Francisco Goldman - "Can Mexico Save Itself? YoSoy#132 to Ayotzinapa and Beyond"
Department: Spanish and Portuguese
Date and Time: May 6, 2015 | 4:00 PM-6:00 PMEvent Location: HIB 135
Event Details
The disappearance of 43 students in Mexico last year set off set a series of important street protests and mobilizations that were widely seen as heralding a deep crisis in Mexico. Francisco Goldman emerged as an important voice translating the events in Mexico for a North American audience with his pieces in The New Yorker. In addition to writing for the The New Yorker, the New York Times Magazine, Harper's, The Believer, and many other publications Francisco Goldman has also published four novels and one book of non-fiction. His most recent novel is Say Her Name, which won the 2011 Prix Femina Etranger, and in 2014 he published The Interior Circuit: A Mexico City Chronicle. Goldman has been a Guggenheim Fellow, a Cullman Center Fellow at the NY Public Library, and a Berlin Fellow at the American Academy and he teaches at Trinity College (Hartford, CT) one semester every year.
Francisco Goldman will give a talk at UCI on May 6th, at 4PM, entitled: “Can Mexico Save Itself? YoSoy#132 to Ayotzinapa and Beyond”.