Dario Euraque to Speak at Charter Oak Cultural Center

What: Dario Euraque, a professor of history at Trinity who had been serving until recently as director of the Honduran Institute of Anthropology and History, will speak on “Culture and Identity in Honduras Today.”

When: Tuesday, October 6, at 7 p.m.

Where: The Gallery of the Charter Oak Cultural Center, 21 Charter Oak Avenue, Hartford.

Background: In 2006, Euraque was appointed to a 4-year term as director of the Honduran Institute of Anthropology and History in the capital city of Tegucigalpa. His work at the prestigious Institute garnered international recognition from UNESCO and universities such as Harvard, Yale, and the University of California at Berkeley.

Euraque was nonetheless dismissed from his position after the June military coup in which the president of Honduras, Manuel Zelaya, was ousted. Euraque was viewed as a supporter of Zelaya, who is still trying to regain the presidency but to no avail. The illegitimate, de facto government of Honduras has been condemned internationally, including by the United States.

Euraque will be joined at the Charter Oak Cultural Center by photographer Pablo Delano, a Trinity professor of fine arts, and by Luis Figueroa, professor of Latin American history. They will discuss a book project entitled, Honduras: Portrait of a People, in which Euraque is collaborating with Delano.

In addition, the Charter Oak Cultural Center gallery is presenting an exhibition of Delano’s photographs, Inside Honduras. 

Euraque will also discuss the challenges of carrying out the ethnographic, archival, anthropological, and archeological work of the Institute in the context of the current political upheaval in Honduras.

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