RADFORD -- Two international scholars will be on campus as featured speakers for the 2008 Virginia Humanities Conference, "Voices and Visions: Humanities in the Third World," on Friday, April 4. Faculty, students and staff are invited to attend their presentations.

Luisa Igloria, an award-winning poet and prolific writer of essays and short fiction, will present "The Interstitial: Notes on Poetry as Passage Through Worlds" in the Muse Hall Banquet Room, 1:30 - 3 p.m. Igloria, a native of the Philippines, teaches at Old Dominion University.

Susana Nuccetelli, a Hispanic philosopher born in Argentina and educated in Argentina, Spain and the U.S., will pose the question "What Is Latin American Philosophy?" in Cook Hall Room 107, 7:30 - 9 p.m. Nuccetelli teaches at St. Cloud State University in Minnesota.

RU philosophy professor and Virginia Humanities Conference president Kim Kipling is coordinating the conference. To learn more, visit the 2008 Virginia Humanities Conference Site.