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Events at CUA

• Saturday, April 3, 2004         Modern Languages Annual Colloquium  :  "Urban Landscapes and the Discourses of  Space"  For more more in formation click Here.
• Easter Tuesday, April 13, 2004
  • The Hispanic Pastoral Leadership Program and The School of Theologyand Religious Studies present Cardinal Oscar Rodríguez Archbishop of Tegucigalpa, Honduras, Development for all: a commitment for the Church in America.Location:Happel Room, Caldwell Hall Time: 5:00 Pm
• Thursday, April 22, 2004

          “BEYOND CHRISTENDOM: THE COMING GLOBAL CATHOLIC CHURCH”

Based on current demographic projections, by 2050 two-thirds of all U.S. Catholics, and half of all Catholics worldwide, will be Hispanic/Latino.  What are the implications for the Church, for Hispanics, and for nation-states?

  DR. PAUL SULLINS- CUA DEPT. OF SOCIOLOGY

 Life Cycle Institute’s Brown Bag Series Life Cycle Institute. The Catholic University of America 

         Location: LCI 201 North End of CUA Campus  Time: 12:00-1:00 p.m.

Bring and eat your lunch during the presentation.

• Monday, March 31, 2003, 4:30 p.m., LCI Auditorium

Dr. Alicia Partnoy, "I Lived to Tell: How Survivors Write Against State Terrorism."

Sponosred by the Department of Modern Languages and the Spanish Club

Dr. Alicia Partnoy is a Professor at Loyola Marymount University. Her works include: The Little School. Tales of Disappearance and Survival in Argentina; You Can't Drown the Fire: Latin American Women Writing in Exile; and The Discourse of Solidarity in Testimonal: 'Poemarios' from Argentina.

For information: 202-319-5240 or meneses@cua.edu

• Thursday, April 3, 2003, 4:30 p.m., Life Cycle Institute Auditorium

Sister Dianna Ortiz, "Torture in the 21st Century: Are You Safe in America?"

Sponsored by the Life Cycle Institute and the Latin American and Latino Studies Program

Sister Dianna Ortiz is the Director of the Torture Abolition and Survival Support Coalition and the author of The Blindfold's Eyes: My Journey from Torture to Truth. She was a torture victim under Guatemala's military regime and forced the Clinton administration to reveal CIA ties to the regime and its torturers.

• Tuesday, April 8, 2003, 4:00 p.m., McMahon Hall 209

Dr. Osvaldo Pellettieri, "Teatro Argentino Contemporaneo y Crisis Politica"

Sponosred by the Department of Modern Languages

Dr. Osvaldo Pellettieri es profesor de historia del teatro en la Facultad de Filosofia y Letras, Universidad de Buenos Aires e Investigador de CONICET (Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Cientificas y Tecnicas). Sus libros mas recientes son Cien Anos de Teatro Argentino: De Moreira Teatro Abierto y Una historia interrumpida: Teatro Argentino moderno.

• Here and There

Recently published by faculty in the program:

Lucy Cohen, Colombianas en La Vanguardia (Medellín: Universidad de Antioquia Press, 2001)

Anita Cook, Ritual Sacrifice in Ancient Peru, edited with Elizabeth P. Benson (Austin: University of Texas Press, 2001)

Virginia A. Hodgkinson and Michael W. Foley, The Civil Society Reader (Hanover, NH: Tufts University Press, 2003)