Talks

Understand Mexico offers a wide array of colorful, dynamic PowerPoint presentations, conferences, and informal talks on sundry topics related to Mexico. The U.S. Embassy in Mexico, the American School Foundation, The International Women’s Club of Mexico (Formerly Newcomers’ Club), and The Ebell of Los Angeles are among our clients.

When COVID hit and tourism came to an unexpected halt, we discovered the magic of Zoom and shifted our attention from offering in-person museum and walking tours to providing weekly talks on Mexican history, anthropology, and virtual tours.  Painted Walls: Mexico’s Modern Muralist Movement, Mexico City’s Signature Museums, Prehispanic Cultures, the Indigenous People of Mexico, Magical Neighborhoods, Magical Towns, Nimble Fingers: The Handmade Crafts of Mexico, and Day of the Dead are just a few of our recent topics. We also provide intercultural briefings and an introduction to life in Mexico for ex-pats.

Among our most requested topics:

General Culture

  • A Taste of Mexico (Introduction to Mexico)
  • Random Reasons to Love Mexico (A Potpourri of Why I Love This Country) Part One and Part Two
  • Gift of the Gods: Native Foods of Mexico (from Prehispanic Times to Today)
  • Painted Walls: Mexico’s Modern Muralist Movement
  • Diego Rivera: Master Muralist and Latin Lover
  • Frida Kahlo: The Woman Behind the Pain
  • Remarkable Mexican Women
  • Nimble Fingers: The Handmade Treasures of Mexico (Crafts)
  • Legends of Love: The Untold Love Stories of Mexico
  • Day of the Dead Festivities: What’s It All About?
  • Piñatas, Posadas and Pastorelas: The 3 Ps of a Mexican Christmas
  • The Reckoning of Time: Ancient Calendars
  • Out of Context: Foreigners Who Left Their Mark on Mexico (and the World) Part One and Part Two

 

The Virtual Armchair Travel Series

  • CDMX’s Magical Neighborhoods: A Virtual Tour
  • Mexico’s Enchanting Magical Towns
  • Mexico’s Signature Museums: An Armchair Tour
  • Teotihuacan: The City Where the Gods were Born
  • Templo Mayor: Ruins in the Heart of Mexico City: A Virtual Tour
  • Tlatelolco: Plaza of the Three Cultures
  • The City of the Eagle and the Serpent: Prehispanic Mexico City
  • Mexico’s UNESCO World Heritage Sites; An Armchair Tour
  • Mexico City Seen Through Its Art
  • National Museum of Anthropology: Right Wing
  • National Museum of Anthropology: Left Wing
  • National Museum of Anthropology:  Ethnographic Halls
  • The Hidden Museums of Mexico
  • The Charms of Chiapas
  • The Pleasures of Puebla: A Virtual Tour
  • Zipping Through Zacatecas
  • Hidalgo State:  From Poor to Powerful
  • Reforma Avenue: A Microcosm of Mexico

 

Shaping A Nation (history series can be given independently or as a series)

  • Mesoamerica – Mexico Before the Conquest
  • Overtaking an Empire: The Discover and Conquest of America
  • III. 300 Years of Mexico’s History Erased:  The Spanish Viceroyalty (1521-1821)
  • Breaking the Chains from Spain: Mexico’s Independence
  • Maximilian and Carlota: Mexico’s Second Empire Gone Array
  • VII. Unravelling the Mexico Revolution
  • VIII.  Picking Up the Pieces:  Post-Revolutionary Mexico