News & Events
2006 Events
Thursday, February 2, 2006
Assessing the Mexican Vote Abroad [ PDF (15.70 KB) ]
Experts discussed the ramifications of the first-ever vote by Mexicans living abroad in the country’s presidential election.
Time: 12:15 - 2:00 pm
Location: IPJ Theatre & Rotunda
Tuesday, February 7, 2006
TBI Intramural Grant Information Session
USD faculty, staff and students learned about TBI grant opportunities to do research on projects affecting the cross-border region. Information provided at the TBI grant information session addressed the TBI grant application and approval process.
Time: 12:15 - 1:30 pm
Location: KIPJ 253
Monday, February 13, 2006
TBI Intramural Grant Information Session
USD faculty, staff and students learned about TBI grant opportunities to do research on projects affecting the cross-border region. Information provided at the TBI grant information session addressed the TBI grant application and approval process.
Time: 12:15 - 1:30 pm
Location: KIPJ 253
Thursday, March 2, 2006
TBI Intramural Grant Information Session
USD faculty, staff and students learned about TBI grant opportunities to do research on projects affecting the cross-border region. Information provided at the TBI grant information session addressed the TBI grant application and approval process.
Time: 12:15 - 1:30 pm
Location: KIPJ 253
Monday, March 6, 2006
Rule of Law Challenges along the U.S.-Mexico Border
The Justice in Mexico Project at the Trans-Border Institute of the University of San Diego held a seminar on comparative analysis of penal justice in Mexican states. The TBI hosted a recognized group of specialists that discussed the cases of three border states: Coahuila, where an important reform was implemented in 2000; Chihuahua where an ambitious reform proposal was recently submitted to the state Congress; and Baja California, where the discussion about reforming the penal system is still in a preliminary stage.
Time: 8:00 am - 12:30 pm
Location: KIPJ Theatre & Rotunda
Thursday, March 23, 2006
USD Reception for International Studies Association
A catered reception accompanied by the USD Symphony for ISA Convention participants.
Time: 7:00 - 9:00 pm
Location: KIPJ Rotunda
Co-Sponsored by:
• USD Trans-Border Institute
• Joan B. Kroc Institute for Peace & Justice
• Master's in International Relations
Tuesday, March 28, 2006
Sister Sally Furay Lecture
Sr. Furay and other founders of the Social Issues Committee reflected on the committee's work on the occasion of its 20th anniversary. Carmen Cuenca, curator for InSITE, a binational arts program, spoke on "Art Beyond Borders". A dinner followed with a presentation by Dr. Mary Lyons on envisioning USD's future work in the arena of social justice.
Time: 5:30 - 9:00 pm
Location: KIPJ Theatre & Rotunda
Co-Sponsored by:
Community Service Learning
Tuesday, March 28 - Friday, March 31, 2006
Primer Encuentro Transfronterizo de Escritores de las Tres Californias
El Primer Encuentro Transfronterizo de Escritores surge como una primera respuesta a la necesidad de establecer los primeros contactos entre la zona geo-cultural de las tres californias y un estado mexicano.
March 28, 2006
Casa de la Cultura, Tijuana
7:00 pm
March 29, 2006
Biblioteca Benito Júarez, IMAC
9:30 am
March 30, 2006
Biblioteca Malcom A. Love, San Diego State University
10:00 am
March 31, 2006
French Parlor, University of San Diego
10:00 am
Friday, March 31, 2006
Losing Our Competitive Edge? The Impact of Immigration Policy on U.S. Science and Technology
A panel of local and national experts in business, education and immigration examined the role of immigration laws in maintaining the U.S. competitive edge in science and technology. The discussion included the special issues facing the business community and educational institutions in California.
Time: 7:30 - 9:00 am
Location: Salomon Hall, University of San Diego
Co-Sponsored by:
• USD Trans-Border Institute
• USD School of Law
• San Diego Regional Chamber of Commerce
• San Diego World Trade Center
• American Immigration Lawyers Association, San Diego Chapter
• Immigration Policy Center, American Immigration Law Foundation
Monday, April 3 - Friday, April 7, 2006
Alambrista: Conversations on the Border's Edge
This is a semester-long interdisciplinary, inter-campus teaching project to examine the music, words, and images from the text and film Alambrista and the U.S.-Mexico Border addressing issues of undocumented immigrants in the United States.
The project will culminate with a musical performance/lecture by Dr. Jose Cuellar from San Francisco State University and a keynote presentation by Dr. Davíd Carrasco from Harvard University at USD's Shiley Theater on April 7, 2006, 6:30pm-9pm.
Co-Sponsors: Mesa College, San Diego City College, & San Diego State University
Tuesday, April 25, 2006
Bills, Borders & Bullies?
A meaningful dialogue on current immigration legislation and sentiments.
Time: 7:00 pm
Location: UC Forum A
Co-sponsored by:
Intervarsity
CASA
Romero Center
Wednesday, May 3, 2006
The Mexican Left and the 2006 Elections
Dr. Agustín Basave
Former Mexican Congressman
Time: 12:15 - 1:30 pm
Location: KIPJ Room 253 (Map Room)
Friday, May 5, 2006
Triple Border Fence Initiative
The University of San Diego Tran’s Border Institute (TBI) cordially invites you to join us for a forum discussion of US immigration enforcement policy, entitled the “Triple Border Fence Initiative.” The triple border fence project was approved by Congress in 1996 and litigation interrupted the completion of the fence for almost 10 years. Last December, a federal judge waived legal challenges filed by the Sierra Club and other environmental groups approving the completion of the final 3.5 miles of fencing through biologically significant and sensitive habitat along the U.S.-Mexico border.
Time: 1:00 - 3:30 pm
Location: KIPJ Theatre & Rotunda
Tuesday, June 20, 2006
Mexico's Presidential Election Conference
Join us at the ITESO, in Guadalajara, Mexico for a forum discussion, including two panels, addressing the 2006 Mexican elections. This is the first election in Mexico since the victor of the 2000 elections, current President Vincente Fox, of the National Action Party (PAN), unseated 71 years of single party rule, by the Institutionalized Revolutionary Party (PRI). Party of the Democratic Revolution (PRD) candidate Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador has enjoyed at least a ten point lead in the polls for over eight months. However, 37% of voters are still undecided (Reforma, 3/27/06). Join us to learn more about the Mexico’s democratic transition, and democratic consolidation.
Time: 9:00 am - 1:10 pm
Location: Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Occidente (ITESO), Auditorium A
Guadalajara, Jalisco
MEXICO
Thursday, August 10, 2006
Mexico's Health System: The Federal Perspective
Time: 10:00 - 11:30 AM
Location: Joan B. Kroc Institute for Peace & Justice
University of San Diego
Enrique Ríos, M.D. Dr.P.H.
National Director
Migrant Health Program
Mexico Ministry of Health
Dr. Ríos provided a federal perspective on Mexico’s health system, including the Migrant Health Program, and discussed upcoming collaborative activities with public health professionals in California.
September 21 - 22, 2006
Conference on Reforming the Administration of Justice in Mexico
TBI Distinguished Lecture Series on Legal Ethics and Professionalism in Comparative Perspective: Mexico
Organized by: Trans-Border Institute
Location:
Casa de California
Carmen 1, Col. Chimalistac
Mexico City, Mexico
September 28, 2006
La Fiesta Torera Reception
Organized by: Trans-Border Institute
Time: 4:30 - 7:30 PM
Location:
Joan B. Kroc Institute for Peace & Justice, Garden of the Sea
University of San Diego
All faculty, staff, and students interested in Mexico, US-Mexican border relations, and latino/a issues were invited to learn more about the programs of the Ethnic Studies Department, the Guadalajara Summer Program, and the Trans-Border Institute. This was also an opportunity to meet others interested in the same topics.
October 5 - 7, 2006
Trans-Border Migration and Development:
Promoting Economic Opportunities in Mexico and the Border Region
Organized by: Trans-Border Institute
On October 5 - 7, 2006, the Trans-Border Institute hosted a major conference in San Diego to focus on the economic development challenges facing Mexico and the border region. Distinguished experts from the United States and Mexico participated in a policy-focused discussion on migration and development challenges in Mexico and the U.S.-Mexican border region. The purpose of this conference was to analyze the “push” factors associated with large-scale outbound migration from Mexico, and its implications.
November 1, 2006
Reception and Artist Lecture:
Estamos Buscando A - We're Looking For
a photographic installation of the migrant experience along the U.S.-Mexico border.
Paul Turounet
Organized by:
Trans-Border Institute
Department of Art
University Design
Time: 5:30 - 7:30 PM
Location: Joan B. Kroc Institute for Peace & Justice, Theatre
University of San Diego
Gallery Hours: Tuesday - Saturday, 12:00 to 4:30 pm
October 16 through December 15, 2006
November 16, 2006
"The Invisible Mexicans of Deer Canyon"
by John Carlos Frey
Co-Sponsored by:
Joan B. Kroc Institute for Peace & Justice
Social Issues Committee
Trans-Border Institute
Time: 7:00 - 8:30 PM
Location: Joan B. Kroc Institute for Peace & Justice, Theatre
University of San Diego
"The Invisible Mexicans of Deer Canyon" A film by John Carlos Frey, USD alum, who shared his experience after the viewing of his new film.
www.invisiblemexicans.com
Award winning filmmaker John Carlos Frey exposes the harsh realities of life for thousands of day laborers in Southern California.
Mr. Frey spent a year filming the lives of undocumented Mexican immigrants living in clandestine shacks and shantytowns within eyesight of multi-million dollar mansions. Over two thousand individuals live outdoors in the secluded canyons of San Diego, CA- invisible to the local population. Their shacks have no electricity, running water or sanitation. The migrants live within several yards of some of the most expensive real estate in America and work in the local landscape, construction, agriculture and tourism industires.
"The Invisible Mexicans of Deer Canyon" is a never before seen expose of migrant life and the untold side of the immigration debate.
November 29, 2006
"Milagros: Made in Mexico"
Flyer [ PDF (28.13 KB) ]
Film Screening followed by discussion/Q&A with women filmmakers:
Tica Maria Lema and Piper Kessler
Co-Sponsored by:
Center for Community Service Learning
Ethnic Studies Department
Trans-Border Institute
Time: 6:00 - 8:00 PM
Location: University Center 107
University of San Diego
Milagros, Spanish for “miracles,” are small
gold or silver votive offerings to favorite saints in
times of need or as thanks for prayers answered.
Milagros: made in Mexico, looks through the eyes
of women left behind in their rural villages when
their loved ones are driven to migrate to el norte
out of economic necessity. In the face of rapid
social change we follow the stories of homemakers
who have formed new business cooperatives by
using their centuries-old traditions of weaving,
making cajeta, and embroidering. The film
provides an in-depth look at micro-credit and
microeconomic enterprises throughout the Bajio
region of Guanajuato. The women portrayed in
the film work hard to maintain close-knit family
ties while balancing their new role as heads of
household. We experience their struggles to keep
themselves out of poverty and ultimately, with the
help of a Miracle, try to find a way to bring their
loved ones back home.
December 5, 2006
TBI Intramural Grant Information Session
Organized by: Trans-Border Institute
Time: 12:15 - 1:30 PM
Location: Joan B. Kroc Institute for Peace & Justice, Room 253
University of San Diego
USD faculty, staff and students learned about TBI grant opportunities to do research on projects affecting the cross-border region. Information provided at the TBI grant information session will address the TBI grant application and approval process.
December 5, 2006
"Communal Mourning"
Organized by: Theatre Arts Program
Time: 4:00 - 5:00 PM
Location: Camino Hall 131
University of San Diego
Reading of a first draft of a new play “Communal Mourning,” on December 5th at 4:00 p.m., in Camino Hall 130. This work-in-progress used live music and explored issues of death on the border within the context of Día de los Muertos (Day of the Dead). Audience members were invited to stay afterwards and join in conversation about the work.
December 8, 2006
Walking the Line
Sponsored by:
Trans-Border Institute
The American Council of Young Political Leaders
Time: 4:00 - 6:00 PM
Location: Joan B. Kroc Institute for Peace & Justice
University of San Diego
Discussing border issues from the American perspective:
- The Honorable Denise Moreno Ducheny, State Senator, California
- The Honorable Justine Fox-Young, State Representative, New Mexico
- The Honorable Russell K. Pearce, State Representative, Arizona
- David Valladolid, President & CEO, PIQE
