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Professor Jossianna Arroyo (University of Texas, Austin) will speak on her new book. Caribes 2.0 deviates from the historical-globalized views of subjected, colonized Caribbean bodies and their material conditions to examine the relationship between the local and the global in contemporary Caribbean cultures. It examines the role that media is playing in the invisibility or hyper-visibility of Caribbean cultures in the islands and the U.S. diaspora. 

The Center for Teaching and Learning at UC Berkeley has named our Lecturer in Hispanic Linguistics, Jhonni Carr, a 2023-24 Lecturer Teaching Fellow. 

In this talk - hosted by City Lights Booksellers - Professor Michael Iarocci discusses his recent publication The Art of Witnessing: Francisco de Goya's Disasters of War (December 2022, University of Toronto Press) with Professor Darcy Crimaldo Grisby. 

We are pleased to share that Dr. Tom McEnaney, Associate Professor of Spanish & Portuguese and Comparative Literature, will serve as the next Director of the Berkeley Center for New Media (BCNM), as of July 1, 2023. 

A special issue of The Journal of Spanish Cultural Studies (Vol 24.1) co-edited by Prof. Saum-Pascual has been released: "Futuros: imaginarios, redes, y prácticas digitales en la cultura española. Un catálogo de posibles".

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Professor Justin Davidson has just today been named a recipient of the 2023 Faculty Award for Outstanding Mentorship of GSIs.

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