About Us 

The 2nd World Conference of University Researchers (WCUR)

 New York, August 22–24, 2019

St. John's University, Manhattan Campus 

Metropolitan Museum

United Nations Headquarters, and

 The New York Public Library, Stephen A. Schwarzman Building

is a group of academics that shares the mission of Sigma Delta Pi, the National

Collegiate Hispanic Honor Society (La Sociedad Nacional Honoraria Hispánica), to establish strong ties between institutions, providing a platform for discussion and a sharing of ideas between national and international writers, scientists, and researchers from all disciplines on Hispanic issues.

Advisors 

Mark P. Del Mastro, Executive Director, Sigma Delta Pi, National Collegiate Hispanic Honor Society, College of Charleston, Charleston, S.C

Marie-Lise Gazarian, Vice-President for the Northeast, Sigma Delta Pi, National Collegiate Hispanic Honor Society, New York 

Coordinator

Inés Mónica Sarmiento-Archer, Adjunct Professor, Adelphi University and St. John's University, and Director of bi/Coa: Base Intercultural / Community of the Americas, Member of The Queens Council on the Arts Junior Board (QCAJB)

Leonor Taiano, program in Spanish for the University of Notre Dame. Ph.D. Humanities and Sociology-Spanish Literature and Culture. University of Tromsø (Norway)

National and International Consultants

HE Carlos Garcia, Ambassador of El Salvador, Secretary-General of the United Nations Association of El Salvador

H.E. Carmen R. Velásquez, Judge of the Supreme Court in the 11th district of the State of New York

H.E. Rosalía Arteaga, President of FIDAL Foundation, Member of the Editorial Board of the Encyclopedia Britannica, Member of the Board of Directors of the Library of Alexandria in Egypt, Honorary Member of the Royal Academy of Doctors of Europe, and Former President of Ecuador

Pascal Mongne, Art Historian, Ecole du Louvre (Palais du Louvre, Paris); "Archéologie des Amériques", ArchAm (Cnrs-Université Paris I); French Committee for the Corpus Antiquitatum Americanensium (Union Académique Internationale); Gemeso (Mesoamerican Studies Group, EPHS, Paris) France

Myriam de Arteni, Senior Conservator for Exhibitions Program, The New York Public Library.

Raysa Amador, Chair of the Languages, Literatures and Cultures Department and Director of Latin American Studies,

Vicente Alcaraz García, the University of Alicante, President of CosmoArte Gallery, Spain.

Ignacio Ramonet, Le Monde Diplomatique in Sapnish, France
Juan Mezzich, Director at the Division of Psychiatric Epidemiology and International Center for Mental Health at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York University
Antonio Diez, Coordinator of the Area of Didactics of Language and Literature, Department of Innovation and Didactic Training, University of Alicante, Spain
Olga Castillo, Founder of Nurse School of Universidad Técnica Particular de Loja, Ecuador; Advisory member of the Health Area for Latin America at the 2nd World Conference of Universities 

Santiago García Álvarez, Universidad Central of Ecuador
David Sarmiento-Castillo, Archéologies et Sciences de l'Antiquité ArScAn-CNRS, France
Leocadia Diaz Romero, Professor Murcia State University, Spain

María Antonieta García Meza, Member of the Academy of La Música Boliviana

Carlos Aguasaco, Associate  Professor, Latin American Cultural Studies, Deputy Chair, Department of Interdisciplinary Arts & Sciences, City College/ City University of New York, Center for Worker Education

José Sarzi, Université d'Aix-Marseille, France

Javier Dario Restrepo, Universidad de Los Andes, Colombia

Ramón Abajo, President of the Vellum Page Study of Calligraphy and Illuminated Books, Spain

Leonor Taiano Campoverde, University of Notre Dame, editors of congress 2019

This year’s conference will pay special tribute to Sigma Delta Pi, the National Collegiate Hispanic Honorary Society, which celebrates its centenary (1919-2019) through the summer of 2020. Founded at the University of California Berkeley on November 14, 1919 by the undergraduate junior Ruth Helen Barnes, Sigma Delta Pi is the largest foreign language honor society in higher education in the US, with 625 chapters throughout the U.S. With its national headquarters at the College of Charleston in Charleston, South Carolina, Sigma Delta Pi recognizes and promotes outstanding academic achievement in Spanish language and Hispanic literature and culture.