The IHGC is proud to partner with the Global Spanish Initiative to offer a For the Humanities lecture and other events with Ignacio Sánchez Prado, with special guest Chef Victor Albisu.
Prior to Ignacio Sánchez Prado's February 12th lecture, “The Utopia of Humanities and the Right to Culture,” graduate students are invited to join him for a lunch discussion. Students are encouraged to come prepared with questions about Sánchez Prado's research, his experience in publishing, and/or the global humanities. Please REGISTER for the graduate student lunch by Monday, February 9th.
Students are encouraged to also join Prof Sánchez Prado's February 12th lecture and the panel discussion on February 13th, which will focus on Sánchez Prado’s recent book, Taco.
Ignacio M. Sánchez Prado is the Jarvis Thurston and Mona van Duyn Professor in Humanities at Washington University in St. Louis. His research focuses on Mexican cultural institutions with a focus on literature, cinema, art and gastronomy. He is the author of eight books including Taco (Bloomsbury, 2025), Strategic Occidentalism. On Mexican Fiction, the Neoliberal Book Market and the Question of World Literature (Northwestern UP, 2018) and Screening Neoliberalism. Transforming Mexican Cinema 1988-2012 (Vanderbilt UP, 2014). The most recent of his seventeen edited collections are Teaching the Mexican Revolution (MLA, 2026) and World Exhaustion in Latin American Literatures and Cultures, co-edited with Gesine Müller (DeGruyter 2025). He has published over one-hundred academic articles and chapters in journals and scholarly books across the Americas, Europe and Asia. His public writing has appeared in The Washington Post, Los Angeles Review of Books, Words Without Borders and other publications. He serves as editor of two book series: Latin American Cinema at SUNY Press and Critical Mexican Studies at Vanderbilt University Press. He served as the Kluge Chair for the Cultures of the South at the Library of Congress in 2021.