The 2013 Mazatlán Forum - Crossing Borders: Examining Political, Economic, and Social Assumptions in the US and Mexico

The Dominican School of Philosophy & Theology (DSPT) sent representatives to Mexico to join top Mexican intellectuals for conversations examining political, economic, and social assumptions at work in Mexico and the U.S. in the first annual Mazatlán Forum.

The videos of all the sessions of the Mazatlán Forum are now available online! You can watch DSPT Fellows and Faculty engaging Mexican intellectuals in the following sessions:

Welcome and Keynotes - Fr. Michael Sweeney, OP; Dr. Luis F. Aguilar, Director of the Institute of Public Policy and Government at the University of Guadalajara, Mexico and member of El Colegio de Mexico
Subsidiary Societies in the Contemporary State - DSPT Fellow Ron Austin; Dr. Roberto Blancarte Pimentel, El Colegio de Mexico and Visiting Scholar at Stanford University
Youth, Truth and Social Media - DSPT Fellow Agnieszka Winkler; Dr. Ronaldo González Valdés, Universidad Autónoma de Sinaloa
Whose Right? Rights in Question - DSPT Professor of Philosophy Fr. Anselm Ramelow, OP; Dr. Fernando García Saís, Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México; DSPT Fellow Richard Gallagher; Dr. Fernando Cano Valle, Instituto de Investigaciones Jurídicas, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
Immigration, Rights and the Common Good - Dr. Patrick Brennan; Bernardo Méndez Lugo, Mexican diplomat; Mr. Dan Lungren, DSPT Fellow and former US Congressman; Dr. Erika Montoya Zavala from the Department of International Studies and Public Policy at the Universidad Autónoma de Sinaloa (UAS)
Rethinking the Corporation and the Market Economy - DSPT Fellow André Delbecq; Dr. Miguel Breceda, Universidad Autónoma de Sinaloa; DSPT Fellow-Designate Mary Hirschfeld; Dr. Luis Astorga Almanza, Instituto de Investigaciones Sociales, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM)
Questioning Conclusions and Concluding Questions - all the participants.

Visit DSPT's website to watch all the videos and learn more about the forum and participants.