The University of Southampton will be the host of the MexSocUK Football Tournament in 2010!
Start training for 15th May next year! And have a look at the: Southampton_Football_Proposal (Spanish)
Congratulations to the Mexican Society of the University of Southampton!!!
In accordance with the call for nominations, the Manchester Mexican Society has proposed to host the “VIII Symposium of Mexican Students and Studies” on the 2nd of July 2010. Details can be found in the document: Proposal_Manchester(Spanish)
If you need further information please visit the link:
Congratulations to the Manchester Mexican Society, and see you all in Manchester !
The Mexican Talent Network UK Chapter, the British Mexican Society and the MexSocUK are organising the seminar “Doing business between Mexico and the UK” on Thursday 15 October 2009 (6–8.30pm) in London Business School.
This will be a free seminar and its objective is to explore the businesses opportunities between the two countries, and in particular to help people who want to set up or develop businesses, building on the close links which exist between Mexico and the UK.
Detailed information can be found in the following link: seminar_info
The Mexican and Latin American Society at the University of Sheffield will be hosting the traditional “MexSoc UK Football Tournament” this year!!
You can see the proposal here, and for more information please contact: mex-lat-soc@sheffield.ac.uk
Get your team ready an see you soon in Sheffield on Saturday, 9th May 2009!
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London Business School is hosting the 4th annual Latin America Business Forum on Saturday 30 May 2009. The Latin America Business Forum is a confluence of global business leaders, leading faculty, financiers, entrepreneurs and students that leverages the London Business School platform to facilitate discussion and debate on doing business in or with Latin America. It aims to promote the interest in the region among the business community. Over its three years, the Forum has quickly become one of the most important events for Latin America in Europe.
For more information on the event and confirmed speakers see: LatinAmericaBusinessForum09
The Mexican Society at the London School of Economics and Political Science hosts every year the “Mexican Week”.
This year the event will take place from Monday, 2nd March, to Thursday, 5th March, and the programme can be downloaded here: LSE_MexicanWeek.
For further information please contact: M.A.Lara-Otaola@lse.ac.uk or J.A.Rodriguez-Canales@lse.ac.uk
Hi everyone!
Just a reminder that the MexSoc UK Committee has changed, and the Committee for 2009 is as follows:
-PRESIDENT
Imperial College London
- VICEPRESIDENT
University of Southampton
-GENERAL SECRETARY
University of Oxford
-ACADEMIC COORDINATOR
University of Cambridge
-COMMUNICATIONS AND MEDIA COORDINATOR
University of Manchester
-CULTURE COORDINATOR
University of Birmingham
There are a lot of interesting things to come, so keep an eye on this website!
St. Catharine’s College, the Cambridge University Mexican Society and the MexSocUK have the pleasure to invite you to a special gathering with the internationally renowned Mexican author and intellectual
CARLOS FUENTES
in a conversation with students in occasion to celebrate his eightieth birthday and to acknowledge his involvement in the foundation of the Mexican Students Society in the UK.
Carlos Fuentes has long been acclaimed as one of the greatest literary and political figures of the Spanish-speaking world. The leading figure of Latin America’s literary boom of the 1960s and 1970s, his novels, including the classics Terra Nostra, The Death of Artemio Cruz and The Old Gringo, are passionate explorations of the history and identity of the Latin American nations, and of their contentious relationship with the United States of America.
Monday, 29th September 2008, 1 pm
Senior Common Room, St. Catharine’s College
Cambridge CB2 1RL
Map: http://tinyurl.com/6quxhz
Free Entrance (but booking is essential: jbr28@cam.ac.uk)
Subsequently, in a joint event organised by Emmanuel College and the Mexican Embassy in the UK, we would like to invite you to the seminar:
“A Conversation with Carlos Fuentes”
with Carlos Monsiváis, Jorge Volpi, and Ignacio Padilla as special guests
The Queen’s Building, Emmanuel College, 5 pm (the event will be followed by drinks).
For those interested in learning about the panorama of Latin American history and literature, this is a unique opportunity to listen to these renowned and talented figures.
We hope to have the pleasure of your company and enjoy a great evening, see you all there!
More info: http://www.cumexsoc.org.uk/
Facebook event: http://tinyurl.com/5rty9q
Carlos Fuentes
The son of a Mexican diplomat, Fuentes spent much of his childhood in Washington, D.C. and in various Latin American cities, returning every summer to his grandmother’s home in Mexico. As Mexico’s best-known public intellectual, he served as Ambassador to France in the 1970s. He has actively participated in the academic life of Princeton, Harvard, Brown, Columbia and Cambridge universities. His work has been distinguished with the most prestigious awards, including the following: the National Prize in Literature in Mexico (1984); the Miguel de Cervantes Prize (1987), awarded annually to honour the lifetime achievement of an outstanding writer in the Spanish language; France’s Legion of Honour Award (1992); Italy’s Cavour Award (1994); Spain’s Príncipe de Asturias Award (1994); and the inaugural Latin Civilization Award (1999), presented jointly by the Presidents of Brazil, Mexico and France.
The next link includes a call from the SEMARNAT for the Premio al Merito Ecologico 2008
http://www.mexsoc.org.uk/ecologico2008/ (spanish)
Please feel free to apply
