Allen's lecture will be held at 7:30 p.m.
#UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA LAW PCLP LECTURE SERIES#
Laguna Pueblo writer and critic Paula Gunn Allen will be the final presenter in the Fall Poetics and Politics Series on Monday, Dec. The lecture series is held in conjunction with a graduate seminar taught by Professor Luci Tapahonso. Barreiro's lecture is the sixth of seven speakers in the Fall Poetics and Politics Series and part of a yearlong celebration of the twentieth anniversary of the American Indian Studies Program at the University of Arizona.
In 1977, Barreiro accompanied the Western Hemisphere Indian delegations that traveled to Geneva for the first United Nations conference on the rights of indigenous people.Ī reception and book signing will immediately follow Barreiro's presentation. MacArthur Foundation, the Canadian International Development Agency, the Smithsonian and the Council on Indigenous People's Economies. He has been an advisor to several Native nations and a consultant with the John D. Abstract: Epithelial cancers are among the most dangerous forms of cancer, often with five-year survival rates as low as 20. In addition to his scholarly contributions to the field of indigenous studies, Barreiro is also recognized for developing communication networks among indigenous people throughout the world. Title: Identifying the Spectral Fingerprint of Disease: Using Optical Imaging to Shed Light on Cancer. In 1993 he was declared one of the most influential 100 Latinos in the United States for his work in ethnic literatures. He has received numerous awards for his writing including journalistic prizes for best feature stories from the Native American Press Association and a best new fiction prize from the Los Angeles Times. Internationally known for his involvement in indigenous communities in North, Central, and South America and the Caribbean, Barreiro is the editor-in-chief of Akwe:kon Press and its journal, "Native Americas." Barreiro is also the senior editorial advisor to "Indian Country Today," the nation's leading American Indian news source.īarreiro is the editor of several books on indigenous American topics, including "Indian Roots of the American Democracy," View from the Shore: American Indian Perspectives on the Quincentenary," "Chiapas: Challenging History" and Panchito: Cacique de Montana." His work has appeared in numerous journals and he is also the author of a novel, "The Indian Chronicles." José Barreiro, a member of the Taino Nation of the Antilles and associate director of the American Indian Program at Cornell University, will give a public lecture on Monday, Nov.