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Pomona
College Symposium Focuses on Mexico’s Upcoming
Presidential Election With Leading Scholars and
Activists from Mexico
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Pomona College presents a two-day symposium on “The Mexican
Presidency 2006-2012: Neoliberalism, Social Movements and
Electoral Politics,” April 3-4, 2006, offering an
opportunity to engage the most pressing issues confronting
Mexico on the eve of presidential elections in July.
In a rare opportunity north of the border, attendees will
hear from leading Mexican scholars, intellectuals, novelists
and activists, who will analyze the country’s political
landscape and social movements. The presentations will be in
both English and Spanish with translation provided.
 April 3: “The Challenges Mexico Faces,” 4:15 p.m.
• Alejandro Alvarez Béjar, a professor of economics at
Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM), will look at
the disarray of the political party system and emerging
social forces in his talk “The 2006 Mexican Elections: the
Rise of Populism and the End of Neoliberalism?”
• Cultural anthropologist Olivia Ruiz, of the El Colegio de
la Frontera Norte, will give a talk on “Migration and
Borders: Present and Future.”
The panel will be held in the Pomona College Smith Campus
Center, Room 208 (170 E. Sixth St., Claremont).
April 4: “The Political Struggle,” 11 a.m. - 1 p.m.
• Mexican historian and writer Adolfo Gilly, UNAM, will
speak on “One Triangle, Two Campaigns.” His most recent book
in English is The Mexican Revolution (New York Press, 2005).
• Carlos Montemayor, renowned novelist and political
analyst, will follow with an examination of “Which PRI Wants
to Win the Elections?”
April 4: “Civil Society and Popular Resistance,” 4:15
p.m.
• Historian Rosalva Aída Hernández Castillo, a research
professor at Center for Research and Higher Studies in
Social Anthropology in Mexico City and author of Histories
and Stories from Chiapas: Border Identities from Southern
Mexico (2001), will examine “The Indigenous Movement in
Mexico: Between Electoral Politics and Local Resistance.”
• Activist and researcher Mercedes Olivera, Violencia
Femicida, Universidad de Ciencias y Artes de Chiapas, will
focus on “Violence against Women and Mexico’s Structural
Crisis.”
• Richard Roman, of the University of Toronto, and activist
Edur Velasco Arregui, Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana,
Azcapotzalco, will give an overview on “The State, Elites
and the Unions: The Recycling of Mexico’s System of Labor
Control.”
Both April 4 events will be held at the Pomona College Smith
Campus Center, Rose Hills Theater (170 E. Sixth St.,
Claremont – on the lower level).
The symposium is sponsored by Pomona College and the
Latin American Perspectives journal, whose March volume
focused on Mexico’s upcoming presidential election and
contained articles from these and other analysts. For more
information, call (909) 607-2348 or (909) 607-2920, or
e-mail
mexico2006@pomona.edu.
Pomona College, one of the nation’s premier liberal arts
colleges, provides its students with a challenging
curriculum in the humanities, natural sciences, social
sciences, and fine arts, and an unsurpassed environment for
intellectual inquiry and growth. Its hallmarks include small
classes, close relationships between students and faculty,
and a range of opportunities for student research. For more
information on Pomona Colleges, visit www.pomona.edu.
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