On Wednesday, March 6th, 2024, the Department of Spanish & Portuguese and Instituto Cervantes invite you to a lecture by Ignacio Darnaude titled "Picasso, García Lorca and Dalí: Revealing the Queer Themes in Their Work". This event will take place in the Young Research Library Conference Room at 5:00 PM.
Please join the Department of Spanish & Portuguese for the 2024 Lois E. Matthews Lecture. This talk will be given by Professor Catherine Boyle, from King's College, London, on Thursday, April 18th, 2024 at 4:00 PM and is entitled "Language Acts and Worldmaking: Journeying Through Languages".
Author Carla Guelfenbein will give her guest lecture at 12:00 PM on Friday, April 19th, in Rolfe Hall 4302 (Lydeen Library)
In this illuminated lecture, Professor Barbara Fuchs addresses Miguel de Cervantes' surprisingly timely take on the trustworthiness of media. How does who we are shape what we see and believe? And how do the purveyors of media manipulate those distinctions? In The Marvelous Puppet Show, the author of Don Quixote gives us a story of...
Speaker: Concepción Company Company (Academia Mexicana de la Lengua) Title: "Historia y cultura en la creatividad y el cambio lingüísticos" Date: Thursday, April 25th at 4 pm Location: Lydeen Library Co-sponsored with the Cátedra Latinoamericana Julio Cortázar, Universidad de Guadalajara.
Cuba en tres tiempos: narrativas de autodeterminación y transformación desde la literatura, el teatro y el cine Una conversación con la Dra. Susannah Rodríguez Drissi (UCLA Writing Programs) Susannah Rodríguez Drissi (Ph.D. Comp Lit, UCLA) es una poeta, escritora, dramaturga, directora, productora e investigadora cubana multipremiada y enseña en Writing Programs y en el Academic...
In conjunction with the the UCLA Canadian Studies Program and the Program on Caribbean Studies, the Department of Spanish & Portuguese welcomes you to a talk by Dr. Yvon Grenier, Professor at St. Francis Xavier University in Canada. This lecture is titled "A Canadian Affair: Pierre Trudeau, Fidel Castro, and the Cold War" and will...
The LA Escena Festival of Hispanic classical theater will be back September 12–17, 2024. The fourth edition of Diversifying the Classics’ biennial festival will bring fresh takes on the comedia to UCLA’s newly renovated Nimoy Theater in Westwood, Los Angeles. LA Escena is Los Angeles’ first Hispanic classical theater festival, organized by UCLA’s Diversifying the Classics, which...
Susannah Rodríguez Drissi (Ph.D. Comp Lit, UCLA) es una poeta, escritora, dramaturga, directora, productora e investigadora cubana multipremiada y enseña en Writing Programs y en el Academic Advancement Program en UCLA. Sus poemas, cuentos y escritos de no-ficción creativa han aparecido en multiples antologías. Su novela Until We're Fish (2020) fue premiada por el Nautilus...
Kirmen Uribe will discuss the translation of his novel Bilbao-New York-Bilbao into English, along with the adaptation of a Basque-language novel into film, such as Elkarrekin Esnatzeko Ordua (2016) . This work is currently being filmed under the title Karmele, and directed by Asier Altuna. Kirmen is a Basque Language writer, and one of the...
Karina Zelaya is a Lecturer in the Dept. of Central American and Transborder Studies at CSUN, where she specializes in Salvadoran and Central American literature and culture. She is the author of a critical edition of the novel Roca-Celis, originally published in 1908 by politician and intellectual Manuel Delgado, and recently republished by Editorial...
