Wherever I am, the world comes after me.
It offers me its busyness. It does not believe that I do not want it.
Now I understand why the old poets of China went so far
and high into the mountains, then crept into the pale mist.
"The Old Poets of China" by Mary Oliver

Asian Center Co-organizes Lecture on Carribean and Latin American Integration

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The Asian Center, University of the Philippines Diliman is co-sponsoring a public lecture by Professor Luis Britto Garcia, “Bolivar and the Latin American and Carribean Integration: Socioeconomic and Political Issues”, on Thursday, 9 October 2014, 2:30 p.m. to 4:00 p.m at the Pulungang Claro M. Recto, Bulwagang Rizal (Faculty Center), University of the Philippines Diliman.

Serving as one of the discussants is Dr. Eduardo C. Tadem, Professor at the Asian Center, who will compare the experiences of Latin American/Carribean in regional integration with those of ASEAN. Other co-sponsors of the lecture include the UP Third World Studies Center, the Philippines-Venezuela Solidarity Network, UP Diliman’s Department of Political Science, and the Embassy of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela.

Luis Britto Garcia earned a doctorate in law at the Central University of Venezuela and a Diploma in Advanced Studies on Latin America at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris. He is a Professor of Economics and Social Sciences at the Central University of Venezuela since 1988. He was conferred the National Prize for Literature of Venezuela in 2001 and in 2010 awarded the Alba Cultural Award in Letters. In 2011, he was awarded the Prize of Anibal Aquiles Nazoa for Journalism. He is a narrator, essayist, playwright, artist, and author of 65 titles.

View the program at the blog of the Third World Studies Center. For more information, please contact the Third World Studies Center at 981.8500 local 2488 or email: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.. 

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