Attend one or two events and write a 300–350 word report on what you have learned from each event, you can earn up to 20 extra-credit points for each report:

Tuesday 11/15

9:30-10:15 CFE

Islamophobia 101 Tom Grothe and Safa Asher

Round up all Syrians? Create Japanese style internment camps for Syrian refugees? Register all Muslims in a database? Only allow in Christian Syrians? When lawmakers suggest these policies, it’s time to talk!

Wednesday 11/16

9:00-10:00 CFE

ProMéxico – Recent Economic Transformations in México Yúriko L. Garcés Lee

México Consul for Economic Affairs, Yúriko L. Garcés Lee, discusses the country’s evolution over the past fifty years showing a country in transformation. The main factor driving this change has been growth in exports, which is now at 17% and accounts for a historic high of $400B. More importantly, the transformation reflects a change in products, with 85% of current exports being manufactured goods. México is living a historic moment. Economic cooperation has led to expansion of renewable (wind) energy production, biotechnology initiatives as well as an increase in study abroad programs.

11:00-12:15 CFE

Film Screening: Precious Knowledge International Student Club

Precious Knowledge is a 2011 political documentary centered on the banning of the Mexican American Studies Program in the Tucson Unified School District of Arizona. The film follows the lives of four students and several teachers in the Mexican American Studies program at Tucson High School. It follows the progression of local legislation put into place by the Arizona Department of Education to ban the Mexican American Studies program. The film was awarded the Premio Mesquite for Best Documentary at the Cine Festival at the Guadalupe Cultural Art Center in San Antonio, Texas.