Event: Associate Professor of Journalism Mercedes Lynn de Uriarte will give a lecture, “Ominous Parallels: El Salvador as Foreshadowing,” at the Harry Ransom Center about key U.S. activities in El Salvador in the 1980s and how those activities related to and shaped the media’s interpretation of later events.
When: 7 p.m., May 22, 2008
Where: The Harry Ransom Center on The University of Texas at Austin campus (21st and Guadalupe Streets). Maps of the University of Texas at Austin can be obtained at www.utexas.edu/maps/main.
Background: Before joining the School of Journalism, de Uriarte spent eight years at the “Los Angeles Times,” where she was an assistant editor of the Opinion section and a staff writer on urban affairs. In 1982, she became the first L.A. Times journalist awarded an Alicia Patterson Fellowship, which supports travel and writing for a year. She spent most of it in Central America, during a period of revolution. She subsequently headed an investigative team to Uruguay for the Committee to Protect Journalists as that nation moved from military dictatorship to restored democracy.
This lecture is presented in conjunction with the photography exhibition Inside El Salvador, which chronicles the height of the civil war in El Salvador in the early 1980s and depicts those directly involved with the conflict, including the guerilla forces and the army, and the war’s effects on the civilian population.
Contact:
Mercedes Lynn de Uriarte
(512) 471-1979