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January 22, 2003

LAMADRID TO BE HONORED BY UNM GENERAL LIBRARY

Enrique LamadridThe UNM General Library honors Professor Enrique Lamadrid, Spanish and Portuguese, as the 2003 Faculty Acknowledgement Recipient from the College of Arts and Sciences, on Thursday, Jan. 23 from 3-4 p.m. in the Willard Reading Room in Zimmerman Library.

Lamadrid, a New Mexico native, will present, "Tormentos del Coyote: Hybridity, Essentialism, and the Perils of Inter-Cultural Work."

A Rockefeller scholar based at the Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage, Lamadrid is co-founder of Conexiones, an intensive culture and language study course that takes students to Trujillo, Spain; Cayey, Puerto Rico; or Morelia, Mexico.

He studies ethnopoetics, ethnoecology, the folklore and folk music of the Southwestern Hispanics and Latin Americans, Chicano literature and contemporary Mexican poetry.

The UNM General Library's Faculty Acknowledgement Series was established in 1994 to honor outstanding faculty from each UNM school and college.

The event is free and open to the public.

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