Day 2 | 12:00 Political regressions and the future of democracy Political regressions and the future of democracy
Mexican journalist, storyteller and historian, Mr. Aguilar Camín holds a Ph. D in History from El Colegio de México. He has been editor and publisher of Nexos magazine, founded the Cal y Arena publishing house and a council member for the Mexican National Commission on Human Rights. He is a receptor of the Mexican National Journalism Award on Culture. He is the author a many literary works and was distinguished with the Mexican Fine Arts Medal in 2017.

Day 1 | 18:15 Climate change and its social implications Climate change and its social implications
A biologist and diplomat, Ms. Bárcena is the Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Latin American and the Caribbean (ECLAC), a United Nations agency based in Santiago de Chile. She has worked in public institutions related to sustainability, the environment and economics for more than 20 years.

Day 4 | 17:00 - 18:50 Arts and culture as a means of resistance Arts and culture as a means of resistance
A full-time titular professor at the UNAM Faculty of Philosophy and Letters, Dr. Belausteguigoitia holds a Ph. D. in Cultural and Gender Studies from the University of California at Berkeley. At UNAM, she chaired the University Programme on Gender Studies from 2004 to 2013. She is the director of Mujeres en Espiral, a system of justice, gender perspective and pedagogies in resistance which benefits incarcerated women.

Day 3 | 12:00 - 14:00 Environmental protection and the fight against unscientific speech Environmental protection and the fight against unscientific speech
A biologist, Dr. Carabias has been president of the Mexican National Institute for Ecology and minister for Natural Resources and Fishing. In 2004, she was a recipient of the Cosmos International Award for her research and accomplishments in the field of environmental protection. She has been a member of the High-Level Panel on Global Sustainability appointed by the U.N. Secretary General.

Day 2 | 18:00 – 20:00 The crisis of the neo-liberal model and new economic orders The crisis of the neo-liberal model and new economic orders
An economist with post-graduate studies at the London School of Economics, Dr. Cordera is an emeritus professor at UNAM. He is coordinator for the UNAM Development Studies Programme and a member of the Mexican Academy of Political Economy and the Mexican Study Institute for Democratic Transition. Among other distinctions, he has received the Universidad Nacional Award.

Day 2 | 18:00 – 20:00 The crisis of the neo-liberal model and new economic orders The crisis of the neo-liberal model and new economic orders
A historian, a scholar in the field of International Relations and a consultant, Ms. Chacón is vice-president for the Mexican Council on International Affairs and for the international Club of Rome. Energy, Finance and Narcotics: The Hidden Face of Mexican Foreign Policy (2002) and The Mexican – American Relationship (1940 – 1955): Between Conflict and Cooperation (2008) figure among her works.

Day 1 | 18:15 Climate change and its social implications Climate change and its social implications
A linguist, a philosopher, a cognitive scientist, a historian, a social critic and an activist, Mr. Chomsky is the founder of modern linguistics and one of the most quoted scholars in recent history and one of the most influential public figures in the world. He has authored more than one hundred books and is emeritus professor at Arizona State University.

Day 4 | 17:00 - 18:50 Arts and culture as a means of resistance Arts and culture as a means of resistance
A novelist and filmmaker, Ms. Dangarembga made her writing debut with Nervous Conditions, a partially autobiographical work launched in the United Kingdom in 1998. In 1996, she released the film Everyone’s Child, the first feature ever directed by a black Zimbabwean woman.

Day 3 | 17:00 – 18:30 Walls, identities and rights across the border Walls, identities and rights across the border
A historian, Dr. Gerstle chairs the Paul Mellon Professorship of American History at the University of Cambridge. He is a researcher and an author on immigration, race and nationality; the meaning of class in social and political life; and social movements, popular politics and the State. His book American Crucible received the Theodore Saloutos Award in 2001.

Day 3 | 17:00 – 18:30 Walls, identities and rights across the border Walls, identities and rights across the border
A political analyst, Ms. Hazán specializes in international migrations, American immigration policies and the economic and political situations of Mexicans, and Latin Americans in general, in the U.S. She is a consultant at the Inter – American Development Bank, where she develops a study of the migratory systems of Mexico, Central America and the Caribbean.

Day 2 | 18:00 – 20:00 The crisis of the neo-liberal model and new economic orders The crisis of the neo-liberal model and new economic orders
An economist, Mr. Heredia is associate professor for the International Studies division of the Mexican Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas. From 1997 to 2000, he was a federal congressman for the Demoratic Revolution Party (PRD). He is founder and member of the Mexican Council of International Affairs (Comexi), whose vice-presidency he held from 2003 to 2006. He is one of 12 Mexican members of the Trilateral Commission.

Day 4 | 12:00 – 14:00 The siege upon journalism The siege upon journalism
A Mexican writer and journalist, Ms. Hernández is a recipient of the Mexican 2001 National Journalism Award. In 2003, she received an accolade from UNICEF for her stories of enslaved girls in the Mexico – U. S. border. Her book Los señores del narco (2010), which describes the complicity between drug cartels, authorities and the entrepreneurial community has entailed acts of aggression and intimidation upon her.

Day 1 | 18:15 Climate change and its social implications Climate change and its social implications
A cosmologist and a physicist, Dr. Krauss is a professor at the School of Earth and Space Exploration at Arizona State University and the director of its Origins Project. He researches the interface between elementary particle physics and the origins and evolution of the universe. He has authored several books, among which: The Physics of Star Trek (1995) and A Universe from Nothing (2012).

Day 2 | 17:00 - 18:00 A test upon liberalism A test upon liberalism
A member of the Mexican Academy of History and of El Colegio Nacional, Mr. Krauze collaborated with Octavio Paz in Vuelta magazine. He is chairman of Editorial Clío publishing house and editor and publisher of Letras Libres magazine. Foremost among his books are Mexico: Biography of Power: A History of Modern Mexico, 1810 – 1996 (1997) and Redeemers: Ideas and Power in Latin America (2012).

Day 2 | 17:00 - 18:00 A test upon liberalism A test upon liberalism
A political scientist, a journalist and a historian of ideas, Mr. Lilla is also a professor at Columbia University. He writes for The New York Review of Books and The New York Times. The Once and Future Liberal: After Identity Politics (2017), The Reckless Mind: Intellectuals and Politics (2016) and The Stillborn God: Religion, Politics and the Modern West (2007) are among his best-known works.

Day 2 | 12:00 Political regressions and the future of democracy Political regressions and the future of democracy
A professor at Columbia University, Mr. Lomnitz’s field of work is the anthropology of national societies. He founded the Mexican Studies Center at Columbia’s Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Race, which he chairs. He has experimented in several writing genres. La nación desdibujada: México en trece ensayos (2016) is his most recent book.

Day 3 | 17:00 – 18:30 Walls, identities and rights across the border Walls, identities and rights across the border
Mr. Madrazo has been president of the Mexican National Human Rights Commission, attorney general for his country under the presidency of Ernesto Zedillo Ponce de León and Mexican consul to the states of Washington and Alaska, based in Seattle. He is a member of the Mexican Human Rights Academy and the director of the UNAM Support for Mexicans Abroad Programme.

Day 1 | 18:15 Climate change and its social implications Climate change and its social implications
A chemist, Dr. Molina is a professor at the University of California at San Diego and at the Climate, Atmospheric Sciences and Physical Oceanography Center of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography. He shared the 1995 Nobel Prize in chemistry for his role in the elucidation of the threat upon the ozone layer represented by chlorofluorocarbon gases (CFCs).

Day 3 | 18:30 – 20:00 Tales and testimonies of migration Tales and testimonies of migration
A writer and a political scientist, Mr. Monge is the recipient of the 2016 Mexico City Elena Poniatowska Novel Award for his book Las tierras arrasadas. He has also authored the short-story collection Arrasar esa sombra (2008) and the novels Morirse de memoria (2010) and Cielo árido (2012).

Day 4 | 17:00 - 18:50 Arts and culture as a means of resistance Arts and culture as a means of resistance
Storyteller, historian and translator, Dr. Navarrete holds a Ph. D. in Mesoamerican Studies from UNAM and a master degree in Social Anthropology from London University. He is a researcher at UNAM’s Historic Research Institute. México racista (2016), Hacia otra historia de América (2015) and Alfabeto del racismo mexicano (2017) are among his most recent books.

Day 2 | 18:00 – 20:00 The crisis of the neo-liberal model and new economic orders The crisis of the neo-liberal model and new economic orders
An economist and an expert in the field of International Relations, Mr. Novelo’s works encompasses matters such as keyneisan economic theory, NAFTA, neo-liberalism, regional development, Mexican foreign policy and Mexican immigration to the U.S. He is a professor at Mexico City’s Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana and a board member of the Mexican Study Institute for Democratic Transition and of the Mexican Academy of Political Economy, among others.

Day 4 | 12:00 - 14:00 The siege upon journalism The siege upon journalism
A reporter and a writer, Mr. Osorno has written up some of the main Mexican and Latin American conflicts of the 21st century. He is a receptor of the A Mano Disarmata award, granted by the Stampa Romana association; the Latin American Award for Drug Journalism; the International Journalism Award for the 35th anniversary of Proceso magazine; and the 2013 Mexican National Journalism Award.

Day 2 | 12:00 Political regressions and the future of democracy Political regressions and the future of democracy
A professor at the Department of Communication of the University of Illinois at Chicago, as well as its head, Dr. Papacharissi’s work deals with the impact of emotions in politics in the age of contemporary digital media. A Private Sphere (2010), Affective Publics: Sentiment, Technology and Politics (2014) and Journalism and Citizenship: New Agendas (2009) are among her best-known works.

Day 3 | 18:30 – 20:00 Tales and testimonies of migration Tales and testimonies of migration
Executive director and owner of Goldcrest Films, one of the foremost documentary producers in the world, Mr. Quested’s work has garnered two Emmy awards and an Oscar nomination. His most recent project, Hell on Earth, a film for National Geographic Channel released in Spring 2017, deals with the conflict in Syria and Irak.

Day 3 | 12:00 - 14:00 Environmental protection and the fight against unscientific speech Environmental protection and the fight against unscientific speech
A biologist, Dr. Sarukhán is a member of El Colegio Nacional and the recipient of the 1980 Research Award from the Mexican Academy of Sciences. He is honorary vice-president of the Mares de México association and held the vice-presidency of the Mexican National Council for Social Participation in Education (Conapase) between March 2014 and March 2016. He has also been granted the 2017 Tyler Prize.

Day 1 | 18:15 Climate change and its social implications Climate change and its social implications
A professor of Environmental Science and Engineering and director of the Harvard University Center for the Environment, Dr. Schrag’s interests encompass energy technology and policy. He has studied climate change through the history of the Earth, as well as its influence on the evolution of life in the past and its possible incidence on it in the foreseeable future.

Day 3 | 18:30 – 20:00 Tales and testimonies of migration Tales and testimonies of migration
A Catholic priest and human rights advocate, Father Solalinde is also coordinator for the Human Mobility South Pacific Pastoral of the Mexican Episcopate. He is director of the Hermanos en el Camino shelter, which provides humanitary assistance to migrants. He has denounced the trafficking on people, arms and human organs.

Day 1 | 18:15 Climate change and its social implications Climate change and its social implications
A meteorologist, Dr. Somerville is a Distinguished emeritus professor at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography of the University of California. His field of research is cloud physics and its role in the climate system. He is interested in the interface between science and public policy. He is a member of the Science and Security Board of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, in which he partakes of deliberations surrounding the Doomsday Watch.

Day 4 | 17:00 - 18:50 Arts and culture as a means of resistance Arts and culture as a means of resistance
A stage director, an educator and a founder of stagecraft learning institutions such as UNAM’s University Theatre Center, the Núcleo de Estudios Teatrales and the Casa del Teatro, Mr. De Tavira is also a playwright, an essayist and a translator. He has staged more than 60 plays in Mexico and more than a dozen abroad. He has received the 2006 Mexican National Award for Sciences and Arts and has authored 14 plays. He has been artistic director for the Mexical National Theatre Company.

Day 3 | 12:00 - 14:00 Environmental protection and the fight against unscientific speech Environmental protection and the fight against unscientific speech
A politician and a scholar, Mr. Tudela has been undersecretary for Environmental Planning and Policy at the Mexican Ministry for the Environment and Natural Resources. He has presided the Mexican Interministerial Committee on Climate Change and headed the Mexican delegation to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change.

Day 3 | 17:00 – 18:30 Walls, identities and rights across the border Walls, identities and rights across the border
An author, an artist and a scholar specializing in chicano literature and subjects related to the region surrounding the Mexico – U.S. border, Mr. Vaquera – Vásquez has been a professor at Texas A&M University and Santa Barbara City College. He has authored books such as One Day I’ll Tell You the Things I’ve Seen (2015) and Luego el silencio (2016).

Day 2 | 12:00 Political regressions and the future of democracy Political regressions and the future of democracy
A political scientist, an expert on Latin American issues and a sociologist, Dr. Woldenberg has been a professor of Political Science at UNAM. He has also presided the Mexican Study Institute for Democratic Transition and chaired the General Council of the Mexican Federal Electoral Institute. Memoria de la izquierda (1998) and La construcción de la democracia (2002) are among his books. He is a recipient of the 2004 Mexican National Journalism Award.

Day 7 | 17:00 a 18:20 Cultural exchanges and development Cultural exchanges and development
A graduate of the Arts Administration and Cultural Policy MA at Goldsmiths College, for which she defended the thesis A Critical Look at Culture-Led Regeneration as a Strategy for City Branding: Can the ‘Museumisation’ of the City Be Sustainable in the Long Term?, Ms. Anzani has worked for sundry galleries and cultural institutions in the UK, including The British Museum and TRIAD: Towards Regional Integration of Artistic Development.

Day 5 | 20:00 a 20:50 Democracy and the internet Democracy and the internet
Mr. Attali served as the first president of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development and headed the Commission for the Liberation of French Growth. He currently serves as director of both Positive Planet and Attali & Associés. He has authored more than 70 books, among which are counted essays, biographies and novels, and is a contributor to L’Express magazine and the Journal des Arts. Considered one of the foremost intellectuals in the world by Foreign Policy magazine, of late he has developed an interest in the study of the relationship between democracy and information technologies.

Day 6 | 17:00 a 17:50 Inequality and populism Inequality and populism
A biologist and diplomat, Ms. Bárcena is the Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Latin American and the Caribbean (ECLAC), a United Nations agency based in Santiago de Chile. She has worked in public institutions related to sustainability, the environment and economics for more than 20 years.

Day 7 | 17:00 a 18:20 Cultural exchanges and development Cultural exchanges and development
Before his appointment as director of New York City’s El Museo del Barrio, Mr. Charpenel served as director of Mexico City’s Jumex Museum and independently curated several exhibitions as well as the Public sector of Art Basel Miami Beach and the artistic project for Culiacán’s Botanical Garden. He received the 2010 Montblanc Award for Culture in Mexico for his work as an arts promotor.

Day 5 | 19:00 a 19:50 Solidarity and citizenship Solidarity and citizenship
An accountant, an activist and a member of the zapotec native people, Ms. Cruz’s political career achieved notoriety in 2007, when she ran for mayor of Santa María Quiegolani, a oaxacan community ruled by a system of indigenous customary law which refused women the right to be elected to office. Three years later, she was elected to local Congress, where she stood as congresswoman from 2012 to 2015. Ms. Cruz is an advocate for women’s rights.

Day 5 | 20:00 a 20:50 Democracy and the internet Democracy and the internet
Dr. Fuentes-Berain holds a Ph.D. in Information Rights and her academic training combines journalism, theatre, film and aesthetics. After more than two decades of professional commitment to content-production and editorial strategies, she founded in 2015 Mexico Media Lab S21, a project that fosters innovation and flexibility in the response of organizations to disruptions created by technology.

Day 7 | 17:00 a 18:20 Cultural exchanges and development Cultural exchanges and development
Dr. García Canclini is a Distinguished Professor at Mexico City’s Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana and has taught at the universities of Austin, Duke, Stanford, Barcelona, Buenos Aires and Sao Paulo. He is a receipient of the Guggenheim Fellowship, the Casa de las Américas Award and the Latin American Studies Association Book Award for Hybrid Cultures. He currently studies the relationship between anthropology and aesthetics, reading, creative strategies and the young’s cultural networks.

Day 6 | 17:00 a 17:50 Inequality and populism Inequality and populism
A historian, Dr. Gerstle chairs the Paul Mellon Professorship of American History at the University of Cambridge. He is a researcher and an author on immigration, race and nationality; the meaning of class in social and political life; and social movements, popular politics and the State. His book American Crucible received the Theodore Saloutos Award in 2001.

Day 6 | 18:00 a 18:50 City City
An architect and a sociologist, Mr. Jadue holds an MA in Urbanism from the University of Chile and a BA in Total Quality Management from the Chilean Universidad Católica del Norte. He has conducted research on the quality of life, gender, juvenile delinquency, employment and poverty in cities across Latin America and Europe. He is a member of the Chilean Communist Party.

Day 5 | 19:00 a 19:50 Solidarity and citizenship Solidarity and citizenship Day 7 | 17:00 a 18:20 Cultural exchanges and development Cultural exchanges and development
A professor of Philosophy at the University of Grenoble, the launch, in 1983, of his book L’ère du vide made Mr. Lipovetsky one of the foremost scholars on contemporary societies and culture, which he characterizes as hypermodern, dominated by the ephemeral, individuality and artistic capitalism, and where the great collective institutions have ceased to make sense.

Day 7 | 17:00 a 18:20 Cultural exchanges and development Cultural exchanges and development
Ms. Mallet holds a BA in Latin American Literature from Mexico City’s Universidad Iberoamericana and MA in Arts History from UNAM. She has served as curator in several Mexico City museums and was Programming Associate Director for the Rufino Tamayo museum. As an independent curator, she has explored the crossroads of art, design and popular culture in exhibitions on Mexican and Latin American design.

Day 5 | 20:00 a 20:50 Democracy and the internet Democracy and the internet
A professor at the Department of Communication of the University of Illinois at Chicago, as well as its head, Dr. Papacharissi’s work deals with the impact of emotions in politics in the age of contemporary digital media. A Private Sphere (2010), Affective Publics: Sentiment, Technology and Politics (2014) and Journalism and Citizenship: New Agendas (2009) are among her best-known works.

Day 6 | 17:00 a 17:50 Inequality and populism Inequality and populism
Dr. Pardinas holds a Ph.D. in Public Policy from the London School of Economics, a master degree in Economics from Sophia University in Tokyo and a BA in Political Science from UNAM. At the helm of IMCO, he coordinates the production of data-derived research that enrich the design of public policies for Mexico. He was a correspondent for CNN in three countries and he is a contributor for several media.

Day 5 | 19:00 a 19:50 Solidarity and citizenship Solidarity and citizenship
A theologian, Mr. Riemen founded the Nexus Institute in 1994 in Tielberg, Neetherlands, in order to provide a counter-balance to contemporary unidimensional views on science, technology and the economy and to enrich them with thinking derived from culture and philosophy that highlight humanist values. His book To Fight Against This Age: On Fascism and Humanism was translated into Spanish this year and its English translation will be published in early 2018.

Day 5 | 20:00 a 20:50 Democracy and the internet Democracy and the internet
A philologist and a journalist, her blog, Generación X, made her one of the foremost promotors of independent journalism in Cuba. She is a contributor to international media outlets such as The Huffington Post, El País, Clarín and The Miami Herald. In 2008, she received the Ortega y Gasset Journalism Award. She is editor of the 14ymedio digital news website and her Twitter account has more than 745 thousand followers.

Day 6 | 18:00 a 18:50 City City
In 2005 he became the first Hispanic to be elected mayor of Los Angeles since 1872. Said office gave visibility to a political career that features more than three decades working with unions and civil rights organizations. One of the 25 Most Influential Hispanics according to Time magazine, Villaraigosa stands to run for office as governor of the state of California.

Day 6 | 18:00 a 18:50 City City
Mr. Welsh was born in 1958 in Scotland. He was brought up in the working-class Muirhouse housing estate, quit school at the age of 16 and held a vast assortment of jobs until he migrated to London to join the punk movement. In the late 1980s he returned to Scotland, where he worked for the Edinburgh District Council while graduating from college and taking his first steps in writing. His first novel, Trainspotting, as well as its film adaption, have known great success.