Activities and Announcements
¡La Mesa Española les da la bienvenida a todos!
La Mesa Española, the Spanish Table, brings together all members of the college community who desire to speak Spanish. It provides a friendly and informal atmosphere to Spanish-speakers of all levels. Anyone with an interest in Spanish is welcome.
Wednesdays
12:00 - 1:30
Haffner Dining Room
Mujeres and the Department of Spanish
present the
Latino Heritage Month Inaugural Lecture
"Empire’s Remains: Puerto Rico’s 'State of Exception’ After 1898"
by
Lázaro Lima
Associate Professor of Spanish
Tuesday, September 15
4:00-6:00 pm
Carpenter Library B21This inaugural lecture for “Latino Heritage Month” relates Puerto Rico’s political status as a “Free Associated State” (Estado Libre Asociado) with the emergence of contemporary understandings of U.S.“states of exception” that suspend the rule of law for the ostensible greater good of democratic governance. The lecture seeks to demonstrate how the discourses of law, science, and elite governance in Puerto Rico created the first territory in the Americas to achieve a middle class without a revolution, and the costs associated with this social experiment in empire building and population management.
