Events

Wednesday, September 26, 2007, 12-2pm

Professor Rivas is a scholar of contemporary Latin American literary, film, and cultural studies. His particular interests include nineteenth-century Latin America and the ideological legacy of Simón Bolívar. cultural resistance, non-canonical, subaltern, and testimonial literature, issues of representation in trans-american texts, and US Latino/a texts. His work also explores the politics of culture and media, and postmodern and postcolonial theory and criticism. Among his recent publications is Incursiones culturales: El testimonio guerrillero de Alí Gómez García (Caracas, 2006). Estado cultural his documentary film on the shifting paradigms of Venezuelan culture is now in post-production.

Latin American Studies Luncheon Series
A light lunch will be provided to those who register online by 9am on Monday, September 24, 2007. To register, please visit: http://webapp.mcis.utoronto.ca/EventDetails.aspx?eventid=4456

• note: screening will be in spanish, discussion in spanish and english