Translator and author Ugarte visits UNI

As the 2019-2020 Hearst Lecture Series hosted by the UNI Department of Languages and Literature, approximately 50 students, faculty, and community members attended the lecture held by Michael Ugarte. Urgart is a professor emeritus at the University of Missouri-Columbia. His talk focused on his research into the colonial and post-colonial relations between Spain and its African territories. He gave examples of his experience as a translator of Afro-Hispanic literature through Guinean writers; photo.