Annual Hispanic Heritage Lecture Series to begin Sept. 15
The University of Maine and CHISPA Centro Hispano will host the ninth annual Hispanic Heritage Lecture Series throughout September and October.
All lectures will be held at 6:30 p.m. Thursdays starting Sept. 15 at UMaine’s Arthur St. John Hill Auditorium, Barrows Hall, Room 165. The events are free and open to the public and include a reception following each talk.
The series kicks off Sept. 15, when Ángel Martínez Loredo, a higher education specialist with the Maine Department of Education, delivers the talk, “Status of Latinos in higher education.”
Other lectures are “My experience in Maine as a non-English speaking immigrant,” by Silvestre Guzmán, director of the Office of Multicultural Student Life at UMaine, on Sept. 22; “The pluralism of Latin American music,” by Stuart Marrs, music professor at UMaine, on Sept. 29; and “Hispanics helping people help the land throughout Maine” by state conservationist Juan Carlos Hernández and soil conservationists Misha Vargas and Luis Aponte with the United States Department of Agriculture’s Natural Resources Conservation Service, on Oct. 6.
Co-sponsors of the lecture series include the UMaine College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Department of Modern Languages and Classics, and Humanities Center, as well as CHISPA Centro Hispano.
CHISPA Centro Hispano is a nonprofit organization based in Bangor that aims to educate the state on Latino culture, heritage and language.
For more information about the series, or to request a disability accommodation, contact Maria Rave at maria.rave@umit.maine.edu or Maria Sandweiss at maria.sandweiss@umit.maine.edu.