Juan Rosas is a third-generation Mexican-American, a heritage speaker of Spanish, and a language access coordinator. He has a background in linguistic anthropology and is passionate about working with communities to advance racial equity.
In Translating Blackness, Lorgia García Peña considers Black Latinidad in a global perspective in order to chart colonialism as an ongoing sociopolitical force. Drawing from archives and cultural productions from the United States, the Caribbean, and Europe, García Peña argues that Black Latinidad is a social, cultural, and political formation—rather than solely a site of identity—through which we can understand both oppression and resistance. She takes up the intellectual and political genealogy of Black Latinidad in the works of Frederick Douglass, Gregorio Luperón, and Arthur Schomburg.
In Translating Blackness, Lorgia García Peña considers Black Latinidad in a global perspective in order to chart colonialism as an ongoing sociopolitical force. Drawing from archives and cultural productions from the United States, the Caribbean, and Europe, García Peña argues that Black Latinidad is a social, cultural, and political formation—rather than solely a site of identity—through which we can understand both oppression and resistance. She takes up the intellectual and political genealogy of Black Latinidad in the works of Frederick Douglass, Gregorio Luperón, and Arthur Schomburg.
In what ways can a Center for Latin American Studies contribute to decentering the very notion of Latin America? To what extent can often overlooked sensemaking practices be centered in a Center for Latin American Studies? How much can margins take center stage? Wapichana Indigenous artist Gustavo Caboco welcomes us to experience the Center for Latin American Studies at UC Berkeley as a site of critical inquiry and aesthetic practice, not as an enclosed space to be taken for granted but as a fertile soil for conjuring alternate itineraries, vocabularies, and belongings.
In what ways can a Center for Latin American Studies contribute to decentering the very notion of Latin America? To what extent can often overlooked sensemaking practices be centered in a Center for Latin American Studies? How much can margins take center stage? Wapichana Indigenous artist Gustavo Caboco welcomes us to experience the Center for Latin American Studies at UC Berkeley as a site of critical inquiry and aesthetic practice, not as an enclosed space to be taken for granted but as a fertile soil for conjuring alternate itineraries, vocabularies, and belongings.
Panel Discussion | February 17 | 1-3:30 p.m. |142 Dwinelle Hall
Sponsor: Center for Latin American Studies and Department of Spanish & Portuguese
Panel Discussion | February 17 | 1-3:30 p.m. |142 Dwinelle Hall
Sponsor: Center for Latin American Studies and Department of Spanish & Portuguese
January 27, 2023 - 4 pm, at 5125 Dwinelle (Spanish and Portuguese Library)
January 27, 2023 - 4 pm, at 5125 Dwinelle (Spanish and Portuguese Library)
Felicidades to Professor Justin Davidson (Spanish and Portuguese) and undergraduate senior Andres Sanchez (Department of Linguistics), who were awarded a Latinx Research Center Faculty-Mentored Undergraduate Research Fellowship for Fall 2022, Spring 2023, and Summer 2023!
Felicidades are in order for Professor Justin Davidson, who was awarded a UC Multicampus Research Initiative Grant! The project, entitled "An interdisciplinary approach to the study of Spanish-English bilingualism in California," lasts for at least two years and expands Professor Davidson's Corpus of Bay Area Spanish to now include Spanish-English bilinguals in the Los Angeles and Santa Cruz areas of California.
Our alumni Yairamarén Maldonado has recently published a terrific book of poetry, Ciencia ficción en el mirador. Sci-fi at the mirador, a bilingual edition of 169 pages edited by Ediciones Del Flamboyan (San Juan, PR) with drawings by Lorraine Rodríguez.
Our Ph.D. Candidate Gabriel Lesser received a Fulbright-Hays grant to conduct research abroad for his dissertation. With affiliations to the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) and Mario de Andrade Library, in Brazil, Gabriel will spend his Spring 2023 semester collecting archival data for his comparative project about racial satire and caricatures in nineteenth-century Mexico and Brazil.
Our Ph.D. Candidate Gabriel Lesser received a Fulbright-Hays grant to conduct research abroad for his dissertation. With affiliations to the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) and Mario de Andrade Library, in Brazil, Gabriel will spend his Spring 2023 semester collecting archival data for his comparative project about racial satire and caricatures in nineteenth-century Mexico and Brazil.
Our Ph.D. Candidate Gabriel Lesser received a Fulbright-Hays grant to conduct research abroad for his dissertation. With affiliations to the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) and Mario de Andrade Library, in Brazil, Gabriel will spend his Spring 2023 semester collecting archival data for his comparative project about racial satire and caricatures in nineteenth-century Mexico and Brazil.
Congratulations to Ben Papadopoulos (Spanish and Portuguese) and several undergraduate UC Berkeley students, who presented various research talks on the Gender in Language Project at the 28th Lavender Languages and Linguistics conference, held over the summer in Catania, Italy!
Our Graduate student Gabriella Licata was recently interviewed by the UC Berkeley Social Science Matrix for their official podcast. Gabriella was asked about her research on misogyny and political speech. You can listen or read a transcript of the podcast here: https://live-ssmatrix.pantheon.berkeley.edu/research-article/race-gender-and-political-speech-an-interview-with-gabriella-licata/
Felicidades are in order for Jesus Duarte (Senior – Double Major in Hispanic Linguistics [Spanish and Portuguese] and Linguistics), whose Senior Honors Thesis (advised by Professor Justin Davidson) was just awarded the Charlene Conrad Liebau Library Prize for Undergraduate Research! Jesus's paper, entitled “Sociophonetic Differences in Queer Speech of Spanish Speakers,” explores both the acoustic production and auditory perception of select sound features of Queer Spanish. Jesus's research incorporated library database materials, in addition to Berkeley Qualt
The Department of Spanish and Portuguese is thrilled to welcome Sabrina Grohsebner, a collaborator on the research project The Interpretation of Childbirth in Early Modern Spain at the University of Vienna and a Junior Fellow at the International Research Center for Cultural Studies (IFK). Her research on the role and representation of midwives in early modern Spain brings her to our department this spring semester until April 15, 2022.
