2026 Distinguished Alumni Lecture
Note: This event is RSVP only Please join us in honoring the 2026 UCLA Spanish & Portuguese Distinguished Alumni Lecture Award recipient Dr. Claudia Mesa Higuera, Professor of Spanish at...
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A Conversation with Dr. Paula M. Krebs
Rolfe Hall 4302, Lydeen Library Rolfe Hall 4302, Lydeen LibraryPaula M. Krebs became executive director of the Modern Language Association in August 2017. She administers the programs, governance, and business affairs of the association and is general editor of...
El gesto y la razón: La teoría de los medios de Simón Rodríguez
Rolfe Hall 4302, Lydeen Library Rolfe Hall 4302, Lydeen LibraryEl pensador sudamericano Simón Rodríguez (1769-1854), recordado como maestro de Simón Bolívar, desarrolló en su obra un proyecto pedagógico y político para fundar las nuevas repúblicas sudamericanas. Para presentarla, utilizó...
Santa Zeta: A Film by Antonio Muñoz de Mesa
Rolfe Hall 4302, Lydeen Library Rolfe Hall 4302, Lydeen Library“Santa Zeta is not about revenge. It is about survival. About trauma that never disappears, only mutates. About how violence replicates itself when it is ignored. And about the uncomfortable...
Adapting Erauso: A Conversation with Gabriela Cabezón Cámara
Rolfe Hall 4302, Lydeen Library Rolfe Hall 4302, Lydeen LibraryPlease join the UCLA Spanish & Portuguese department for a conversation with acclaimed author Gabriela Cabezón Cámara, celebrated for her novels Las aventuras de la China Iron, La Virgen Cabeza,...
Counter-Pedagogies of Forgetting Tour
Bunche Hall 10383 and Rolfe Hall 4302, Lydeen LibraryFostering public conversations about memory and justice, a reflection on Peru's forced disappearances from 1980 to 2000. Documentary Screening: Este fue nuestro castigo, by Luis Cintora Wednesday March 11, 11:30 -...
A corazón abierto: notas para una escritura quirúrgica
Rolfe Hall 4302, Lydeen Library Rolfe Hall 4302, Lydeen LibraryLina Meruane (hija de un cardiólogo jubilado) aborda la aparición del "corazón abierto" en la novelística latinoamericana. Inspirada por El intruso (2006), relato de Jean Luc Nancy sobre su trasplante...
First Epistle to the Amphibians: Reading and Conversation with Ricardo Domeneck, Chris Daniels, and Patrícia Lino
Rolfe Hall 4302, Lydeen Library Rolfe Hall 4302, Lydeen LibraryBook Launch for FIRST EPISTLE TO THE AMPHIBIANS, a collection of poetry by Brazilian author Ricardo Domeneck, translated by Chris Daniels, published by World Poetry Books in April 2026. The...
Screening Dispossession in Abya Yala: Collaborative Filmmaking and Environmental Justice in Mining Contexts
Rolfe Hall 4302, Lydeen Library Rolfe Hall 4302, Lydeen LibraryIn this talk, I examine how Indigenous peoples in Abya Yala (Latin America) mobilize collaborative filmmaking to resist mining dispossession, even as the technologies of film and video remain entangled...
Indranil Chakravarty The Power of Intercultural Dialogue: Octavio Paz Between Mexico and India
Rolfe Hall 4302, Lydeen Library Rolfe Hall 4302, Lydeen LibraryBased on his recent book, The Tree Within: Octavio Paz’s Years in India (Penguin, 2025), Chakravarty explains how the Mexican Nobel Laureate poet and diplomat, Octavio Paz, became a cultural...
NADINE A Performance by Luiza Romão
Lydeen Library 345 Portola Plaza, Los Angeles, CANADINE In this shorter performance, Luiza Romão presents several scenes from the show Nadine, using a sampler and a microphone on a stand. Adaptable to different formats and performance spaces,...