Dolores Aponte Ramos, professor of Spanish at the University of Puerto Rico-Rio Piedras, will present a lecture titled "Performing Transgression: Race and Gender in Experimental Art in Puerto Rico" at 4 p.m. Monday, Oct. 20 in the Edmund S. Muskie Archives, Campus Avenue, Bates College. The public is invited to attend the event free of charge.

Aponte Ramos's Bates appearance is co-sponsored by the Spanish program, the Department of Classical and Romance Languages and Literatures, the Multicultural Center and the Office of Affirmative Action.