Premiering tonight at 8pm on UCSD-TV, the first of four installments from UCSD’s Center for U.S. Mexican Studies’ “Mexico Moving Forward,” a two-day event on the arts, culture, science, philanthropy and business interests that are leading Mexico in the 21st Century.

Mexico Moving Forward
Mondays at 8pm, beginning March 21

March 21 - Arts and Culture
Novelists Cristina Rivera Garza and Rafael Tovar y de Teresa and sculptor Sebastian share how their art inspires and reinforces Mexican identity.

March 28 - Museums and Culinary Arts
Diana Magaloni, director of Mexico’s Museum of Anthropology; Chef and restaurant owner Monica Patino; and Roxana Velasquez Martinez del Campo, executive director of the San Diego Museum of Art, discuss the importance of fomenting national pride and identity through food and culture.

April 4 - Science and the Environoment
World-renown botanist Rodolfo Dirzo of Stanford University and plant ecologist Exequiel Ezcurra, the director of the University of California’s Institute for Mexico and the United States, discuss how science and technology impact society.

April 11 - Philanthropy and the Corporate Community
Business executives Manuel Arango, Eugenio Garza Herrere, Roberto Servitje Sendra and Alejandro Valenzuela del Rio discuss how strategic philanthropic practices can stimulate change and development in Mexico.

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