Burbach

Historian Roger J. Burbach is scheduled to speak and sign copies of two of his latest books at 7 p.m., Thursday, at the Main Street Forum at Main Street Cafe & Books, 134 Main St., Los Altos.

Burbach’s academic specialties are U.S. and Latin American history. He is the director of research and publication at the Center for the Study of the Americas (CENSA), based in Berkeley. CENSA is a non-profit organization focused, in its first decade, on Central America and the Sandinista revolution.

With the fall of the Berlin Wall and the collapse of the Soviet Union, CENSA expanded its activities into studying critical events in other parts of the world, including the transition to democracy in Chile, the Zapatista rebellion in Mexico and the nature of the new societies taking shape in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union.

Burbach is a visiting scholar at the Institute of International Studies and a visiting scholar of peace and conflict studies, both at the University of California, Berkeley.

In addition to other academic honors, he received a Fulbright Fellowship to conduct dissertation research in Chile and Peru and a Ford Foundation grant to study in Spain. He has published nine books and numerous articles in journals and periodicals.

In his April 7 talk, Burbach will focus on two of his latest books, “Imperial Overstretc George W. Bush and the Hubris of Empire” and “The Pinochet Affair.”

For more information on Main Street Forum, call 949-0144.