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LAWRENCE - Scholars whose work focuses on the literature of Latin America
will convene in Lawrence Oct. 4 to 6 for the annual Mid-America Conference
on Hispanic Literatures, to be held at the Holiday Inn Holidome in Lawrence.
Interested persons may register via the Web at www.kuce.org/app/mchl.
The conference is a joint undertaking of the universities of Colorado,
Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska, and Wisconsin and Washington University in St.
Louis, Mo. It provides a forum for the presentation of research on all
periods and genres of Spanish, Spanish-American, Portuguese, and
Luso-Brazilian literatures. Papers are presented in English, Spanish, and
Portuguese.
The conference will begin Thursday, Oct. 4, with a workshop at the Kansas
Union on "The Pedagogy of Literature," featuring keynote speakers Brad Epps
of Harvard University, William Rowe of the University of London, and Harriet
Turner of the University of Nebraska.
Besides roundtable discussions and paper presentations, the conference will
include a performance of "Baby Boom in Paradise," written by Costa Rican
dramatist Ana Istaru and performed by Kirsten Nigro of the University of
Cincinnati.
The conference is sponsored by the University of Kansas Department of
Spanish and Portuguese, Office of the Provost, College of Liberal Arts and
Sciences, Center for Latin American Studies, Graduate School, Hall Center
for the Humanities, and Continuing Education.
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