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2025 Distinguished Alumni Lecture

Hacienda Room, UCLA Faculty Club 480 Charles E Young Dr E, Los Angeles, CA

Note: This event is RSVP only Please join us in honoring the 2025 UCLA Spanish & Portuguese Distinguished Alumni Lecture Award recipient Dr. Jason Rothman, Professor at Lancaster University, U.K.. The 2025 Distinguished Alumni Lecture topic is “Behavioral and Brain Evidence for the Systematicity of Individual Differences in Heritage Language Bilingualism." Heritage Language (HL) bilinguals—native...

Haiti Situation Today

History Conference Room, Bunche 6275

Widlore Mérancourt is the editor in chief of Ayibopost and a Haitian journalist who has written extensively on gang violence and systemic corruption in Haiti. Laurent Dubois (Professor of the History & Principles of Democracy and Professor of History, University of Virginia) is a leading scholar of the Haitian Revolution who is currently Academic Director...

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Jarchar, or the Art of Crossing in Yuri Herrera’s Señales que precederán al fin del mundo

Lydeen Library 345 Portola Plaza, Los Angeles, CA

Talk also available by Zoom: https://ucla.zoom.us/meeting/register/chd4NGozQ7SRYZGIjGws9A Charlie Geyer (Ph.D., Vanderbilt University) is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at the University of Arizona. He specializes in the comparative study of Latin American and US Latinx literatures and cultures, with a focus on Border Studies and the aesthetics and politics of bordering...

“Voces de la diáspora venezolana: José Rafael Perozo”

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

Talk also available by Zoom: https://ucla.zoom.us/meeting/register/YIcoCq72Q6OxB6KRkDOvyA Alejandro Castro tiene un doctorado en Español y Portugués de la Universidad de Nueva York. También es Licenciado en Artes por la Universidad Central de Venezuela y Magíster en Literatura Latinoamericana por la Universidad Simón Bolívar. Ha sido profesor tanto de la Escuela de Artes, como de la Escuela...

“Política e identidad maya mam en el siglo XXI: Periodismo comunitario y redes sociales”

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

Glendy Agustin es una investigadora, activista y periodista comunitaria maya mam radicada en Comitancillo (San Marcos), en el occidente de Guatemala. Ha realizado múltiples investigaciones centradas en las tradiciones, la medicina, la espiritualidad, la vestimenta y la gastronomía de su comunidad maya mam. Asimismo, ha participado como activista en proyectos de rescate de la memoria...

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Attend: A Conversation with filmmaker Rodrigo García

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

Born in Colombia and raised in Mexico City, Rodrigo García is a celebrated award-winning director, producer and writer. A consistent figure in independent film over the last 20 years, Rodrigo has directed the multiple Academy Award®-nominated film, Albert Nobbs, starring Glenn Close, Mother and Child, starring Annette Bening, Naomi Watts and Samuel L. Jackson, Apple...

Beyond the Dream: Undocumented Experiences and the Longing for the “Good Life”

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

Talk also available via Zoom: https://ucla.zoom.us/meeting/register/t47CbdAGQSuAmAKxJUYQpQ The American Dream or the promise of “the good life” has long been portrayed as the driving force behind Latin American migration to the United States—a promise of upward mobility, economic stability, and a better future. However, the hopes for individual and social upward mobility, along with the prospects...

“Approaching dialectal variation in the context of Chuj, a Mayan language”

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

Over thirty Mayan languages are spoken in Mesoamerica and many of these exhibit considerable internal diversity. In fact, dialectal differences can be so pronounced that mutual intelligibility is affected among speakers of the same language. This talk describes and reflects on the benefits of using a community-based approach for understanding dialectal variation, with a focus...

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Luis de Lión: El Literato Que Renace Como un Pentagrama Para Construir Memoria

Rolfe Hall 3105 345 Portola Plaza, Los Angeles

Mayarí de León es hija del poeta revolucionario maya-kaqchikel Luis de Lión. Luis fue un poeta, escritor y educador que fue desaparecido por el ejército guatamalteco en 1984 durante los años de la guerra. Mayarí compartirá sobre el legado de su padre con Proyecto Luis de León. Su misión es contribuir al desarrollo cultural y...

A Conversation with Writer and Translator Bruna Dantas Lobato

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

The UCLA Spanish & Portuguese Department invites you to "A Conversation with Writer and Translator Bruna Dantas Lobato": A talk with Brazilian author, translator, and Professor of Creative Writing at Grinnell College about her debut novel Blue Light Hours. Novel Description: “In a small dorm room at a liberal arts college in Vermont, a young...