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Guest lecturer to speak about Peru; Newman to give update on College's arachaeology lab
Monmouth, IL (04/12/2019) —
Modern languages guest lecturer at Monmouth College to share research on Peru
A guest lecturer at Monmouth College will share her research about recent events in Peru.
DePaul University's Rocío Ferreira, an associate professor of Spanish and director of graduate programs in modern languages, will speak at 7 p.m. April 17 in the Morgan Room of Poling Hall.
Sponsored by Monmouth College's Department of Modern Languages, Literatures and Cultures, Ferreira's talk is titled "Women Shoot: Poetics of Political Violence in Contemporary Peruvian Culture."
Ferreira's research focuses on gender theory and contemporary Latin American literatures, cultures and visual arts. Her current book-length project addresses recent cultural responses to the Peruvian "dirty war" history (1980-2000) that resists amnesia. The project sheds light on the diverse ways culture has resisted silencing, oblivion and indifference, and has constructed alternative approaches to the understanding of traumatic reality through innovative reflections on the transmission of social memory.
Ferreira serves on the executive council of the Latin American Studies Association and the editorial board of Revista de Crítica Literaria Latinoamericana and Diálogo. She holds a doctorate from the University of California-Berkeley.
Monmouth's Newman to report on College's Archaeology Research Laboratory
The final Archaeology Lecture of the 2018-19 academic year at Monmouth College will feature a report on the College's Archaeology Research Laboratory.
Visiting Lecturer Alana Newman will present the report at 7:30 p.m. April 18 in the Pattee Auditorium of the College's Center for Science and Business. It is free and open to the public.
In 2010, the College received an anonymous donation of thousands of prehistoric Native American artifacts, including spear points, pottery sherds, ax heads and arrowheads. The collection represents human activity in western Illinois for the last 12,000 years.
The Monmouth College Archaeology Research Laboratory now houses this collection, which is one of the largest locally available for study. Students have been accessing and cataloging artifacts from this collection under the direction of four different lab directors.
Newman's talk will set the collection within the chronological sweep of western Illinois prehistory, provide an overview - complete with videos - of current student lab work and preview future avenues of student collection management including website development, database management and community outreach programs.
New to Monmouth's faculty this year, Newman earned her undergraduate degree in classical civilizations from Ohio University. She completed her graduate studies at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland, receiving a master's degree in classical art and archaeology and a doctorate in classics.
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