Book Presentation: Pensamiento y acción en González Prada, Mariátegui y Haya de la Torre

Admission Fee: FREE for AS and QSSI Members; $10.00 for non-members.

Author Eugenio Chang-Rodríguez (Professor Emeritus, CUNY; Co-Chair, Latin American Seminar, Columbia University) will discuss his latest publication, which explores three foundational twentieth-century Peruvian intellectuals and political thinkers. The event will also include the participation of Professors Margaret E. Crahan (Columbia University), Aníbal González Pérez (Yale University), and Juan Carlos Mercado (CUNY). 

Pensamiento y acción analyzes the political ideology of three of the most important Latin American essayists of their century, and demonstrates how the essential ideas of González Prada—modernity and the liberation of the indigenous population—influenced his two disciples, who converted those ideas into the basic objectives of the socialist party and of APRA, founded by Mariátegui and Haya, respectively. 

Presented by the Americas Society, the Queen Sofía Spanish Institute, and Fondo Editorial Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú. Additional collaboration with the Consulate General of Peru in New York. In English.

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Eugenio Chang Rodríguez, a distinguished linguist and literary critic, has been awarded numerous accolades from language academies in Spain and Latin America, as well as doctorates honoris causa at international universities. He has served as a diplomat, as co-chair of the Latin American Seminary at Columbia University, and as president of the International Linguistic Association. His most recent publications are Una vida agónica: V.R. Haya de la Torre (2007), Latinoamerica: su civilizacion y su cultura  (2008), and Entre dos fuegos: reminiscencias de Europa y África (2009). He is an honorary professor at the Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos and emeritus professor at The City University of New York.

Margaret E. Crahan is the Dorothy Epstein Professor of Latin American History at Hunter College and The Graduate Center, CUNY. She is a senior fellow at the Center for the Study of Democracy, Toleration, and Religion and a senior research scholar at the Institute for Latin American Studies, School of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University. Crahan’s books include Africa and the Caribbean: Legacies of a Link, Human Rights and Basic Needs in the Americas (1979), and The City and the World: New York’s Global Future (1997).

Aníbal González Pérez is a professor of modern Latin American literature at the department of Spanish and Portuguese at Yale University.  He is the founder and general editor of the Bucknell Studies in Latin American Literature and Theory Series of Bucknell University Press. His most recent publications are Killer Books: Violence, Writing, and Ethics in Modern Spanish American Narrative (2002), A Companion to Spanish American Modernismo (2007), and Love and Politics in the Contemporary Spanish American Novel (2010).

Juan Carlos Mercado is dean of the division of interdisciplinary studies at the Center for Worker Education, CUNY and dean of continuing and professional studies. His most recent publications are Pedro Menéndez de Avilés: Cartas sobre la Florida 1555-1574 (2002), Menéndez de Avilés y la Florida: Crónicas de sus expediciones (2006), a translation into English of that work, Menéndez de Avilés and Florida: Chronicles of his Expeditions (2010), and an annotated edition of Juan María Gutiérrez's Escritores coloniales (forthcoming).

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