CO-SPONSORED BY THE LUIS B. EYZAGUIRRE LECTURE SERIES, THEDEPARTMENT OF LITERATURES, CULTURES AND LANGUAGES, EL INSTITUTO,& THE CENTER FOR JUDAIC STUDIES AND CONTEMPORARY JEWISH LIFE
UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT
DAY 1 | Wednesday, October 6 @ 3pm
The 2021 Luis B. Eyzaguirre Lecture
Prof. Marilyn Miller (Tulane University),
"Eduardo Halfon and the Itinerary of Memory"
Register Here: https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZAlf-GgqD8vHdB74QR_aGO96cyqBNEEC_P8
DAY 2 | Thursday, October 7 @ 12pm
A Conversation Between Eduardo Halfon
&Marilyn Miller, moderated by Avinoam Patt
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Marilyn Miller is the Sizeler Professor of Jewish Studiesand professor in the Department of Spanish andPortuguese at Tulane University. She is the author of Rise and Fall of the Cosmic Race: The Cult of Mestizaje in Latin America (2004) and Port of No Return: Enemy Alien Internment in WWII New Orleans (LSU Press, May 2021).
Eduardo Halfon is the author of fourteen bookspublished in Spanish and three novels published in English:
Mourning, winner of the International LatinoBook Award and Edward Lewis Wallant Award, finalist for the Kirkus Prize, Neustadt International Prize, and Balcones Fiction Prize, and longlisted for the PEN Translation Prize; Monastery, longlisted forthe Best Translated Book Award; and The Polish Boxer, a New York Times Editors’ Choice selection.
For more information, contact: El Instituto at elinstituto@uconn.edu