Seven books in one afternoon…

Seven professors from the Five College of MA Spanish/Latin American/Latinx Studies departments will present brief visual presentations on their recent books, in English. The event is open to the public and hybrid—one can attend in Dwight 101 on Mount Holyoke College campus or over Zoom.

Topics and genres will include:

• research on female agency in Latin American film, maternity in 16th-17th century Iberian Atlantic, the representation of disability in Filipino-Latino migrant culture, and resistance in Barcelona’s public spaces
• a critical edition of the 1946 memoir of a Spanish survivor of a Nazi concentration camp
• a book of poetry that explores gender, freedom, and the imagination

Respectively, presenters will be:
María Helena Rueda (Smith College)
Nieves Romero Díaz (Mount Holyoke College with co-editor Emily Colbert Cairns, Salve Regina University)
Sony Corañez Bolton (Amherst College)
Megan Saltzman (Mount Holyoke College)
Sara J. Brenneis (Amherst College)
Adrián Gras-Velázquez (Smith College)
David Rodríguez-Solás (Univ. of Massachusetts-Amherst)

Please join us!

This event is also being conducted over Zoom. As the host, Mount Holyoke College reserves the right to record this session and the event sponsors will give prior notification to event participants of any intention to do so. The recording feature for others is disabled so that no one else will be able to record this session through Zoom. At all times, no recording by any other means is permitted without prior written permission from the event sponsor or as an approved accommodation.