Refugees, Refuge, and Human Displacement
Wednesday, March 1, 2023
Starts at 4 PM
Via Zoom
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For any questions please contact humanities@ucmerced.edu
About the speakers:
Ignacio López-Calvo is a Professor of Latin American Literature and Culture and Presidential Endowed Chair in the Humanities at the University of California, Merced. He is also the director of the Center for the Humanities and author of 80 articles and 8 books. Professor López-Calvo's research focuses, for the most part, on two separate, albeit inter-related, issues: 1) cultural production by and about Latin American authors of Asian descent; and 2) the literary and cultural representations of the relationship between human rights, racialization, gender, migration, and authoritarianism.
Marjorie Agosin is a poet and human rights activist with a long career dedicated to the themes of social justice.In both her scholarship and her creative work, she focuses on social justice, feminism, and remembrance. Agosín is the author of numerous works of poetry, fiction, and literary criticism.Agosín has received numerous honors and awards for her writing and work as a human rights activist, including a Jeanette Rankin Award in Human Rights and a United Nations Leadership Award for Human Rights. The Chilean government honored her with a Gabriela Mistral Medal for Lifetime Achievement. Agosín is the Luella LaMer Slaner Professor in Latin American studies and a professor of Spanish at Wellesley College.
Anne Ashbaugh is professor and chair of Philosophy at Towson State University. Her areas include ancient Greek philosophy, Nietzsche, and the philosophy of literature.
