Step into the world of Mexico’s independence movement with historian Pablo Piccato of Columbia University. Explore how writer, journalist and political leader, Carlos María de Bustamante, helped shape public debate, national identity and ideas of citizenship in the years leading up to independence. This lecture complements the exhibition Revolutions and Constitutions: Nation-Building in the Americas after 1776 and offers fresh insight into the cultural and intellectual forces behind revolutionary change across the Americas.

Location: Benson Latin American Collection (SRH 1.208)
Sid Richardson Hall
2300 Red River Street Austin, Texas 78712

About the Speaker

Pablo A. Piccato is Professor of History at Columbia University and a leading scholar of modern Mexican history. He holds a BA from the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México and master's and doctoral degrees from at the University of Texas at Austin. His research focuses on the political, social, and cultural history of Mexico, with particular emphasis on crime, justice, public opinion, and the development of the public sphere in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. He is widely recognized for his groundbreaking work on crime and violence in Mexico. His influential books include City of Suspects: Crime in Mexico City, 1900–1931, The Tyranny of Opinion: Honor in the Construction of the Mexican Public Sphere, and A History of Infamy: Crime, Truth, and Justice in Mexico.