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
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.