Los usos de la medicina herbal para mantener la salud o curar enfermedades en los pueblos indígenas nos pueden ayudar a entender su relación con el medioambiente. Esta presentación es una exposición del proceso y los resultados de una investigación etnográfica sobre los usos de medicinas herbales en Tecomate, Chicontepec, una comunidad Nahua en la...

The UCLA Latin American Institute will host a public event about the Florentine Codex, a 12-book manuscript of Indigenous Aztec (or Nahua) culture and knowledge, on November 16. The evening event will feature many members of the UCLA-trained team who contributed to Getty's Digital Florentine Codex, a new online edition of the manuscript, who will...

The UCLA Department of Spanish and Portuguese invites you to a presentation by Yásnaya Elena Aguilar Gil, the 2023-2024 UC Regents Lecturer. Yásnaya Elena Aguilar Gil is a linguist, writer, activist, and public intellectual based in Ayutla Mixe (Oaxaca, Mexico), whose work focuses on the study, preservation, and revitalization of Indigenous languages across Mesoamerica. Aguilar...

Fenomenal, Rompeforma 1989-1996, is a documentary about Rompeforma: Marató n de Baile, Performance & Visuales, the experimental Latinx dance and performance festival that took place in Puerto Rico from 1989-1996. Fenomenal, Rompeforma 1989-1996 features dozens of performances and commentary by many current leaders of the field, and some who have sadly passed. Fenomenal intends to...

Please join us in honoring the 2024 UCLA Spanish & Portuguese Distinguished Alumni Lecture Award recipient Dr. Roberto Cantú, Professor Emeritus at California State University, Los Angeles. The 2024 Distinguished Alumni Lecture topic is "Alfredo Véa's Gods Go Begging: The War Novel as a Work of Art". Gods Go Begging consists of fourteen chapters arranged...

The Mediterranean Seminar and UCLA’s CMRS Center for Early Global Studies present the Mediterranean Seminar Winter 2024 Workshop,  “Intermediaries, Middle Grounds, Middle Sea” held on 9 & 10 February at UCLA. As the theater of engagement and integration of communities originating on the shores or from the hinterlands of Africa, Asia, and Europe, the Mediterranean...

The UCLA Department of Spanish and Portuguese invites you to a talk by Professor Debbie Sharnak, co-sponsored by the UCLA Latin American Institute and the Promise Institute, as well as the departments of Sociology and History. This lecture will take place on February 27, 2024 from 1:00 to 3:00pm in Haines Hall 279. During the...

This talk is based on the Manifesto for a Feminist Nationalism that Dr. Ojeda published on March 8, 2023, along with the Matriotes collective in the Catalan Countries. The manifesto claimed for a new intersectional perspective for the Catalan case that combines “the national oppression with the structural violence that patriarchy and global capitalism exert...

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".