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September 12, 2018

Ayotzinapa: la rabia todavía.

26 September, 2018 | 5:00 pm-6:00 pm Spanish & Portuguese Library, 5125 Dwinelle Hall

September 6, 2018

Congratulations, Allen Young!

Congratulations to our former graduate student, Allen Young (Berkeley PhD, 2012), who has been awarded the Queen Sofía Spanish Institute Translation prize, for his translation of Losing is What Matters, by Manuel Pérez Subirina. The $10,000 prize is awarded for the best translation of a Spanish-language literary work into English.

After graduating from Berkeley, Allen taught at Northwestern University before pursing an additional degree in urban planning. He is currently working in Shanghai, China, as the managing editor of a bilingual cultural magazine, Neocha.

September 4, 2018

Encuentros Iberoamericanos en Berkeley: Twenty Years

20-21 September, 2018 | 10:00 am-6:30 pm 370 Dwinelle Hall, UC Berkeley

August 31, 2018

Mexico: A View From U.C. Berkeley / México en UC Berkeley

13 September, 2018 | 12:00 pm-2:00 pm 370 Dwinelle Hall, UC Berkeley

August 28, 2018

Mediations & Collaborations: A Conversation with Susan Meiselas

10 September, 2018 | 12:00 pm-1:30 pm Geballe Room, 220 Stephens Hall

August 20, 2018

Welcome New Faculty and Graduate Students!

The department is very happy to welcome Nathaniel Wolfson, who joins the department as Assistant Professor of Portuguese. Professor Wolfson received his PhD from Princeton University, and he comes to Berkeley from a post-doctoral appointment at Harvard University. His research and teaching focus on modern Brazilian literature and culture.

Style as Essence – The Baroque

5 September, 2018 | 5:00 pm-7:00 pm Geballe Room, 220 Stephens Hall

New Offering - Study and engage with issues of poverty and inequality in Latin America first-hand!

Do you want to get work experience in a Spanish speaking environment? Are you interested in giving back to the community and in developing skills associated with specific sectors (e.g. education, public health, human rights, environmental justice)?

The Global Poverty and Practice (GPP) Minor, in association with the Spanish Department and the UC Education Abroad Program is offering the opportunity to complete the GPP minor with an internship in Mexico or Chile through the UC Education Abroad Program (UCEAP).

August 14, 2018

Talk by Prof. Tom McEnaney – Wireless Commons and Counterpublics: New Digital Infrastructures in Cuba

28 August, 2018 | 12:00 pm-1:30 pm 170 Wurster Hall

August 12, 2018

Presentation and book party for Francine Masiello’s new book, The Senses of Democracy. Perception, Politics, and Culture in Latin America

24 August, 2018 | 4:00 pm-7:00 pm Spanish & Portuguese Library, 5125 Dwinelle Hall

August 8, 2018

Amelia Barili in the Showcase of Teaching Innovation and Reinvention

Sponsored by the UCB Center for Teaching and Learning, STIR (Showcase of Teaching Innovation and Reinvention) celebrates and highlights excellent teaching in our campus.

March 31, 2018

Search and Rescue: The Dangerous Routes of the US/Mexican Border

13 April, 2018 | 6:00 pm-8:00 pm Spanish & Portuguese Library, 5125 Dwinelle Hall

March 26, 2018

Caribbean Networks

6 April, 2018 | 1:00 pm-3:00 pm 5125 Dwinelle Hall

March 15, 2018

New Summer Course - Spanish for Health Care Professionals

Beginning Spanish for the Medical Professions

March 7, 2018

Big Give—March 8th

BIG GIVE—SEIZE THE MOMENT MARCH 8^th! The Cal experience is made up of so many moments. Moments of realization. Moments of glory. Moments of truth. A-ha moments and moments you’ll remember for the rest of your days. You can make more Berkeley moments happen during Big Give, our day of online giving March 8, helping us maintain our position as the No. 1 public university in the world as we approach our 150th anniversary. Visit BigGive.berkeley.edu and donate today!

February 26, 2018

NEURAL NETS – Readings of Electronic Writing

12 March, 2018 | 11:30 am-12:30 pm

January 27, 2018

Renaissance and Early Modern Studies, D.E. “Why Read…? Series” Why Read Don Quijote?

7 February, 2018 | 12:00 pm-2:00 pm 370 Dwinelle Hall, UC Berkeley

January 4, 2018

Renaissance and Early Modern Studies, D.E. “Why Read…? Series” Why Read Don Quijote?

22 January, 2018 | 12:30 pm-1:30 pm

December 11, 2017

Congratulations, Jenelle Thomas!

Congratulations to Jenelle Thomas for completing the Ph.D. in Romance Languages and Literatures this fall semester 2017. Jenelle's dissertation is entitled “'Vous êtes hombre de bien:' A study of bilingual family letters to and from colonial Louisiana, 1748-1867."

December 5, 2017

Congratulations - New Advanced Students

Congratulations are extended to Poema Quesado Valente and Felix Treviño for passing the Qualifying Examination in Hispanic Languages and Literatures this semester-fall 2017.