News

This year marks the 80th anniversary (1936/2016) of the Spanish Civil War.  In addition to ongoing courses in the department, the Berkeley campus is commemorating the war with a series of events (poetry readings, performances, book-talks, library exhibits, etc. Information on upcoming events can be found here.

Emeriti Professors Jerry Craddock and Charles Faulhaber have been elected to join 100 scholars and researchers as foreign corresponding members of the Royal Spanish Academy, or Real Academia Española. Click here for the full Berkeley News article.

Last semester (Spring 2016) our Department offered the course "Borges, Buddhism and Cognitive Science". This interdisciplinary and multicultural course gave the students the opportunity to study Borges' work from the triple perspective of art, philosophy and science, as well as to explore the connection between the contents of the course and their own lives. 

Click here for the Berkeley News article.

On April 21, Chilean poet Raúl Zurita, accompanied by his translator Anna Deeny Morales, traveled to Berkeley where he gave a public reading from his forthcoming book “Sky Below” (a bilingual edition).

On April 22, he met with graduate students of Latin American poetry in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese and talked about the great Latin American traditions that have guided his work.

Hosted by the Portuguese Studies Program and the Department of Spanish and Portuguese

The PFA is screening a number of films by the extraordinary Brazilian filmmaker Eduardo Coutinho. This is a unique opportunity.  Don't miss it!

Wednesday 3/2: Mighty Spirit (7pm)
Thursday 3/10: Scavengers and Metal Workers (6:30pm)
Wednesday 4/6: Master Building (7pm)
Thursday 4/14:  The End and the Beginning (7pm)
Friday 5/15: Last Conversations (8pm)