Calendar of Events

Monday, December 17, 2012

Uncivil Wars: Elena Garro, Octavio Paz and the Battle for Cultural Memory in Mexico. Co-sponsored by the Hispanic Cultural Society and the Poetry and Literature Center of the Library of Congress.

A talk by Professor Sandra M. Cypess. Professor Cypess, University of Maryland, will discuss the lives of two celebrated literary figures who wrote about many of the same experiences and contributed to the formation of Mexican national identity but were judged quite differently, primarily because of gender.

Where: Mary Pickford Theater / 3rd floor, James Madison Building
When: Noon

Free and open to the public. Contact: cgom@loc.gov

Friday, December 7, 2012

Please join us at A Book Talk by Author Pedro Serrano
"Modern Poetry: T.S. Eliot and Octavio Paz". Co-sponsored by the Poetry and Literature Center of the Library of Congress.

Pedro Serrano, poet and professor in the Faculty of
Philosophy and Letters at the National Autonomous University
of Mexico, reads from his work and discusses the relationship
between the Modernist poets T. S. Eliot and Octavio Paz. 
The event is free and open to the public. Book sales and a
signing will follow.

Where: Mary Pickford Theater / 3rd floor, James Madison Building
When: Noon

Free and open to the public. Contact: cgom@loc.gov

Thursday, December 6, 2012

A Reading by Spanish Author Javier Cercas. Co-sponsored by the Poetry and Literature Center of the Library of Congress.

Javier Cercas, novelist and Professor of Spanish Literature at the University
of Girona in Spain, reads from his work and discusses the state of contemporary
Spanish literature. The event is free and open to the public.
Book sales and a signing will follow

Where: Room LJ-119 / Thomas Jefferson Building
When: 2 PM

Free and open to the public. Contact: cgom@loc.gov