Fall Quarter 2007 Events
 Globalization and its Impact on Migration in Agricultural Communities in Mexico
Dr. Jóse Martínez
Wednesday, November 14th
ERC Administration Building
Joint Seminar with the Center for Comparative Immigration Studies
 "Mexico: Why a Few are Rich and the People Poor"
Dr. Ramón Ruiz
Emeritus Professor UC San Diego
Tuesday, October 30th. 3:30pm
IOA Complex, Deutz Room
Joint seminar
Latin American History Group
 The Violence in Mexico's Development
in the 19th Century: A View from Below
Romana Falcón, Historian
Thursday, October 18th, 3:30 p.m.
Galbraith Room, 4025 Muir HSS building
Joint seminar
Latin American History Group
 Differences in Productivity or Discrimination?
Martiza Caicedo Riasocos, Demographer
Tuesday, October 16th 3:30pm
ERC Administration Building, Room 115
 Combating Obesity and Diabetes
in Mexico and the U.S.
Agustín Lara Esqueda
Silvia Rosiles
Wednesday, October 17th, 3:00 p.m.
IOA Complex, Deutz Conference Room
BOOK PRESENTATION:
MIRACULOUS AIR, JOURNEY OF A THOUSAND MILES THROUGH BAJA CALIFORNIA
 C.M. Mayo- Author, Publisher has been living in and writing about Mexico for many years. She is the author of Miraculous Air: Journey of a Thousand Miles through Baja California, the Other Mexico; Sky Over El Nido, and editor of a widely-lauded anthology of Mexican fiction and literary prose in translation, Mexico: A Traveler’s Literary Companion. Mayo’s many awards include the Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction; three Lowell Thomas Awards, and three Washington Writing Prizes. A well-known literary translator specializing in contemporary Mexican fiction and poetry, Mayo is also founding editor of Tameme, one of the most prestigious publishers of Spanish/ English literary translation. Her website is www.cmmayo.com
Thursday, October 4th
San Diego Museum of Man
Balboa Park
 Book Presentation: NORTH AMERICA
LABOR MARKET INTEGRATION
Clemente Ruiz Durán, Economist, UNAM
CANCELLED DUE TO CURRENT FIRE
SITUATION IN CALIFORNIA
Joint seminar with El Colegio de la Frontera
Norte
Spring Quarter 2007 Events
Conference on Finance and Economic Growth:
Banking and Infrastructure in Mexico
****EVENT WILL BE WEBCAST LIVE - CLICK HERE FOR LINK****
Friday, June 1, 2007
Weaver Conference Center
Thirty Years of Research and Policy Analysis
on U.S.-Mexican Migration
 
This conference addressed the past, present, and future of research and policy analysis in US-Mexican migration. The event will be held in honor of Jorge Bustamante and Wayne Cornelius, whose achievements include founding institutions of higher-learning in Mexico and the United States, concentrating attention on the plight of Mexican migrants and advancing the study of international migration.
Thursday, April 26
3:30-5:00pm
DISTINGUISHED SPEAKERS
35 YEARS OF MEXICO-CHINA DIPLOMATIC RELATIONS:
COMPETITORS OR PARTNERS?
 Ambassador Ismael Sergio Ley-López graduated from the National School of Architecture at the National Autonomous University of Mexico in 1962. He did postgraduate studies in art history at the University of Paris and received a masters in restoration of historical buildings from the Institute of Archaeology at the University of London.
Ley joined the Mexican foreign service in 1984, and was a cultural attaché at the Mexican embassy in Beijing, China from 1984 to 1990. From 1990 to 1993, he was the deputy-chief of mission at the Mexican embassy in Singapore. He moved to Shanghai to open the Mexican consulate there, and he was the consul general until 1994. From 1995 to 1997 he was the director general for the Pacific and Asia for the Mexican ministry of foreign affairs. He was the ambassador to Indonesia from 1997 to 2001, and the ambassador to China from 2001 until 2006.
Wednesday, May 24th
Weaver Conference Center
Institute of the Americas Complex
Sponsored by The Center on Pacific Economies, the Institute of the Americas and the Center for US-Mexican Studies
MEXICO AND ASIA:
PUBLIC OPINION AND FOREIGN POLICY
 Ms. Guadalupe González, Professor of International Relations at CIDE, Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económica, A.C. will speak on the role of public opinion in Latin America in shaping Latin-Asian relations in the 21rst Century. Ms. González specializes in Comparative International Relations of Latin America, Security Studies, and Public Opinion and Foreign Policy.
 Mr. Sergio Ley, former Mexican Ambassador to China and Pacific Leadership Fellow, will offer commentary on this critical topic. Mr. Ley has served as Director General for The Pacific and Asia for the Mexican Ministry of Foreign Affairs. He was ambassador to Indonesia from 1997 to 2001 and ambassador to China from 2001 until 2006.
Tuesday, May 29th
Weaver Conference Center
Institute of the Americas Complex
Sponsored by The Center on Pacific Economies, the Mexican Consulate General of San Diego and the Center for US-Mexican Studies
Research Seminar
SELECTIVE OVERSIGHT, TRUNCATED ACCOUNTABILITY:
LEGISLATIVE CONTROL OF THE BUREAUCRACY IN MEXICO
Alejandra Rios-Cazares is a PhD Candidate in Political Science at UCSD and a Visiting Fellow at the Center for US Mexican Studies. She earned her BA in Political Science and International Relations from the Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas (CIDE) in 2000 and her MA in Political Science from UCSD in 2004. She served as coordinator of the national research project on accountability and rule of law titles Justice in Mexico in 2005-2006. Alejandra Ríos-Cazares will discuss the determinants of legislative oversight of bureaucratic agencies in developing presidential democracies; specifically, factors that affect legislators’ involvement in making bureaucratic agencies accountable. She analyzes the effect of electoral competition on legislators’ incentives to control bureaucratic agencies and presents empirical evidence for a comparative analysis of Mexican states.
Wednesday, June 6
Deutz Conference Room
Institute of the Americas Complex
Reception to Follow
FROM THE TEXAS PROVISO TO THE HOFFMAN PLASTICS:
EMPLOYER POWER AND THE SUBVERSION OF
WORKPLACE IMMIGRANT ENFORCEMENT
 Peter Brownell earned a B.A. in Interdisciplinary Studies and Immigration and an M.A. in Demography from the University of California at Berkeley. Mr. Brownell is currently completing research as a Visiting Fellow at the Center for U.S. Mexican Studies at UCSD and expects to receive his Ph.D. in Sociology from UC Berkeley in 2007. He will present a detailed examination of the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986, exploring employer sanction provisions and their transformation from policies directed against employers hiring unauthorized immigrants into practices and precedents that deny those workers remedies for discriminatory or retaliatory firing. Brownell argues that sanctions have become another of many policies that strip immigrants’ rights and create perverse incentives for employers to hire unauthorized immigrants.
Wednesday, May 30th
Deutz Conference Room
Institute of the Americas Complex
REGIONAL ECONOMIC RESTRUCTURING AND
URBAN-URBAN MIGRATION FLOWS IN MEXICO
 Dr. Enrique Pérez Campuzano received his masters degree in Planning Studies at the Universidad Autóma Metropolitana and his PhD in Geography at UNAM. He is currently working as a researcher at the Centro Interdisciplinario en Investigaciones sobre Medio Ambiente y Desarrollo at the National Polytechnic Institute (IPN). His major research interests include regional and urban restructuring in Mexico, environmental impacts of urban growth and sprawl, urban planning, and urban-urban migration. His current seminar presents results of an ongoing project to explain how urban to urban movements have displaced rural-urban translocations as the primary migration phenomenon affecting Mexico's demography today. Using multilevel regression analysis, Dr. Campuzano reveals the importance of individual and contextual factors in determining the volume and direction of inter-urban migration.
Wednesday, May 23rd
Deutz Conference Room
Institute of the Americas Complex
MEXICANS ON THE MOVE: DEVELOPMENT, POLICIES AND SELECTIVITY OF MIGRATION
 Dr. Rene Zenteno recieved a M.A. in Demography at El Colegio de Mexico and a Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of Texas at Austin in 1995. In addition to giving classes at the School of International Relations and Pacific Studies, Dr. Zenteno serves as Executive Director of the Center for U.S. Mexican Studies. His current research examines how contemporary upsurges in Mexican migration occur within a context of growing labor and capital markets disparities between Mexico and the United States and escalating regional polarization of economic and social opportunities in Mexico. His seminar offers a panoramic view of Mexican migration and its connection with inequality and politics, seeking to examine how inequality affects decisions to migrate, rates of migration and characteristics of migrants.
Wednesday, May 16th
Deutz Conference Room
Institute of the Americas Complex
AUTHORITY, IDEOLOGY AND TEOTIHUACAN STATE EXPANSION IN CENTRAL MEXICO,
ca. 400 B.C. - 600 A.D.
 Dr. David Carballo earned his BA in political science from Colgate University in 1995, and his MA (2001) and PhD (2005) in anthropology from UCLA. He was a Lecturer in the University of Oklahoma’s Department of Anthropology in 2005-2006, and is a Research Associate at the Cotsen Institute of Archaeology at UCLA. Dr. Carballo synthesizes several of his recent research projects in central Mexico to detail how political authority was constituted at Teotihuacan, the early state capital and UNESCO World Heritage Site. He combines perspectives derived from new excavations at Teotihuacan with excavations and GIS analyses from neighboring northern Tlaxcala, and provides an updated assessment of Teotihuacano state formation and political expansion.
Wednesday, May 9th
Deutz Conference Room
Institute of the Americas Complex
EXPLAINING GLOBALIZATION: MEXICO'S PATHWAY TO NAFTA IN COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVE
 Dr. Malcolm Fairbrother received his PhD in sociology at Berkeley in December of 2006, having developed his dissertation through fieldwork at the Centre on North American Politics and Society at Carleton University, the Centro de Investigaciones sobre América del Norte, and the Center for Latin American Studies at Georgetown. Dr. Fairbrother's work tests current theories on the causes of globalization to develop a finer understanding of dynamic increases in cross-border flows and trade and investment in the late 20th and early 21rst Century. His research seminar will explore what social scientists currently know about the causes of economic globalization, examining the case of Mexico and the North American Free Trade Agreement.
Wednesday, May 2nd
Deutz Conference Room
Institute of the Americas Complex
UN/SEQUINED CORPOREALITIES AND THE POLITICS OF LATINIDAD IN SALSA CLUBS
 Dr. Cindy García explores how the politics of Mexican immigration affect configurations of Latina-ness in Los Angeles salsa clubs. Through choreographic analyses of salsa practices, she theorizes nightclub hierarchies of gender, race, class, and nation among Latinas/os. Dr. García recieved her Ph.D. in Culture and Performance from UCLA and has taught courses on Politics of Salsa and Urban Anthropology. Her current project, Salsa Across Borders: Dancing Mexican-ness, Latinidad, and American-ness in México, D.F., embarks on an ethnographic analysis of social performances to focus on how local salsa economies are inextricably linked to translocal international exchanges in both the U.S. and Mexico.
Wednesday, April 11
Deutz Conference Room
Institute of the Americas Complex
THE INEQUALITY TRAP AND ITS LINKS TO LOW GROWTH IN MEXICO
 Dr. Luis Felipe López-Calva recieved his Ph.D. in Economics at Cornell University in 1999 and attended Harvard University for one year as an Ivy League Exchange Scholar. He has worked as a consultant for the World Bank, the Inter-American Development Bank and as the advisor to the Vice Minister of Budget Planning, Ministry of Finance in Mexico. Since September 2006, López-Calva has been at Stanford University’s Center for International Development, as a visiting scholar. He currently teaches Latin America Economics at the Graduate School of International Relations and Pacific Studies (IR/PS).
Wednesday, April 4
Deutz Conference Room
Institute of the Americas Complex
Click Here for PDF of Dr. López-Calva's Paper
Winter Quarter 2007 Past Events
DISTINGUISHED SPEAKER SERIES
ORGANIZATIONAL MODELS IN MEXICAN PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION: 1921-2006
 Dr. Alejandro Carrillo Castro, one of Mexico's foremost experts on Public Administration, speaks on Organizational Models of Public Administration from 1921 to the present day. . Dr. Carrillo received a B.A. in Law in 1965 and a Ph.D. in Public Administration at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México in 1981. He served as General Coordinator of Administrative Studies for President López Portillo from 1977-1982 and Director General of the Instituto de Seguridad y Servicios Sociales from 1982-1988. As a diplomat, Dr. Carrillo has served as Consul General of Mexico in Chicago and Ambassador of Mexico to the Organization of American States. He is currently the President of the Instituto Nacional de Administración Pública.
Thursday, March 8th
Weaver Center
Institute of the Americas Complex
SEMINAR SPEAKERS
A Preliminary Analysis of Political Messages from Mexico's 2006 Elections
 Dr. Scott Desposato joined the faculty at the University of California San Diego in the Fall of 2005. His general research interests include democratic institutions, campaigning, mass behavior, and political methodology. Specific projects have examined redistricting in the United States, electoral rules and federalism in Brazil, party-switching by politicians, and statistical methods for studying legislatures. Published research has appeared in The American Journal of Political Science, The Journal of Politics, Comparative Political Studies, and Political Analysis. His latest project, for which he has received a National Science Foundation award, examines the determinants and impacts of negative campaigning across different institutional settings.
Is Local Beautiful?
Federalism and Decentralization
In Mexico
 Dr. Fausto Hernández recieved his PhD degree in economics from Ohio State University. He has been Director of Budget in Mexico, and a member of the Research Department at the Mexican Stock Exchange. He has authored three books and numerous articles in academic journals. His research interests include fiscal issues, financial markets, and political development in Mexico. Dr. Hernández has also been a consultant for the Mexican and Guatemalan governments and several international organizations such as the IMF, the World Bank, and the IADB. He currently serves as Director of the prestigious academic journal El Trimestre Económico.
Informality, Segmentation and
Earnings in Urban Mexico
 Dr. Robert Duval Hernandez earned his Ph.D. degree in Economics from Cornell University in 2006. He currently teaches undergraduate courses in “Economics of Immigration” and “Economics of Mexico” for the Department of Economics at UCSD, while developing his research as a Visiting Fellow at the Center for U.S. Mexican Studies.
His research areas are Labor Economics, Economic Development and
Economics of Immigration. He will present a paper studying informality in Mexican labor markets and the implications of segmentation on earnings mobility.
Optimizing HIV/AIDS Prevention Programs:
Towards Multidimensional Allocative Efficiency
 Sergio Bautista, Economist at the National Institute of Public Health in Mexico, received his BA in Economics at the Metropolitan Autonomous University in Mexico City and his MA in Health Economics at CIDE. Since 2001, he has collaborated with the National Institute of Public Health to focus research on the economy and efficiency of interventions in HIV/AIDS. Mr. Bautista received financing from the Inter-American Development Bank to complete a thesis work on the topic and, in 2004, completed a published study evaluating the impact
of the Opportunidades program on the use of primary medical services in Mexico.
Mr. Bautista currently leads a study of externalities and spill-over effects on the health of the Opportunidades program and, in collaboration with a group of investigators in Harvard, a Markov cost analysis model evaluating the effectiveness of preventative interventions for HIV/AIDS in Mexico. He currently teaches graduate courses at the National Institute of Public Health.
Co-sponsored with the Division of International Health and Cross Cultural Medicine, UCSD.
Health of Hispanics in the United States
What We Can Learn from Looking at Mexico and the U.S. Combined
 Dr. Rebeca Wong received a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Michigan in 1987. She currently serves as Associate Director of the Maryland Population Research Center and Senior Research Scientist in the Department of Sociology at the University of Maryland. Dr. Wong's research agenda focuses on the economic consequences of population aging, in particular in Mexico and among immigrant Hispanics in the U.S.
Over the last 15 years, Dr. Wong has served as co-Principal Investigator in the Mexican Health and Aging Study, financed by the National Institute on Aging of the National Institutes of Health. The study aimed to locate research on Mexico's unique health dynamics in a broad socioeconomic context, and it included a national longitudinal survey of multiple purposes among population of middle and old age.
Details of the study can be found at the project website http://www.mhas.pop.upenn.edu.
Fall 2006 Events
Complete Calendar of Events
Distinguished Speaker Series
Spring 2006 Events
April 5, 3:30-5:00 pm, Deutz Room
The Japan-Mexico Free Trade Agreement: A Cross-Regional Rung on the Asian Regionalism Ladder
Mireya Solís, Guest Scholar; Assistant Professor of International Affairs, School of International Service, American University
April 5, 5:00 pm, Center for U.S.-Mexican Studies
Reception for “Evolution” exhibit by artist Lourdes León
April 19, 3:30-5:00 pm, Deutz Room
The Dynamics of Labor Market Earnings in Urban Mexico, 1987-2002
Robert Duval Hernández
Visiting Fellow; Ph.D. in Economics, Cornell University.
May 3, 3:30-5:00 pm, Deutz Room
Book Presentation: Equity and Sustainable Development: Reflections from the U.S.-Mexico Border
Jane Clough-Riquelme & Nora Bringas Rábago, editors
May 10 , 3:30-5:00 pm, Deutz Room
Does Trade Liberalization Help Women? The Case of Mexico in the 1990s
Ernesto Aguayo
Visiting Fellow; Ph.D. in Economics, Rice University
May 19, 9:30 am-3:30 pm, venue to be announced
Old Tequila in a New Glass? The Role of Interest Groups After Corporatism; Implications for the 2006 elections
Horacio Mackinlay, UAM-Ixtapalapa
Matilde Luna Ledesma, UNAM
James G. Samstad, University of South Carolina
Kathleen Bruhn, University of California, Santa Barbara
Víctor Alejandro Espinoza Valle, El Colegio de la Frontera Norte
Joy Langston Hawkes, Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas
May 24, 3:30-5:00 pm, Deutz Room
El mercado interior de Nueva España, siglo XVIII
(Talk will be in Spanish)
Jorge Silva Riquer
Visiting Fellow; Professor and Researcher in History, Tecnológico de Monterrey
May 31, 3:30-5:00 pm, Deutz Room
Co-sponsored by the Center for Comparative Immigration Studies, UCSD
Economic Restructuring, New Migrant-Sending Communities, and Young Rural Lives in Puebla
Josefa (Fina) Carpena-Mendez
Visiting Fellow; Ph.D. candidate in Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley
June 6, 3:00-5:00 pm, Room 115, Eleanor Roosevelt College Administration Building
Co-sponsored by the Center for Comparative Immigration Studies, UCSD
Rising Tensions between National and Local Immigration Policy: Matriculas Consulares, Driver's Licenses and the Undocumented
Monica Varsanyi
Visiting Fellow; Ph.D. in Geography, University of California, Los Angeles
Winter 2006 Events
January 11, 3:30-5:00 pm, Deutz Room
Institutional Models of Judicial Independence in Mexico and Latin America
Julio Antonio Ríos-Figueroa
PhD in Political Science, New York University
January 18, 5:30-7:00 pm, Deutz Room
Budgets and Executive Vetoes
Juan Molinar Horcasitas
Federal Deputy, National Action Party (PAN)
January 25, 3:30-5:00 pm, Deutz Room
Economic Crisis and the Incorporation of New Migrant Sending Areas in Mexico: The Case of Puebla
(This seminar is co-sponsored by the Center for Comparative Immigration Studies.)
Alison Lee
Visiting Fellow; PhD Candidate, University of California-Riverside
February 1, 3:30-5:00 pm, Deutz Room
From ¡Ya Basta! to Caracoles: Zapatista Mobilization Under Adverse Conditions
María Inclán
Visiting Fellow; PhD in Political Science, Pennsylvania State University
February 8, 3:30-5:00 pm, Deutz Room
Mexico's Hydrocarbon Policy Decisions
Raúl Muñoz, Former Director General of Petroleos Mexicanos (PEMEX) and Pedro Luis Fernández, Chairman of the Board of Mexico's National Chemical Industry Association (ANIQ)
February 15, 3:30-5:00 pm, Deutz Room
La Disputa por la Tenencia de Tierra en la Selva Lacandona
(Talk will be in Spanish)
Martha Cecilia Díaz Gordillo
Special Representative for the Secretariat of Agrarian Reform, Chiapas
February 22, 3:30-5:00 pm, Deutz Room
Financiamiento Partidista y Normatividad Electoral
(Talk will be in Spanish)
José Antonio Crespo
Guest Scholar; Professor of Political Studies, Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas (CIDE)
March 8, 3:30-5:00 pm, Deutz Room
Constitutional Powers and Cabinet Coalition Formation in Latin American Presidential Systems
María Paola Martorelli
Visiting Fellow; PhD in Political Science, University of Essex
News
New books published by the Center
Equity and Sustainable Development:
Reflections from the U.S.-Mexico Border
Decentralizing Health Services in Mexico:
A Case Study in State Reform
UCSD Launches Innovative Partnership with Mexico
Marye Anne Fox, chancellor of the University of California, San Diego, unveiled initiatives to improve the quality of life for citizens of the United States and Mexico...
UCSD News Release on Partnership with Mexico.
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