Photo by Urban Humanities Initiative The Urban Humanities lecture series - Ruben Gallo, Professor of Spanish and Portuguese at Princeton University, will lecture on material from his seminal book Mexican Modernity: The Avant-Garde and the Technological Revolution in conversation with UCLA Professor and Chair of Spanish and Portuguese Héctor Calderón, and with Urban Humanities Initiative core...

Photo by Urban Humanities Initiative The Urban Humanities lecture series - Noted Mexican author Ignacio Padilla, a founding member of the Crack Movement and author of Shadow Without a Name (2003) and Antipodes (2005), will discuss material from his book Arte y olvido del terremoto (2010) about the 1985 earthquake in Mexico City. In conversation...

—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...