UC Riverside Department of Music presents:

Conference on Listening for Central America

Apr. 17 @ 9:30 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.

INTS 1113 Symposium Room

Conference Organizers

Dr. Bernard Gordillo Brockmann, Visiting Scholar, UCR Music Department

Prof. Walter Aaron Clark, Director, Center for Iberian and Latin American Music

A gathering of internationally recognized scholars and performers of music from Central America and its diaspora. This will include presenters from Central America, the US, Canada, and Mexico, on a range of topics exploring Central American culture and history, as well as the region’s connections to Mexico and the US.

Events are free and open to the public.

SPEAKERS:

• Sean Bellaviti, Toronto Metropolitan University, Canada
• Ireri Chávez-Bárcenas, Bowdoin College
• Luis Díaz-Santana Garza, Universidad Autónoma de Zacatecas, Mexico
• Amy Frishkey, University of Texas, San Antonio
• Sonia Medrano Ruiz, Universidad Autónoma de Zacatecas, Mexico
• Fernando Rios, University of Maryland, College Park
• T.M. Scruggs, Independent Scholar
• María Clara Vargas Cullell, Universidad de Costa Rica

SPONSORED BY:  The CHASS Dean’s Office, the Center for Ideas and Society, and the Center for Iberian and Latin American Music

Later on this date, please also join us for:

In Conversation with Carlos Mejía Godoy

7:00 p.m., UCR ARTS, downtown Riverside

Globally renowned Nicaraguan revolutionary singer-songwriter Carlos Mejía Godoy will talk (and sing) about his life, music, and Nicaraguan history.

PARKING

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