The Ohio Latin Americanist Conference will take place at the School of Law's Gund Hall Feb. 27-28, bringing together scholars and students from all over Ohio and neighboring states who share an interest in Latin American issues.
Idelber Avelar, professor at Tulane University, will give a keynote address on protests in Brazil and the recolonization of the Amazon.
Avelar is the author of The Letter of Violence: Essays on Narrative, Ethics, and Politics (2004) and The Untimely Present: Postdictatorial Latin American Fiction and the Task of Mourning (1999).
The conference will also feature a roundtable on the new status of the Cuba-US relations, with scholars that flew directly from Cuba.
On Saturday, three Latin American poets—Roger Santiváñez from Perú, Diego Mora from Costa Rica and Cristián Gómez Olivares from Chile—will participate in a poetry reading.
All the events are free and open to the public. For a full schedule of events, including event times, visit sites.google.com/a/case.edu/olac-2015/.
