{"id":1189,"date":"2019-07-17T18:18:02","date_gmt":"2019-07-17T18:18:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wcsu.wpengine.com\/news-archives\/campos\/"},"modified":"2019-07-17T18:18:02","modified_gmt":"2019-07-17T18:18:02","slug":"campos","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.wcsu.edu\/news-archives\/campos\/","title":{"rendered":"WestConn to host Chilean poet Javier Campos"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"content\">&#013;<\/p>\n<div id=\"sharingTools\"><!-- #include virtual=\"\/include\/sharingtools.inc\" --><\/div>\n<p>&#013;<\/p>\n<div id=\"breadcrumb\"><!-- #include virtual=\"\/include\/breadcrumb.inc\" --><\/div>\n<p>&#013;<br \/>\n    &#013;<\/p>\n<p><strong>DANBURY, CONN. <\/strong>\u2014 Western Connecticut State University\u2019s department of world  languages and literature, and the Spanish Honors Society, Sigma Delta Pi, will present  a conversation and poetry reading by Chilean poet Javier Campos. Campos\u2019 talk, \u201cUtopia, Dictadura, Exilo y Globalizaci\u00f3n\u201d will  be from 1 \u2013 2 p.m. on Monday, Nov. 26, in Alumni Hall on the university\u2019s  Midtown campus, 181 White St.  in Danbury. The  event will be in Spanish and will be free and open to the public.<\/p>\n<p>&#013;<\/p>\n<p>Campos  is an award-winning poet, author and a regular columnist for El Mostrador, a Latin American newspaper. He also  is an associate professor of modern language and literature at Fairfield University. <\/p>\n<p>&#013;<\/p>\n<p>WestConn Assistant  Professor of World Languages and Literature Dr. Galina Bakhtiarova is bringing Campos to Danbury.<\/p>\n<p>&#013;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cJavier Campos\u2019 visit is part of the Spanish poetry class  that I am teaching this semester,\u201d Bakhtiarova said. \u201cStudents who take this class  are majoring or minoring in Spanish, and many of them are of Hispanic descent.  Reading his poetry and meeting this accomplished poet, writer, journalist and  the first Hispanic full-time professor at Fairfield University  will be an inspiring and encouraging experience for them. <\/p>\n<p>&#013;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis event brings together WestConn\u2019s emphasis on learning  through difference and diversity, and the university\u2019s interest in the success  of our students, many of whom are Hispanic,\u201d Bakhtiarova added.<\/p>\n<p>&#013;<\/p>\n<p>For more  information, call Bakhtiarova at (203) 837-8734 or the Office of University  Relations at (203) 837-8486. <\/p>\n<p>&#013;<\/p>\n<div id=\"facebookShare\"><!-- #include virtual=\"\/include\/facebookshare.inc\" --><\/div>\n<p>&#013;\n        <\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#013; &#013; &#013; &#013; DANBURY, CONN. \u2014 Western Connecticut State University\u2019s department of world languages and literature, and the Spanish Honors Society, Sigma Delta Pi, will present a conversation and poetry reading by Chilean poet Javier Campos. Campos\u2019 talk, \u201cUtopia, &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1189","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wcsu.edu\/news-archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1189","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wcsu.edu\/news-archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wcsu.edu\/news-archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wcsu.edu\/news-archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wcsu.edu\/news-archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1189"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.wcsu.edu\/news-archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1189\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wcsu.edu\/news-archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}