2023-09-21 11:05:10
The director of the Cervantes Institute, Luis García Monterosigns today, Thursday, September 21, in Charlottesville (Virginia, USA), an agreement with the University of Virginia to establish the first presence of the Cervantes Institute in the area of influence of Washington DC, the federal capital of the United States .
On behalf of the University of Virginia, listed as the most important public university on the East Coast, they will sign the agreement Ian Baucom, executive vice president and chancellor; and Christa Acampora, dean of the Faculty and Graduate School of Arts and Sciences.
Dependent on the Cervantes Institute of New York, the extension at the academic institution will mainly develop professional development courses for Spanish teachers, a program of cultural activities and actions aimed at the dissemination of Spanish or culture in Spanish in the United States.
Professor Cervantes at the University of Virginia
Likewise, the extension will have the figure of a Professor Cervantesa professor of recognized prestige from the Spanish, Italian and Portuguese department of the university, selected jointly by both entities, with a four-year, renewable appointment.
Among his tasks, carried out in collaboration with the director of the Cervantes of New York, Richard Bueno Hudsonthere will be the promotion of cultural activities, the promotion of the activity of the Cervantes Institute in the country, and the dialogue with other American academic institutions.
The teaching center will also make its facilities available for the development of these programs, as well as for the holding of the DELE Spanish exams (Diplomas in Spanish as a Foreign Language). The agreement will be valid for four years, extendable.
Leading university in Spanish studies
Declared a World Heritage Site by UNESCO and founded in 1819 by Thomas Jeffersonthe University of Virginia counted among its students figures such as Edgar Allan Poe o Robert Kennedy and, among his professors, with the Nobel Prize in Literature, William Faulkner.
It is currently the public institution that receives the largest number of students in the Washington DC metropolitan area. More than 1,500 students study at the elementary and intermediate levels of the Language Department, which has forty Spanish teachers, making it one of the largest teaching centers of this language in the country.
New York International Book Fair
The program of activities of the director of the Cervantes Institute on the east coast of the United States will continue with his participation in the New York City International Book Fair (FILNYC), on September 22 and 23.
On Friday, at the Casa Hispánica at Columbia University (at 6 p.m., New York local time), García Montero will talk, in the round table “Goals and metaphors: when football and literature meet”, with the Argentines Jasmine Garsdjournalist, and Martin Kohan, winner of the Herralde Novel Prize. The conversation will be moderated by the Hispanic-American poet Carlos Aguasaco.
Finally, on Saturday (at 12 noon local time in New York), at the King Juan Carlos I Center of Spain, the director will participate in the “Lorca Evening”, on the occasion of the 125th anniversary of the birth of the universal author, with the writers Angels Gregori, Mario Obrero y Kirmen UribeNational Narrative Award. María José Gálvezgeneral director of Books and Reading Promotion, will moderate the meeting.
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