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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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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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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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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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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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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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SUMMARY:2025 Distinguished Alumni Lecture
DESCRIPTION:Note: This event is RSVP only \nPlease join us in honoring the 2025 UCLA Spanish & Portuguese Distinguished Alumni Lecture Award recipient Dr. Jason Rothman\, Professor at Lancaster University\, U.K.. \nThe 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 learners of a language spoken at home that is not the shared\, common language of the larger society in which they grow up—acquire their HLs naturalistically in early childhood. Despite HL bilinguals being native speakers\, studies over the past three decades typically document significant differences to L1-dominant homeland users as well as high degrees of variation at the individual heritage bilingual speaker level. While individual differences are also present across L1-dominant users of language—e.g. not all native speakers of American English speak the same way—the spectrum of individual differences in HL bilinguals is significantly wider. Although Individual differences are governed by a unique set of dynamic variables we do not yet fully understand\, shifting focus to understanding individual differences better has great theoretical and practical value. The present talk revolves around two central points falling out from investigating the systematicity behind individual differences: (i) the determinism of various internal and external factors—as well as their interactions—contributing to the acquisition and processing of HLs specifically is not random and\, as such\, is crucial for understanding language in the mind more generally and (ii) related research significantly questions the utility\, if not appropriateness\, of using so-called monolingual comparisons as a default baseline for bilingual research. With the above in mind\, the present talk\, offers an introductory landscape of HLstudies that endeavors to contextualize\, investigate and capitalize on the theoretical value of understanding individual differences. In doing so\, I will refer to current research from my lab with several language pairings\, across various age ranges and geographical areas. Given the context of this talk\, I will especially highlight behavioral (acquisition) and brain (processing) data on grammatical gender in Spanish as a HL in the US. As we might expect\, there is no one-size-fits-all (set of) variable(s) that is explanatory for everything in all HL contexts. Rather\, as we shouldexpect\, the (weighting and/or interaction of) variables that regress to cover individual differences depend on what (the domain of language)\, who (the profiles of HL bilinguals) and where (e.g.\, important differences of location that delimit exposure/usage) we are investigating. This ensuing discussion sheds light on multiple levels of trending differences: between so-called monolinguals to HL bilinguals\, between distinct populations of HL bilinguals\, e.g.\, European to North American to Asian contexts\, and intra-group differences across individual HL bilinguals traditionally studied as a single aggregate.  \nThe UCLA Spanish & Portuguese Department will host the Distinguished Alumni lecture on Monday\, February 3\, 2025 at 4:00 PM at the UCLA Faculty Club. The lecture will be held in the Hacienda Room. RSVP Only.
URL:https://spanport.ucla.edu/event/2025-distinguished-alumni-lecture/
LOCATION:Hacienda Room\, UCLA Faculty Club\, 480 Charles E Young Dr E\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
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SUMMARY:Book Presentation: Spanish Fashion in the Age of Velasquez: A Tailor at the Court of Philip IV
DESCRIPTION:Amanda Wunder will speak about her latest book\, Spanish Fashion in the Age of Velázquez: A Tailor at the Court of Philip IV\, which reconstructs the life and work of Mateo Aguado\, a court tailor who dressed many of Diego Velázquez’s most famous portrait sitters. None of the garments that Aguado made survive today\, but this book brings them to life through archival documents\, portraits\, and surviving fragments of material evidence. Focusing attention on the fascinating world of court artisans\, Wunder inserts a previously anonymous tailor into the canon as a major creative figure of Golden-Age Spanish culture.
URL:https://spanport.ucla.edu/event/book-presentation-spanish-fashion-in-the-age-of-velasquez-a-tailor-at-the-court-of-philip-iv/
LOCATION:Rolfe Hall 4302\, Lydeen Library\, Rolfe Hall 4302\, Lydeen Library
CATEGORIES:Upcoming Events
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SUMMARY:Book Talk: Chloe L. Ireton’s Slavery & Freedom in Black Thought in the Early Spanish Atlantic
DESCRIPTION:Chloe Ireton is a Lecturer in the History of Iberia and the Iberian World 1500-1800 at University College London and is currently also a British Academy Wolfson Fellow (2023-2026). Ireton’s first monograph\, Slavery & Freedom in Black Thought in the Early Spanish Atlantic (Cambridge University Press\, 2025) is an intellectual history exploring how free and enslaved Black people in the early Atlantic conceptualized and contested ideas about slavery and freedom. She is currently at work on two other books\, a trade book titled Plotting for Freedom (2026) and a monograph\, tentatively titled Infrastructures of Black Political Knowledge in the Early Modern Atlantic.
URL:https://spanport.ucla.edu/event/book-talk-chloe-l-iretons-slavery-freedom-in-black-thought-in-the-early-spanish-atlantic/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Upcoming Events
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SUMMARY:Latin America and the Transports of Opera: Book Presentation by Roberto Ignacio Diaz
DESCRIPTION:Roberto Ignacio Díaz is Professor of Spanish and Comparative Literature at the University of Southern California. He researches Latin American literary and cultural history with a focus on transatlantic relations in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. He has previously written on multilingualism in Spanish American literature and on the prose of Jorge Luis Borges.
URL:https://spanport.ucla.edu/event/latin-america-and-the-transports-of-opera-book-presentation-by-roberto-ignacio-diaz/
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SUMMARY:El Mar y Sus Metáforas
DESCRIPTION:Ricardo Padrón studies the literature and culture of the early modern Hispanic world\, particularly questions of empire\, space\, and cartography. His recently book\, The Indies of the Setting Sun: How Early Modern Spain Mapped the Far East as the Transpacific West (Chicago 2020) examines the place of Pacific and Asia in the Spanish concept of “the Indies.” Prof. Padrón is an active member of the Renaissance Society of America\, and is currently serving as a member of its Board of Directors. \n 
URL:https://spanport.ucla.edu/event/el-mar-y-sus-metaforas/
LOCATION:Rolfe Hall 4302\, Lydeen Library\, Rolfe Hall 4302\, Lydeen Library
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UID:28478-1732104000-1732107600@spanport.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Mérida 2025 Summer Study Abroad Information Session
DESCRIPTION:Please join us in Lydeen Library (Rolfe 4302) on Wednesday\, November 20 at 12:00 pm for an information session about the 2025 Mérida Summer Travel Study Abroad program!
URL:https://spanport.ucla.edu/event/merida-2025-summer-study-abroad-information-session/
LOCATION:Rolfe Hall 4302\, Lydeen Library\, Rolfe Hall 4302\, Lydeen Library
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SUMMARY:Mapping Dry Land: Valparaíso and Late-Sixteenth-Century Morisco Ecologies
DESCRIPTION:Lecture in the Talk Series “Mapping Dry Land: Valparaíso and Late-Sixteenth-Century Morisco Ecologies”\, by María Lumbreras\, Assistant Professor of History of Art and Architecture at the University of California\, Santa Barbara. The event will take place on Tuesday\, November 19\, 2024\, at 4:00 PM in Lydeen Library (Rolfe 4302).
URL:https://spanport.ucla.edu/event/mapping-dry-land-valparaiso-and-late-sixteenth-century-morisco-ecologies/
CATEGORIES:Upcoming Events
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DTSTAMP:20241116T070011Z
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SUMMARY:Where We Stand: A Conversation on Black Feminisms with Djamila Ribeiro
DESCRIPTION:Djamila Ribeiro is a philosopher\, essayist\, editor\, and one of the most influential leaders in the Afro-Brazilian women’s rights movement. She is the 2024-2025 Andres Bello Chair in Latin American Cultures and Civilizations at New York University.
URL:https://spanport.ucla.edu/event/where-we-stand-a-conversation-on-black-feminisms-with-djamila-ribeiro/
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SUMMARY:Plotting Coordinates of Blackness in Central America
DESCRIPTION:Dr. Jennifer Gómez Menjívar (Ph.D. Ohio State U) is Professor in the Department of Media Arts and director of the MA in Media Industries and Critical Cultural Studies at University of North Texas. Her research interests\ninclude Indigenous Sovereignty Media\, Latin American and Latinx Media\, Grassroots and Participatory Media Practices\, Cinematic Adaptation\, Digital Culture\, Critical Theory\, and Media Linguistics.
URL:https://spanport.ucla.edu/event/plotting-coordinates-of-blackness-in-central-america/
LOCATION:Rolfe Hall 4302\, Lydeen Library\, Rolfe Hall 4302\, Lydeen Library
CATEGORIES:Upcoming Events
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SUMMARY:Unexpected Routes and Beautiful Friendships: Refugee Writers in Mexico
DESCRIPTION:Tabea Linhard is a Professor of Spanish\, Global Studies\, and Comparative Literature at Washington University in St. Louis. Her research focuses on displacement and asylum experiences in the 1930s and 1940s\, and she has published extensively on Spanish and Mexican literature and film\, Memory Studies\, Jewish Studies\, and Mediterranean Studies.
URL:https://spanport.ucla.edu/event/unexpected-routes-and-beautiful-friendships-refugee-writers-in-mexico/
LOCATION:Rolfe Hall 4302\, Lydeen Library\, Rolfe Hall 4302\, Lydeen Library
CATEGORIES:Upcoming Events
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20241017T160000
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SUMMARY:Cuba en Tres Tiempos: Narrativas de  Autodeterminación y Transformación Desde la  Literatura\, el Teatro y el Cine
DESCRIPTION:Susannah Rodríguez Drissi (Ph.D. Comp Lit\, UCLA) es una poeta\, escritora\, dramaturga\, directora\, productora e investigadora cubana multipremiada y enseña en Writing Programs y en el Academic Advancement Program en UCLA. Sus poemas\, cuentos y escritos de no-ficción creativa han aparecido en multiples antologías. Su novela Until We’re Fish (2020) fue premiada por el Nautilus Book Award in Fiction\, medalla de oro en el International Latino Book Award for Best Historical Novel y Best Latino Book into Movies Award\, un premio otorgado por James Edward Olmos. Su obra de teatro premiada Houses Without Walls se estrenó en el Fringe Festival en 2018. Sus obras de teatro han sido seleccionadas para el 2019 y el 2022 Short+Sweet Theatre Festival y fueron estrenanadas en el Lee Strasberg Film & Theatre Institute\, en Los Angeles\, y en particular Rey y Atenea y el musical Honolulu\, Baby! recibieron el Audience Choice Award y fueron finalistas para el NBC Creative Talent Award. Su última obra teatral\, Dulcinea de La Habana\, acaba de recibir el premio al mejor libreto del Instituto Cervantes y el Brisk Festival L.A. Es la autora del volumen de poesía The Latin Poet’s Guide to the Cosmos (Floricanto Press\, 2019).
URL:https://spanport.ucla.edu/event/cuba-en-tres-tiempos-narrativas-de-autodeterminacion-y-transformacion-desde-la-literatura-el-teatro-y-el-cine/
LOCATION:UCLA Lydeen Library (Rolfe Hall 4302)\, 345 Portola Plaza\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
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SUMMARY:Fall Welcome Reception 2024
DESCRIPTION: 
URL:https://spanport.ucla.edu/event/fall-welcome-reception-2024/
CATEGORIES:Past events
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20240912T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20240917T170000
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SUMMARY:The LA Escena Festival of Hispanic Classical Theater
DESCRIPTION:The LA Escena Festival of Hispanic classical theater will be back September 12–17\, 2024. The fourth edition of Diversifying the Classics’ biennial festival will bring fresh takes on the comedia to UCLA’s newly renovated Nimoy Theater in Westwood\, Los Angeles.\nLA Escena is Los Angeles’ first Hispanic classical theater festival\, organized by UCLA’s Diversifying the Classics\, which is part of the Division of Humanities. Since the inaugural edition in 2018\, LA Escena has brought the best of Southern California theater together with acclaimed performers from around the world to celebrate the comedia in performance and adaptation. \nThis year LA Escena will offer productions at the Nimoy Theater by the internationally recognized Spanish theater company Grumelot\, three new adaptations from our popular Golden Tongues series\, and a new performance of our translation of Sor Juana’s Love is the Greater Labyrinth by director Sarah Grunnah. We will also be premiering our latest initiative\, Mex-Clásicos\, with three new versions of comedia by renowned Mexican theater artists\, along with Pedro Osuna’s musical transformation of Ana Caro’s The Courage to Right a Woman’s Wrongs\, and theatre dybbuk’s “illuminated lecture” of Cervantes’ The Marvelous Puppet Show. To conclude the festival\, Red Bull Theater will present a virtual reading of Diversifying the Classics’ latest translation\, Lope de Vega’s The Beast of Hungary\, as a part of our ongoing collaboration\, Hispanic Golden Age Classics. \nSee full schedule at Diversifying the Classics.
URL:https://spanport.ucla.edu/event/the-la-escena-festival-of-hispanic-classical-theater/
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20240521T160000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20240521T190000
DTSTAMP:20240514T233004Z
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SUMMARY:A Lecture by Yvon Grenier: "A Canadian Affair: Pierre Trudeau\, Fidel Castro\, and the Cold War"
DESCRIPTION:In conjunction with the the UCLA Canadian Studies Program and the Program on Caribbean Studies\, the Department of Spanish & Portuguese welcomes you to a talk by Dr. Yvon Grenier\, Professor at St. Francis Xavier University in Canada. This lecture is titled “A Canadian Affair: Pierre Trudeau\, Fidel Castro\, and the Cold War” and will take place on Tuesday\, May 21st\, 2024\, at 4:00 PM in Lydeen Library (Rolfe Hall 4302). \nYvon Grenier is Professor and Chair of the Department of Political Science\, and Jules Léger Chair in the Humanities and Social Sciences\, at St. Francis Xavier University in Antigonish\, Nova Scotia. He is the author of numerous books on a wide range of subjects\, including art and politics in Latin America.  His current project examines Canadian foreign policy toward Cuba\, Mexico\, and Venezuela\, with a focus on human rights and the promotion of democratic values. \nProfessor Grenier seeks to explain the seemingly incongruous bromance between Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau (1968-1979\, 1980-84) and Fidel Castro\, in the context of Canadian-Cuban relations during the Cold War. We know that Trudeau was exceptionally praiseful of Castro and his policies\, even though he was obviously not a communist. Perhaps more importantly\, this friendship constitutes a heritage moment in Canadian history\, and one of the defining features of Trudeau’s time as Prime Minister. The case will be made that Trudeau’s “suspension of judgement\,” when talking about or visiting his friend\, was typical of him\, that is\, simultaneously idiosyncratic and to a critical extent\, in sync with his country. The lecture will also look at the key issue of friendship in international relations.
URL:https://spanport.ucla.edu/event/attend-a-canadian-affair-pierre-trudeau-fidel-castro-and-the-cold-war/
LOCATION:UCLA Lydeen Library (Rolfe Hall 4302)\, 345 Portola Plaza\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20240508T130000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20240508T150000
DTSTAMP:20240502T222118Z
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SUMMARY:Attend: "Cuba en tres tiempos" with Dra. Susannah Rodríguez Drissi
DESCRIPTION:Cuba en tres tiempos: narrativas de autodeterminación y transformación desde la literatura\, el teatro y el cine \nUna conversación con la Dra. Susannah Rodríguez Drissi (UCLA Writing Programs) \nSusannah Rodríguez Drissi (Ph.D. Comp Lit\, UCLA) es una poeta\, escritora\, dramaturga\, directora\, productora e investigadora cubana multipremiada y enseña en Writing Programs y en el Academic Advancement Program en UCLA. Sus poemas\, cuentos y escritos de no-ficción creativa han aparecido en multiples antologías. Su novela Until We’re Fish (2020) fue premiada el Nautilus Book Award in Fiction\, medalla de oro en el International Latino Book Award for Best Historical Novel y Best Latino Book into Movies Award\, un premio otorgado por James Edward Olmos. Su obra de teatro premiada Houses Without Walls se estrenó en el Fringe Festival en 2018. Sus obras de teatro han sido seleccionadas para 2019 y 2022 Short+Sweet Theatre Festival and fueron estrenanadas en el Lee Strasberg Film & Theatre Institute\, en Los Angeles\, y en particular Rey y Atenea y el musical Honolulu\, Baby! recibieron el Audience Choice Award y fueron finalistas para el NBC Creative Talent Award. Es la autora del volumen de poesía The Latin Poet’s Guide to the Cosmos (Floricanto Press\, 2019) \nModeradora: Gelsys García Lorenzo (S&P\, UCLA) \nGelsys M. García Lorenzo es doctora en Filología Hispánica (Universidad Complutense de Madrid\, 2016). Tiene publicados los libros Anuncia Freud a María\, Cartografía bíblica del teatro cubano (Leiden\, 2017); La Revolución y sus perros (Leiden\, Bokeh\, 2016); No te afeitarás en vano (Hypermedia Ediciones\, 2016) entre otros.
URL:https://spanport.ucla.edu/event/attend-cuba-en-tres-tiempos-narrativas-de-autodeterminacion-y-transformacion-desde-la-literatura-el-teatro-y-el-cine/
LOCATION:Rolfe Hall 1301\, 345 Portola Plaza\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90024\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20240425T160000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20240425T180000
DTSTAMP:20240401T223423Z
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SUMMARY:A Lecture by Concepción Company Company (Academia Mexicana de la Lengua): "Historia y cultura en la creatividad y el cambio lingüísticos"
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Concepción Company Company (Academia Mexicana de la Lengua) \nTitle: “Historia y cultura en la creatividad y el cambio lingüísticos” \nDate: Thursday\, April 25th at 4 pm \nLocation: Lydeen Library \nCo-sponsored with the Cátedra Latinoamericana Julio Cortázar\, Universidad de Guadalajara. \n 
URL:https://spanport.ucla.edu/event/a-conversation-with-concepcion-company-company-academia-mexicana-de-la-lengua/
LOCATION:UCLA Lydeen Library (Rolfe Hall 4302)\, 345 Portola Plaza\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20240420T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20240420T210000
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SUMMARY:ATTEND: The Marvelous Puppet Show: An Illuminated Lecture on Saturday April 20th
DESCRIPTION:In this illuminated lecture\, Professor Barbara Fuchs addresses Miguel de Cervantes’ surprisingly timely take on the trustworthiness of media. How does who we are shape what we see and believe? And how do the purveyors of media manipulate those distinctions? \nIn The Marvelous Puppet Show\, the author of Don Quixote gives us a story of charlatans who con an audience of nervous villagers. For better or for worse\, the short play invites us to become that audience. As it dissects the foibles of belief and belonging\, Cervantes’ uncannily prescient interlude poses uncomfortable questions for the here and now. This lecture interweaves scholarship presented by Dr. Fuchs with performances by actors from theatre dybbuk. \nThe lecture will take place in Shatto Chapel at First Congregational Church of Los Angeles and will be followed by a Q & A. \nThe event will take place on April 20th from 7 PM to 9 PM. Doors open at 6:30 PM. \nThis event is presented in partnership with Diversifying the Classics at UCLA and First Congregational Church of Los Angeles. \nTickets can be purchased at the following link: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-marvelous-puppet-show-an-illuminated-lecture-tickets-861627309477 \nABOUT PROFESSOR BARBARA FUCHS: Barbara Fuchs is Distinguished Professor of Spanish and English at UCLA. She 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. She directs the UCLA “Diversifying the Classics” initiative\, which translates and promotes Hispanic classical theater\, as well as LA Escena\, Los Angeles’ biennial festival of Hispanic Classical Theater. Her most recent books are Theater of Lockdown: Digital and Distanced Performance in a Time of Pandemic (Bloomsbury/Methuen 2021) and\, with Robin Kello and Aina Soley\, the forthcoming anthology Golden Tongues: Adapting Hispanic Classical Theater in Los Angeles (Bloomsbury/Methuen 2024). \nABOUT THEATRE DYBBUK: theatre dybbuk seeks to illuminate universal human experience by exploring Jewish thought through lyrical theatrical performances and innovative educational encounters. More information can be found at theatredybbuk.org.
URL:https://spanport.ucla.edu/event/attend-the-marvelous-puppet-show-an-illuminated-lecture-on-saturday-april-20th/
LOCATION:Shatto Chapel\, First Congregational Church of Los Angeles\, 540 South Commonwealth Avenue\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90020\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20240419T120000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20240419T140000
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SUMMARY:A Lecture by Carla Guelfenbein: "Vivir imaginando"
DESCRIPTION:Author Carla Guelfenbein will give her guest lecture at 12:00 PM on Friday\, April 19th\, in Rolfe Hall 4302 (Lydeen Library)
URL:https://spanport.ucla.edu/event/a-lecture-by-carla-guelfenbein-vivir-imaginando/
LOCATION:UCLA Lydeen Library (Rolfe Hall 4302)\, 345 Portola Plaza\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20240418T160000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20240418T160000
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SUMMARY:2024 Lois E. Matthews Lecture
DESCRIPTION: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”.
URL:https://spanport.ucla.edu/event/2024-lois-e-matthews-lecture/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240306T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240306T200000
DTSTAMP:20240301T052942Z
CREATED:20240110T081503Z
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SUMMARY:Attend: "Picasso\, García Lorca and Dalí: Revealing the Queer Themes in Their Work"
DESCRIPTION: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.
URL:https://spanport.ucla.edu/event/attend-picasso-garcia-lorca-and-dali-revealing-the-queer-themes-in-their-work/
LOCATION:YRL Conference Room\, 280 Charles E Young Dr N\, Los Angeles\, 90095\, United States
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SUMMARY:Manifesto for a Feminist Nationalism; National and Gender Oppression in the Catalan Countries: Júlia Ojeda Caba (Universitat Oberta de Catalunya)
DESCRIPTION: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 against subaltern individuals.” Basing on experiences from elsewhere—from the African-American and Latin feminists\, to indigenists from Abya Yala and Chinese activists against sexual harassment—\, the authors highlight the “predatory” nature of the Spanish nationalism\, and propose intersectional feminism as an emancipatory tool. They also highlight the key role that the Catalan language plays in the nation’s dynamics as it is considered the base of the Catalan national identity. Dr. Ojeda will also present her upcoming book Màtria o Barbàrie. 30 visions del feminisme català (‘Matriarchy or Barbarianism. 30 views of the Catalan feminism’)\, which gathers contributions from all Catalan Countries.
URL:https://spanport.ucla.edu/event/manifesto-for-a-feminist-nationalism-national-and-gender-oppression-in-the-catalan-countries-julia-ojeda-caba-universitat-oberta-de-catalunya/
LOCATION:UCLA Lydeen Library (Rolfe Hall 4302)\, 345 Portola Plaza\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20240227T130000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20240227T150000
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SUMMARY:Attend: "Of Light and Struggle: Social Justice\, Human Rights\, and Accountability in Uruguay"
DESCRIPTION: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. \nDuring the country’s dictatorship from 1973 to 1985\, Uruguayans suffered under crushing repression\, which included the highest rate of political incarceration in the world. Professor Sharnak will give a talk on her book\, Of Light and Struggle\, which explores how activists\, transnational social movements\, and international policymakers collaborated and clashed in response to this era and during the country’s transition back to democratic rule. \nAt the heart of the book is an examination of how the language and politics of human rights shifted over time as a result of conflict and convergence between local\, national\, and global dynamics. Sharnak examines the utility and limits of human rights language used by international NGOs\, such as Amnesty International\, and foreign governments\, such as the Carter administration. The book explores tensions between their responses to the dictatorship’s violations and the grassroots struggle for socioeconomic rights as well as new social movements around issues of race\, gender\, religion\, and sexuality in Uruguay. In exploring the interplay between debates taking place in activists’ living rooms\, presidential administrations\, and international halls of power\, the book uncovers the messy and contingent process through which human rights became a powerful discourse for social change. By looking at this pivotal period in international history\, Of Light and Struggle suggests that discussions around the small country on the Río de la Plata had global implications for the possibilities and constraints of human rights well beyond Uruguay’s shores.
URL:https://spanport.ucla.edu/event/of-light-and-struggle-social-justice-human-rights-and-accountability-in-uruguay/
LOCATION:Haines Hall 279
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20240209T080000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20240210T170000
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SUMMARY:Attend: “Intermediaries\, Middle Grounds\, Middle Sea” Mediterranean Seminar 2024 Winter Workshop (9 & 10 February: UCLA)
DESCRIPTION: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. \nAs the theater of engagement and integration of communities originating on the shores or from the hinterlands of Africa\, Asia\, and Europe\, the Mediterranean region served as a dynamic center of interaction and exchange from Antiquity through early modernity. Even as it began to lose political and economic centrality\, it has remained a zone of engagement of diverse peoples and cultures into the Modern era. This engagement is both the product and the catalyst of continuous dialectical processes of translation\, transculturation\, colonization\, and syncretism across the gamut of human experience and expression: in art\, literature\, language\, music\, religion\, media\, material culture\, and folk practices\, as well as in social\, economic\, political\, and institutional dynamics. \nThe Winter 2024 Mediterranean Seminar Workshop focuses on the agents (the “go-betweens”) and the currents (the “in-betweens”) of such dialectics. Typically invisible or\, at best\, marginalized in traditional historiographies and disciplines\, intermediaries and middle grounds (synthetic texts\, translations\, objects\, institutions and strategies\, and the individuals and communities who were their agents and products) are crucial to the understanding of the history and culture of the Mediterranean\, and of the historical processes which gave rise to many aspects of the modern world. \nDraft Program (subject to change) \nFriday 9 February \nWorkshop Paper #1“Theater of Conquest: Sovereignty and Territorial Expansion into Africa (1492-1530)” [abstract]• Marta Albalá-Pelegrín (Associate Professor of Modern Languages\, Cal Poly Pomona)Moderator: Sharon Kinoshita (Literature: UC Santa Cruz)Respondent: Toby Yuen-Gen Liang (History & Philology\, Academia Sinica\, Taiwan) \nWorkshop Paper #2“Treasonous Translations: Resisting Roman Hegemony in Medieval Armenia”[abstract]• Sergio LaPorta (Associate Dean of Arts & Humanities\, CSU Fresno)Moderator: Brian A. Catlos (Religious Studies: CU Boulder)Respondent: Christine Chism (English\, UCLA) \nWorkshop Paper #3“Antiquity and Embassies in Late-Ottoman Arabic” [abstract]• Samuel England (Associate Professor of Arabic\, University of Wisconsin\, Madison)Moderator: Zrinka Stahuljak (Director\, Center for Early Global Studies\, UCLA)Respondent: Oumelbanine (Nina) Zhiri (Literature\, UC San Diego) \nKeynote Presentation:“Middle Grounds of Cultural Interaction in Comparative Perspective: The Case of Byzantium and Muslim Anatolia” [abstract]• Rustam Shukurov (University of St Andrews)Moderator:  Brian A. Catlos (Religious Studies: CU Boulder) \nSaturday 10 February \nKeynote Presentation:“The Fiduciary Mediterranean: Navigating Dynamics of Trust and Power across Language Communities” [abstract]• Claire Gilbert (Saint Louis University)Moderator:  Sharon Kinoshita (Literature: UC Santa Cruz) \nRound Table 1To what extent did the individual character of intermediaries (go-betweens\, diplomats\, translators\, fixers\, exiles\, refugees\, enslaved people) shape cultural\, political and/or economic developments in the Mediterranean? To what extent does this differ or resemble dynamics and apparatuses outside the region?Moderator: Brian A. Catlos (Religious Studies: CU Boulder)• Nicole Archambeau (History\, Colorado State Fort Collins) [abstract]• John Curry (History\, University of Nevada\, Las Vegas) [abstract]• Matthew Harpster (Archaeology/Art History\, Koç University) [abstract]• Fabien Montcher (History\, Saint Louis University) [abstract]• Hossein Nakhaei (Art History\, Pittsburgh University) [abstract]• Oumelbanine (Nina) Zhiri (Literature\, UC San Diego) [abstract]\nRound Table 2What do transmitted\, borrowed\, gifted or re-configured objects\, styles\, cultural forms or texts reveal about processes of cultural dialectic in the Mediterranean? To what extent are these dynamics particularly Mediterranean?Moderator: Sharon Kinoshita (Literature: UC Santa Cruz)• Omar Artal (School of Historical Science\, Eötvös Lorand University\, Budapest) [abstract]• Thomas Barton (History\, University of San Diego) [abstract]• Patrick Morgan (History\, UCLA) [abstract]• Joëlle Rollo-Koster (History\, University of Rhode Island) [abstract]• Irina Variash (History\, University of St Andrews) [abstract]• David Wacks (Romance Languages\, Oregon) [abstract]• David Williams (Interdisciplinary Studies\, University of Saint Katherine) [abstract]\nRound Table 3How did the geographical character and/or institutional infrastructure that developed in the Mediterranean contribute to particular outcomes in terms of regional engagement and/or cultural\, political and/or social evolution?Moderator: Zrinka Stahuljak (Director\, Center for Early Global Studies\, UCLA)• Christine Chism (English\, UCLA) [abstract]• Anne Le (Medieval Institute\, Notre Dame University) [abstract]• Toby Yuen-Gen Liang (History & Philology\, Academia Sinica\, Taiwan) [abstract]• Roberta Morosini (Italian\, Università degli Studi di Napoli L’Orientale) [abstract]• Aaron Stamper (History\, Princeton University) [abstract]• Marcus Ziemann (Classics\, Princeton University) [abstract]\nAttendance is for registered participants only. \nLunches are included for registered participants. \nRegistration is free\, and is open until 2 February 2024\, but please register as soon as possible as numbers are limited. \nRegister here. \nRegistrees commit to attending the whole two-day event. \nFor general information see www.mediterraeneanseminar.org; for general inquiries\, contact mailbox@mediterraneanseminar.org \nWe regret that travel support is not available for attendees. \nSponsors\, Organization & Support:This workshop is organized by Brian A. Catlos\, Sharon Kinoshita and Zrinka Stahuljak.The Winter 2024 workshop is hosted and sponsored by the CMRS Center for Early Global Studies at the University of California Los Angeles\, together with the CU Mediterranean Studies Group and the Mediterranean Seminar.
URL:https://spanport.ucla.edu/event/attend-intermediaries-middle-grounds-middle-sea-mediterranean-seminar-2024-winter-workshop-9-10-february-ucla/
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SUMMARY:2024 Distinguished Alumni Lecture
DESCRIPTION: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. \nThe 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 according to temporal and global displacements\, framed within the years 1996 (San Francisco\, California); 1967-1973 (Vietnam-Hong Kong); 1978 (Alexandria\, Louisiana); and back to 1996 (San Francisco). The novel traced as a circle\, thus as the World–opens with a crime in a San Francisco hill\, investigated by Chicano defense attorney Jesse Pasadoble\, followed by flashbacks to Vietnam\, and to vivid descriptions of a quintessential battle on a hill near the Laotian border. War trauma thus surges as the novel’s central theme\, with an extended subtext laced and blended according to a calendar of seasons (Winter\, Spring)\, and to ancient Greek myths and drama (Persephone\, Aristophanes). \nThe UCLA Spanish & Portuguese Department will host the Distinguished Alumni lecture on Wednesday\, February 7\, 2024 at 4:30 PM at the UCLA Faculty Club. The lecture will be held in the Hacienda Room.
URL:https://spanport.ucla.edu/event/2024-distinguished-alumni-lecture/
LOCATION:Hacienda Room\, UCLA Faculty Club\, 480 Charles E Young Dr E\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
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