Mark Petersen

Fire in the Amazon! Recap of the First Mate Monday of Fall 2019

September 18, 2019 Mark Petersen Comments 0 Comment

The Latin American Studies Concentration hosted its first Mate Monday of Fall 2019 on September 16th. Over twenty students and members of faculty gathered to get to know each other, enjoy some yerba mate (served both in the traditional, communal manner as well as in individual tea bags!), and chat about a pressing issue: the current environmental crisis in the Amazon. Most of the group had already seen the headlines from recent weeks: the Amazon is on fire. These fires,…

This Day in History: November 3, St. Martin de Porres

November 3, 2017 Mark Petersen Comments 0 Comment

In this LAS Blog series, you’ll learn about important events and people from Latin America’s rich past. This first entry is a timely one; with the Porres Lecture coming up on Monday, November 6th (7pm, Art History Auditorium), this is a great chance to acquaint yourself with the lecture’s fascinating namesake! So, here goes… St. Martin de Porres (Peru, b. 1579) died on this day in 1639. Porres’s origins are murky and clouded by centuries of hagiography, but most scholars…

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