Past Departmental Events

Spring 2011

• Of Bananas and Other Demons: Historical, Social and Political Perpectives on a Colombian Banana Plantation.
  Thursday, May 5, 2011
  Roosevelt 107, 12:45-2:10 p.m.

Fall 2010

• Speaking of African Material Cultures and Histories: A Workshop for New Research in African Studies
  Friday, December 10, 2010
  Leo A. Guthart Cultural Center Theater, First Floor Joan and Donald E. Axinn Lirbary, 1:30-6 p.m.
• Germán Santana Pérez
  Wednesday, October 20, 2010
  Breslin Hall 112, 4:30-6:00 p.m.
• Víctor F. Freixanes
  Wednesday, September 22, 2010

Fall 2007

• Visiting Presidential Scholar: Walter Mignolo
  Friday, November 16, 2007
• A Night of Poetry with Martin Espada
  Thursday, October 25, 2007

Fall 2006

• Rubén Darío: 90 Years Later
  Symposium
  October 27 and 28, 2006

Fall 2005

• Donato Ndongo-Bidyogo
  LITERATURA GUINEANA: UNA REALIDAD EMERGENTE
  April 3rd at 4:30 p.m.
• Fernando Arrabal
  "Comment je vis les (miracles et) cataclysmes de l'avant-garde"
  [How I Experience the (Miracles and) Cataclysms of the Avant-Garde]
  November 8th at 7:30 p.m.

• From the Heights of Machu Picchu: A Semester-Long Celebration of the Literature, Music, Film and Art of Latin America
  (This is a link to an Acrobat PDF file. If you need the free Acrobat Reader software, click here.)
• Don Quixote: The First 400 Years
  Thursday, Friday and Saturday, November 4, 5 and 6, 2004
• Mario Vargas Llosa: Celebrating the 40th Anniversary of La ciudad y los perros
  (The Time of the Hero) and other works
• Beyond the Patria: Exile, Border-Crossing, and Transnationalism in the Spanish-Speaking World
• Critical Conjunctions: Latin American and Latino Intellectuals at the New Millennium