Second Annual Student Symposium
on Latino/a Literature and Culture
Under the coordination of Dr. Roberta Fernández,
the Second Annual Student Symposium on Latino/a Literature and
Culture took place on Wednesday, April 23, 2003, on the UGA campus.
With the objective of giving students training in the professional
presentation of academic papers while also making the Latino/a
cultural presence felt on campus, the symposium was a three-part
program.
The academic portion took place from 10:10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
at the Tate Center and consisted of the presentation of selected
papers by undergraduate students enrolled in ROML 2550* (Fall
Semester, 2002) and by all of the graduate students enrolled in
SPAN 6800 (Spring Semester, 2003). Moderators were undergraduate
Spanish majors.
At noon, members of the UGA Salsa Group performed dance numbers
in the courtyard of Memorial Hall. This portion of the program
was coordinated by Natalie Cox and Megan
Crimmins, both of whom are members of the UGA Salsa Group.
Natalie was enrolled in ROML 2550 in the Maymester 2002 session
while Megan’s Honors thesis on “NAFTA and Its Effect
on Women and the Environment,” directed by Dr. Fernández,
played a major role in her being selected as UGA’s Outstanding
Student of the Class of 2003.
The symposium ended with a reception at the Center for Latin
American and Caribbean Studies where the UGA Salsa Band, under
the direction of Dr. Thomas Mc Cutchen of the
Dept of Music, played Latin music on the porch of the CLACS house
on Hull Street while the audience enjoyed refreshments in the
gardens.
The symposium was sponsored by the Center for Humanities and
Arts, Franklin
College of Arts and Science, the Office of the V.P. for Instruction-Minority
Advising Program, the Center for Latin American and Caribbean
Studies, the Hispanic Student Association, Sigma Delta Pi (the
National Honor Society in Spanish), and the reception was sponsored
in part by the Department of Romance
Languages.
For the full academic program and titles of papers presented
by students, please click on the following link: http://www.rom.uga.edu/aqui/schedule.htm
For a photograph from the front page of the Athens Banner Herald
(April 24, 2003) of two of the dancers who performed in the Courtyard
of Memorial Hall, please click on the following link: http://www.onlineathens.com/stories/042403/g_salsa.shtml
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