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Hispanic Cultural Heritage Month Lecture featuring Mercedes Julia, PhD
Villanova University celebrates Hispanic Heritage Month with a series of cultural events.
Please join us on Thursday, Sept. 18 at 3:00 p.m. in Speakers’ Corner of Falvey Memorial Library as Mercedes Juliá, PhD, professor of modern and contemporary literature and cultural studies in the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures presents a lecture in honor of Hispanic Cultural Heritage Month. Her talk is titled “The Inner Exile of Juan Ramón Jiménez.” Following Dr. Juliá’s talk, a bilingual presentation of Juan Ramón Jiménez’s Platero y Yo will be given. This event is part of the celebration of the Año Platero, commemorating the 100th anniversary of the publication of Platero y Yo.
This event, co-sponsored by Falvey Memorial Library, the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, Sigma Delta Pi and the Hispanic Honor Society, is free and open to the public.
