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Start: 03/18/2010 12:00

June Carolyn Erlick, author of A Gringa in Bogota, returns to a bustling metropolis and the echo of a distant rural war to talk at VFH's Festival of the Book. Talk Moderated by Tico Braun.

June Carolyn Erlick, editor-in-chief of ReVista, the Harvard Review of Latin America, is the author of A Gringa in Bogota, Living in Colombia's Invisible War and Disappeared, A Journalist Silenced. A Fulbright Fellow in Colombia and Guatemala, Erlick was a foreign correspondent in Latin America for 14 years.

Start: 03/18/2010 15:30

Temma Kaplan (Department of History, Rutgers University)
Title to be announced: Talk on women, water, and environmental activism

Lecture, Thursday, March 18, 3:30-5:00PM (Claude Moore Nursing Education Building G010)
Workshop, Friday, March 19, 10-11:30AM (Nau Hall 441 )

Professor Kaplan is the author of Anarchists of Andalusia 1868-1903 (Princeton University Press, 1977); Red City, Blue Period: Social Movements in Picasso's Barcelona (University of California Press, 1992; pb 1993); Crazy for Democracy: Women's Grassroots Movements (Routledge, 1997); Taking Back the Streets: Women, Youth, and Direct Democracy (University of California Press, 2004).

 

Start: 03/18/2010 18:00

Social Justice: The Power of Individuals
Bob Zellner (The Wrong Side of Murder Creek) and Paul Gaston (Coming of Age in Utopia) discuss how they came to challenge racial injustice as white southerners during the civil rights movement.

Hosted by Virginia Organizing Project.

VA Festival of the Book

Moderated by:
Angela M. Davis

Location:
City Council Chambers
605 E. Main Street
(434)970-3113
Venue Details



Corcoran Department of History
University of Virginia
Nau Hall - South Lawn
Charlottesville, VA 22904



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