Felix Manuel Burgos, professor from the Universidad Nacional de Colombia, is the first of four scholarly researchers scheduled to visit the University of New Mexico campus this summer to use the Latin American collections at University Libraries.
He will speak about his work in a talk, “Chronicles of Foreign Travelers in the Amazon Basin 1850-1930,” at a reception on Wednesday, July 28 at 3:30 p.m. in the Herzstein Room of Zimmerman Library. The talk will be in Spanish and a reception will follow.
Also visiting UNM this summer, are Juan Carlos Ramirez Rodriguez, M.D., from Universidad de Guadalajara, Amy Sellin from Fort Lewis College in Durango, Colo. and Anita Bravo from the University of Illinois-Urbana.
The Latin American and Iberian Institute (LAII) and the University Libraries Division of Iberian and Latin American Resources and Services (DILARES) are sponsoring the visiting researchers as part of an effort to promote scholarly use of the university’s Latin American collections.
For more information about the visiting scholars program contact Vickie Madrid Nelson at LAII, (505) 277-2961 or Carolyn Mountain, at DILARES (505) 277-0818.
Contact: Karen Wentworth, (505) 277-5627