Dear all,
Related to the activism of 1968 that the UCIS centers are highlighting this spring, please take note of a very special event that the Center for Latin American Studies is co-sponsoring, along with the Center for International Legal Education (CILE) and the Pitt Law School.
Margaret Randall is a feminist poet, writer, photographer and social activist. She has published over 100 books, and has taught at several U.S. universities and colleges.
After living for extended periods of time living in Seville, Mexico City, Havana, and Managua (and for a short time in Vietnam), Margaret came home to the United States in 1984. The U.S. government, however, judging opinions expressed in some of her books to be "against the good order and happiness of the United States," ordered her deported, The Center for Constitutional Rights defended her, and many writers and others joined in an almost five-year battle for reinstatement of citizenship, which she won in 1989. In 1990 she was awarded the Lillian Hellman and Dashiell Hammett grant for writers victimized by political repression; and in 2004 was the first recipient of PEN New Mexico’s Dorothy Doyle Lifetime Achievement Award for Writing and Human Rights Activism. "The Unapologetic Life of Margaret Randall" is an hour-long documentary produced in 2002.
The event will feature a conversation between Ms. Randall and Prof. Jules Lobel of the Law School, who was part of the CCR legal team that defended her. The event will take place Thursday, 3/29, 12-1 PM in the Barco Law Building, Room 113.
In addition to this event, Randall will be speaking at the conference at the Hispanic Languages has organized to honor retiring professor John Beverly. The Conference is entitled: John Beverley And The Urgency Of Latin Americanism In Times Of Conflicting Globalization."
Posters for both of these events are available at the CLAS events website.
Scott Morgenstern
Director
Professor of Political Science
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