{"id":40802275693,"date":"2023-08-14T16:51:23","date_gmt":"2023-08-14T20:51:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/?p=40802275693"},"modified":"2023-08-16T20:14:17","modified_gmt":"2023-08-17T00:14:17","slug":"prof-mora-ballesteros-lectures-at-instituto-caro-y-cuervo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/prof-mora-ballesteros-lectures-at-instituto-caro-y-cuervo\/","title":{"rendered":"Prof. Mora-Ballesteros Lectures at Instituto Caro y Cuervo"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Luis Mora-Ballesteros, Ph.D., a lecturer of Spanish in the World Languages and Cultures Department, was invited as a guest speaker at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.caroycuervo.gov.co\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Caro and Cuervo Institute<\/a>, Bogot\u00e1, Colombia, on Aug. 9 and Aug. 15.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In his first presentation, Mora-Ballesteros discussed the first two novels of his border trilogy, &lt;&lt;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/D%C3%ADptico-frontera-Trilog%C3%ADa-sombra-Spanish\/dp\/B0C5G9ZMYR\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">D\u00edptico de la frontera<\/a>&gt;&gt; (2020) and &lt;&lt;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/sombra-del-comandante-Trilog%C3%ADa-Spanish\/dp\/1387395602\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">La sombra del comandante<\/a>&gt;&gt; (2021), as well as the forthcoming novel, &lt;&lt;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/posible-Sur-Spanish-Luis-Mora-Ballesteros\/dp\/1387395599\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Ya no es posible el Sur<\/a>&gt;&gt;, that will conclude the series. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=KUy7AkCE1rk&amp;t=806s\">The interview, conducted in Spanish, was streamed live and is now available as a recording on YouTube<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In his second presentation on Aug. 15, Mora-Balleseros will speak on the topic, &#8220;Ciudad, dystopia y juegos de control en la novela\u00a0 latinoamericana de inicios del siglo XXI,&#8221; (City, dystopia and games of control in the Latin American novel at the beginning of the 21st century). The lecture aired live at 4 p.m. EDT on Facebook @InstitutoCaroyCuervoColombia, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=YIsoiHTsxL4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">with a recording now available at youtube.com\/@CaroyCuervoTV<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mora-Ballesteros was also interviewed for the Aug. 14 episode of the podcast, &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/episode\/0eEg7PRMDXxOYJoIJdNZal\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Esto No Es Una Frontera &#8211; Esto Es Un R\u00edo<\/a>&#8221; (This is not a border &#8211; this is a river), airing on Spotify.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" style=\"object-position: 23.18% 52.365%\" src=\"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2023\/08\/1688780889006.jpg\" alt=\"Spanish language flyer promoting a lecture by Prof. Mora-Ballesteros, on August 15, 2023. The flyer has a picture of a man, and details for how to watch lecture on facebook at 4 pm\" class=\"wp-image-40802275705\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2023\/08\/1688780889006.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2023\/08\/1688780889006-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2023\/08\/1688780889006-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2023\/08\/1688780889006-150x84.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=KUy7AkCE1rk&amp;t=806s\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" style=\"object-position: 81.505% 58.265%\" src=\"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2023\/08\/1691435142244.jpg\" alt=\"Spanish language flyer with details of Prof. Mora-Ballesteros' speaking engagement in Bogota Colombia on Aug. 9, 2023. 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In his first presentation, Mora-Ballesteros discussed the first two novels of his border trilogy, &lt;&lt;D\u00edptico de la frontera&gt;&gt; (2020) and &lt;&lt;La [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":282,"featured_media":40802269446,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[322,423],"tags":[],"person":[2905],"audience":[8],"school":[26,2023],"program":[],"class_list":["post-40802275693","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-faculty-accomplishments","category-faculty-perspectives","person-luis-mora-ballesteros-2","audience-faculty","school-school-of-humanities-and-social-sciences","school-spanish"],"squareimage":{"id":40802269446,"rendered":"<img width=\"6720\" height=\"4480\" style=\"object-position: 53.755% 41.3%\" src=\"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2022\/11\/Luis-Mora-Ballesteros-Headshot_20220831_AD_01.jpg\" class=\"attachment-full size-full\" alt=\"Head and shoulders image of a man wearing suit and tie. 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