Stella Pope Duarte participates in FESTIBA at UTPA
The library at The University of Texas - Pan American hosts a conversation with Duarte during the Festival of International Books and Art
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Mar 24, 2010 from 10:00 AM to 11:00 AM |
| Where | The University of Texas-Pan American, 1201 W. University Drive, Edinburg, TX 78539-2999 |
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The University of Texas-Pan American (UTPA) recognizes that literacy is a necessary component of life vital for success in school, career and every day skills.
Thus, UTPA created the Festival of International Books and Arts (FESTIBA) in 2006, seeking to increase the interest in reading, help improve the success in secondary and post-secondary education, and provide an educational opportunity for at-risk youth in rural communities.
Taking place from Monday through Friday of FESTIBA Week, one of the highlights of FESTIBA 2010 will be an extraordinary five-day academic conference funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) titled "Remembering the Revolution," which will examine the cultural, artistic, and literary impact of the Mexican Revolution on South Texas. NEH panels will take place from Monday through Friday and will include the following topics: contemporary border writers and the impact of the Mexican Revolution on Mexican and Latin American Arts, public health and gender issues during the Mexican Revolution, and many more panel topics!
For more information, please click here.
Call 1-888-432-4033, and reserve your spot today!
About Stella Pope Duarte
Stella Pope Duarte’s short story collection, Women Who Live in Coffee Shops and Other Stories (Arte Público, 2010), is the winner of the University of California Irvine's Chicano / Latino Literary Prize. She is also the author of three novels: If I Die in Juárez (University of Arizona Press, 2008), winner of the American Book Award; Let Their Spirits Dance (HarperCollins, 2002); and Fragile Night (Bilingual Review Press, 1997). Que bailen sus espiritus, the Spanish translation of Let Their Spirits Dance, was published by HarperCollins in 2003. She has twice been awarded a creative writing fellowship from the Arizona Commission on the Arts and is the recipient of the 2003 Arizona Highways Fiction Award. Stella Pope Duarte lives in Phoenix, where she writes and works as an educational consultant and human rights advocate.
