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| Lectures and Colloquia Wednesday, November 14, 2007 | 422 Griffin Hall | 3:30 PM | Solimar Otero | see downloadable, printable flyer | CIRCUMATLANTIC SPIRITUALITY: NEW ORLEANS AND THE CARIBBEAN Recent speakers in Spanish and Latin American Studies include renowned Guatemalan writer, scholar and literary critic Arturo Arias, Leonard Abrams, maker of the film Quilombo Country, Jean Dangler, Associate Professor of Spanish and Medieval Studies, Tulane University, Fr. Roy Bourgeois, M.M., Founder of SOA Watch, Ralph Lee Woodward, Professor Emeritus of History, Tulane University, and of Latin American Studies, Texas Christian University; Miguel Angel Santana, author; Federico Chalupa, Associate Professor of Spanish and Chair of Romance Languages, Bowling Green State University; Eugenio Matibag, Associate Professor of Spanish, Iowa State University; John Smihula, director of the award winning documentary Hidden in Plain Sight; the late Gérard Béhague, Distinguished Professor of Music, UT Austin; and Louis Pérez, J. Carlyle Sitterson Professor of History, UNC Chapel Hill. We are grateful to the Lyceum Committee of the Student Government Association, the Graduate School, the College of Liberal Arts, the Honors Program, the Departments of Anthropology and Sociology, History and Geography, Modern Languages, and Music, Sigma Delta Pi, the Spanish Club, and the Minor in Latin American Studies for making this series possible. |