Speaker: Séverine Durin, Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios Superiores en Antropología Social (CIESAS)
Moderator: Ieva Jusionyte, Assistant Professor of Anthropology and Social Studies
One of the consequences of the militarized strategy against organized crime in Mexico is that thousands of people were forced to flee to protect their lives. However, in Mexico this is a reality denied by the authorities and under analyzed by academics, so Séverine Durin decided investigate it to understand and register it. She carried out a multisituated field work in the...
Speaker: Graciela Márquez Colin, Mexican Minister of Economy
Commentators: Gordon Hanson, Peter Wertheim Professor in Urban Policy, Harvard Kennedy School Rebecca Henderson, John and Natty McArthur University Professor, Harvard University
Moderator: Mark Wu, Henry L. Stimson Professor, Harvard Law School
Graciela Márquez Colín is a Mexican academic and economist. She currently holds the position as the Mexican Minister of Economy by President Andrés Manuel López Obrador.[1] Previously she was Professor of Economic History at the El Colegio de Mexico...
Mexican authors Octavio Paz, Carlos Fuentes, José Emilio Pacheco, Salvador Novo, Rubén Bonifaz Nuño, Rosario Castellanos, among others, have sought to use language to explore and recover the links between Mexico’s Indigenous peoples and its contemporary society. Focusing on Mexico's pre-Hispanic past, Juan Villoro will explore the intimate and evocative relationships among literature, archaeology, and culture.
Juan Villoro (b. 1956, Mexico City) is a prize-winning author, playwright, journalist, and...
Moderator: Mariano Siskind, Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures and of Comparative Literature, Harvard University
Juan Villoro (b. 1956, Mexico City) is a prize-winning author, playwright, journalist, and screenwriter whose work addresses an impressive array of topics with insight, dark humor, and irony: canonical Mexican literature; the Zapatista insurrection in Chiapas; the legacy of Mexico’s Cristero War; the intersections of popular television and fiction genres; and the social and cultural...
