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“Ojalá Supieras” Documentary

Rolfe Hall 1301 345 Portola Plaza, Los Angeles, CA

Ojalá Supieras is an immersive documentary that recovers the marginalized history of Islam in colonial Mexico. Using unpublished manuscripts, inquisitorial trials, and carefully reconstructed visual representations, the film reveals the silenced voices of people accused of crypto-Islam and persecuted for their faith. This work challenges the traditional historical narrative and shows how diverse communities—Muslim, Jewish,...

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 Moravian University. The 2026 Distinguished Alumni Lecture topic is “Castillo Solórzano, Rubens, and a Theater on Brushstrokes." Soon after the famous battle of Nördlingen (1634),...

A Conversation with Dr. Paula M. Krebs

Rolfe Hall 4302, Lydeen Library Rolfe Hall 4302, Lydeen Library

Paula 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 the association’s publishing and research programs, as well as editor of two association publications. She serves as an ex officio member of all committees and...

El gesto y la razón: La teoría de los medios de Simón Rodríguez

Rolfe Hall 4302, Lydeen Library Rolfe Hall 4302, Lydeen Library

El 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 singulares composiciones tipográficas que configuran un modo alternativo de escritura. Esta charla explora la imbricación entre educación, republicanismo y experimentación escritural, y sus implicaciones teóricas....

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 idea that, in a world addicted to images, visibility can both protect and destroy us. Santa Zeta is a film that moves fast, hits hard,...

Adapting Erauso: A Conversation with Gabriela Cabezón Cámara

Rolfe Hall 4302, Lydeen Library Rolfe Hall 4302, Lydeen Library

Please 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, and Las niñas del naranjel. Please RSVP here. This event will also be hosted virtually on Zoom: https://ucla.zoom.us/j/92851908521

Counter-Pedagogies of Forgetting Tour

Bunche Hall 10383 and Rolfe Hall 4302, Lydeen Library

Fostering 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 - 1:30 PM in Bunche Hall 10383 Guided Photo Exhibition: Percy Rojas (Ausencias Presentes) Thursday March 12, 9:00 AM - 4:00 PM in Rolfe Hall 4302,...

A corazón abierto: notas para una escritura quirúrgica

Rolfe Hall 4302, Lydeen Library Rolfe Hall 4302, Lydeen Library

Lina 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 de corazón, Meruane examina trastornos reales (incluido su reciente episodio de arritmia) y comenta problemáticas éticas y estéticas en tres novelas quirúrgicas: Sutura (2025), de...

Healing Cartographies: Weaving Memory, Movement, and Embodied Testimonios Across Imaginary Lines

Rolfe Hall 1301 345 Portola Plaza, Los Angeles, CA

Carla Macal is an interdisciplinary anti-colonial feminist scholar dedicated to community-engaged research that addresses the intersections of state violence and intergenerational healing. She is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Critical Theory and Social Justice at Occidental College and is currently working on her book-in-progress, Healing Cartographies: GuateMaya Feminists Weaving Transformative Memory across the...

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 Library

Book 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 event will consist of a reading and conversation with Ricardo Domeneck, Chris Daniels, and Patrícia Lino. Ricardo Domeneck is a Brazilian writer based in Berlin....

Screening Dispossession in Abya Yala: Collaborative Filmmaking and Environmental Justice in Mining Contexts

Rolfe Hall 4302, Lydeen Library Rolfe Hall 4302, Lydeen Library

In 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 in extractive systems. I argue that Indigenous cosmopolitics plays a central role in contemporary audiovisual narratives that contest hegemonic representations of mining, contributing to the...