Liberation theologian Ernesto Cardenal spoke at CU 4/26-27
ERNESTO CARDENAL AT CU-BOULDER: TUESDAY, APRIL 26 AND WEDNESDAY, APRIL 27
Nicaraguan poet and liberation theologian Ernesto Cardenal spoke at two events at CU-Boulder in April 2011.  On Tuesday, April 26, at 10 am in Old Main Chapel, he gave a reading from his new book The Origin of Species.  On Wednesday, April 27, at 5 pm in Old Main Chapel, Father Cardenal lectured on "Liberation Theology in Historical Context" with a reception following in Humanities 350. This event was sponsored by the Departments of Spanish and Portuguese, History, and Religious Studies; the Latin American Studies Center; and the Graduate Committee on the Arts and Humanities.
Father Ernesto Cardenal is widely considered the most important living Latin American poet.  Twice nominated for the Nobel Prize for Literature, he has published more than 35 books of poetry since 1948, among them such masterpieces as Zero Hour (1960 in Spanish; 1980 in English) and Marilyn Monroe and Other Poems (1965 in Spanish; 1975 in English).  He served as Minister of Culture in Nicaragua under the Sandinista government and has long been a leader in the Latin American Liberation Theology movement, founding the Christian peasant commune on the islands of Solentiname in Lake Nicaragua and serving as field chaplain to the Sandinista National Liberation Front.  Father Cardenal visited CU-Boulder on a North American tour to promote his brand new book of poems, The Origin of Species.
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