Lit&Luz Festival 2024 at UNAM Chicago
UNAM Chicago Irma Pineda, Zapotec Poet, Present at UNAM Chicago as Part of the Lit & Luz Festival. With the presence of Zapotec poet Irma Pineda, UNAM Chicago hosted the Lit & Luz Festival, which brings together a series of events featuring renowned writers, visual artists, and musicians from Chicago and Mexico. The festival took place in Chicago during the…
Chicago’s Deputy Mayor Visits UNAM
UNAM Chicago Faced with the immense challenges that the City of Chicago is experiencing in the area of migration and driven by a desire to learn about the diagnostics and studies conducted by our university, Chicago’s Deputy Mayor for Immigrant, Migrant, and Refugee Rights, Beatriz Ponce de León, visited UNAM. During her visit, she held substantive meetings that opened possible…
“Narrar lo propio” is consolidated as migrant editorial project
UNAM Chicago UNAM and UNAM Chicago have begun the second part of the collection Narrar lo propio (Narrating Our Own Stories), which this time brings together a group of women whose life stories and acts of courage deserve to be told and known on both sides of the border and beyond. Each of them represents a testimony of life, of…
“Español a la mexicana” of UNAM Chicago, a total success on social media
UNAM Chicago “Español a la mexicana”, produced by UNAM Chicago for social media, is a series of educational videos that has become a huge success: the premiere video has accumulated over 110,000 views on Facebook with almost 4,000 likes! Directed at non-native Spanish speakers, but always interesting for everyone, it teaches us the intricacies of the Spanish language, especially the…
Mexican Music evening at UNAM Chicago with Carlos Aviña and his group, and the Mariachi Fuego from the University of Illinois Chicago
UNAM Chicago We spent a great and very Mexicanevening with the renowned historian and expert on traditional Mexican music, Álvaro Ochoa Serrano, who presented the third edition of his book “Manual del Mariachi” (Mariachi Manual).This event offered a unique opportunity to explore and reflect on the history and evolution of mariachi, one of the most iconic traditions in Mexican culture….
Next Monday, October 7, connect to Puma Winter and Professional Visits briefings
UNAM Chicago Taking a language immersion course means immersing yourself in the reality of using a language. At UNAM Chicago we have designed courses that go beyond the classroom and theoretical lessons. In the Puma Winter you will enjoy one of the most beautiful and culturally rich cities not only in the United States but in the world, while you…
An unforgettable experience was the result of our Second International Colloquium: Sacred Spaces
UNAM Chicago An unforgettable experience was the result of our Second International Colloquium: Sacred Spaces organized by UNAM Chicago in collaboration with the University of Chicago and UNAM´s Institute of Aesthetic Research in Oaxaca and the Newberry Library. The two-day event gathered more than twenty researchers, from art historians to archaeologists and historians of religion, all seeking to foster interdisciplinary…
The UNAM San Antonio branch is turning 80 years old
UNAM Chicago The UNAM campus in San Antonio, Texas, is celebrating its 80th anniversary. This institution has been an important link between the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) and the Mexican community in the United States, as well as with educational institutions and the society in general in the region. Since its founding in 1944, it has had over…
Colloquium on Migration and Indigenous Peoples will be held on September 11th and 12th
UNAM Chicago With the goal of internationalizing the knowledge generated in Centers, Institutes, and Graduate Programs of UNAM and universities from the Midwest of the United States, the Second Colloquium on Migration and Indigenous Peoples will be held on September 11th and 12th at UIC. This multidisciplinary event also aims to create networks of researchers to collaborate in teaching and…
Dr. William Lee Alardín, UNAM´s Vice-Provost for International Affairs represented the Rector of our University in the first session of the Discovery Partners Institute Research Council
UNAM Chicago Dr. William Lee Alardín, UNAM´s Vice-Provost for International Affairs represented the Rector of our University in the first session of the Discovery Partners Institute Research Council, focusing on climate change and the environment. DPI is part of the University of Illinois System (SUI) and brings together some of the leading higher education institutions it collaborates with, including UNAM,…
Online Course “Versos de nuestra herencia”
UNAM San Antonio Schedule: 17:00 to 19:00 h MX / 18:00 to 20:00 h San Antonio Period: September 3, 10, 17, 24 and October 1, 2024. Description: UNAM San Antonio invites you to immerse yourself in our cultural heritage through the online course “Versos de nuestra herencia”. Through your verses, discover how your cultural heritage can reveal your creativity and…
UNAM takes part in Symposium on Innovation in Engineering for Sustainability
UNAM Chicago The President of the University of Illinois System (UIS), Timothy L. Killeen and UNAM´s Vice Provost for International Affairs, William Lee inaugurated the symposium “Innovation in Engineering for Sustainability, which has as its main objective to enhance strategic Synergies among researchers in Illinois and Mexico and to promote innovation in engineering towards sustainability. This is the 11th international…
UNAM’s International digital magazine latest number is waiting for you
UNAM Chicago We strongly encourage you to read the latest issue of UNAM´s Bilingual International Magazine, which focuses on the topic of migration from various perspectives. It has contributions from UNAM Chicago, including the research by Erika Erdely and Elise Russo on “Migrant Adult and Young Women in North America” (page 210); the text by Alberto Foncerrada “Migration through Literature”…
Our Professional Visits Program for International Business has successfully concluded
UNAM Chicago Our students had the opportunity to get to know major corporations and universities such as UIC Business School and McDonald’s Global and Hamburger University, where they explored possibilities for graduate studies and listened to renowned experts in their field. They also Visited iconic spots like the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago and the Money Museum. This has opened…
Building bridges between Architecture Schools
UNAM Chicago Within the framework of Professional Visits for Architecture organized by UNAM Chicago and the Faculty of Architecture (FA), its director, Juan Ignacio del Cueto, and Guillermo Pulido, head of that office, made a working visit to the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and the University of Illinois at Chicago, institutions that are part of the University of Illinois…
Puma Summer and Professional Architecture Visits
UNAM Chicago In a festive atmosphere, three of our academic programs kicked off at UNAM Chicago: Puma Summer, Professional Architecture Visits, and the Summer Immersion Program. These immersion courses in English and Spanish, along with professional architecture experiences in a city iconic in this field, are a unique growth opportunity for our students. Welcome to Chicago!
Internationalization enriches teaching-learning processes in a global context
UNAM Chicago In the past five years, UNAM has formalized over 400 agreements with higher education institutions from all regions of the world. This has enabled three thousand of our students and eleven thousand academics to benefit from experiences in various countries, stated our Rector Leonardo Lomelí Vanegas. During this same period, fifteen hundred foreign students and seventy-six hundred academic…
The Yucatec Maya language across Space and Time
In the area of the Yucatan Peninsula where the lowland Maya culture developed, Yucatec Maya is still spoken today in the Mexican states of Yucatan, Quintana Roo and part of Campeche, as well as in northern Belize. The first large-scale survey of Yucatec Maya variation was carried out between 2004 and 2007 by a group of researchers who have been…
UNAM Rector congratulates the next president of Mexico
UNAM Chicago The country experienced a peaceful electoral day on Sunday with high voter turnout. It was a democratic exercise where the citizens decided with their votes that a woman will govern Mexico for the next six years. This decision, as we already know, fell on Dr. Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo. Besides becoming the first woman to occupy the Presidency of…
The book “Presencias en la roca: Nuevas miradas al arte rupestre del oriente salvadoreño” was presented at UNAM Chicago
UNAM Chicago The book “Presencias en la roca: Nuevas miradas al arte rupestre del oriente salvadoreño” by Félix Alejandro Lerma Rodríguez, full-time profesor at the National School of Higher Studies (ENES-UNAM) campus Morelia, was presented at UNAM Chicago. The event, which exceeded all attendance expectations, was enjoyed by several consuls from Central and South America, representatives of community organizations, city…