Note: This event is RSVP only Please join us in honoring the 2025 UCLA Spanish & Portuguese Distinguished Alumni Lecture Award recipient Dr. Jason Rothman, Professor at Lancaster University, U.K.. The 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...
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. Laurent 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...
Talk also available by Zoom: https://ucla.zoom.us/meeting/register/chd4NGozQ7SRYZGIjGws9A Charlie 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...
Talk also available by Zoom: https://ucla.zoom.us/meeting/register/YIcoCq72Q6OxB6KRkDOvyA Alejandro 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...
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...
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...