1st International Colloquium of Mexican and New Zealand Studies. Transpacific encounters between the past and the multipolar world. An Academic dialogue

March 16th (Mexico) || March 17th (New Zealand)

13:00 – 13:30 GMT-6 || 08:00 – 08:30 GMT+13

INAUGURATION

13:30 - 14:30 GMT-6 || 08:30 - 09:30 GMT+13

Keynote Presentation

• Agency, Identity and Emotion: Inside the Lifeworlds of Language Learners and Teachers. Cynthia White, College of Humanities and Social Sciences

Moderator: Alicia Girón, PUEAA-UNAM

14:30 – 15:30 GMT-6 || 09:30 – 10:30 GMT+13

Panel 1. Volcanoes/Disaster Management

• From eruption scenarios to probabilistic volcanic hazard analysis: The Auckland Volcanic Field, New Zealand. Mark Bebbington, Massey University

• Study of natural hazards in Mexico, Hugo Delgado, Institute of Geophysics-UNAM

Moderator: Héctor Zavala, UNAM-Boston

15:30 – 16:30 GMT-6 || 10:30 – 11:30 GMT+13

Panel 2. Covid 19’s Impact on migration

• Migration and mobility in the Age of COVID: Old and New Challenges. Paul Spoonley, Massey University

• Beneficiaries of humanitarian aid or subjects of human rights? Obstacles to access social security for migrants and refugees in Mexico within the context of COVID–19. Alethia Fernández, Institute of Legal Research-UNAM

Moderator: Ana Elena González, UNAM-UK

16:30 – 17:30 GMT-6 || 11:30 – 12:30 GMT+13

Panel 3. Extractive Industry

• Discordant Development: Mining and Development in the Pacific. Glenn Banks. School of People Environment and Planning

• Closure and abandonment of mining sites in Mexico, new perspectives on the mining issue. Letizia Silva, Environment Secretariat

Moderator: Alicia Girón, PUEAA-UNAM

March 17th (Mexico) || March 18th (New Zealand)

13:00 -14:00 GMT-6 || 08:00 – 09:00 GMT+13

Panel 4. Art and Music Approach to Cultural Issues

• Transpacific Encounters. Warren Maxwel, College of Creative Arts

• Musics of the Mexica people (Aztecs). Benjamín Juárez / Elias Morado, UNAM-Boston

Moderator: Leonel Alvarado, Massey University

14:00 – 15:00 GMT-6 || 09:00 – 10:00 GMT+13

Panel 5. Poetic Geographies

• Portable Aotearoa: A Kiwi Poet in Mexico and Central America. Leonel Alvarado, Massey University
  
• Migration in Mexican literature. A short story by Juan Rulfo. Alberto Vital / Lizbeth Campos, Foreign Students Learning Center-UNAM

Moderator: Celina Bortolotto, Massey University

15:00 – 16:00 GMT-6 || 10:00 – 11:00 GMT+13

Panel 6. Comparative Literature

• Forest and Deforestation in New Zealand's Colonial Literature. Philips Steer, Massey University
  
• Retrato parcial de la Literatura Mexicana del siglo XX. David García, Institute for Philological Research-UNAM
  

Moderator: Celina Bortolotto, Massey University

16:00 – 17:00 GMT-6 || 11:00 – 12:30 GMT+13

Panel 7. Women in Leadership

• Women's leadership in NZ: A Māori woman's perspective. Farah Palmer, Massey University

• Women in Leadership, Women in Congress: expectations about representation. Fernanda Vidal, Panamerican University
  

Moderator: Vania De la Vega Shiota, PUEAA-UNAM

17:00 – 18:00 GMT-6 || 12:00 – 13:00 GMT+13

Panel 8. Indigenous Cultures

• Indigenous philosophies and global justic. Krushil Watene, Massey University
  
• The Nahuatl Language - Mexican historical and cultural heritage. Salvador Reyes / Margita Petrovic, National Library of Mexico / Faculty of Social and Political Sciences -UNAM

Moderator: Leonel Alvarado, Massey University

18:00 – 19:15 GMT-6 || 13:00 – 14:15 GMT+13
CLOSING CEREMONY