Focus turns to Latin America for next President’s Lecture

Focus turns to Latin America for next President’s Lecture

Alma Guillermoprieto,
whose articles and books have focused on Latin America,
will present the second talk in the 2000-2001 President’s
Lecture Series Nov. 13.

She will give
her talk, “The Servant Text,” at 8 p.m. in the
Grand Hall of the Rice Memorial Center. Guillermoprieto’s
talk is the series’ Dominique de Menil Lecture.

Since joining
the New Yorker as a contributing writer in 1989, when her
first “Letter from Bogota” appeared in the magazine,
staff writer Guillermoprieto has written numerous articles
about Latin America, including reports on the uprisings
in Chiapas, Mexico, and about Pablo Escobar and the Colombian
drug cartels. Her article on the Shining Path in Peru was
nominated for a National Magazine Award in 1994.

Guillermoprieto
has written two books. Her first, “Samba,” was
nominated for the 1990 National Book Critics Circle Award.
Her second, “The Heart That Bleeds,” brings together
13 stories that originally ran in the New Yorker between
1989 and 1993.

In June 1995,
Guillermoprieto was honored with a MacArthur Fellowship
by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation in
recognition of her “accomplishments in journalism that
demonstrate originality, creativity and ability to make
a contribution to our life.” She is the recipient of
several other awards, including a 1985 Alicia Patterson
Fellowship, Columbia University’s 1990 Maria Moors
Cabot Prize and the 1992 Latin American Studies Association
Award. In 1994, she became the first recipient of the Samuel
Chavkin Prize for Integrity in Latin American Journalism.

To attend, enter
gate 13 off Rice Boulevard or gate 8 off University Boulevard.
Parking is available in lot E (near gate 13) and in the
stadium lot. A shuttle bus will run between the Rice Memorial
Center and the stadium lot from 7 to 9:30 p.m.

No tickets will
be needed for admission to the lectures. Seating will begin
at 7 p.m. For more information, call (713) 348-5585, e-mail <ricepls@rice.edu> or visit the Web at <www.ruf.rice.edu/~events/pls/>.