{"id":3695,"date":"2013-02-12T01:52:41","date_gmt":"2013-02-12T09:52:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cllas.uoregon.edu\/?p=3695"},"modified":"2014-02-17T09:15:10","modified_gmt":"2014-02-17T17:15:10","slug":"transnational-americas-series-truth-justice-and-the-power-of-imagination-a-latino-writers-transborder-journey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cllas.uoregon.edu\/transnational-americas-series-truth-justice-and-the-power-of-imagination-a-latino-writers-transborder-journey\/","title":{"rendered":"Transnational Americas Series \u2014 H\u00e9ctor Tobar \u201cTruth, Justice, and the Power of Imagination: A Latino Writer\u2019s Transborder Journey\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cllas.uoregon.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Hector_Tobar_Poster.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-3830\" alt=\"Hector_Tobar_Poster\" src=\"http:\/\/cllas.uoregon.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Hector_Tobar_Poster-193x300.jpg\" width=\"193\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cllas.uoregon.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Hector_Tobar_Poster-193x300.jpg 193w, https:\/\/cllas.uoregon.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Hector_Tobar_Poster.jpg 252w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 193px) 100vw, 193px\" \/><\/a>Knight Library<br \/>\nBrowsing Rm<br \/>\n1501 Kincaid St.<\/p>\n<p>The Center for Latino\/a and Latin American Studies and the Latin American Studies Program presents the second lecture of the 2014 Transnational Americas Speaker Series.<\/p>\n<p>H\u00e9ctor Tobar is a columnist for the <em>Los Angeles Times<\/em>, a Pulitzer Prize\u2013winning journalist, and a novelist. 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