Event | FILUNI Book Festival

Principal Juan Miró will join a delegation from The University of Texas at Austin attending the FILUNI book festival at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM) in Mexico City. Juan will participate in two events: a panel discussion of Miró Rivera Architects: Building a New Arcadia on September 1; and a roundtable about the establishment of a museum dedicated to the life and work of prominent Mexican architect Félix Candela on September 2. For more information, click here.

UT Austin is the first university from the United States to participate as guest of honor at the event, which is expected to attract more than 35,000 participants from 10 countries. This multinational book fair and conference will take place August 29-September 3 on the campus of one of the premier universities in Latin America. 

“Academic institutions produce positive societal change by creating environments that bring together talented people who consider, explore and develop ideas and solutions. FILUNI is an opportunity for UT to lead these conversations on an international scale and present the groundbreaking works of our leading faculty members and scholars on pressing issues such as artificial intelligence, seismic engineering, and water and the environment,” said Jay Hartzell, UT Austin president.

More than 130 UT Austin faculty members, graduate students, performers, staffers, campus leaders and alumni representing 20 of the university’s colleges, schools and units will travel to Mexico City as the largest international delegation in the university’s history. The University of Texas Press, a FILUNI participant since the book fair’s inaugural year, will showcase 600 of its titles, with more than 1,100 books available for purchase among 15,000 available at the fair’s on-site bookstore.