As part of Conferencias Caribeñas 11 Series, the Institute of Caribbean Studies at the University of Puerto Rico-Rio Piedras invites the academic community and the public at large to the lecture “La Batalla del Caribe durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial: La Guayana Francesa y la subalternidad de los puertorriqueños” [The Battle of the Caribbean during World War II: French Guiana and Puerto Rican Subalternity] by Dr. Humberto García Muñiz (Director, Institute of Caribbean Studies-UPR-RP). Historian José L. Bolívar will serve as commentator.

The lecture will take place on Tuesday, November 13, 2012, at 1:00-3:30pm at the Manuel Maldonado Denis Amphitheatre in the Carmen Rivera de Alvarado Building (CRA 108), School of Social Sciences, UPR-RP.

This lecture will be broadcast LIVE online through the following website: http://www.ustream.tv/channel/cc71***

Comments and suggestions on the presentation will be welcome at iec-ics@upr.edu

For further information, you may call Dr. Humberto García Muñiz, Director, at (787) 764-0000, extension 4212, or write to iec@uprrp.edu

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Photo of German U-boats during WW II from http://perrya.hubpages.com/hub/German-U-Boats-in-the-Caribbean-Operation-Westindien-1942