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SU LEGADO VIVO PARA EL SIGLO XXIRemembering Roque Dalton (1935-1975): His Living Legacy for the XXIst Century

80 ANIVERSARIO

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 8 | THURSDAY, APRIL 9

PHOTONICS CENTER Room 206 (2nd Floor), Boston University, 8 St. Mary’s Street, BostonFree admission, Activities will be in Spanish

PARTICIPANTS

MANLIO ARGUETA Novelist and poet, Director of the Biblioteca Nacional de El Salvador

JUAN JOSÉ DALTON Journalist, Director of ContraPunto

CARLOS HENRÍQUEZ CONSALVI Director of the Museo de la Imagen y la Palabra, San Salvador

DAVID HERNÁNDEZ Novelist and literary critic, Director of the Editorial Universitaria, Universidad de El Salvador; Advisor for the Secretaría de la Cultura de la Presidencia

JAMES IFFLAND Professor of Spanish, Department of Romance Studies; Director, Latin American Studies Program, Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies, Boston University

TINA LEISCH Director of the documentary film Roque Dalton: Fusilemos la noche/Roque Dalton: Let’s Shoot the Night (2014)

MAURA MENDOZA Salvadoran singer and song-writer

MARIO QUIROZ Salvadoran photographer; curator of the exhibit Roque Dalton’s “Love Poem”: Here and Now. Images of the Salvadoran Immigrant Community in New England

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 8 | 4:00-9:15 PM

4:00 OPENING REMARKS JAMES IFFLAND

4:15-5:00 MANLIO ARGUETA “Vida y compromiso del poeta Roque Dalton”

5:15-6:00 JUAN JOSÉ DALTON “Recordando a mi padre, pensando en el porvenir”

6:00-6:30 REFRESHMENTS

6:30-8:00 BOSTON PREMIERE OF ROQUE DALTON: FUSILEMOS LA NOCHE

8:15-8:30 REMARKS BY TINA LEISCHDirector of Roque Dalton: Fusilemos la noche

8:30-9:15 PANEL DISCUSSION ON ROQUE DALTON: FUSILEMOS LA NOCHE (PARTICIPANTS Tina Leisch, Juan José Dalton, Manlio Argueta, Carlos Henríquez Consalvi, James Iffland)

THURSDAY, APRIL 9 | 4:00-9:00 PM

4:00-4:45 CARLOS HENRÍQUEZ CONSALVI “Roque Dalton, indócil habitante del Museo de la Palabra y la Imagen”

5:00-5:45 DAVID HERNÁNDEZ “Roque Dalton: Poeta nacional de El Salvador”

5:45-6:00 MARIO QUIROZComments on the exhibit Roque Dalton’s “Love Poem”: Here and Now. Images of the Salvadoran Immigrant Community in New England

6:00-6:30 REFRESHMENTS

6:30-7:15 PANEL DISCUSSION: “El deber de preservar el legado vivo de Roque Dalton: desafíos y oportunidades”(PARTICIPANTS Manlio Argueta, Juan José Dalton, Carlos Henríquez Consalvi, David Hernández, Tina Leisch, James Iffland)

7:30-9:00 TERTULIA MUSICAL CON ROQUE DALTONRecital featuring Maura Mendoza, accompanied by Juan Pedraza, Iván Korn, Guillermo Ortiz, Frank Anes and Dyke Jack

RECORDANDO A ROQUE DALTONSU LEGADO VIVO PARA EL SIGLO XXIRemembering Roque Dalton (1935-1975): His Living Legacy for the XXIst Century

SPONSORED BY Voces Hispánicas/Hispanic Voices (an initiative of the Department of Romance Studies at Boston University, underwritten by Santander Universities Global Division). Santander Universities Global Division, whose activities form the keystone of the bank’s social action, maintains a stable alliance with more than 1,100 universities in the Americas, Asia, and Europe.

For more information please visit www.santander.com/universities.

Also sponsored by the Latin American Studies Program, Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies, Boston University