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Los organizadores de Cuando las ancestras hablan acaban de comunicarme que su evento tendrá lugar a las 2.30 de la tarde, hora de Halifax (AST) y no como lo indica el cartel difundido en el boletín a las 2.30 Central Time. Aquí está la información completa sobre el evento:
SEEDS for Change, in collaboration with Mount Allison University and Framingham State University, are pleased to host Lety Elvir in Honduras, as part of the Learning Without Borders Project. Please share it among interested parties.
Date: Thursday, February 11th, 2021 Time: 2:30pm (Atlantic Time, Canada) Registration is required: https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJIqde2pqT0iHdQQef-o08A9x6xOqe1zlHBf?fbclid...
Topic: Cuando las ancestras hablan... Time: Feb 11, 2021 02:30 PM Halifax
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About Presenter Lety Elvir was born in Honduras. She grew up in lands for banana plantations. Neoliberal and capitalist practices have transformed the land into horrible fields of African palm. She has been an organizer and activist since the age of 15 to demand democracy and the right for education and sovereignty for her communities. Her decision to pursue a graduate degree in Primary Education stems from her interest in liberation educational practices. She is a PhD Candidate in Literature and Arts in Central America. She has worked as a professor in the Department of Letters at the National Autonomous University of Honduras (UNAH) for more than 20 years. She is the author of Luna que no cesa (1998); Mujer entre perro y lobohttps://www.sampsoniaway.org/literary-voices/2016/05/04/three-poems-from-mujer-entre-perro-y-lobo-by-lety-elvir/ (2001); Sublimes y perversos (2005); Golpe y Pluma: Antología de poesía resistente escrita por mujeres (2009-2013); Her latest bookhttps://casasolaeditores.wordpress.com/2015/06/16/womens-poems-of-protest-and-resistance-honduras-2009-2014/, Honduras: Women’s Poems of Protest and Resistance https://www.amazon.com/Women%C2%B4s-Poems-Protest-Resistance-Honduras/dp/1942369026 (2015) received the International Latino Book Awards in 2016, the Best Design for a Book Cover, and Second Place in Best Poetry Book. As the recipient of the Fullbright Fellow (2006), she founded and led the cultural initiative “Nomade poetry” in a bilingual newspaper to publish Latin American and African poetry. She has been a research at the University of Leidenhttps://www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/news/2019/09/scholar-at-risk-lety-elvir-lazo-my-university-intimidated-me-too. She is interested in women’s literature, feminist and decolonizing theories and practices, and art.
Atentamente,
Wojciech (Voyteck) Tokarz, Ph.D. Secretario, Asociación Canadiense de Hispanistas Associate Professor and Chair Department of Modern Languages St. Francis Xavier University 420 Immaculata PO Box 5000 B2G 2W5 Antigonish, NS Canada Ph: 1-902-867 3376 email: wtokarz@stfx.camailto:wtokarz@stfx.ca https://wojciechtokarz.academia.edu/