Instituto Cervantes:
The Instituto Cervantes at Harvard University (FAS) is pleased to announce the following event which will be held on Thursday May 16th:
EL ESPAÑOL EN LOS EE.UU. Y LA POLÍTICA CULTURAL DE ESPAÑA EN EL MUNDO
Ignacio Olmos, Director del Instituto Cervantes de Nueva York
(Filósofo y economista, ha sido administrador del centro del Instituto Cervantes de Múnich y posteriormente director de los centros del Instituto Cervantes en Bremen, Múnich, Berlín, Fráncfort y Chicago. Actualmente es director del centro de Nueva York. / Philosopher and economist, he has been the administrator of the center of Instituto Cervantes in Munich and director of the centers of Instituto Cervantes in Bremen, Munich, Berlin, Frankfurt and Chicago. He is currently the director of the center in New York.)
Even though data regarding the rapid growth of Spanish in the USA need to be considerably relativized, the fact is that the fear of Spanish not only continuing its progress, but perhaps one day completely displacing English, has become widespread among certain English-speaking sectors. A fear that, while poorly founded, has given way to populist speech that picks up on old “English Only” campaigns that criminalize Hispanic communities. For more than 25 years, the Instituto Cervantes engages all around the world in a cultural policy based, on one hand, on the critical reflection on issues that concern all citizens, and on the other, on the “Ibero-Americanization” of all of its activities and the collaboration with all Hispanic communities. The future of Spanish will largely depend on the idea of unity of Spanish speakers regardless of their countries of origin.
Date and venue: 05/16/2019. 5:30 – 7:00pm
Observatory of the Spanish Language and Hispanic Cultures in the United States
2 Arrow St. 4th floor. Cambridge, MA. 02138
PLEASE RSVP: http://bit.ly/RSVPICNYC or info-observatory@fas.harvard.edu