on WRFL FM 88.1 every Wednesday from 2-3 p.m. This podcast was produced by Casey Hibbard.

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Consul of Mexico, Mr. Jorge Sanchez Catano

November 25, 2014

Mr. Jorge Sanchez Catano, Consul of Mexico, visits University of Kentucky Proyecta 100,000 students, 21 November 2014

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Proyecta Welcome

November 18, 2014
The Center for English as a Second Language is pleased to welcome 53 students from Mexico. The students arrived over the weekend of November 9th and will be visiting scholars for one month.

Carvings with Personality: Alebrijes from Oaxaca, Mexico

March 24, 2014

Furthering our exploration of Mexico through the  "¡Viva Mexico!," Passport to the World Program, the University of Kentucky Libraries introduces us to the whimsical folk art of Alebrijes from Oaxaca, Mexico. These carved and decorated figures of animals can be found in the William T. Young Library. In this podcast, Francie Chassen-Lopez, co-chair of the "¡Viva Mexico!" Program and a professor in the Department of History, and Dara Vance, a graduate student within the Department of History, discuss the history and production of Alebrije and what can be found in the exhibit. Head to the William T. Young library to check out the exhibit and take a photo of your favorite Alebrije - don’t forget to share online and tag as #vivamexico to share it with your friends and the University! Click for more information about alebrije or the exhibit.

This podcast was produced by Casey Hibbard.

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Breathitt Lecture 2014: Evan Sweet, Slum or Settlement?

February 12, 2014

Breathitt Lecture 2014 Evan Sweet Slum or Settlement? Rewriting the Narrative of Urban Poverty with a Focus on Community Organizing and Autonomy in Oaxaca, Mexico.

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Visiting Professor to Offer Short Course on Resistance and Hegemony in Mexican Politics

February 5, 2014
Spring 2014 Short Course (Feb. 12 – March 2)
 

Urban Poverty is Focus of UK's 20th Breathitt Lecture

January 28, 2014
Geography and Islamic Studies undergraduate Evan Sweet will present the 20th annual Edward T. Breathitt Undergraduate Lectureship in the Humanities on Jan. 30.

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