Renowned Hispanist García Lorenzo will share his latest research, "Fuenteovejuna/El Paso/Ciudad Juarez: Reception across the border," during a presentation in Spanish in the Isabella Cannon Room
García Lorenzo, renowned Hispanist, will visit Elon on Tuesday, April 5 to share his latest research, “Fuenteovejuna/El Paso/Ciudad Juarez: Reception across the border.”
In this presentation, he will take as his point of departure a 17th-century play that deals with a town that rebels against their unjust local authorities in order to protect one of their neighbors. This topic resonates in different ways today in the neighboring towns of El Paso and Ciudad Juárez right on the Mexican-American border. Since Dr. Garcia Lorenzo has taught in the Universidad de Ciudad Juarez, he will use his experience as faculty in the area, to compare and contrast this Early Modern struggle with the reality of today’s borders.
His talk will be in Spanish and will take place in the Isabella Cannon Room at 5 p.m. Light refreshments will be served.
Sponsored by the Arts & Sciences Fund for Excellence and the Department of World Languages & Cultures