The Mexican Cultural Institutes in Washington, D.C., and New York, N.Y.

cordially invite you to the Mexican poet and 1990 Nobel Prize for Literature recipient

Octavio Paz
10 years after his death

Participating Scholars:
Enrico Mario Santí (University of Kentucky, KY)
Yvon Grenier (St. Francis Xavier University, Canada)
Consuelo Hernández (American University, DC)

This tribute will touch on the most prevalent themes in Paz' works: poetry, language, society, humanism and liberatism in modern times; political philosophical and poetic thought in the modern intellectual as a means to enable a critical yet enlightening articulation of our contemporary world.

New York, N.Y. Thursday, May 22, 2008 From 6:30 to 8:30 PM King Juan Carlos I of Spain Center New York University 53 Washington Square South, Suite 201 New York, NY 10012 Tel. (212) 998-3652 www.mciny.org www.nyu.edu/kjc

Washington, D.C. Friday, May 23, 2008 From 5:00 to 7:00 PM The Library of Congress Mumford Room, sixth floor, James Madison Memorial Building 101 Independence Avenue S.E. Washington, DC 20540 Limited Space Available www.instituteofmexicodc.org www.loc.gov