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Lectures and events
UPCOMING FALL 2009/SPRING 2010 LECTURES AND EVENTS:
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November & December. You are invited to a series of French films that will be shown (without subtitles) in room 1344HW at 7pm on Sundays. This event is organized by French instructor Tim Wilson. For more information click HERE.
December 29. Professor Fischer will read a paper in the 125th Modern Language Association Convention to be held in Philadelphia, entitled "'El Ojo Silva' de Roberto Bolaño o la ética arraigada de un cosmopolita". The panel Permutations of Cosmopolitanism: Bolaño and Others, was arranged by the MLA Division on Twentieth-Century Latin American Literature.
January 3-24, 2010 Study abroad! Italian Renaissance in Florence Program. Earn 3 credits during Winter Break. Study Literature of the major Humanist figures in Art, Politics, Philosophy and Science in English. Program Fee: $1,350.00 (estimate) includes housing, cultural events & breakfast. Airfare and tuition not included. Inquiries: Prof. Paolo Fasoli @ 212-772-5129 HW 1318 or Education Abroad Office: E1447. The Department of Romance Languages and Education Abroad.
March 4, 2010. Hostos Community College will host a round table to discuss the edited edition of La resaca by Enrique A. Laguerre La resaca, edited by Professor Marithelma Costa. The participants include Arcadio Díaz Quiñones, Silvio Torres Saillant, Alfredo Villanueva Collado, Orlando José Hernández and Marithelma Costa.
March 18-19, 2010, Professor Fischer will be the keynote speaker at The Politics of Literary Fame: Winners and Losers of the Nobel Prize in Literature. The two-day event has been organized by the Center for the Humanities and the Department of Spanish at the University of Wisconsin - Madison, as part of its Year of the Humanities celebration. http://www.humanities.wisc.edu/yearofhumanities.htm.
