Embassy Information
Embassy Event
SPEAKER ON CULTURAL DIVERSITY IN THE U.S. VISITS ARGENTINA
October 15-17, 2007
Dr. Neil Foley, Associate Professor of History and American Studies at the University of Texas, visits Argentina on October 15-17 to talk about Cultural Diversity in the United States. Dr. Foley is traveling to El Carmen, Jujuy, to meet with English teachers and students from the Luis Michaud High School and is also offering a free lecture on the same day at Club 20 de Febrero in Salta. While in Buenos Aires, Dr. Foley will participate in a roundtable discussion with Argentine experts in the field of cultural diversity.
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Public Lecture:
Tuesday, October 16 - 6:30 p.m.
Club 20 de Febrero
Paseo Güemes 54 - Salta
Entrance is free
About Neil Foley
Dr. Neil Foley is an Associate Professor of History and American Studies at the University of Texas. He received his M.A. and Ph.D. in American Culture in 1990 from the University of Michigan, an M.A. from Georgetown in English and American literature, and his B.A. in English from the University of Virginia. Professor Foley’s teaching fields include borderlands history, Mexican American history, the American Southwest, Race and Ethnicity in the U.S., social and cultural history of the U.S.-Mexico border, Mexican immigration and civil rights politics in the 20th-century United States. His book, The White Scourge: Mexicans, Blacks, and Poor Whites in Texas Cotton Culture, published by the University of California Press (1997), won the Frederick Jackson Turner Award of the Organization of American Historians, the Pacific Coast Branch Award of the American Historical Association, and five other awards. He is currently working on a book about African American and Latino civil rights politics in post-World War II U.S.
Professor Foley is a Distinguished Lecturer of the Organization of American Historians and has lectured extensively in the U.S., Europe and Latin America.