I traveled to Puebla, Mexico, to present a paper entitled "Mito, tragédia y compromiso en GOLPES A MI PUERTA de Juan Carlos Gené" at the 5th Festival/Colloquium of Latin American Theater (June 30-July 4, 1997). The paper examines how Gené, an Argentine dramatist, rewrites the Greek myth of Antigone in the context of Latin American political repression, USA military intervention, and the Christian dogma of Liberation Theology. The festival, sponsored by the Ministry of Culture of the State of Puebla, was dedicated this year to Mexican playwright Emilio Carballido. I have participated in the colloquium for the last three years.

Professor Pilar Moyano (Modern Languages) Attends Conferences in Ecuador and Peru

I presented a paper titled "Crisis y evolución de mitos crisiano-marxistas en la poesía posrevolucionaria centroamericana," at the 49th International Congress of Americanists which took place in Quito, Ecuador, this past July at the Pontifica Universidad Católica del Ecuador. The closeness of the change of millennium and the intimate relationship between past and present motivated the conference organizers to choose the motto for the 49 ICA: "To Meditate on the Past and Present of the Americas in Order to Plan Their Future." The ICA offered the opportunity for academic exchange to more than 3,000 representatives of varying human and social disciplines, all of them related to the study of the Americas. Papers were read in Spanish, Portuguese, French, English and German in numerous symposia on anthropology, archeology, art, philosophy, gender, geography, history, linguistics, literature, medicine and health, political science, etc.