Maine Edge previews Hispanic heritage lecture series
The Maine Edge advanced the 2015 Hispanic Heritage Month Lecture Series to be hosted by the University of Maine and CHISPA Centro Hispano 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.” 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.