Panel 1: Mexican Politics: Pressures from Below (10:00-11:45) – Founders Room, Bauer Center
Chair: Steve Wuhs, Interim Dean, Professor of Political Science, University of Redlands
Presenters:
Peter Ward – “Looking Back (in order) to Look Forwards: Forty Years of Shanties, Squatters and Citizens: An Aging Scholar’s Retrospection and Introspection”
Professor Emeritus of Public Affairs and Sociology, University of Texas at Austin

Miguel Basanez – “Two Critical Days of 1988 for Polling in Mexico: Rod Camp and the NYT”
Former Mexican Ambassador to the U.S.

Andrew Selee – “Mexico’s Changing Role on Migration: From Sending Country to Pass-Through, Destination, and Barrier”
President, Migration Policy Institute

Keynote Lunch Address (12:00-1:10pm) – Lunch served at noon, Talk begins at 12:30pm at the Athenaeum
Professor Roderic Ai Camp – "Conversations with Mexican Elites, the Life of an American Academic" 

Panel 2: Mexican Political Elites: Exploring Gender & Class (1:30-3:10pm) – Founders Room, Bauer Center
Chair: Joseph Klesner, Professor of Political Science, Kenyon College
Presenters:
William Beezley – “Embroidering Domestic and Humans Rights: Women’s Voices”
Professor of History, University of Arizona

Caroline Beer – “Gender and Political Recruitment in Mexico”  
John G. McCullough Professor of Political Science, Director of Latin American and Caribbean Studies University of Vermont

Victoria Rodriguez – “Latin America’s Women Presidents: Governance and Policymaking”   
C. B. Smith, Sr. Centennial Chair Emeritus in United States-Mexico Relations, University of Texas at Austin

Coffee Break – Founders Room Patio

Panel 3: Violence and Security in Mexico (3:30-5:10pm) – Founders Room, Bauer Center
Chair: David Pion Berlin
Distinguished Professor of Political Science, University of California, Riverside
Presenters:
Shannan Mattiace – “Yucatán as an Exception to Rising Criminal Violence in México”
Professor of Political Science & International Studies, Allegheny College

Sallie Hughes – “Journalism at Risk: How Mexican Journalists Cope and Carry On” 
Professor of Journalism, University of Miami

David Carey – “Gender-Based Violence through the Lens of Feminicide:  Violence, Gender, and Society in Mexico and Guatemala”
Doehler Professor of History, Loyola University Maryland