St. John's News
St. John's CLACS Presents "Puerto Rico & The USA: Three Visions, Three Histories"
October 14, 2008
New York, N.Y. -
In celebration of Hispanic Heritage Month, the St. John's
University Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies (CLACS)
will be hosting a conversation with Jorge Rodríguez Beruff, Anthony
P. Maingot, and Hon. Judge Juan R. Torruella titled: “Puerto Rico
& The USA: Three Visions, Three Histories” in the auditorium of
the University’s Manhattan Campus on October 20 at 7 p.m.
Beruff, Dean of the School of General Studies at the University
of Puerto Rico; Maingot, Professor of Sociology at Florida
International University; and Torruella, United States Circuit
Judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit, will discuss
the history of the relationship between the United States and
Puerto Rico. The three experts have all penned books discussing the
histories of both nations.
Alina Camacho-Gingerich, Professor of Latin American Literature
and Culture and Chair of CLACS; will moderate the event and is
joined by discussants Michael Janeway, Professor of Journalism and
Arts at Columbia University; and José Raúl Perales, Senior Program
Associate for the Latin American Program at the Woodrow Wilson
International Center for Scholars. Together the panel will share
their expertise on the two countries.
For more information or to RSVP, please call (718) 990-5829, or
send an e-mail to clacs@stjohns.edu.