[Reader-list] 17th B.N.Ganguli Memorial Lecture by Claudio Lomnitz on 'Mexico: Fantasy of the Family, Fantasy of Rule of Law'

[The Sarai Programme]

Centre for the Study of Developing Societies invites you to the
                     17th B.N.Ganguli Memorial Lecture


*       Mexico: Fantasy of the Family, Fantasy of Rule of Law*

                                    by *Claudio Lomnitz*


*                                   Shail Mayaram* will Chair


                                Friday, 20 February 2015, 5.30 pm

                                CSDS Seminar Room,

                                29 Rajpur Road, Delhi 110054

                                Please join us for tea at 5 pm




*B.N. Ganguli Memorial Lectures* are instituted in memory of the
distinguished economist Professor B.N. Ganguli, former Chair, CSDS Board of
Governors. Earlier speakers in the series include Professors Charles
Taylor, Rodolfo Stavenhagen, Raimundo Panikkar, Bhikhu Parekh, Ernest
Gellner, Ali Mazrui, Roberto Unger, Michael Walzer, John Keane, Amit
Bhaduri, Giorgio Agamben, Bina Agarwal, José Casanova, Partha
Chatterjee, Boaventura
de Sousa Santos and Dipesh Chakrabarty.



*Claudio Lomnitz* is Campbell Family Professor of Anthropology and the
Director of the Center for Mexican Studies at Columbia University. He
writes a bi-monthly column for the Mexico City newspaper *La Jornada* and
is currently the co-editor of the books series *Umbrales* published by
Fondo de Cultura Económica.



His numerous books include *Evolución de una sociedad rural*; *Exits from
the Labyrinth: Culture and Ideology in Mexican National Space*; *Modernidad
Indiana: nación y mediación en México*; *Deep Mexico, Silent Mexico: An
Anthropology of Nationalism*; *Death and the Idea of Mexico* and *El
antisemitismo y la ideología de la Revolución Mexicana*. His most recent
book is *The Return of Comrade Ricardo Flores Magón*.



*Shail Mayaram* is Professor at the Centre for the Study of Developing
Societies.


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