Luis Eyzaguirre
1926-1999
The Center for Latin American & Caribbean Studies (now El Instituto: Institute of Latina/o, Caribbean and Latin American Studies) and the Department of Modern and Classical Languages at UConn created the Luis B. Eyzaguirre Lecture to honor the memory of Professor Luis Eyzaguirre, who taught Latin American literature and Spanish at UConn for 32 years. The purpose of the lecture is to provide students at UConn and the larger community of scholars an opportunity to experience the excitement and humanism of Latin America and the Caribbean's literature and culture. The Eyzaguirre Lecture series allows the University community to know the human side of Latin American and Caribbean Studies by bringing distinguished literary and cultural figures to the Center to share ideas and discourse.
2022
Jorge Felipe Gonzalez
“Cuba and the Establishment of an African Kingdom in the Age of the Slave Trade”
Jorge Felipe Gonzalez is a historian professor at the University of Texas at San Antonio.
2021
The Eduardo Halfon Mini-Symposium
Marilyn Miller
“Eduardo Halfon and the Itinerary of Memory”
Marilyn Miller is the Sizeler Professor of Jewish Studies and professor in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at Tulane University.
Eduardo Halfon
“A Conversation Between Eduardo Halfon & Marilyn Miller”
Eduardo Halfon is the author of fourteen books published in Spanish and three novels published in English.
2019
Lázaro Lima
“Being Brown: The Latino Question in the Democratic Commons”
Lázaro Lima is the E. Claiborne Robins Distinguished Chair in the Liberal Arts and professor of Latin American and Iberian Studies and American Studies at University of Richmond.
2018
Fernando J Rosenberg
“Human Rights and the Imperative to Reimagine the Planet. A Latin American Perspective.”
Fernando J Rosenberg is a professor of Hispanic Studies and Comparative Literature at Brandeis University.
2017
Vicky Unruh
“Casa tomada’: (Re)possession and (Re)conciliation with the Diaspora in Cuba’s Cultural Imaginary”
Vicky Unruh, Professor Emerita, is a professor at the University of Kansas and author of Latin American Vanguards.
2016
Daniel Alarcon
“Lost City Radio”
Daniel Alarcon is an assistant professor of Broadcast Journalism at Columbia University