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The Cambridge University Mexican Society (CUMexSoc) and the Society of Mexican Students in the United Kingdom (MexSoc UK) are proud to invite you to the 7th Symposium of Mexican Students and Studies to be held at the Centre for Mathematical Sciences (CMS) on the 4th of July 2009.
The MexSocUK symposium is an annual meeting aimed to provide a forum for Mexican students to present their work, exchange knowledge and ideas. The MexSocUK symposium is an opportunity for students from all nationalities working on Mexico-related projects to share and discuss their research with Mexican nationals, members of the academia, government and industry. Furthermore, the event is an excellent opportunity for all levels of networking.
The event will consist of an academic program which includes oral presentations, workshop sessions and keynote lectures delivered by personalities of the academic community related to Mexico.
The official registration is now open. Please visit this website and complete the registration form at your convenience. Do not hesitate to contact us if you have any questions.
If you are interested in presenting your work, our Society can sponsor part or the total expenses of your trip. So, please send us an email to 
with the title of your presentation.
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The Mexican Society is very glad to invite you all to the Mexican Party March 2009, which will be on Friday 20th March, starting at 7.30pm, in Beorma Bar, Guild of Students. Come and enjoy a cheerful evening full of nice people and many Latin rhythms, like salsa, cumbia and merengue for you to dance.
If you don’t know dancing, don’t worry, there will be salsa demonstrations and nice people to show you the basics Latin rhythm moves.
Come and meet new people from all around the world, practice your Spanish, interchange laughs or just enjoy the sparks of energy!
When: Friday 20th March, starting 7.30pm
Where: Beorma Bar, Guild of Students
Cover: £2 members, £3.50 non-members
We all in the Mexican Society will be extremely delighted to see you there.
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“Todos Santos, Día de Muertos” is one of the most commemorative dates for Mexican society. Octavio Paz describes a José Gorostiza’s poem about death by saying: “In this drama without personages, since all things are nothing more than reflections, disguises of a suicide that dialogues with itself in a language of mirrors and echoes, neither is intelligence something other than a reflection, and the most pure form of death, of death in love with itself” … Fragment from El laberinto de la Soledad, 1947.
We all (Mexicans) laugh at “La Muerte”, without realising that it is the “La Muerte” who laughs at herself and at everyone of us.
We would like to invite you all to our Day of the Dead celebration, which will be on Friday 14th November, starting at 5.30pm, room UG04, Learning Centre. This time, our celebration will have the following activities:
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Set the altar and offerings to the departed (All) |
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Be part of this traditional and beautiful activity, help us to build the altar and, why not, offer something to the dead. |
| 7.00pm |
Shadow puppetry (Randia and Erik) |
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“Ciudad Límite” and “pepitop lünadop” bring a small piece of shadow puppetry and Mexican music, performed by our members Randia Escalante and Erik Baqueiro, that involves this profound view of “La Muerte”, within some Latin American legends such as “La Llorona” and the “X’tabay”. |
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Mexican film: Macario (1960) |
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Excellent film for this day! It tells a tale of a poor, helpless peasant, with a wife and five children, who meets, in the forest, the Devil, God, and Death, and ask him to share his turkey, but he refuses all except Death. |
Come, enjoy and celebrate with us the Day of the Dead … It’s FREE!!!
If you want to know more about the Day of the Dead, please click here.
UPDATE: We will have “Pan de muerto”, a delicious bread eaten in Mexico these days. So, come early and you will have the chance to try it!
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On behalf of the Mexican Society, I would like to invite you next Friday 31st October at 6.30pm, Staff House 1st floor, to meet the representatives of our group for the current academic year.
It will be a good opportunity to give them your comments, as well as to let them know your expectations and all the enquiries you may have.
We hope to see all of you.
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It is again the time of the year to call for people interested in becoming part of the 2008/09 committee. There are at least four positions to be occupied for the next academic year: chair, secretary, treasurer and webmaster - titles don’t matter in practice. Main responsibilities for the people in charge are:
- to attend regular compulsory meetings at the Guild of Students,
- to organise events related to Mexican culture,
- to establish links between other Mexican Societies in the UK and to keep being an important part of the MexSocUK, and
- to give support to Mexican students who arrive to Birmingham throughout the following year.
The handover is planned to start as soon as the welcome week, 22nd September, and completed by the end of October.
Interested people must be registered as student next year, so, if you would like to become a member of the committee or need further information, please send an email to mexican@bugs.bham.ac.uk.
