True Fictions from Spain & Latin America: Layla Martinez on "Dystopia in Times of Crisis"

Monday, November 14, 2022

10:30 am – 11:30 am EST/GMT-5 

Online Event

10:30 AM New York l 4:30 PM Vienna

This semester, Patricia López-Gay, Professor of Spanish Studies at Bard College, is opening her OSUN Online Course on "True Fictions from Spain and Latin America" to the wider Spanish-speaking OSUN community.

On Monday, November 14, Layla Martínez joins the class to speak about "The Future Is Ours: Dystopia In Times of Crisis."

Layla Martínez is a writer, editor, translator and public intellectual from Spain. She is the author of two best-selling books, the essay Utopia no es una isla or "Utopia Is Not an Island" (Episkaia, 2020), where she defends the political potential of utopia in the present and Carcoma or "Wood Worm" (Amor de madre, 2021), a highly original terror novel that addresses Spain’s historical memory.

This event will be conducted in Spanish. Join via Zoom by writing to Professor López-Gay.

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