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Co-sponsor: “En ella Sor Juana encuentra una rosa”

October 4, 2024 @ 5:00 pm - 6:30 pm

Free

The Center is pleased to co-sponsor this event hosted by the Dept. of Romance Studies:

 

The Department of Romance Studies is holding a lecture to celebrate the career of newly-retired faculty member Rosa Perelmuter. Professor Perelmuter was an active participant with the Center for the past 20+ years.

 

“En ella Sor Juana encuentra una rosa”

with Sara Poot-Herrera (UC Santa Barbara)

The lecture will discuss an important figure in Hispanic colonial religion, itself highly influenced by the interactions between Jews, Christians, and Muslims in medieval Iberia.

October 4, 2024, 5:00pm, Dey Hall, Fourth Floor Toy Lounge.
Unfortunately this is the only fall date that worked for ROMS and the speaker.

 

Visit ROMS website for more information.

 

 

About Professor Perelmuter

Rosa Perelmuter was born in Cuba, completed high school and college in Boston, and received her Ph.D. in Romance Languages from the University of Michigan. As Professor of Spanish American Literature at UNC-Chapel Hill, she writes about Colonial authors ranging from Columbus to Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, and teaches about both Colonial and contemporary Cuban and Cuban-American writers. Currently Professor Perelmuter has turned her attention to her book-in-progress, Yiddish Cuba: Culture, Identity, and Community, 1920-1960, a project combining history, literary production, and public and personal memoir about the burgeoning Jewish community of Cuba.

 

 

Details

Date:
October 4, 2024
Time:
5:00 pm - 6:30 pm
Cost:
Free
Event Category:

Venue

Dey Hall