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Sunday, February 8, 2015
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Monday, February 9, 2015
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Tuesday, February 10, 2015
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Wednesday, February 11, 2015
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Thursday, February 12, 2015
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Friday, February 13, 2015
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February 13, 2015 -Carmen Boullosa: “Texas: The Great Theft”
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February 13, 2015 -“Polly Want a Caesar? Talking Birds and Prophetic Birds in Early Imperial Rome”
Carmen Boullosa: “Texas: The Great Theft”
Carmen Boullosa is one of Mexico’s leading novelists, poets, and playwrights, whose works interweave speculative, historical, and psychological themes with a powerful feminist point of view and a sharp satirical wit. She has published fifteen novels, among them El complot de los románticos (winner of the Premio de Novela Café Gijón in 2008), Las paredes […]
“Polly Want a Caesar? Talking Birds and Prophetic Birds in Early Imperial Rome”
In Republican Rome, birds had served as the messengers of the gods, communicating in ways that only a few religious specialists could fully understand and interpret. At the turn of the first century CE, these same birds began to speak plain Latin, apparently endorsing the new regime of the Caesars in language that anyone could […]
Saturday, February 14, 2015
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