Abstract
The Center for Latin American & Caribbean Studies (now El Instituto: Institute of Latina/o, Caribbean and Latin American Studies) and the Department of Modern and Classical Languages at UConn created the Luis B. Eyzaguirre Lecture to honor the memory of Professor Luis Eyzaguirre, who taught Latin American literature and Spanish at UConn for 32 years. The purpose of the lecture is to provide students at UConn and the larger community of scholars an opportunity to experience the excitement and humanism of Latin America and the Caribbean's literature and culture. The Eyzaguirre Lecture series allows the University community to know the human side of Latin American and Caribbean Studies by bringing distinguished literary and cultural figures to the Center to share ideas and discourse.