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
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,...
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...
En la posguerra centroamericana, el duelo es un campo de batalla. Lo que está en juego en esta lucha es la posibilidad de llorar las pérdidas de los conflictos armados abiertamente en la esfera pública. El duelo en Centroamérica es un privilegio, no un derecho. Ignacio Sarmiento es Profesor Asociado en el Departamento de Estudios...
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...
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....
Do you want to block out a day for writing? Join us for a day-long retreat where you can concentrate on your own work with colleagues. All Spanish & Portuguese faculty and graduate students welcome. Please RSVP here by May 12th to attend. This event is limited to faculty and graduate students in the Spanish...
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...
La décima es una estrofa poética que se canta, improvisa y escribe en toda América Latina. Te invitamos a jugar con la rima, la métrica y las palabras, con el propósito de crear tu propia décima. No se requieren conocimientos previos, solo ganas de conocer nuevas herramientas para la escritura creativa. Mediado por: Isidora Sánchez, La Perdiz....
