News

The Department of Spanish and Portuguese is pleased to welcome distinguished writer, translator and teacher Achy Obejas as our Writer-in-Residence for Spring 2017. She will be teaching a beginning workshop for translators, which will include critical readings, in-class exercises, peer critique and discussion. Language fluency is not necessary. No prior translation experience necessary.

Prof. Saum-Pascual's exhibit No Legacy || Literatura electrónica, that was on display at UC Berkeley last year, is opening this week in San Francisco at the California College of the Arts. The show will be open February 23 - May 5. Please click here to visit the CCA event page with more information.

The Department of Spanish and Portuguese presents

Andrea Jeftanovic
“Perspectivas inquietantes en la memoria postdictatorial.”
Una lectura de su obra seguida de una conversación con la autora

Thursday, February 9, 2017 at 2pm

5125 Dwinelle (Spanish & Portuguese department library)

Filmmaker and Artist, Paraguay
In residence January 29 - February 9

Earlier this year, the UCB Center for Teaching and Learning organized a Waves of Innovation event "to showcase work that has accomplished broad goals in improving pedagogy, and specifically in student engagement strategies, large enrollment courses, student writing and assessment". Amelia Barili presented there: “Volunteering, Global Education and Good Writing: Preparing Students to Succeed” where she spoke about this Spanish Department course that offers students the opportunity to volunteer locally and to prepare themselves to volunteer internationally.

¡Cómo, hermanos humanos,
no deciros que ya no puedo y
ya no puedo con tanto cajón,
tanto minuto, tanta
lagartija y tanta
inversión, tanto lejos y tanta sed de sed!
Señor Ministro de Salud; ¿qué hacer?
!Ah! desgraciadamente, hombres humanos,
hay, hermanos, muchísimo que hacer.

César Vallejo, “Los Nueve Monstruos” (fragment)