Ignacio Padilla: “The Earthquake that Art Forgot” (respondent: Professor Maarten van Delden)

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The Urban Humanities lecture series – Noted Mexican author Ignacio Padilla, a founding member of the Crack Movement and author of Shadow Without a Name (2003) and Antipodes (2005), will discuss material from his book Arte y olvido del terremoto (2010) about the 1985 earthquake in Mexico City. In conversation with UCLA Professor of Spanish and Portuguese Maarten van Delden, and with Urban Humanities Initiative core faculty Todd Presner, Maite Zubiaurre, and Jonathan Crisman.