In 2014, The University of Texas at El Paso will celebrate the 100th anniversary of its founding in 1914 as the Texas State School of Mines and Metallurgy. Our Centennial offers not only an occasion to celebrate our distinguished history, but also a window through which we can begin contemplating our bright future as the first national research university with a 21st century student demographic. The Centennial Lecture Series invites noteworthy speakers to the UTEP campus to share their perspectives on a broad range of contemporary issues that are likely to impact our society, culture, and lives in the years ahead. We invite you to join us in exploring important and timely topics and in expanding our thinking about how they may help shape UTEP’s next 100 years.
President Diana Natalicio
and
The College of Liberal Arts
cordially invite you to attend a UTEP Centennial Lecture
“Lessons from Juárez and the Future of Mexico’s Drug War”
Ricardo C. Ainslie
Professor, Department of Educational Psychology
The University of Texas at Austin
Tuesday, October 22, 2013, 5 p.m.
Undergraduate Learning Center, Room 116, UTEP Campus
Reception to follow presentation
Ricardo Ainslie is a psychologist-psychoanalyst who uses books, documentary films, and photographic exhibits to capture and depict subjects of social and cultural interest. A native of Mexico City, he teaches at the University of Texas at Austin, where he is a professor in the Educational Psychology Department and affiliate faculty in the Center for Mexican American Studies and the Lozano Long Institute for Latin American Studies. His books include
No Dancin’ In Anson: An American Story of Race and Social Change (1995), The Psychology of Twinship (1997), Long Dark Road: Bill King and Murder In Jasper, Texas (2004), and The Fight to Save Juárez: Life in the Heart of Mexico’s Drug War (2013). His films include Crossover: A Story of Desegregation (1999); Looking North: Mexican Images of Immigration (2006); Ya Basta! Kidnapped in Mexico (2007); and The Mystery of Consciousness (2009). In 2011 he gave invited congressional testimony before the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Homeland Security on “U.S. Homeland Security Role in the Mexico War Against Drug Cartels.” In 2002 the Texas Psychological Association recognized him with its “Outstanding Contribution to Science” award, and in 2009 the APA’s Division of Psychoanalysis recognized his work with its “Science Award.” Ricardo Ainslie was inducted into the Texas Institute of Letters in 2006. In 2010 he was named a Guggenheim Fellow and also awarded a Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center Residency.