Conferencia abordará el impacto de los latinos en Estados Unidos

Nuestro Instituto y el Núcleo Milenio para el Estudio de la Estabilidad en América Latina, le invitan cordialmente a la conferencia ¨La minoría que se convierte en mayoría: el impacto de los latinos en EE.UU.¨, que ofrecerá la profesora Emma Sepúlveda, académica de la University of Nevada, Reno, Estados Unidos. La profesora Emma Sepúlveda es Directora del Centro de Investigación Latino de la Universidad de Nevada, además de escritora, columnista y ensayista. La actividad se realizará el jueves 28 de noviembre a las 13.00 hrs., en la Sala de Profesores, 2º piso Facultad de Historia, Geografía y Ciencia Política.

La conferencia forma parte del ciclo Seminarios ICP que coordina la profesora Valeria Palanza. Los cupos son limitados y para asistir puede inscribirse aquí

Emma Sepulveda was born in Argentina and raised in Chile. She attended the University of Chile in Santiago, the University of Nevada, Reno and the University of California, Davis. She received her PhD from the University of California, Davis. Dr. Sepulveda is an accomplished author and co-author of 25 books of narrative non-fiction, memoirs, short stories, poetry, critical essays and textbooks. She has received two of the highest honors given to writers in Nevada, the Silver Pen Award, and in 2007 she was inducted into the Nevada Writers Hall of Fame (the first Latina/o to be inducted). In 2005 she received the Nevada Governor1s Excellence in the Arts Award. Nationally, she received the Mujer Award in 2009 given by the Latina Leadership Institute in Washington DC and the Willie Velasquez Award by the US Leadership Institute in 2010. Dr. Sepulveda also received the Latina Women of the Year in Literature Award by the Spanish Television Network, GEMS, in Miami, Florida. The same network produced and aired an hour program on Emma Sepulveda1s life as part a series on the women protagonists of Latin America and the USA. She was included in Edward Olmos1s national project, Americanos.