Graduate Student Symposium on Mexico

LARC Graduate Students will be presenting current research on topics related to Mexico. Wednesday Feb. 26, 2014, 12:15pm in the Gallery Hall, Taylor Family Digital Library. This event is free and open to the public. More info: larc.ucalgary.ca. Moderator: Dr. Amelia Kiddle, Dept. of History, University of Calgary. Justin Bumstead, Dept. of Geography. Supervisor: Dr. Denise Brown. Politics and the La Inseguridad – Assessing the relationship between Escalating Drug Violence and Party Support in the 2012 Mexican Presidential Election. Ximena Gonzalez de Aguinaga, Faculty of Environmental Design. Supervisor: Dr. Denise Brown. Socio-spatial Implications of a Contradictory Discourse of Development in Mexico. Cara Tremain, Dept. of Archaeology. Supervisor: Dr. Geoff McCafferty. Ancient Maya Dress and Identity. Fernando Enrique Villegas Rivera, Social Sciences, Autonomous University of Sinaloa, Mexico, and LARC Visiting Researcher in Residence. Socio-economic Impact of the 3×1 Program for Migrants and the Collective Remittances in Sinaloa, Mexico.

Location:

Gallery Hall – Taylor Family Digital Library

Speaker:

Justin Bumstead, Dept. of Geography. Ximena Gonzalez de Aguinaga, Faculty of Environmental Design. Cara Tremain, Dept. of Archaeology. Fernando Enrique Villegas Rivera, Social Sciences, Autonomous University of Sinaloa, Mexico, and LARC Visiting Researcher in Residence.

More information at http://www.ucalgary.ca/events/calendar/graduate-student-symposium-mexico