Claudia Torres to speak on women at the UNAH

From Candice Bosse, Spanish and Women’s Studies:

I am writing to inform you of the upcoming visit of Dr. Claudia Torres, an event generously sponsored by A&H, WS, ML, Class of 1939, a generous Pepsi Grant, the Campus Commission on Diversity and Multiculturalism, and the Honors Program. Dr. Torres is a very widely published Honduran poet, eminent professor at the Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Honduras (UNAH), as well as very active in the Honduran feminist movement.

Born in 1962 in Tegucigalpa, she completed her undergraduate studies at the UNAH and continued to receive her MA and PhD at the University of Texas, Austin. She has lived in Honduras, the United States, and Italy.

She will speak on Monday March 8th at 7 p.m. in the Mabel Brown Room–In celebration of International Women’s Day, her presentation is titled “Unraveling the Spaces of Women in the UNAH.” Claudia will discuss what it means to be a woman with a PhD at a university where few women hold PhDs, and the subsequent treatment of those women. She will then extend this to women’s condition in Honduras given the changing political situation.

Please consider attending and also please encourage your students to attend. She has a sincere desire to meet and talk with students, and wanted me to convey the following: “I am open to any questions that not only pertain to my talk but also Honduras and Central American culture in general.”

Contact Candice with any questions.