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UID:30170-1762182000-1762185600@spanport.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Study Abroad in Latin America Info Session
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://spanport.ucla.edu/event/study-abroad-in-latin-america-info-session/
LOCATION:2121 Murphy Hall
CATEGORIES:Upcoming Events
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20251103T120000
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UID:30060-1762171200-1762171200@spanport.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:El Mar y sus Metaforas - Eden's Islands: Empire\, Translation\, and the History of Reading
DESCRIPTION:Trained as a comparatist (English\, Spanish\, French\, Italian)\, Professor Fuchs works on European cultural production from the late fifteenth through the seventeenth centuries\, with a special emphasis on literature and empire\, and on theater and performance in transnational contexts.
URL:https://spanport.ucla.edu/event/el-mar-y-sus-metaforas-edens-islands-empire-translation-and-the-history-of-reading/
LOCATION:Rolfe Hall 4302\, Lydeen Library\, Rolfe Hall 4302\, Lydeen Library
CATEGORIES:Humanities,Upcoming Events
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20251030T160000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20251030T160000
DTSTAMP:20251025T011220Z
CREATED:20251015T005103Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251025T011220Z
UID:30049-1761840000-1761840000@spanport.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Literary Studies\, Professionalization\, and the Public Sphere
DESCRIPTION:The publishing industry offers one of the most diverse and rewarding career paths for graduates in the Humanities. In this presentation\, I’ll outline the wide range of roles available—from scouting and scriptwriting to organizing literary festivals. Drawing on thirty years of experience in the field\, I will explore the key steps and practical tools needed to enter the profession and highlight the growing international opportunities within the industry.
URL:https://spanport.ucla.edu/event/literary-studies-professionalization-and-the-public-sphere/
LOCATION:Rolfe Hall 4302\, Lydeen Library\, Rolfe Hall 4302\, Lydeen Library
CATEGORIES:Humanities,Upcoming Events
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20250924T160000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20250924T170000
DTSTAMP:20250913T021658Z
CREATED:20250913T021658Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250913T021658Z
UID:29800-1758729600-1758733200@spanport.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Undergraduate Fall Open House 2025
DESCRIPTION:This is an excellent opportunity to meet and network with instructors and welcome fellow incoming first-year and transfer students and returning students in the Department and learn about the resources and academic opportunities offered! If you plan to attend\, RSVP here. \nWhat to expect: \n\nNetwork and meet instructors\nMeet the student leaders directing the Spanish Club\nLearn about our Majors and Minors\nLearn about Research Opportunities\nStudy Abroad in the Summer\nand More!
URL:https://spanport.ucla.edu/event/undergraduate-fall-open-house-2025/
LOCATION:Rolfe Hall 1301\, 345 Portola Plaza\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90024\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20250603T140000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20250603T140000
DTSTAMP:20250523T010527Z
CREATED:20250523T010527Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250523T010527Z
UID:29113-1748959200-1748959200@spanport.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Despojo\, violencia colonial y resistencias en Territorio Mapuche\, Chile
DESCRIPTION:Dr. Pablo Millalen Lepin es integrante del Lof Mañiuko\, un territorio basado en la región de La Araucanía\, sur de Chile. Es miembro de la Comunidad de Historia Mapuche\, un colectivo de investigadores sociales basado en Temuco. Actualmente es Postdoctoral Fellow en el American Indian Studies Center (AISC)\, UCLA. \nEsta presentación aborda el proceso de despojo territorial del Pueblo Mapuche durante la segunda mitad del siglo XIX. Aunque hay varios estudios\, las experiencias localizadas de resistencias permanecen insuficientemente documentadas en la historiografía tradicional. La presentación examina este desfase al centrarse en estrategias de defensa desarrolladas por comunidades Mapuche frente a la ofensiva colonizadora del Estado chileno\, tomando como caso de estudio el área de Galvarino. Mediante el análisis de archivos\, historia oral y evidencia local\, se argumenta que las comunidades no fueron sujetos pasivos\, sino que desarrollaron estrategias adaptivas que permitieron la preservación de sus estructuras sociales y territoriales.
URL:https://spanport.ucla.edu/event/despojo-violencia-colonial-y-resistencias-en-territorio-mapuche-chile/
LOCATION:Rolfe Hall 4302\, Lydeen Library\, Rolfe Hall 4302\, Lydeen Library
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20250529T160000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20250529T160000
DTSTAMP:20250516T013121Z
CREATED:20250516T013121Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250516T013121Z
UID:29100-1748534400-1748534400@spanport.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Ironía al habla: el doble filo del lenguaje cotidiano
DESCRIPTION:Biografia:\nBeatriz Martín Gascón es doctora cum laude en Lenguas y Culturas por la Universidad de Córdoba (mención internacional y premio extraordinario).\nDesde enero de 2023\, ejerce como Profesora Ayudante Doctora en el Departamento de Lengua Española y Teoría de la Literatura de la Universidad Complutense de Madrid. Sus líneas de investigación versan sobre lingüística y cognición\, e incluyen metáfora y metonimia conceptual\, ironía verbal y conceptualización de las emociones. Asimismo\, tiene experiencia en el diseño e implementación de materiales pedagógicos innovadores con un enfoque en el cine\, la literatura y los estudios feministas en el aula de lengua extranjera.
URL:https://spanport.ucla.edu/event/ironia-al-habla-el-doble-filo-del-lenguaje-cotidiano/
LOCATION:Rolfe Hall 4302\, Lydeen Library\, Rolfe Hall 4302\, Lydeen Library
CATEGORIES:Upcoming Events
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20250521T160000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20250521T160000
DTSTAMP:20250509T005520Z
CREATED:20250508T053945Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250509T005520Z
UID:29065-1747843200-1747843200@spanport.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:The Illusion of the Individual: uma experiência a partir da sala da aula
DESCRIPTION:This will be a discussion on theory and literature\, looking for texts and artistic materials that experiment with forms of collective cognition. The\npresentation will center on the assignments students produce collectively\, in which they gathered interviews\, film\, photographs and text\, and aims to discuss pedagogical practices at the graduate and undergraduate levels too. \nPedro Meira Monteiro is Professor of Spanish and Portuguese and Chair of the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at Princeton University. Working at the intersection of cultural history and literature\, Professor Meira Monteiro complements his academic production by writing shorter texts for cultural magazines\, blogs\, and newspapers. He has published multiple books\, including The Other Roots: Wandering Origins in Roots of Brazil and the Impasses of Modernity in Ibero-América (Notre Dame UP\, 2017)\, The First Class: Transits of Brazilian Literature Abroad (Itau Cultural\, 2014)\, Conta-gotas: Máximas & Reflexões (E-galáxia\, 2016)\, Nós somos muitas: ensaios sobre crise\, cultura e esperança (Relicario\, 2022).
URL:https://spanport.ucla.edu/event/the-illusion-of-the-individual-uma-experiencia-a-partir-da-sala-da-aula/
LOCATION:Rolfe Hall 4302\, Lydeen Library\, Rolfe Hall 4302\, Lydeen Library
CATEGORIES:Upcoming Events
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20250520T123000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20250520T140000
DTSTAMP:20250516T012758Z
CREATED:20250516T005442Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250516T012758Z
UID:29095-1747744200-1747749600@spanport.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Semantics of the World: Una conversación con Rómulo Bustos Aguirre
DESCRIPTION:Nos complace darle la bienvenida a Rómulo Bustos Aguirre\, ganador del Premio Nacional de Poesía de Colombia (2019) y uno de los más destacados poetas contemporáneos escribiendo en español. \nEn este evento celebraremos la publicación de Semantics of The World\, la primera recopilación de la poesía de Rómulo publicada en inglés (University of New Mexico Press)\, elogiada como “una traducción exquisita de uno de los poetas afro-colombianos más importantes escribiendo hoy”. Nos acompañarán los traductores Nohora Arrieta Fernández (UCLA) y Mark Sanders (University of Notre Dame). Rómulo\, Nohora y Mark conversarán sobre su colaboración y leerán una selección de poemas en conjunto con miembros del Departamento de Español y Portugués. \nEnlace del libro: https://www.unmpress.com/9780826364241/semantics-of-the-world/ \nHabrá una recepción después de la conversación y lecturas.
URL:https://spanport.ucla.edu/event/semantics-of-the-world-una-conversacion-con-romulo-bustos-aguirre/
LOCATION:Rolfe Hall 4302\, Lydeen Library\, Rolfe Hall 4302\, Lydeen Library
CATEGORIES:Upcoming Events
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20250519T160000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20250519T160000
DTSTAMP:20250517T053226Z
CREATED:20250517T053033Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250517T053226Z
UID:29106-1747670400-1747670400@spanport.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Book talk: Thanks to Life\, A Bibliography of Violeta Parra
DESCRIPTION:Chilean musician and artist Violeta Parra (1917-1967) is an inspiration to generations of artists and activists across the globe. Her music is synonymous with resistance\, and it animated both the Chilean folk revival and the protest music movement Nueva Cancion (New Song). In this remarkable biography\, Ericka Verba traces Parra’s radical life and multifaceted artistic trajectory across Latin America and Europe and on both sides of the Iron Curtain.
URL:https://spanport.ucla.edu/event/book-talk-thanks-to-life-a-bibliography-of-violeta-parra/
LOCATION:10383 Bunche Hall & Zoom
CATEGORIES:Humanities,news,Upcoming Events
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20250515T160000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20250515T160000
DTSTAMP:20250502T014800Z
CREATED:20250502T014800Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250502T014800Z
UID:29041-1747324800-1747324800@spanport.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Los muertos vivirán: algunas resonancias de José Revueltas en la narrativa mexicana del siglo XXI
DESCRIPTION:Julián Herbert (Acapulco\, 1971) es autor de\, entre otros títulos \, El nombre de esta casa\, Álbum Iscariote\, La parte quemada\, Canción de tumba\, Tráiganme la cabeza de Quentin Tarantino y Suerte de principiante. \nEs coautor\, junto con Diego Luna y Gael García Bernal\, de la idea original de la serie La máquina. \nObtuvo el Premio Nacional de Literatura Gilberto Owen\, el Premio Nacional de Cuento Juan José Arreola\, el Premio Nacional de Cuento Agustín Yáñez\, el Premio Jaén de Novela\, el Premio Iberoamericano de novela Elena Poniatowska\, el MacGinnis Ritchie Award\, la beca Borchard Foundation y el Premio Nacional de Poesía Ramón López Velarde. \nAlgunos de sus libros están traducidos al inglés\, francés\, portugués\, italiano\, alemán y turco. \nEs miembro del Sistema Nacional de Creadores de Arte y es vocalista de Los Tigres de Borges.
URL:https://spanport.ucla.edu/event/los-muertos-viviran-algunas-resonancias-de-jose-revueltas-en-la-narrativa-mexicana-del-siglo-xxi/
LOCATION:Rolfe Hall 4302\, Lydeen Library\, Rolfe Hall 4302\, Lydeen Library
CATEGORIES:Upcoming Events
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20250513T160000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20250513T160000
DTSTAMP:20250505T222454Z
CREATED:20250505T222341Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250505T222454Z
UID:29051-1747152000-1747152000@spanport.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Our Language Stories: Building Multilingual Mainers
DESCRIPTION:Margaret Boyle is Associate Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures and Director of Latin American\, Caribbean\, and Latinx Studies Program at Bowdoin College. Her teaching and research span the languages\, literature and cultures of early modern Spain and colonial Latin America. She is the author of Unruly Women: Performance\, Penitence and Punishment in Early Modern Spain (University of Toronto Press\, 2014) and co-editor of Health and Healing in the Early Modern Iberian World: A Gendered Perspective (with Sarah Owens\, University of Toronto Press\, 2021). Her newest book is Sabor Judío: The Jewish Mexican Cookbook (with Ilan Stavans\, University of North Carolina Press\, 2024)\, and was named a 2025 National Jewish Book Award finalist in the category of Jewish Food Writing and Cookbooks (the Jane and Stuart Weitz­man Fam­i­ly Award). \nProfessor Boyle is the director of Multilingual Mainers\, an elementary world languages and cultures program providing age-appropriate tools to combat xenophobia\, racism and intolerance through engagement with languages other than English. She has been awarded a Fulbright Senior Scholar as well as grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Whiting Foundation for work in cultural and international exchange. She is also a scholar-partner for UCLA’s Diversifying the Classics Initiative.
URL:https://spanport.ucla.edu/event/our-language-stories-building-multilingual-mainers/
LOCATION:Rolfe Hall 4302\, Lydeen Library\, Rolfe Hall 4302\, Lydeen Library
CATEGORIES:Humanities,news,Upcoming Events
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20250508T160000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20250508T160000
DTSTAMP:20250507T013730Z
CREATED:20250507T013730Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250507T013730Z
UID:29057-1746720000-1746720000@spanport.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Latina Women in the Professional Environment: The Other Side of Journalism
DESCRIPTION:Erika Carlos graduated from UCSB in 2019\, and after serving at Santa Barbara Independent\, Erika worked as a multimedia producer for San Francisco Chronicle for several years. Now\, as the Editor in Chief of El Tecolote she is in charge of informing and giving visibility to the Latinx community in the Bay Area. In her own words: “I became a journalist to give a voice to people and communities that are often overlooked or marginalized. This role is an opportunity to do work that is dear to my heart and to build on El Tecolote‘s incredible legacy of community journalism.” \nEl Tecolote: Founded in August 1970\, El Tecolote Newspaper is published by the San Francisco-based arts and media nonprofit Acción Latina\, whose mission is to promote cultural arts\, community media\, and civic engagement as a way of building healthy and empowered Latina/o/x communities. \nEl Tecolote has received recent support from national funders such as Borealis Philanthropies\, the Lenfest Institute\, American Press Institute\, and Solutions Journalism Network. Partnerships with organizations such as Report for America and Catchlight Local have also made it possible to hire a full time staff photographer. El Tecolote will also serve as a host ne wsroom for the 2025-2026 journalism cohort for the California Local News Fellowship led by the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism.
URL:https://spanport.ucla.edu/event/latina-women-in-the-professional-environment-the-other-side-of-journalism/
LOCATION:Rolfe Hall 4302\, Lydeen Library\, Rolfe Hall 4302\, Lydeen Library
CATEGORIES:Upcoming Events
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20250506T140000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20250506T140000
DTSTAMP:20250430T222459Z
CREATED:20250429T014835Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250430T222459Z
UID:29033-1746540000-1746540000@spanport.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:El poder visual de las 2000 nuevas palabras del español
DESCRIPTION:Los más de 2000 vocablos incorporados al Diccionario de la lengua española expanden nuestro imaginario visual y simbólico. Las palabras no solo nombran el mundo\, sino que también lo construyen visualmente. El libro Las 2000 nuevas palabras del español (según los académicos de la lengua) (Madrid\, 2025) no solo documenta esta transformación\, sino que invita a reflexionar sobre el poder de las palabras para encuadrar\, iluminar y redefinir nuestra fotografía / percepción del mundo. Te invitamos a descubrirlas y a sumergirte en este diálogo entre lengua e imagen. \nGelsys García Lorenzo es doctora en Filología Hispánica por la Universidad Complutense de Madrid (2016). Tiene un máster en ELE por la UCM (2015) y otro máster por la Universidad Francisco de Vitoria (2017). Se desempeña desde 2022 como Lecturer en la Universidad de California en Los Ángeles (UCLA). Ha publicado múltiples volúmenes de linguística y de poesía y la antología teatral Anuncia Freud a María. Cartografía bíblica del teatro cubano (1835-2015).
URL:https://spanport.ucla.edu/event/el-poder-visual-de-las-2000-nuevas-palabras-del-espanol/
LOCATION:Rolfe Hall 4302\, Lydeen Library\, Rolfe Hall 4302\, Lydeen Library
CATEGORIES:Humanities,news,Upcoming Events
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20250506T120000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20250506T120000
DTSTAMP:20250423T020533Z
CREATED:20250411T043214Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250423T020533Z
UID:28926-1746532800-1746532800@spanport.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Sacred Andean Celebrations as Acts of Resistance
DESCRIPTION: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.” \nPlease RSVP for the event here. \nIf you want to learn more about the Andean celebrations that we will be honoring\, please go to our website.
URL:https://spanport.ucla.edu/event/sacred-andean-celebrations-as-acts-of-resistance/
LOCATION:YRL Conference Room\, 280 Charles E Young Dr N\, Los Angeles\, 90095\, United States
CATEGORIES:Upcoming Events
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20250430T120000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20250430T133000
DTSTAMP:20250419T004800Z
CREATED:20250419T004800Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250419T004800Z
UID:28993-1746014400-1746019800@spanport.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:David Toscana:  Una conversación con el autor con la participación de Maite Zubiaurre
DESCRIPTION:Also available on Zoom.
URL:https://spanport.ucla.edu/event/david-toscana-una-conversacion-con-el-autor-con-la-participacion-de-maite-zubiaurre/
LOCATION:10383 Bunche Hall\, 11282 Portola Plaza\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
CATEGORIES:Upcoming Events
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20250424T140000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20250424T155000
DTSTAMP:20250401T061119Z
CREATED:20250401T061119Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250401T061119Z
UID:28877-1745503200-1745509800@spanport.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Festival de Cineastas Mayas (Sesión 4): Marte al anochecer: Los retos del primer largometraje dirigido por un cineasta maya en Guatemala With Edgar Sajcabún
DESCRIPTION:En esta sesión se proyectará un avance del primer largometraje realizado por un cineasta maya guatemalteco\, Marte al anochecer\, que se encuentra en postproducción. Edgar Sajcabún conversará sobre su experiencia de filmar un largometraje centrado en la lucha y la resistencia de los pueblos mayas frente a los legados coloniales y el neocolonialismo. También reflexionará sobre las diferencias entre filmar cortometrajes y largometrajes\, sobre las implicaciones de los temas abordados por este filme en el contexto actual de Guatemala\, y sobre el papel de los cineastas mayas en el marco de la producción cinematográfica del istmo centroamericano. Edgar Sajcabún es un cineasta maya Kaqchikel\, graduado como Guionista en la Escuela Internacional de Cine de San Antonio de los Baños\, Cuba\, en 2007. Es guionista de la película La casa más grande del mundo\, estrenada en la sección “Generación” del Festival de Cine de Berlín en 2015. Ha dirigido los cortometrajes Xik Vuh (2014) y El camino es largo (2018)\, premiados en distintos festivales de Centroamérica\, Canadá y Uruguay. También es director y guionista del largometraje Marte al anochecer (en postproducción)\, recientemente seleccionado por la sección “Cine en Construcción” del Festival Cinélatino\, Rencontres de Toulouse. \nTalk also available via Zoom.
URL:https://spanport.ucla.edu/event/festival-de-cineastas-mayas-sesion-4-marte-al-anochecer-los-retos-del-primer-largometraje-dirigido-por-un-cineasta-maya-en-guatemala-with-edgar-sajcabun/
LOCATION:Rolfe Hall 1301\, 345 Portola Plaza\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90024\, United States
CATEGORIES:Upcoming Events
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20250422T140000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20250422T155000
DTSTAMP:20250401T060133Z
CREATED:20250401T060133Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250401T060133Z
UID:28869-1745330400-1745337000@spanport.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Festival de Cineastas Mayas (Sesión 3): Entre peces y alas de papel: Cosmovisión maya y decolonialidad en el cine kaqchikel With Edgar Sajcabún
DESCRIPTION:En esta sesión se proyectarán los cortometrajes Xik Vuh (2014) y El camino es largo (2018)\, seguidos de una conversación con su director\, guionista y productor acerca de algunos de los temas que se abordan en estas dos historias narradas desde la mirada de los pueblos mayas. Edgar Sajcabún hablará también sobre el proceso previo a la filmación (casting\, formación de equipos de trabajo\, financiamiento\, etc.)\, así como sobre los retos de los cineastas mayas para poder hacer cine en Guatemala. \nEdgar Sajcabún es un cineasta maya Kaqchikel\, graduado como Guionista en la Escuela Internacional de Cine de San Antonio de los Baños\, Cuba\, en 2007. Es guionista de la película La casa más grande del mundo\, estrenada en la sección “Generación” del Festival de Cine de Berlín en 2015. Ha dirigido los cortometrajes Xik Vuh (2014) y El camino es largo (2018)\, premiados en distintos festivales de Centroamérica\, Canadá y Uruguay. También es director y guionista del largometraje Marte al anochecer (en postproducción)\, recientemente seleccionado por la sección “Cine en Construcción” del Festival Cinélatino\, Rencontres de Toulouse. \nTalk also available via Zoom.
URL:https://spanport.ucla.edu/event/festival-de-cineastas-mayas-sesion-3-entre-peces-y-alas-de-papel-cosmovision-maya-y-decolonialidad-en-el-cine-kaqchikel-with-edgar-sajcabun/
LOCATION:Rolfe Hall 1301\, 345 Portola Plaza\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90024\, United States
CATEGORIES:Upcoming Events
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SUMMARY:Festival de Cineastas Mayas (Sesión 2): Documentando la resistencia: Cineastas mayas contra el extractivismo y por la revitalización cultural With Cecilia Us and Verónica Sacalxot
DESCRIPTION: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 y los procesos de resistencia política\, económica y cultural en las comunidades indígenas de Guatemala. \nCecilia Us es una cineasta de origen maya K’iche’ formada en la Escuela de Cine Casa Comal en Guatemala\, y en talleres de cine documental en Bolivia\, Costa Rica y México. Ha formado parte de la Red de Cine Maya (RECMA) y del Colectivo Lemow\, y sus proyectos se centran en posicionar temáticas e historias desde la cosmovisión maya y con enfoque de género. Se ha desempeñado como sonidista\, productora\, directora y/o guionista en cortos de ficción como Katwaj (2016)\, y en cortos documentales como Wuarmipura (2023) y Olvidados (2018). \nVerónica Sacalxot es una cineasta maya K’iche’-Mam\, originaria de Quetzaltenango\, Guatemala. Se ha desempeñado como productora y/o directora de cine en proyectos tales como Camino (2013)\, Los ojos de la abuela (2014) y el cortometraje documental La promesa mam (2022)\, entre otros trabajos. Es fundadora del Colectivo Lemow de mujeres cineastas\, que promueve la descentralización de las artes por medio de muestras de cine comunitario. \nTalk also available via Zoom.
URL:https://spanport.ucla.edu/event/festival-de-cineastas-mayas-sesion-2-documentando-la-resistencia-cineastas-mayas-contra-el-extractivismo-y-por-la-revitalizacion-cultural-with-cecilia-us-and-veronica-sacalxot/
LOCATION:Rolfe Hall 1301\, 345 Portola Plaza\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90024\, United States
CATEGORIES:Upcoming Events
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20250416T160000
DTSTAMP:20250311T040659Z
CREATED:20250308T052214Z
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SUMMARY:Have you listened to the sounds of birds? Timucua traditional spiritual practices and Spanish religious suppression
DESCRIPTION: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 North Florida. However\, it has been noted since at least the 1970s that the confessional contains a very significant section on Native religious practices in a section entitled “Superstitions.” Prior historical and anthropological research has cited the 1613 Confessionario extensively\, but based solely on translations of the Spanish side of the text. Based on new developments in the study of the Timucua language\, it is now possible to construct a new translation of the Native side of this book.
URL:https://spanport.ucla.edu/event/have-you-listened-to-the-sounds-of-birds-timucua-traditional-spiritual-practices-and-spanish-religious-suppression/
LOCATION:Rolfe Hall 4302\, Lydeen Library\, Rolfe Hall 4302\, Lydeen Library
CATEGORIES:news,Upcoming Events
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20250415T140000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20250415T155000
DTSTAMP:20250401T060456Z
CREATED:20250401T054854Z
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UID:28862-1744725600-1744732200@spanport.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Festival de Cineastas Mayas (Sesión 1): Tejiendo sueños\, danzando identidades: Cine\, infancia y juventud en comunidades indígenas y afro-indígenas de Guatemala With Berta Chirix and Elvis Caj
DESCRIPTION: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 como en comunidades garífunas (afro-indígenas) de la costa caribe.Berta Chirix es una cineasta maya Kaqchikel\, formada en la Escuela de Cinematografía “Casa Comal” (Ciudad de Guatemala). Es productora\, directora y guionista\, con múltiples trabajos centrados en el fortalecimiento de la identidad y la cultura maya. Ha estado vinculada a la Red de Comunicadores Audiovisuales Tz’ikin y al Movimiento de Artistas Mayas Ruk’u’x. Su cortometraje Riwachik (2011) obtuvo una mención honorífica en el Festical de Cine Ícaro de Guatemala. \nElvis Caj es un director y guionista maya Poqomchi’. Estudió cine en Guatemala y México\, y ha formado parte del programa Open Doors del Festival de Cine de Locarno (Suiza)\, así como del programa de Talentos del Festival Internacional de Cine de Guadalajara (México). También dirige un programa de capacitación cinematográfica para jóvenes indígenas en Centroamérica. Su cortometraje Liremu Barana fue considerado para los premios Óscar en dicha categoría en 2021. \nTalk also available via Zoom.
URL:https://spanport.ucla.edu/event/festival-de-cineastas-mayas-sesion-1-tejiendo-suenos-danzando-identidades-cine-infancia-y-juventud-en-comunidades-indigenas-y-afro-indigenas-de-guatemala-with-berta-chirix-and-elvis-caj/
LOCATION:Rolfe Hall 1301\, 345 Portola Plaza\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90024\, United States
CATEGORIES:Upcoming Events
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20250410T160000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20250410T160000
DTSTAMP:20250307T054921Z
CREATED:20250307T054921Z
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UID:28788-1744300800-1744300800@spanport.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:2025 Lois E. Matthews Lecture
DESCRIPTION: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! \nGuest speaker Dr. Liliana Sanchez is a professor of Hispanic and Italian Studies at the University of Illinois Chicago\, and will be discussing\, “The Variability in Heritage Speaker’s Syntax: The Role of Lexical Frequency\, Differential Access\, and Transient Alignments.” \nPlease RSVP for this event no later than Friday\, March 28\, at 5:00 PM PDT by filling out the attached form: https://forms.gle/A8S7Brr4zYMqPnNH6
URL:https://spanport.ucla.edu/event/2025-lois-e-matthews-lecture/
LOCATION:Morrison Room\, UCLA Faculty Club
CATEGORIES:news,Upcoming Events
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20250408T140000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20250408T140000
DTSTAMP:20250401T042557Z
CREATED:20250401T042557Z
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UID:28853-1744120800-1744120800@spanport.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:A Conversation with Writer and Translator Bruna Dantas Lobato
DESCRIPTION: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. \nNovel Description: “In a small dorm room at a liberal arts college in Vermont\, a young woman settles into the warm blue light of her desk lamp before calling the mother she left behind in northeastern Brazil. There\, four thousand miles apart and bound by the angular confines of a Skype window\, they ask each other a simple question: what’s the news?”
URL:https://spanport.ucla.edu/event/a-conversation-with-writer-and-translator-bruna-dantas-lobato/
LOCATION:Rolfe Hall 4302\, Lydeen Library\, Rolfe Hall 4302\, Lydeen Library
CATEGORIES:Upcoming Events
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20250408T115000
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SUMMARY:Luis de Lión: El Literato Que Renace Como un Pentagrama Para Construir Memoria
DESCRIPTION: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 educativo promoviendo la lectura y el amor por las artes escénicas\, tomando como eje central el rescate de la memoria histórica y el cuidado del medio ambiente.
URL:https://spanport.ucla.edu/event/luis-de-lion-el-literato-que-renace-como-un-pentagrama-para-construir-memoria/
LOCATION:Rolfe Hall 3105\, 345 Portola Plaza\, Los Angeles\, 90095\, United States
CATEGORIES:Upcoming Events
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20250310T160000
DTSTAMP:20250219T073215Z
CREATED:20250219T072719Z
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UID:28760-1741622400-1741622400@spanport.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:"Approaching dialectal variation in the context of Chuj\, a Mayan language"
DESCRIPTION: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 on Chuj. While Chuj is generally recognized as having two main dialects\, the extent of their differences is far from completely understood\, and the prestige dialect has received a disproportionate amount of attention. We focus on one useful method that addresses these issues: documenting versions of the same narrative in different dialects. We show how our method can actively engage Chuj community members from all dialectal communities in order to (a) enrich the understanding of cultural and linguistic diversity in the Mayan context\, (b) expand resources available for dialects that have received less attention\, and (c) shed light on which grammatical patterns exhibit substantial variation. Furthermore\, we argue that this approach is desirable in the long-term\, since it incorporates capacity building within the community.
URL:https://spanport.ucla.edu/event/approaching-dialectal-variation-in-the-context-of-chuj-a-mayan-language/
LOCATION:Rolfe Hall 4302\, Lydeen Library\, Rolfe Hall 4302\, Lydeen Library
CATEGORIES:news,Upcoming Events
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20250304T160000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20250304T160000
DTSTAMP:20250227T055449Z
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UID:28778-1741104000-1741104000@spanport.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Beyond the Dream: Undocumented Experiences and the Longing for the “Good Life”
DESCRIPTION:Talk also available via Zoom: https://ucla.zoom.us/meeting/register/t47CbdAGQSuAmAKxJUYQpQ \nThe 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 of a better future for immigrants pursuing their dreams\, have been overshadowed by criminalizing immigration policies transforming the dream into what Lauren Berlant describes as “cruel optimism”—a hope that remains unattainable and ultimately harms those who pursue it. This presentation examines the affective work immigrants do to sustain livable lives beyond and within the fantasies of the American Dream by engaging with two distinct yet complementary works: AMAME (Archive of Audiovisual Migrant Memory)\, a transnational video-letter archive curated by the Ecuadorian artistic collective Ñukanchik People\, and non-fiction piece The Undocumented Americans (2020) by Ecuadorian American writer Karla Cornejo Villavicencio. AMAME consists of homemade video recordings created by Ecuadorian migrants and their families between the 1970s and early 2000s as forms of intimate correspondence across borders. In contrast\, The Undocumented Americans\, an award-winning literary work disrupts dominant discourses that typically depict undocumented immigrants either as deserving citizens or as criminals to focus instead on the ambivalent nature of longing for “a good life”. This presentation will explore how both works shed light on how undocumented migrants navigate the expectations of migration as a path to the “good life” through the personal\, the ordinary\, and the everyday. \nMaría José Gutiérrez is a Visiting Assistant Professor of Latin American and Latinx Literature and Culture at Oxford College of Emory University. She earned her doctoral degree from the University of California\, Davis\, in 2024\, where she began collaborating with Humanizing Deportation\, a public humanities project and digital archive of self-authored stories by Latin American migrants. Since 2018\, she has contributed to the project by facilitating the production of several digital narratives—testimonial audiovisual shorts—created with deported migrants in Mexico City and Ecuador. Her research explores the emotional dimensions of migration from Ecuador and South America to the United States from a humanistic perspective\, centering migrants’ voices through community-based literary and artistic practices. Talk presented by Professor María José Gutiérrez Jiménez (Oxford College of Emory University). 
URL:https://spanport.ucla.edu/event/beyond-the-dream-undocumented-experiences-and-the-longing-for-the-good-life/
LOCATION:Rolfe Hall 4302\, Lydeen Library\, Rolfe Hall 4302\, Lydeen Library
CATEGORIES:Upcoming Events
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20250228T160000
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UID:28770-1740758400-1740758400@spanport.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Attend: A Conversation with filmmaker Rodrigo García
DESCRIPTION: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 TV+’s Raymond & Ray\, starring Ethan Hawke and Ewan McGregor\, Nine Lives\, and most recently Netflix’s Familia\, starring Daniel Giménez Cacho and Maribel Verdú. He has also worked on numerous television shows. He will converse with Maarten van Delden\, Chair of UCLA’s Department of Spanish & Portuguese\, about his work in the film and television industry\, his relationship with his father\, Gabriel García Márquez\, the recent Netflix series based on One Hundred Years of Solitude\, and other topics.
URL:https://spanport.ucla.edu/event/attend-a-conversation-with-filmmaker-rodrigo-garcia/
LOCATION:Rolfe Hall 4302\, Lydeen Library\, Rolfe Hall 4302\, Lydeen Library
CATEGORIES:Upcoming Events
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DTSTAMP:20250219T072210Z
CREATED:20250219T070321Z
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UID:28756-1740585600-1740585600@spanport.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:“Política e identidad maya mam en el siglo XXI: Periodismo comunitario y redes sociales"
DESCRIPTION: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 histórica de los pueblos mayas y en defensa de los derechos humanos. Actualmente trabaja como intérprete y traductora apoyando a migrantes indígenas; también es creadora de contenidos para redes sociales en idioma maya mam\, enfocándose en la defensa de la tierra y la cultura mam. En su charla\, Glendy Agustin reflexionará sobre algunos de los retos políticos y culturales a los que se enfrentan las comunidades mam en el siglo XXI\, poniendo el énfasis en el rol que el periodismo comunitario y las redes sociales desempeñan en la defensa de las identidades indígenas\, la madre tierra y la democracia.
URL:https://spanport.ucla.edu/event/politica-e-identidad-mayamam-en-el-siglo-xxi-periodismo-comunitario-y-redes-sociales/
LOCATION:Rolfe Hall 4302\, Lydeen Library\, Rolfe Hall 4302\, Lydeen Library
CATEGORIES:news,Upcoming Events
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DTSTAMP:20250219T014651Z
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UID:28752-1740067200-1740067200@spanport.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:"Voces de la diáspora venezolana: José Rafael Perozo"
DESCRIPTION:Talk also available by Zoom: https://ucla.zoom.us/meeting/register/YIcoCq72Q6OxB6KRkDOvyA \n\nAlejandro 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 de Letras de la Universidad Central de Venezuela. En los Estados Unidos ha sido instructor de español y cultura latinoamericana en la Universidad de Nueva York y en Williams College. En 2019 coeditó el volumen Deborah Castillo: Radical Disobedience para HemiPress. Ha publicado diversos trabajos académicos sobre arte y cultura visual latina\, psicoanálisis y literatura venezolana\, caribeña y brasileña. Su investigación ha recibido los premios: NYU Graduate School of Arts and Science Dean’s Outstanding Dissertation Award (2024)\, Penfield Fellowship (2022)\, NYU Migration Network Award (2021) y Alpine Fellowship (2018). Como poeta\, Castro es autor de los libros: Parasitarias (2020)\, El lejano oeste (2013)\, galardonado con el Premio al Libro del Año 2014\, otorgado por la Asociación de Libreros Venezolanos\, y No es por vicio ni por fornicio. Uranismo y otras parafilias (2011)\, que obtuvo el premio del Concurso para Autores Inéditos organizado por Monte Ávila Editores. Su poesía ha sido traducida al inglés y al italiano y su trabajo de no ficción ha sido publicado en el suplemento literario de El Nacional\, así como en diversos medios digitales.
URL:https://spanport.ucla.edu/event/voces-de-la-diaspora-venezolana-jose-rafael-perozo/
LOCATION:Rolfe Hall 4302\, Lydeen Library\, Rolfe Hall 4302\, Lydeen Library
CATEGORIES:Upcoming Events
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20250213T160000
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DTSTAMP:20250212T054714Z
CREATED:20250212T015256Z
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UID:28730-1739462400-1739462400@spanport.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Jarchar\, or the Art of Crossing in Yuri Herrera’s Señales que precederán al fin del mundo
DESCRIPTION:Talk also available by Zoom: https://ucla.zoom.us/meeting/register/chd4NGozQ7SRYZGIjGws9A \nCharlie 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 in a hemispheric context. His current book manuscript\, titled Disturbing Beauty: Border Crossing in Latin American and Latinx Imaginaries\, examines border construction and marginality through the framework of abjection\, and explores the utopian political imaginaries that are mobilized through the aesthetic act of locating beauty within abject spaces and bodies. His publications can be found in Revista de Estudios Hispánicos\, Chasqui: Revista de Literatura Latinoamericana\, The Comparatist\, CENTRO: Journal for the Center of Puerto Rican Studies\, and the Afro-Hispanic Review. \nAbstract: \nIn this talk\, I examine Yuri Herrera’s novel “Señales que precederán al fin del mundo” to explore the dual role of aesthetics in 1) conceptualizing the US/Mexico border and 2) imagining its remaking. Departing from the anthropological work of Jason de León\, I contend that the border between Mexico and the United States is both a sublime object and a scene of unthinkable abject violence\, and I argue that the border-crossing voyage of Makina—the protagonist of Señales—from Mexico to the US may also be read as a journey into the sublime and the abject. The tension between these two aesthetic modes of reading the border reaches its peak at the novel’s end\, in which Makina’s “final destination” remains indeterminate\, and the reader is confronted with either: 1) the death of the protagonist (the abject annihilation shared by many of the undocumented people who cross the border) or 2) the sublime possibility of rebirth and regeneration. This duality is also represented in Herrera’s neologism “jarchar\,” a term which appears throughout the novel and that refers to a bicultural art form born in another border space: the medieval jarchas of the Iberian Peninsula. Engaging with authors and theorists of Latinx diasporas such as Gloria Anzaldúa and Miguel Algarín\, I argue that “Señales” functions as a contemporary jarcha: a work whose form itself bears the traces of the violent colonial history that produced the US-Mexico Borderlands\, and which simultaneously articulates the possibility of rebirth—of a new subjectivity and a new border politics that could spring forth from the colonial wound that is the US-Mexico border.
URL:https://spanport.ucla.edu/event/jarchar-or-the-art-of-crossing-in-yuri-herreras-senales-que-precederan-al-fin-del-mundo/
LOCATION:Lydeen Library\, 345 Portola Plaza\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
CATEGORIES:Upcoming Events
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20250210T160000
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DTSTAMP:20250205T053601Z
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UID:28719-1739203200-1739203200@spanport.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Haiti Situation Today
DESCRIPTION: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. \nLaurent 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 of the Karsh Institute of Democracy at University of Virginia. His last books include Haiti: The Aftershocks of History (2012) and Freedom Roots: Histories from the Caribbean (UNC Press\, 2019)\,which is co-authored with Richard Turits (William & Mary).
URL:https://spanport.ucla.edu/event/haiti-situation-today/
LOCATION:History Conference Room\, Bunche 6275
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