November 2014 Newsletter

ULI QUETZAPUGTLMy November newsletter chock full of articles, podcasts, events, workshops, and more, has just gone out into the ethers of email via the ever-fabulously silly Mailchimp. (The best part is the chimpy high-five when you hit the send button.) Read the November...

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Cyberflanerie: Naomi Shihab Nye, Chinese Chicken Pop, Ye Olde Checkers, Cool Tool for Creating Timewealth, Clay Shirky, Susan J. Tweit

Wang Rong Rollin does the chicken thingWhatever has befallen you, you will feel better when you read Naomi Shihab Nye's "Gate A-4"Soup or silly: Chinese Chicken Pop (does anyone remember the days of Mao pajamas? I visited in 1982 and now it seems like a surrealistic...

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Lifting the (Very Heavy) Curtain on the Leader of Mexico's 1910 Revolution

MANUEL GUERRA DE LUNAC.M. MAYOALEJANDRO ROSAS ROBLESNovember 18, 2014Though the recent protests in Mexico City's historic center have made it impossible to continue the lecture series on Francisco I. Madero as originally scheduled in the National Palace, the lectures continue...

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Why Translate? The Case of the President of Mexico's Secret Book

Just back from ALTA, the American Literary Translators Association conference held this year in (brrr) Milwaukee, which had the theme "Politics & Translation." If you've been following this blog, you've already read reams about my latest book which is, indeed, about politics: Metaphysical...

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In Mexico's National Palace: Dr. Yolia Tortolero Cervantes and Her Pathbreaking Work on Francisco I. Madero, El espiritismo seduce a Francisco Madero

THE LECTURE SERIES IN MEXICO CITY'S NATIONAL PALACE: "FRANCISCO I. MADERO: FROM SPIRITISM TO THE BHAGAVAD-GITA AND OTHER ESOTERIC INFLUENCES"Last Thursday in Mexico's National Palace (Palacio Nacional), I had the great honor of introducing both the lecture series,...

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