UNAM and King’s have had significant joint research experience in areas such as political sciences, Brazilian studies, Latin American studies, public health, chemistry, migration, dentistry, cancer research and others.
A Mexican Flutist in London: My Story
17 September 2021 It all started in elementary school. I remember playing the recorder -the instrument that most Mexicans “learn” to play in elementary schools. My fascination with such an…
Felids in pre-Hispanic Mayan art
15 September 2021 By Jorge Alberto Hernández Sánchez On September 15th, 2021, this lecture about the influence of felids in Pre-Hispanic art took place, hosted by Dr. Carlos Rafael Castillo…
Vipers in the Hills and the Waters: An Approach to the Figure of the Serpent in the Worldview of El Salvador
8 September 2021 By Jorge Alberto Hernández Sánchez El Salvador is a country with an area of barely 20,000 km2 that was strongly influenced by various Mesoamerican cultures during the…
Commemorating the Conquest in Colonial Mexico
7 September 2021 Any young Mexican has heard about the literary work of Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz throughout their basic education, either by analysing her challenging verses or…
The bat in the Mesoamerican context
1 September 2021 On Wednesday, September 1, began the second module of the webinar Tlaloc, the Jaguar and the Serpent: Art and Archeology in indigenous America. The aim of this…
The Great Tenochtitlán on 13 August 1521
13 August 2021 13 August 1521, 500 years ago, is the date when the Mexica decided to capitulate to the Spanish conquerors and hand over the splendid city then known…
The Religious Dimension of Mesoamerican Architecture
24 May 2021 In her second conference, Dr. Angélica Baena, who has a PhD in Mesoamerican Studies from UNAM’s ENES Acatlán, explained to us that from its first manifestations, Mesoamerican…
The European editions of Sor Juana’s work
7 de mayo del 2021 In this second conference, Jorge Gutiérrez Reyna, a specialist in the work of Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, tells us that the secular or…
Cristina Rivera Garza, “Writing in Spanish from the United States”
4 May 2021 In a collaboration between the Faculty of Spanish at the University of Oxford and the Center for Mexican Studies, UNAM-United Kingdom, Cristina Rivera Garza, who has lived…
On fragile paper wings: Sor Juana’s publications in New Spain
30 Apr 2021 Jorge Gutiérrez Reyna, a specialist in Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, spoke to us in this first talk about the first publications of Sor Juana made…
The Golden Age of Mexican Cinema
23 March, 2021 Every Tuesday starting from 16 February to 23 March, the Centre for Mexican Studies UNAM-UK showcased six seminal films that served as the introduction for one of…
Binational seminar. English teaching. FES Acatlán-Manchester Metropolitan University
22 March, 2021 One of the great virtues of the implementation of digital media for education is to be able to simultaneously connect distant geographical areas, even when they do…