Faculty members to participate in lecture series
University of Maine faculty members Constanza Ocampo-Raeder and Maria Sandweiss will present September lectures at Bangor Public Library. Their talks will be part of the Centro Hispano – The Hispanic Center of Bangor 2011 lecture series. That organization works to inform the community about Hispanic heritage and culture.
Ocampo-Raeder, a professor in UMaine’s Dept. of Anthropology, will present “Spanish is not my Mother Tongue: Resilience Among Indigenous Peoples of Latin America,” on Thursday Sept. 15 at 6:30 p.m. She will describe her 15 research, conducted over more than 15 years, working with indigenous people in the Amazon rainforest and Central America.
On Thursday Sept. 22, Sandweiss, a lecturer in Spanish, will give a talk entitled “Who’s an Alien?” A native of Peru, Sandweiss has lived in the U.S. since 1987, working at UMaine since 1995. Her presentation is also scheduled for 6:30 p.m.
Sept. 13, 2011
Contact: Joe Carr (207) 581-3571