—a conference organized by Barbara Fuchs, UCLA The second part of Don Quijote, which turns 400 in 2015, provides a powerful example of early modern reflexiveness. The text famously comments upon its antecedent first part, its own decorum and verisimilitude, and the material circumstances of a text’s production and translation. Its Muslim “second author” and...

Photo by Uran Humanities Initiatives The Urban Humanities lecture series - Mexican architect Maria Moreno-Carranco, also a visiting professor at UC Berkeley and a research professor at the Autonomous Metropolitan University, will discuss her research on the development and impacts of the Santa Fe megaproject in Mexico City. In conversation with UCLA Assistant Professor of...

Photo by Urban Humanities Initiatives The Urban Humanities lecture series - Marisa Belausteguigoitia, Professor of Philosophy and Letters and the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, will speak on work related to her recent documentary film We Paint Ourselves: Art, Justice, and Gender, which tells the stories of 50 women at the Santa Martha Acatitla prison...

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