Events to Focus on Latin-American Literary Figures

Release Date: February 13, 2002 This content is archived.

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BUFFALO, N.Y. -- Lisa Block de Behar, noted Jorge Luis Borges scholar, will participate in a series of events focusing on major Latin-American literary figures and interpretive practices to be held at the University at Buffalo on Feb. 18-20.

The visit by Block de Behar, professor of semiotics and theory of interpretation in the Department of Communication Sciences at the Universidad de la Republica in Montevideo, Uruguay, will be sponsored by UB's Institute for Research and Education on Women and Gender (IREWG) and the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures in the UB College of Arts and Sciences. It will be part of IREWG's Distinguished Speaker's Series.

Her visit to UB will be co-sponsored by Dennis Tedlock, James McNulty Chair, in the Department of English, and Jorge J.E. Gracia, Samuel P. Capen Chair in the Department of Philosophy.

All events will take place in 930 Clemens Hall on the UB North (Amherst) Campus. They will be free and open to the public.

At 1 p.m. on Feb. 18, Block de Behar will present a seminar in Spanish on the late José Enrique Rodó, Uruguayan essayist, literary critic, philosopher and author.

At 2 p.m. on Feb. 19, she will present a lecture in English titled "Borges and the Endless Quotation." A reception will follow the lecture.

In a faculty-student workshop at 10 a.m. Feb. 20, Block de Behar will address "The Rhetoric of Preterition."

Updates on the events are available on the IREWG Web site at http://www.womenandgender.buffalo.edu/calendar.html. For further information, contact the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures at 645-2191.

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