PhD in Classical Letters from the UNAM, Senior Researcher at the Center for Classical Studies of the IIFL-UNAM and professor at the Graduate School of Letters and the Faculty of Law of the UNAM. Her main research is the philological translation and interpretation of legal sources written in Latin, their translation and reception in Mexico. She has developed research on etymology and legal terminology along with other areas. She has collaborated with different entities of the UNAM, coordinating institutional projects related to the teaching of specialized vocabulary in the sciences and humanities. She has published and coordinated several books related to Latin. She was a founder in 2006 of the Classical Letters field in the Master's Degree in Teaching at UNAM (MADEMS) and coordinator of the curriculum of the Bachelor's Degree in Intercultural Literature inaugurated in 2012 for the Escuela Nacional de Estudios Superiores, Campus Morelia, of UNAM. She was Vice President of the Mexican Association of Classical Studies (AMEC) from 2006 to 2010, Coordinator of the Center for Classical Studies of the Institute of Philological Research (2006 to 2009) and Director of the same Institute (2009-2013), from this position she promoted the creation of a formal line of research on Asian philology at the IIFL and promoted the organization of the International Colloquium on Chinese and Mexican Studies with a strong humanistic component. She was the President of the Mexican Association of Classical Studies (2015-2019) and Director of the collection Bibliotheca Scriptorum Graecorum et Romanorum Mexicana co-published by the Coordination of Humanities and the Center for Classical Studies of the IIFL of the UNAM.
As a result of a shared effort between educational institutions in China and Mexico, the book China and Mexico: 45 Years of Diplomatic and Cultural Relations is presented, which consists of three main sections: Social Sciences, Humanities and Natural Sciences.
In the first section, the reader will find diplomatic, economic, social and legal topics, considered essential to deepen understanding between both countries. Subsequently, topics on the dominance of the Spanish and Chinese languages, their translation and literary studies; to this are added questions about art and society from a transcultural and trans-historical perspective. Finally, geological and environmental disciplines are addressed, due to the relevance that they have acquired today for the safeguarding the planet.
The reader will find in the pages of this volume a set of dialogues between specialists from various countries on specific topics about China and Mexico, through which the convening institutions seek knowledge and understanding between both nations inserted in a globalized world.
The work represents a renewed starting point for reflection and promotion of Sino-Mexican relations, which must be extended to the fields of the humanities and social sciences. The book has like immediate precedent the "I International Colloquium of Chinese and Mexican Studies: a permanent cultural dialogue", organized by UNAM and the University of Foreign Studies of Beijing in October 2014, in Mexico.
The text is divided into two main parts made up of experts from various disciplines, of both Mexican and Chinese nationalities, and even from third countries. The first section corresponds to sinology and the field of the humanities and arts in both cultures, while the second addresses issues of the social sciences. The first part is titled ''Sinology and Humanities in China and Mexico.
Historical review and perspectives''. Address issues of sinology and a set of humanistic subjects such as literature, literary translation, linguistic diversity in both nations, teaching of the Chinese and Spanish languages, philosophy, religion, and art. Meanwhile, the second, titled “Chinese society and Mexican society. Historical review and perspectives”, take various subjects of social disciplines such as diplomatic and economic relations between Mexico and China, various topics of sociology, history and comparative legal systems, and incorporates an interesting section about traditional medicine in both countries.
This publication achieves to combine historical and contemporary elements of China and Mexico, which are analyzed from new perspectives to present them to both societies, with the ultimate aim of benefiting their development by updating issues of common interest, which are the basis for build a permanent cultural dialogue. The convening universities thus seek to promote their internationalization process, both for present and future generations.
In the framework of the 400 years since Hasekura arrived in Mexico, the University Seminary of Asian Studies (SUEA), the Institute of Philological Research and the Faculty of Political and Social Sciences through their Center for International Relations, entities of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), undertook the labour of organizing the Japanese Culture Day to commemorate the anniversary of what has traditionally been considered the first Japanese embassy in Mexico: the Hasekura Mission.
This publication is the result of that academic day, this also has the purpose of recovering the memory of the cultural relations between Mexico and Japan. In this way, gives the reader the possibility to get close to know various aspects of Japanese culture in their own field and in their relationship with Mexico. The studies included have a variety of topics that are organized in four sections: 1. Japan as an object of study; 2. The Hasekura Mission: a historical reassessment; 3. The regional economic system and 4. Language and Literature.