lainformacion.com - Medio Oficial de los Premios Bitacoras 2009
enviado por
LATIN AMERICAN WRITERS INSTITUTE
The Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures
of
The City College of New York, CUNY
and
Colonial Latin American Review
are pleased to invite you to a
Conversation with Sergio Ramírez*
to celebrate its new
Graduate Concentration in Creative Writing
(beginning 2008-09)
within its
M.A. Program in Hispanic Literature
Date: Monday, 7 April 2008
Hour: 6:30 pm; Place: NAC 5/218
Sergio Ramírez was born in Masatepe, Nicaragua (1942). He is a leading Spanish American writer and intellectual who served in the government of Nicaragua during the period of the Junta of National Reconstruction and as vice-president of the country (1984-1990). An essayist, novelist and short story writer, he published his first collection, Cuentos, in 1963, and later graduated from the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Nicaragua of León in 1964 with a law degree. Ramírez has received numerous literary awards, including the prestigious Premio Alfaguara in 1998 for his novel Margarita, está linda la mar. Among his recent fiction are: Sombras nada más (1998), Mil y una muertes (2004), and El reino animal (2006).
*Conducted in Spanish
For information about the lecture and admission requirements to the M. A. Program
please contact
Professor Ángel Estévez,
Director, M. A. Program in Spanish
or call
1212.650.6731
Visit the Department on the web
<http://www.ccny.cuny.edu/foreignlang_lit/index.htm>
> Dear Seminar Members and Faculty Colleagues:
>
> We regret that an unfortunate accident suffered by Dr. Calvo's husband
> while traveling in Uruguay, prevents us from offering the program
> originally announced; we will reschedule Dr. Calvo's presentation for
> the Fall Term 08. Nevertheless, the Seminar will meet as scheduled on
> Thursday, April 3, 2008, the chairs will introduce and lead a
> discussion on the topic indicated below; in addition, the chairs will
> provide information recently made available concerning the current
> and future operations of the Seminar, members are kindly asked to
> attend.
>
> From Serious to Farsical: the Miseries
> of Diplomacy in Latin America.
>
> As regional problems continue conspicuously absent from the debate in
> the
> presidential primaries in the United States, as a region Latin America
> also
> continues its slide into irrelevance in world affairs. Recent bilateral
> and
> multilateral events have raised serious questions regarding the capacity
> of
> the countries in the region to work together seriously.
>
> We hope you may be able to join us for cocktails and dinner (approx.
> cost $25) at 5:30 PM in the Faculty House. In the tradition of the
> Seminar, the scholarly part of the evening will start at 7:10 PM in
> the Frank Tannenbaum Room (#802), 8th Floor of SIPA, 420 West 118th
> St. corner of Amsterdam Avenue.
>
> Kindly send your dinner reservation to our rapporteur Lillith Karen
> Coto: kmc2160@columbia.edu, or by FAX (212) 854 8248.
>
> Cordially,
>
> Eugenio Chang-Rodriguez and Martin Poblete
> Chairmen, University Seminar on Latin America