The symposium La Universidad desconocida ("The Unknown University") is part of the public program organized around the exhibition Bajo un mismo sol: Arte de América Latina hoy ("Under the Same Sun: Latin American Art Today"), presented at Museo Jumex. It is also a recognition of the many debate platforms emerged recently to rethink the arts in Latin America and the conditions of their production. It proposes a dialog format in allusion to a hypothetical university formed by those who have revised and reformulated—through their writing, theoretical work, and curatorial efforts—the current position of Latin American art in a global context. The symposium will also encompass he study and presentation of dissident practices and cannibalization strategies, exploring the varied tensions that intervene this common space under a single Sun. The program for January 29th, starting at 3:00 p.m., features a conference by Enrique Dussel on "Epistemologies of the South," and the panelists for the first session are Cuauhtémoc Medina, Gabriela Rangel and Carla Stellweg, with Pablo Leon de la Barra officiating as moderator. The topic centers on a series of debates and discussions around the relevance of Latin America in the art field, including an interrogation of the term "Latin American Art," and delves into the social, political, economic, and cultural specificities that are inscribed into an artistic production always aware of the context from which it emerges. The panel for the second session features Miguel López, Carlos Motta and Mariana Botey; Deborah Dorotinksy is the moderator. This roundtable revisits the notion of the mestizaje of stories as the discursive axis for several Latin American narratives, on the basis of the exhibition Historias mestizas ("Mestizo Histories"), organized by Adriano Pedrosa and Lilia Moritz Schwarcz. The program for January 30th kicks off at 2:00 p.m. with a conference by Ticio Escobar. The first session will debate the role of museums as spaces for collection, exhibition, and continuity, as well as the urgency of articulating new culturally specific models committed to the de-colonization of the modern, Western canon. The panel will include Adriano Pedrosa, Artistic Director of the Museu de Arte de São Paulo (MASP), Brazil; Natalia Majluf, Director of the Museo de Arte de Lima (MALI), Peru; and Stefan Benchoam, co-founder and co-Director of the Nuevo Museo de Arte Contemporáneo in Guatemala. Julieta González will moderate this panel. The second session of the day will engage and question the binary oppositions that have marked thinking about Latin America. The focus will be on the center/periphery dialectic, seeking to illuminate the conditions for cultural and artistic production in the periphery of the periphery, via the concrete experiences of curators and theorists working in such sites. Sara Herman, Raquel Schwartz and Rosina Cazali will participate in this panel, with Emiliano Valdés as moderator. At 7:00 p.m., artist Alfredo Jaar will present some aspects of his work in connection to the Latin American problem, especially on the basis of his A Logo for America, on display at Gallery 2B in Museo Jumex and scheduled for temporary exhibit on the screens of the National Auditorium on January 29th and 30th. The activation of Jaar's work at the National Auditorium reproduces the computer animation made in 1987 for Times Square, in New York City. Free transportation to the Auditorium will be provided for participants.