Cosponsored with the Consulado de Carrera de México en Salt Lake City, Utah Governor’s Office of Economic Development, World Trade Center Utah, UVU International Student Council, UVU School of the Arts, Artes de Mexico en Utah, Art Works - arts.gov, Utah Division of Arts & Museums, Utah Humanities Council, and El Semanal
University Marketing & Communications: Whitney Wilkinson
Written by: Megan Laurie
The Utah Valley University Center for Global & Intercultural Engagement announces the fourth annual Global Spotlight, this time highlighting Mexico. The yearlong event will begin with an Inaugural Celebration Sept. 4, 2013 at 7 p.m. in the UVU Grande Ballroom.
This inaugural event will showcase the activities planned throughout the academic year as well as display the first of six art exhibits dedicated to the country of Mexico. In addition, UVU students will play Mexican rhythms and present traditional dances. Speakers will include Harvey Scott, director of international trade and diplomacy for the Utah Governor’s Office of Economic Development; His Excellency Eduardo Arnal Palomera, consul general of Mexico to the state of Utah; UVU President Matthew S. Holland; and two UVU students from the international student council.
“I am excited to display the amazing culture of Mexico,” said Baldomero Lago, interim senior director for the International & Multicultural Studies Department. “Its rich heritage has had a wonderful impact on our community. This endeavor will see UVU students, faculty and staff, as well as community members and local leaders collaborate with Mexican leaders to focus on Mexico and develop stronger partnerships for trade, commerce and cultural understanding throughout the academic year.”
In addition to community and global engagement, this year’s Global Spotlight will allow UVU faculty and other experts from Mexico to showcase research, educate students and the community about Mexico’s history, culture and current events, and collaborate in a way that has never been done before. Weekly lectures, presentations, panel discussions and debates will be scheduled throughout the year as well as musical concerts, art exhibits and dance performances.
One of the highlights of the Global Spotlight on Mexico will be the U.S.-Mexico Business Conference to be held Oct. 24, 2013, in collaboration with UVU’s Woodbury School of Business. During this event, the U.S.-Mexico Chamber of Commerce will sign an agreement with the state of Utah for the creation of a U.S.-Mexico Chamber that will serve neighboring states in the western U.S. Governor Gary Herbert and various Mexican dignitaries will be in attendance.
Cosponsored with the UVU School of the Arts, Artes de Mexico en Utah, Art Works - arts.gov, Utah Division of Arts & Museums, Utah Humanities Council, Latinos in Action, and El Semanal
Dr. García is the Lemuel Hardison Redd, Jr. Professor of Western & Latino history at BYU. He is the author of four books on Mexican American politics and civil rights, and his fifth book will be coming out in the Fall of 2008. He has written on Chicano political parties, the John F. Kennedy presidential campaign as it related to Latinos, written a biography on Hector P. García, an American civil rights icon, and will soon be publishing a book on the first civil rights case to be decided by the Earl Warren Court. He is currently working on a co-edited volume of essays by major Latino scholars and intellectual, and also on a history of the U.S. Civil Rights Commission’s work in the West.
Cosponsored with the UVU College of Humanities & Social Sciences
Cosponsored with the UVU School of the Arts, Artes de Mexico en Utah, Art Works - arts.gov, Utah Division of Arts & Museums, Utah Humanities Council, Latinos in Action, and El Semanal
Jared Tamez is a PhD student in U.S.-Mexico Borderlands and Latin American history at the University of Texas at El Paso. He is editing, with Professor Jason Dormady, a collection of essays entitled, South of Zion: Mormons in Mexico and Its Borderlands. He has published in the Utah Historical Quarterly and the Journal of Mormon History and appears in the documentary Finding Refuge in El Paso: The 1912 Mormon Exodus from Mexico.
Although Mexico has become a hotbed of Mormon growth over the course of the twentieth century, such was not always the case. The Mexican Mission, the first permanent LDS presence in Mexico, opened in 1879 and fugitive Mormon polygamists established colonies in northern Mexico in 1885. By the end of the decade the Mission closed and in 1912, the majority of Mormons in the colonies left to the United States, fleeing the unrest of the Mexican Revolution. This lecture outlines the contours of Mormonism's unsteady beginning in Mexico in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
Cosponsored with the UVU College of Humanities & Social Sciences
Cosponsored with the Consulado de Carrera de México en Salt Lake City and UVU College of Humanities & Social Sciences
Cosponsored with UVU International Student Services, UVU International Student Council, and UVU Multicultural Student Services
“Mexico and European Relations in the XX Century. A perspective from Spain”
Cosponsored with the UVU Woodbury School of Business and UVU College of Humanities & Social Sciences
Cosponsored with the UVU School of the Arts, Artes de Mexico en Utah, Art Works - arts.gov, Utah Division of Arts & Museums, Utah Humanities Council, Latinos in Action, and El Semanal
Cosponsored with the UVU Woodbury School of Business, Utah Governors Office of Economic Development, World Trade Center Utah, US-Mexico Chamber of Commerce, ProMexico, Wells Fargo, Zions Bank, Bank of the West
University Marketing & Communications: Whitney Wilkinson
Written by: Patricia Monsoor
How can Utah companies reach a potential 110 million people in Mexico? The new United States-Mexico Chamber of Commerce Chapter in Utah is the perfect place to begin.
On Oct. 24, Utah Valley University’s Doing Business with Mexico conference will facilitate the signing of the Utah chapter, making the historic and significant partnership between the two countries official. The relationship swings the door wide open to Utah companies seeking to do business outside the U.S. and create strong business partnerships that will positively impact commercial relations with Mexico.
“There has never been a better time to do business with Mexico,” said Harvey Scott, director of International Trade and Diplomacy for the Utah Governor’s Office of Economic Development. “There are around 52 million Hispanics in the U.S., and 31 million of them are of Mexican heritage. This partnership is an incredible opportunity that will help Utah businesses understand differences in legal, regulatory and economic systems, as well as language and cultural hurdles.”
The chapter is one more step in the “institutionalization” process between Mexico and Utah — creating the soft landing that many businesses demand when looking at international expansion opportunities. Now, Utah businesses can simply reach out to the new chapter of the U.S.-Mexico Chamber of Commerce to be put directly in touch with hundreds of businesses in Mexico and vice-versa.
“Utah is the most linguistically diverse state in the country with 180 different languages spoken,” Scott said. “Our economic stability, diversity and vitality, and level of engagement with the Hispanic community positions us well to draw attention as Mexican businesses consider U.S. operations.”
Spencer P. Eccles, executive director of GOED, will officiate the signing with Al Zapanta, president and CEO of the U.S.-Mexico Chamber of Commerce, during the conference luncheon.
“This partnership is about how Utah companies command a presence outside of the U.S. and who they should look to first,” Scott said. “The U.S.-Mexico Chamber of Commerce and Utah want to get it right, and this is a great next step to achieving our goals.”
UVU’s Doing Business With Mexico conference will kick off the morning with welcome remarks from UVU administration and Woodbury School of Business Dean Norman Wright. Attendees will then participate in a variety of breakout sessions including a networking meeting sponsored by the Utah Hispanic Chamber of Commerce, a session on legal and tax issues, and a lecture on “Breaking into the Mexican Market.”
Cosponsored with the UVU School of the Arts
University Marketing & Communications: Whitney Wilkinson
Written by: Janessa McNeill
Arriba! In conjunction with UVU’s Global Spotlight on Mexico, the UVU Department of Music and the School of the Arts is sponsoring a percussion concert, “South of the Border,” with guest artist Peter Hussey on Oct. 28 at 7:30 p.m.
Percussion faculty members will light up the stage with innovative 20th century pieces conducted by assistant professor Doug Smith.
UVU’s Global Spotlight program, organized by the International & Multicultural Studies program, began in 2010. Each year, a different country is spotlighted with three months of events, including two performances from the UVU Department of Music. The program promotes global engagement across campus and throughout the community, with the aim of broadening international perspective.
Cosponsored with the UofU Latin American Studies and UVU College of Humanities & Social Sciences
"Liberation Science: Kabbalah and the Virgen de Guadalupe"
Cosponsored with the UVU College of Science & Health
Cosponsored with the UofU Latin American Studies, UVU College of Humanities & Social Sciences, and Homecoming Week
Cosponsored with the UVU School of the Arts
University Marketing & Communications: Whitney Wilkinson
Written by: Heather Wrigley
Percussion UVU is proud to offer a concert in tribute to Utah Valley University’s global spotlight on Mexico on Nov. 18, 2013.
“Mexico has a rich musical history, and this is particularly evident in the world of percussion,” director Doug Smith said.
The concert will begin with Carlos Chávez’s “Toccata,” one of the first great works for percussion ensemble and a great example of the innovation and leadership Mexican composers initiated in the 20th century.
Paul Bissell’s “The Alabados Song” will follow. Bissell’s unique composition is inspired by the “Book of the Alabados,” which is used in Hispanic communities in the southwest United States in place of a formal church or clergy. The piece will be set against the backdrop of a fictitious musical story about the soul of an elderly woman being carried off into the “other” realm.
The program will conclude with “Autumn” and “Winter” from Vivaldi’s famous “Four Seasons.” This piece will be linked to Mexico in a unique and moving way through a slide show of pictures of Mexico during the autumn and winter seasons.
“We’ve got a very talented and dedicated group this fall, with four outstanding soloists in our ranks,” Smith said. “The experience of preparing this difficult music has been challenging with great rewards. Each rehearsal has been an enjoyable part of the journey, and we look forward to sharing this music at the concert.”
Cosponsored with the UVU College of Science & Health
Armando Solorzano is an associate professor in Family and Consumer Studies and Ethnic Studies at the University of Utah. He has extensively published on the involvement of the Rockefeller Foundation in Mexico and on the history and contributions of Chicanos/as and Latinos/as in the state of Utah. His work emphasizes the role of religion on immigration, education, family formation, and on Latino cultural-religious identity. Dr. Solórzano is presently working on a book and an ethno-photo-history project that recreates the history of Latinos in Utah. His photo-documentary exhibits on the Dignity March of Immigrants in Utah and the visual history of Latinos in the Beehive State has been visited for more than 150,000 people and the exhibits have traveled around the state and the nation.
In his twenty two year of teaching at the University of Utah he has taught a spectrum of classes that goes from Epistemology to the Chicano Civil Rights Movements. Every semester he teaches the class Ethnic Minority Families in America which encompasses the families of the four traditional ethnic/racial groups in the US. Among other classes he has also thought Minorities and Communities, the etiology of Gang Formation, Ethnic Minorities and Women through the Life Span. Most recently, he teaches a class on Transnationality and Diaspora Communities in the USA. During the summer he teaches in the Summer Abroad Program either in Mexico o Costa Rica.
Professor Solórzano's research agenda is based on Qualitative Methodology and relies on primary sources such as Oral History Interviews, Participant Observation, and Ethno Photography. The underlying intention of his research goes beyond publications and he is creating the data bases and documentation that can be used in future research by scholars and community leaders.
Cosponsored with UVU Religious Studies
Cosponsored with the UVU School of the Arts, Artes de Mexico en Utah, Art Works - arts.gov, Utah Division of Arts & Museums, Utah Humanities Council, Latinos in Action, and El Semanal
Cosponsored with the UVU School of Education
Cosponsored with the UVU School of Education
Cosponsored with the UVU School of Education and UVU International Study Programs
Cosponsored with the UVU Dept. of History & Political Science
Cosponsored with the UVU School of the Arts, Artes de Mexico en Utah, Art Works - arts.gov, Utah Division of Arts & Museums, Utah Humanities Council, Latinos in Action, and El Semanal
Cosponsored with the UVU College of Humanities & Social Sciences and the UVU Dept. of History & Political Science
Cosponsored with the UVU School of the Arts
Cosponsored with the UVU School of the Arts, Artes de Mexico en Utah, Art Works - arts.gov, Utah Division of Arts & Museums, Utah Humanities Council, Latinos in Action, and El Semanal
Cosponsored with the UVU Culinary Arts Institute
Cosponsored with the UVU Department of Languages
