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Apr
27
2026

Buffett Conversation: Violence, Politics, & the Press in Mexico

When: Monday, April 27, 2026
12:30 PM - 1:45 PM CT

Where: 720 University Place, Second Floor, Reading Room, Evanston, IL 60208 map it

Audience: Faculty/Staff - Student - Public - Post Docs/Docs - Graduate Students

Contact: Buffett Institute for Global Affairs  
buffettinstitute@northwestern.edu

Group: Roberta Buffett Institute for Global Affairs

Category: Global & Civic Engagement

Description:

Join us for a Buffett Conversation on violence, politics, and the press in Mexico with Paul Gillingham, Professor of History at Northwestern University and author of Mexico: A 500-Year History; Javier Garza, the Mexican journalist who co-hosts El Noti, one of the most popular news podcasts in the country, and runs Horizonte Lagunero, a local news platform; Judith Matloff, Adjunct Professor at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism and author of No Friends but the Mountains: Dispatches from the World's Violent Highlands; and Andrew Paxman, Professor of History at the Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas (CIDE) in Mexico City and author of Mexican Watchdogs: The Rise of a Critical Press since the 1980s.

Lunch will begin at 12:15 p.m.

Please note that 720 University Place is not an ADA-accessible space. Increasing physical access to buildings and facilities is a goal of the University, but not all buildings and venues have been updated.

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