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# Vietnam vet to discuss war views By Daily Press staff
- URL: https://www.smdp.com/vietnam-vet-to-discuss-war-views-by-daily-press-staff/
- Published: 2004-09-27T15:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-23T05:13:55.000Z
- Author: Guest Author
- Tags: Education, Santa Monica, #archive-import

Jorge Mariscal, an activist, humanities professor and veteran of the Vietnam War, has some different perspectives on war. Come hear him discuss his work at a free talk on Tuesday, Sept. 28, at Santa Monica College.

Mariscal is an author and scholar from the University of California at San Diego, and the director of the Chicano/Latino/Arts and Humanities Program and associate professor of Spanish and Chicano Literature, specializing in 16th and 17th Century Spanish Culture, Chicano Studies, and U.S. Literature of the Vietnam War.

He is the author of the anthology “Aztlán & Viet Nam: Chicano and Chicana Experiences of the War” and “Contradictory Subjects: Quevedo and Cervantes in Seventeenth-Century Spanish Culture.” He was the co-winner of the Katherine Singer Kovacs Prize for outstanding book in English in the field of Spanish literature in both 1991 and 1992.

Tuesday’s talk is part of the ongoing SMC Literary Series, co-sponsored by the SMC English Department and the SMC Associates, a private organization that funds speakers and special programs on campus.

The event will be held at 11 a.m. in SMC’s Art Lecture Hall room 214\. Santa Monica College is located at 1900 Pico Blvd. For information, call (310) 434-4003.

*Originally published in the Santa Monica Daily Press print edition on September 27, 2004.* [Read the original PDF.](https://s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/smdp%5Fbackissues/092704.pdf?ref=smdp.com)