Creole's Topophilia: Francisco Javier Clavijero's Thick Places of History
Sponsored by: Passport to the World ¡Viva México!; College of Arts & Sciences; Department of Hispanic Studies; University of Kentucky Graduate School
Sponsored by: Passport to the World ¡Viva México!; College of Arts & Sciences; Department of Hispanic Studies; University of Kentucky Graduate School
Ricardo Macip from the Universidad Autónoma de Puebla will be giving a lecture about one of Oaxaca's most treasured creatures: the turtle.
El Profesor de la Universidad Autónoma de Puebla, Ricardo Macip, estará dando una charla sobre las tortugas y su importancia en Oaxaca, México.
This documentary is narrated by Gilberto Bosques and some of the protagonists of the Jewish and Spanish Republican refugees who arrived in Mexico between 1939 and 1942. After the defeat in the Civil War against Franco, Mexican president Lázaro Cárdenas sent Bosques to serve as Consul General in Paris. Once the war broke out, the consulate had to move to Marseilles, where Bosques dedicated his prodigious energies to rescuing as many people as possible by issuing them passports to Mexico. He was responsible for saving the lives of thousands of Jews and Spaniards persecuted by fascism. VISA AL PARAISO is a testimony to this unknown humanitarian mission that to this day remains a remarkable chapter of the history of Mexico.
Lillian Liberman
Lillian Liberman, the daughter of Russian emigrants, is an internationally renowned Mexican filmmaker. Chicoca, her film about child abuse was presented before the World Health Organization in Geneva and the Interamerican Society for the Prevention of Child Abuse, and won two Best Documentary prizes: the Uruguayan Film Festival and the Havana Film Festival. Her film Visa al paraíso [Visa to Paradise] features the strategic role Mexican diplomat Gilberto Bosques, as the Mexican Consul in France, played in saving the lives of many persecuted Jews and Spaniards during World War II. Liberman holds an undergraduate degree in French from the National University of Mexico (UNAM) and simultaneously took all the courses offered at the Sorbonne’s French Institute of Latin America in Mexico. She was a faculty member of French instruction at the Center for Foreign Language Instruction at UNAM. She obtained a degree in film Direction from the Center for University Studies on Cinematography at UNAM.
A day long symposium honoring one of Mexico's most treasured animals. Sponsored by the College of Arts & Sciences Biology Department and Hispanic Studies Department.
Morning Session
9:00 - 9:15 Symposium Introduction, Randal Voss, UK
9:15 – 10:00 Salamanders are forever, Panagiotis Tsonis, University Dayton
10:00 - 10:30 Waxolotls in literature, Vinnie Cassone, UK
10:30 – 10:45 Coffee Break
10:45 - 11:15 The skinny on axolotl regeneration, Ashley Seifert, UK
11:15 – 12:00 How axolotls regenerate their limbs, David Gardiner, UC-Irvine
Afternoon Session
1:00 - 1:30 Conquering the axolotl genome, Jeramiah Smith, UK
1:30 - 2:00 Axolotl on a chip, Alex Palumbo, UK
2:00 - 2:30 Of axolotls and tiger salamanders, David Weisrock, UK
2:30 – 3:00 Coffee and Discussion Break
3:00 – 4:00 Using the axolotl (Ambystoma mexicanum) as a flag species to restore the most important and managed wetlands in Mexico: Xochimilco, Luis Zambrano, Autonoma Universidad de Mexico
4:15 - 5:00 Ambystoma Genetic Stock Center Tour
Simposio de un día que rendirá honor a uno de los animales más especiales de Mexico. Patrocinado por los departametos de Biología y Estudios Hispanos del College of Arts & Sciences.
Sesión de la manána
9:00 - 9:15 Introducción al simposio por Randal Voss, UK
9:15 – 10:00 Las salamandras son para siempre, Panagiotis Tsonis, University Dayton
10:00 - 10:30 Waxolotls en literatura, Vinnie Cassone, UK
10:30 – 10:45 Receso
10:45 - 11:15 Regeneración ‘skinny’ del Axolotl, Ashley Seifert, UK
11:15 – 12:00 Cómo los axolotls regeneran sus cuerpos, David Gardiner, UC-Irvine
Sesión de la tarde
1:00 - 1:30 Conquistando el genoma de Axolotls, Jeramiah Smith, UK
1:30 - 2:00 Axolotl en un chip, Alex Palumbo, UK
2:00 - 2:30 De axolotls y salamandras tigre, David Weisrock, UK
2:30 – 3:00 Receso y Discusión
3:00 – 4:00 El axolotl (Ambystoma mexicanum) como medio para restaurar uno de los más importantes y manejables pantános
mexicanos: Xochimilco, Luis Zambrano, Autonoma Universidad de Mexico
4:15 - 5:00 Tour Genetic Stock Center Ambystoma
"Las Voces de los Apalaches" will be an evening to help celebrate the "Year of Mexico!" First will be a dramatic presentation in Worsham Theater, beginning at 7 p.m. To follow the dramatic presentation is the band Apalatin.