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AMHERST, Mass.—The third annual Symposium on Transatlantic Visions will take place in the Alumni House at Amherst College on Friday, Saturday and Sunday, April 27, 28 and 29. Titled “Luso-Hispanic Voices: Nation, Language and Identity,” the symposium will feature three keynote addresses that will be free and open to the public.
Ilán Stavans, the Lewis-Sebring Professor in Latin American and Latino Culture and Five College 40th Anniversary Professor at Amherst College, will speak on “Nebrija’s Children” at 6 p.m. on Friday, April 27.
Barbara Simerka, professor of Hispanic studies at Queens College, will speak on “Distant Refractions: Don Quijote and Postmodern Cinema” at 11:45 a.m. on Saturday, April 28.
Onésimo T. Almeida, senior lecturer in Portuguese and Brazilian studies at Brown University, will speak on “Language, a Window into the World of Identity” at 12 p.m. on Sunday, April 29.
The Symposium on Transatlantic Visions is sponsored by España, Cooperación Cultural Exterior; the Amherst College Department of Spanish; Citizens Bank of Amherst; the Mount Holyoke College Department of Spanish; the Smith College Department of Spanish; The University of Massachusetts at Amherst, Spanish and Portuguese Program, Department of Languages, Literatures and Cultures and the office of the Dean of the Graduate School.
See the complete schedule.
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