Community Conversations Featuring Marjorie Agosin April 2, 2009

Marjorie Agosin is an award-winning poet, human rights activist and the Luella LaMer Professor in Latin American Studies at Wellesley College. She has authored more than twenty books of poetry and memoir and has edited numerous anthologies dedicated to human rights in Latin America, Latin American women writers, and Latin American Jewish culture and experience. Among other topics, Ms. Agosin will speak about her experiences with Chilean women who protested against the terror of Pinochet’s regime by creating arpilleras, colorful tapestries which documented the loss of their fathers, husbands, and sons who were “disappeared” under the dictator’s rule.

This event is free and open to the public. This event is presented in partnership with the Allstate Foundation.

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