Mostrando las entradas con la etiqueta Scotland. Mostrar todas las entradas
Mostrando las entradas con la etiqueta Scotland. Mostrar todas las entradas

lunes, 27 de junio de 2016

My 2016 Summer Trip: Scotland

"What did you do this summer?" is generally a first-day-of-class kind of question, but I will take the chance to answer it in detail here.

I don't generally travel far and wide during the summer. I'm a homebody, which means I enjoy staying home and working or doing things that count as working but are actually fun.

This summer, however, I went to Scotland to the Edinburgh 2016 Symposium of Mexican Studies and Students.

Yes, that is a pineapple. (No it's not, it's a thistle.)

I gave two oral presentations; one about conflicts of interest in Mexico, and another one, which I worked on with two colleagues, about corruption and the energy sector in Mexico. If you're curious about what I said, we can get some coffee and talk about it.

My example to explain conflicts of interest involved Lady Gaga.

Besides the academic stuff, I took the chance to do a bunch of other cool stuff, which I will list below: