Thursday, October 30, 2025 (5:00-6:30 pm Boston)
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The Observatorio del Instituto Cervantes at Harvard University would like to invite you to the conference Rosario Castellanos: árbol de muchos pájaros, where we will celebrate the centenary of Rosario Castellano's birth, one of the greatest poets in the Spanish language. Dr. Ana Laura Santamaría, a specialist in ethics and literature at the Tecnológico de Monterrey, will take us on a journey through the most significant moments in the writer's life and literary production. Castellanos' work, full of great beauty and philosophical depth, also contains multiple autobiographical references that Dr. Santamaría will help us unravel, showcasing the important poetic, narrative, and essayistic legacy of the Mexican author.
Ana Laura Santamaría, a graduate of the Dramatic Literature and Theatre program at UNAM, holds a Master's degree in Philosophy and a PhD in Humanistic Studies from the Tecnológico de Monterrey. She is the author of the books Implicaciones éticas de la Antígona de Sófocles. Una reflexión sobre el pensamiento trágico griego (Plaza y Valdés, 2009) and Desde la butaca. Teatro regiomontano en el fin del milenio (UANL, 2000). She has published various articles and book chapters in which she explores the work of Rosario Castellanos, as well as the relationships between dramatic literature and philosophy. For 13 years, she wrote theater reviews for the newspaper Milenio in Monterrey. She is the director of the Alfonso Reyes Chair at the Tecnológico de Monterrey, where she is also a professor in the School of Humanities and Education.