Catholic, Cuban, Historian: Carlos Eire’s Overlapping Identities
[special session]
Tuesday, October 7, 4:30pm
co-sponsored by St. Augustine Church
The Christian Study Center will host a session for coffee and conversation with Yale historian Carlos Eire, Professor of History and Religious Studies at Yale University, and author of Waiting for Snow in Havana: Confessions of a Cuban Boy, which won the National Book Award in Nonfiction, 2003. On Monday, October 6 Eire, a specialist in both the Protestant and Catholic Reformations, will be speaking at the University of Florida as part of the series “Faithful Narratives: The Challenge of Religion in History”, co-sponsored by UF’s Department of History, the Center for Jewish Studies, and the Christian Study Center. One of the issues this series seeks to address is how academics negotiate religious and scholarly identities. For Eire, there are at least three in view: his religion, his native country, and his academic discipline. In this session, Eire will answer questions and talk informally about how these overlapping identities function in his own career.
For a more personal look at Carlos Eire, click here to see an informative interview done by Barnes & Noble.
For a flier in pdf format to publicize this event, click here: Carlos Eire flier .
