Description: Speaker: Rebecca Janzen (Assoc. Professor of Spanish and Comparative Literature, Univ of South Carolina, Columbia), co-sponsored with Humanities Labs Project (Postcolonial Section). In this discussion of her research and recent book, Prof. Janzen explains how the interrelationships between the laws and constitutional amendments mirror Mexico’s literary production of the same period. More on her book at https://www.vanderbiltuniversitypress.com/9780826504449/unlawful-violence/