Hispanic heritage lecture series announced
The University of Maine and CHISPA Centro Hispano will host the 2015 Hispanic Heritage Month Lecture Series throughout September and October.
All lectures will be held at 6:30 p.m. Thursdays starting Sept. 17 at UMaine’s Arthur St. John Hill Auditorium, 165 Barrows Hall. The events are free and open to the public and include a reception following each talk.
The series kicks off Sept. 17, when UMaine alumnus John Burns, an associate professor of Spanish and chair of the Department of Modern and Classical Languages and Religion at Rockford University in Illinois, will deliver the talk, “Aesthetic of the Rain: Translating the work of contemporary Chilean poet Raúl Hernández.”
Other lectures are “The most common endocrine diseases that affect the Hispanic population,” by Dr. Ana X. Mendoza Salazar, an endocrinologist at St. Joseph Hospital, on Sept. 24; “The Americas from a transnational perspective,” by Stefano Tijerina, the visiting Libra Diversity Professor in history and an adjunct assistant professor of political science at UMaine, on Oct. 1; and “Health disparities and challenges faced by the Hispanic population,” by Nilda Cravens, a registered nurse and lecturer at UMaine, on Oct. 8.
Co-sponsors of the lecture series include UMaine’s Department of Modern Languages and Classics, College of Education and Human Development and Department of English.
CHISPA Centro Hispano is a nonprofit organization that facilitates and promotes Hispanic social and cultural values in the Greater Bangor area. More information is on the group’s Facebook page.