Latin American/Caribbean Speaker Series begins at UWSP
Scholars, artists, activists and other specialists will be invited to the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point to participate in the Latin American/Caribbean Speaker Series, a new series to promote awareness of political, social, economic, environmental and cultural issues in Mexico, Central America, South America, and the Caribbean region.
The series will begin Wednesday, Sept. 28, with a presentation, “Haiti and the Dominican Republic: An Ecological Contrast,” by Frank Moya Pons, who will focus on the contrasting environmental and socioeconomic realities of the island of Hispaniola, an island shared by Haiti and the Dominican Republic. The free lecture is open to the public and will be held at 7 p.m. in Room 221 of the Noel Fine Arts Center, 1800 Portage St.
Moya Pons, a well-known Dominican scholar, is the current president of the Dominican Academy of History and former minister of the Environmental Protection Agency in the Dominican Republic. He is also an expert on Dominican and Haitian political, cultural and environmental issues. A professor of history, he has taught at several universities in the United States, including Columbia University and the City University of New York. He has also been a visiting professor and guest speaker at several universities, most recently at Harvard University and the University of Florida at Gainesville.
Moya Pons has published 30 books and many scholarly articles. He has also published several articles in the “Cambridge History of Latin-America” and in “The Cambridge Histories Online.”
He received his doctorate and a master’s of philosophy from Columbia University, a Master of Arts in Latin American History from Georgetown University, and a bachelor’s degree in philosophy from the Universidad Autónoma de Santo Domingo in the Dominican Republic.
For more information about the series, contact Anju Reejhsinghani, assistant professor of history, 715-346-4122.
Skip to main content
