Wednesday, September 27, 7 p.m.
St. Ambrose University's Rogalski Center, 518 West Locust Street, Davenport IA
Appearing in an event jointly sponsored by the Doctor of Business Administration Progam, Communication Department, Communication Center, College of Arts and Sciences, and Advancement and Alumni Engagement, international journalist and St. Ambrose alumnus Contreras will deliver a lecture as part of the school's Academic Project Series “Faces of Globalization.”
Contreras, a 1987 graduate of St. Ambrose who majored in Mass Communication and Philosophy, is a native of Tucson, Arizona, and has been living and writing from Mexico City and around Latin America since 1996. Having filed hundreds of news reports with political analysis from countries including Argentina, Bolivia, Columbia, Guatemala, Haiti, Nicaragua, Panama, and Venezuela, his pieces have been broadcast on CBS Radio and TV, BBC World Service Radio and television, and Al Jazeera English television. His area visit will find Contreras speaking on globalization in the 21st Century, and is being presented as part of St. Ambrose's year-long presentation of lectures, films, concerts, artistic performances, and exhibits on the effects globalization has had on religion, migration, war, finance, trade, culture, and the arts.
Living Globally will be presented at 7 p.m. in St. Ambrose's Rogalski Center Ballroom, admission is free, and more information is available by calling Duk Kim at (563)333-6169 or visiting SAU.edu. Follow Contreras on Twitter at https://twitter.com/FrancMex.
