Date: Wednesday, May 9
Time: 5:00 PM
Location: UC San Diego, Institute of the Americas Complex, Weaver Center
Open to the public

Reception following

Ricardo Raphael is a journalist and political analyst at the news Informational 40 and Focus, host of Spiral of Once TV Mexico, and a columnist for El Universal and the website sinembargo.mx. He is the author of The Other Mexico (2011), To Understand the Public Institution (Nostra Editions, 2007), Elba Esther partners (Planeta, 2007), coordinator of Mexico Outraged (Destiny, 2011) and coauthor of The Untouchables (Focus Today, 2008) and The Sighing 2012 (Topics of Today, 2011).

He is a professor at CIDE (Mexico City) in the Division of Public Administration Research and Teaching in Economics and Coordinator of the Master in Journalism and Public Affairs at the same institution. He obtained his law degree from UNAM (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México). He received a masters in political science from the Institut d’Etudes Politiques de Paris, France (Sciences Po), and a masters in public administration from the Ecole Nationale d’Administration (ENA) of the French Republic. His doctoral studies were in Political Economy and Comparative Politics from the graduate school in Claremont, California, United States. He has published several papers on issues related to the transition to democracy, the public, the party system, rights, economic development and citizenship.

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Date: Friday, May 11
Time: 10:00 AM – 6:00 PM
Location: UC San Diego, Institute of the Americas Complex, Weaver Center
Open to the public

This bilingual event brings together leading U.S. and Mexican intellectuals and activists to think about the ways that historical and contemporary processes of indigenous resistance and decolonization are in conversation with one another. This workshop will begin with an examination of pre-Hispanic and colonial codices and move to contemporary movements for indigenous autonomy and rights with an emphasis on territory, gender, the right not to migrate, justice and security, and the construction of transnational indigenous communities and political organizations and strategies. The workshop will be followed by a public celebration with the Frente Indígena de Organizaciones Binacionales (FIOB) in recognition of their 20th anniversary. The celebration will feature music, dance, poetry, and short interventions from FIOB leaders from southern California and Tijuana.