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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
The UCLA Spanish & Portuguese Department invites you to the 2025 Lois E. Matthews Lecture, taking place on Thursday, April 10th, 2025 at 4:00 pm in the UCLA Faculty Club! Guest speaker Dr. Liliana Sanchez is a professor of Hispanic and Italian Studies at the University of Illinois Chicago, and will be discussing, "The Variability...
En esta sesión se proyectarán los cortometrajes Riwachik (Berta Chirix, 2011) y Liremu Barana (Elvis Caj, 2021). Los directores compartirán sus experiencias y logros como cineastas mayas trabajando en diferentes contextos de Guatemala. También compartirán reflexiones acerca de los retos de rodar con niños, jóvenes y actores no profesionales en comunidades indígenas del altiplano, así...
The 1613 Confessionario en lengua castellana y timuquana con unos consejos para animar al penitente is one of the earliest books ever published in a Native language of the United States. It is composed of a Spanish language confessional with a parallel set of questions and answers in Timucua, the Native language of much of...
En esta sesión se proyectarán los cortometrajes Olvidados (Cecilia Us, 2018) y La promesa mam (Verónica Sacalxot, 2022). Las directoras compartirán sus experiencias haciendo cine en contextos comunitarios, así como los retos que enfrentan las mujeres indígenas dedicadas a la producción cinematográfica en Guatemala. Además, las directoras reflexionarán sobre la relación entre el cine documental...
Join us in our tenth annual celebration of Andean festivals and ceremonies where we will showcase Andean cultures, pay homage to "Runa" women, and honor campaigns of resistance and visibility of "pueblos originarios."