11/18/2025
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A Brief History of Violence in Mexico
Pablo Piccato (Columbia University)
Wednesday, November 19, at 12:00 p.m. (Eastern Time)
Online event | Register here: https://rutgers.zoom.us/meeting/register/yKhgurdrQjidNjxeOhzXtw #/registration
Violence in twentieth-century Mexico has a history, it is not the product of national character or an inevitable result of state weakness. In this talk, Pablo Piccato will examine different kinds of violence, situating them in time and explaining the justifications and practices that made them possible and enduring.
Professor Pablo Piccato’s research focuses on modern Mexico, particularly crime, politics, and culture in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. His most recent book is Historia mínima de la violencia en México [A Brief History of Violence in Mexico] (Mexico City, 2022), translated by Quentin Pope and published by the University of North Carolina Press in 2025.
For a sample reading of Prof. Piccato's book, please email Aldo Lauria Santiago at [email protected]
This event is part of the "Violences in Latin America" Talk Series
