The UCLA Spanish & Portuguese Department invites you to attend this year’s Lois E. Matthews Lecture ft. Nadia Lie, Professor of Arts in the Department of Literature and Cultural Studies, KU Leuven on Wednesday, October 26, 2022, at 4:00 pm. Please RSVP by Thursday, October 20, 2022, at 5:00 pm PDT. For more information please...
The UCLA Department of Spanish and Portuguese invites you to attend a memorial in English, Portuguese, and Spanish to celebrate the life and academic career of graduate student Trey Barber. We welcome you to attend, share your memories, and provide photos and messages to Trey's family. RSVP for Event (by Nov 10th) Submit Photos/Messages of...
This two-day conference focuses on the many cross-influences among Romance literatures and cultures from the Middle Ages through more recent times, with special attention to the topic of translation. More than 25 international scholars will examine different aspects of the circulation of vernacular works via translations from one Romance language to another, from the 13th...
FEBRUARY 28 & MARCH 2 2023 THE MANY SIDES OF PAGU — AN ONLINE AND TRILINGUAL EVENT ZOOM ID: 965 449 2228 PARTICIPANTS Abe Kassis Adriana Armony Andrew M. Edwards Brenda Saraí Jaramillo Fabrícia Walace Gabriela Cruz Ícaro Carvalho Inês Forjaz de Lacerda Patrícia Lino Raquel Campos Raquel Zandomeneghi Yasmin Zandomenico
FEBRUARY 28 & MARCH 2 2023 THE MANY SIDES OF PAGU — AN ONLINE AND TRILINGUAL EVENT ZOOM ID: 965 449 2228 PARTICIPANTS Abe Kassis Adriana Armony Andrew M. Edwards Brenda Saraí Jaramillo Fabrícia Walace Gabriela Cruz Ícaro Carvalho Inês Forjaz de Lacerda Patrícia Lino Raquel Campos Raquel Zandomeneghi Yasmin Zandomenico
Ellipsis is structure and meaning without form. In spoken languages, it is silence whose meaning must be recovered from a linguistic antecedent in the discourse. This talk proposes a new perspective on ellipsis based on a novel investigation of Spanish and Kaqchikel, a Mayan language of Guatemala. The unresolved question regarding ellipsis that I address...
El juez Miguel Ángel Gálvez ha sido parte fundamental de los esfuerzos relacionados con la justicia transicional en Guatemala. Algunos de los casos más destacados en los que ha participado incluyen el juicio por genocidio contra Efraín Ríos Montt (2013), el juicio por corrupción contra el expresidente Otto Pérez Molina (2015), así como el caso...
Los más de 2000 vocablos incorporados al Diccionario de la lengua española expanden nuestro imaginario visual y simbólico. Las palabras no solo nombran el mundo, sino que también lo construyen visualmente. El libro Las 2000 nuevas palabras del español (según los académicos de la lengua) (Madrid, 2025) no solo documenta esta transformación, sino que invita...
Margaret Boyle is Associate Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures and Director of Latin American, Caribbean, and Latinx Studies Program at Bowdoin College. Her teaching and research span the languages, literature and cultures of early modern Spain and colonial Latin America. She is the author of Unruly Women: Performance, Penitence and Punishment in Early Modern...
Chilean musician and artist Violeta Parra (1917-1967) is an inspiration to generations of artists and activists across the globe. Her music is synonymous with resistance, and it animated both the Chilean folk revival and the protest music movement Nueva Cancion (New Song). In this remarkable biography, Ericka Verba traces Parra's radical life and multifaceted artistic...