The
Mexico
Semester

Why Mexico?

PowerPoint Presentations

Resources for Mexico Semester

Faculty development trip to Mexico
March 18-27, 2005


List of Activities


Watercolors of Mexico
8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., Monday - Friday
Aug. 29 through Sept. 23, 2005
Spiva Art Gallery on campus
Admission: free

 

“Reading, Revolution, and Modernity in Mexico: The Meanings of Literacy”
10:00 a.m., Tuesday, Aug. 30, 2005
Webster Hall Auditorium
Admission: free

 
“Tlatelolco: Cultural Memory and the Mexican Student Movement of 1968”
11:00 a.m., Tuesday, Aug. 30, 2005
Webster Hall Auditorium
Admission: free
 
Mexican Film Festival: Love’s a Bitch (Amores perros)
7:00 p.m., Wednesday, Sept. 7, 2005
Cornell Auditorium in Matthews Hall
Admission: free
 
“Postmodern Politics and Mexican Development”
9:00 a.m., Friday, Sept. 9, 2005
Webster Hall Auditorium
Admission: free
 
“Mexico’s Environmental Politics”
11:00 a.m., Friday, Sept. 9, 2005
Webster Hall Auditorium
Admission: free
 
“Class in Mexican History and Culture”
10:00 a.m., Wednesday, Sept. 14, 2005
Webster Hall Auditorium
Admission: free
 
“Gender and Sexuality in Mexican History and Culture”
1:00 p.m., Wednesday, Sept. 14, 2005
Webster Hall Auditorium
Admission: free
 
Marimba Sol de Chiapas
7:00 p.m., Monday, Sept. 19, 2005
Webster Hall Auditorium
Admission: free
 
Gockel International Symposium
9:30 a.m., Tuesday, Sept. 20, 2005
Taylor Performing Arts Center
Admission: free
 
Gockel International Symposium
7:00 p.m., Tuesday, Sept. 20, 2005
Webster Hall Auditorium
Admission: free
 

“Maya History: Culture Origins to Spanish Conquest”
10:00 a.m., Wednesday, Sept. 21, 2005
Webster Hall Auditorium
Admission: free

 
“Maya Calendar Systems”
1:00 p.m., Wednesday, Sept. 21, 2005
Webster Hall Auditorium
Admission: free
 
Mexican Film Festival: In the Country Where Nothing Happens (En el pais de no pasa nada)
7:00 p.m., Wednesday, Sept. 21, 2005
Cornell Auditorium in Matthews Hall
Admission: free
 
“Maya Archaeoastronomy”
11:00 a.m., Thursday, Sept. 22, 2005
Webster Hall Auditorium
Admission: free
 
Literary Lions Book Club
6:30 p.m., Sept. 22, Oct. 6, Oct. 20, 2005
University Java Coffee Shop in Spiva Library
Cost: $25 (includes book and refreshments)
 
“The Tomb of Pakal: Great King of the Ancient Maya”
10:00 a.m., Friday, Sept. 23, 2005
Webster Hall Auditorium
Admission: free
 
“Maya Sacred Geometry”
11:00 a.m., Friday, Sept. 23, 2005
Webster Hall Auditorium
Admission: free
 
“Marketing in Mexico: Why the Differences are Critical”
10:00 a.m., Monday, Sept. 26, 2005
Cornell Auditorium in Matthews Hall
Admission: free
 
Doing Business in Mexico
11:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m., Monday, Sept. 26, 2005
Billingsly Student Center, Room 310
Admission: $10; call 417-625-9507 to register
 
“Marketing in Mexico: Why the Differences are Critical” (repeat)
9:30 a.m., Tuesday, Sept. 27, 2005
Cornell Auditorium in Matthews Hall
Admission: free
 
Mariachi Tulsa
10:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m., Friday, Sept. 30, 2005
Campus oval
Admission: $5; free to students and faculty
 
“¿(Un)Friendly Neighbors? U.S.-Mexican Relations in Historical Perspective: Understanding the Differences of Proximity”
11:00 a.m., Tuesday, Oct. 4, 2005
Justice Center Auditorium
Admission: free
 
“Hernan Cortes and the Aztec Conquest: The Making of Mexico”
2:30 p.m., Tuesday, Oct. 4, 2005
Webster Hall 223
Admission: free
 
Mexican Film Festival: All the Power (Todo el poder)
7:00 p.m., Wednesday, Oct. 5, 2005
Cornell Auditorium in Matthews Hall
Admission: free
 
“Mexico: Our Distant Neighbor”
9:00 a.m., Monday, Oct. 10, 2005
Webster Hall Auditorium
Admission: free
 
“Young and Living Large in Mexico City”
10:00 a.m., Monday, Oct. 10, 2005
Cornell Auditorium in Matthews Hall
Admission: free
 
“Trouble on Our Border: Mexico and the U.S. at the Turn of the 21st Century”
11:00 a.m,. Monday, Oct. 10, 2005
Webster Hall Auditorium
Admission: free
 
“Young and Living Large in Mexico City” (repeat)
9:30 a.m., Tuesday, Oct. 11, 2005
Cornell Auditorium in Matthews Hall
Admission: free
 
“Culture Shock: A Perspective on the Mexican/American Dream”
11:00 a.m., Tuesday, Oct. 11, 2005
Webster Hall Auditorium
Admission: free
 
Southern Theatre presents: Faena
7:30 p.m., Tues.-Sat., Oct. 11-15, 2005
Bud Walton Theatre
Admission: free to students, faculty, staff; $3 for adults; $1 for senior citizens and high school students
 
Celebración
7:00 p.m., Monday, Oct. 17, 2005
Taylor Performing Arts Center
Admission: free
 
Mexican Film Festival: The Crime of Father Amaro (El crimen del padre Amaro)
7:00 p.m., Wednesday, Oct. 19, 2005
Cornell Auditorium in Matthews Hall
Admission: free
 
El Grupo Folklorico Atotonilco
7:00 p.m., Thursday, Oct. 20, 2005
Taylor Performing Arts Center
Admission: free
 
“What Difference did the Mexican Revolution Make?: Official and Revisionist Interpretations”
9:00 a.m., Friday, Oct. 21, 2005
Webster Hall Auditorium,
Admission: free
 
“Marketing Mexican Popular Culture for the 21st Century: Tradition and Transnationalism”
11:00 a.m., Friday, Oct. 21, 2005
Webster Hall Auditorium,
Admission: free
 
Ballet Folklorico Tierra Mestiza
2:30 p.m., Sunday, Oct. 23, 2005
Taylor Performing Arts Center
Admission: free
 
Los Cenzontles
7:00 p.m., Tuesday, Nov. 1, 2005
Taylor Performing Arts Center
Admission: free
 
Mexican Film Festival: Herod's Law (La ley de Harodes)
7:00 p.m., Wednesday, Nov. 2, 2005
Cornell Auditorium in Matthews Hall
Admission: free
 
“Songs of Passion and Strife”
9:30 a.m., Tuesday, Nov. 8, 2005
Webster Hall Auditorium
Admission: free
 
“Poetry and Violence in the Ballads of Mexico’s Costa Chica”
1:00 p.m., Tuesday, Nov. 8, 2005
Cornell Auditorium in Matthews Hall
Admission: free
 
MSSU Percussion Ensemble
7:30 p.m., Thursday, Nov. 10, 2005
Taylor Performing Arts Center
Admission: free
 
Norahua Mexican Folkloric Dancers of Oklahoma
7:00 p.m., Friday, Nov. 11, 2005
Taylor Performing Arts Center
Admission: free
 
Mexican Film Festival: Sex, Shame and Tears (Sexo, pudor y lágrimas)
7:00 p.m., Wednesday, Nov. 16, 2005
Cornell Auditorium in Matthews Hall
Admission: free
 
The Influence of Mathematics on Mayan Culture
3:00 p.m., Thursday, Dec. 1, 2005
Reynolds Hall 232
Admission: free

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