The Rafael del Pino Foundation is organising, on 23 June 2026 at 7 p.m., the Master Lecture «.«History, memory and the construction of the story. Spain and Mexico in the mirror"which will be given by Tomás Pérez Vejo.
Tomás Pérez Vejo D. in History from the Complutense University of Madrid and is currently professor-researcher in the Postgraduate Programme in History and Ethnohistory at the National School of Anthropology and History of Mexico (ENAH-INAH), a programme recognised as a Postgraduate Programme of International Competence. He is also a member of Mexico's National System of Researchers, where he holds the distinction of National Researcher Level III. Throughout his academic career he has carried out research and teaching work in various European and American institutions. He has been visiting professor at the Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas de España (CSIC), the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS) in Paris, the University of Cantabria, El Colegio de México, the Universidad Autónoma del Estado de Morelos and the University of Lyon, among others. His main lines of research focus on the processes of national construction in Ibero-America during the 19th and 20th centuries, relations between Mexico and Spain, and the political uses of images. He is considered one of the leading specialists in the study of nationalism, the narratives of nationhood in Spain and Mexico and the historical relations between the two countries. His publications include Nationhood, national identity and other nationalist myths (1999), Creole elegy (2010), Spain imagined. History of the invention of a nation (2015), Urban republics in an imperial monarchy (2019) y 3 July 1898. The end of the Spanish Empire (2020). In recognition of his intellectual career, he received the Encomienda de la Orden de Isabel la Católica in 2012 and the Mexican Order of the Aztec Eagle in 2018.
If you would like to attend, please contact the foundation by e-mail at confirmaciones@frdelpino.es.