THE UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN MAINE Women and Gender Studies program will hold its annual Women’s History Month dinner and keynote lecture on Friday. Award-winning novelist and City University of New York distinguished professor Elizabeth Nunez is the speaker. Nunez’s lecture is titled “Between Two Worlds: The Immigrant’s Price for a Better Life.” Nunez is the award-winning author of seven novels, including “Prospero’s Daughter,” “Grace” and “Bruised Hibiscus.” Her most recent is “Anna In-Between,” about the daughter of an upper-class Caribbean family with a successful publishing career in the U.S. who discovers her mother has breast cancer.
WHEN: 4:30 p.m. reception and cash bar in the University Events Room of USM’s Glickman Family Library, Portland, followed by dinner (sold out). 7:30 p.m. lecture in USM’s Talbot Lecture Hall in USM’s Luther Bonney Hall, Portland
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HOW MUCH: The lecture is free.
TICKETS AND INFO: 780-4289
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