David Gewanter is author of three poetry books, In the Belly, The Sleep of Reason, and War Bird (all from U. Chicago Press), and co-editor of Robert Lowell: Collected Poems (FSG & Faber). His awards include the John Zacharis First Book Award, James Laughlin Award finalist, Ambassador Book Award, Hopwood Award, Whiting Award, Eisner Prize, Academy of American Poets prize, and others. He teaches at Georgetown and lives in DC. His new manuscript of poems is Fort Necessity.
1810 ~ 1910 ~ 2010 Mexico's Unfinished Revolutions
Session V: 1810, 1910, and the Idea of Mexico
Moderated by Estelle Tarica, UC Berkeley
Erika Pani, Colegio de Mexico, The Weight of the Past: History and the Invention of Mexican Identity
Claudio Lomnitz, Columbia University, The Partido Liberal Mexicano and the Idea of Mexico
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Chasing the Flame
Conversations host Harry Kreisler welcomes Harvard Professor Samantha Power for a discussion of her new book, "Chasing the Flame: Sergio Vieira De Mello and the Fight to Save the World." The conversation focuses on the lessons of De Mello's life for understanding the challenges confronting world order in the 21st century.
http://globetrotter.berkeley.edu/conversations/
CLPR Spring 2011 Speaker Series:
Rethinking Latino education in the Age of Global Vertigo
Marcelo Suárez-Orozco
The Courtney Sale Ross University Professor, NYU
The Fisher Membership Fellow
Date: October 28, 2010
Time: 3:00 PM -- 5:00 PM
Location: Shorb House, 2547 Channing Way, Berkeley, CA 94720
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