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An interview-style conversation between Adriana Lisboa and Prof. Candace Slater on writing and thinking in English and Portuguese with an emphasis on translation in all senses of the word. Particular emphasis on the movement between multiple languages. Sponsored by the Townsend Center Art of Writing Program

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