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November 4, 2016

Reading of the United States Constitution – Come join us! ¡Unámonos a esta protesta!

18 November, 2016 | 12:00 pm-1:00 pm Upper Sproul Plaza

Photography Talk: “Portugal, the new Neverland?” by Prof. Valerie Mendoza (SJSU)

18 November, 2016 | 10:00 am-12:00 pm 5303 Dwinelle (Spanish & Portuguese Conference Room)

November 3, 2016

Ayotzinapa: A Conversation with Felipe de la Cruz Sandoval and Mario González Contreras

17 November, 2016 | 5:00 pm-7:00 pm 180 Tan Hall, UC Berkeley

November 2, 2016

Enmudecimiento y miradas turbias: hacia un nuevo lenguaje de lo sensible en la literatura chilena

16 November, 2016 | 12:00 pm-2:00 pm Spanish & Portuguese Library, 5125 Dwinelle Hall

November 1, 2016

Foto Cine Clube Bandeirante: The Emergence of Modern Photography in Brazil, Heloisa Espada (Curator, Instituto Moreira Salles, Brazil)

15 November, 2016 | 12:30 pm-2:00 pm 2040 Valley Life Sciences Building

October 28, 2016

Seminar with Elvira Vilches: Doing Things with Money in Early Modern Spain

10 November, 2016 | 12:30 pm-2:00 pm Spanish & Portuguese Library, 5125 Dwinelle Hall

October 26, 2016

Reckoning with Commerce: Trade, Ars Mercatoria, and Culture in Early Modern Spain

9 November, 2016 | 3:00 pm-5:00 pm Geballe Room, 220 Stephens Hall

October 24, 2016

The current social and political debates confronting Catalonia and Spain: Is there a conflict of identities?

7 November, 2016 | 12:15 pm-2:00 pm 201 Moses Hall, UC Berkeley

October 20, 2016

#NiUnaMenos

On October 19th the Department of Spanish & Portuguese held a reading on Sproul Plaza in solidarity with the Women's Strike in Argentina, Mexico, Chile, Guatemala, Ecuador, Bolivia against Femicides.

Photography: Between Screen and Performance, Daniela Rossell (Artist, Mexico City)

1 November, 2016 | 12:30 pm-2:00 pm Hearst Field Annex B1

October 17, 2016

Congratulations to Clelia Donovan!

Clelia Donovan, Portuguese Lecturer and Program Coordinator, has been selected as this year's winner of the Division of Arts and Humanities Distinguished Teaching Award. A reception was held on November 16 in the Durant Atrium to honor her accomplishments.

October 13, 2016

Workshop: Costumbrismo in Narrative Fiction and Film

27 October, 2016 | 1:00 pm-3:00 pm Spanish & Portuguese Library, 5125 Dwinelle Hall

September 15, 2016

Rui Zink – Escrever Ficção em Tempos Loucos: Um Manual de Sobrevivência

29 September, 2016 | 12:30 pm-2:00 pm 136 Barrows Hall

September 14, 2016

Seminars on Gabriel García Márquez’s Crónica de una muerte anunciada and Roberto Bolaño’s Estrella distante with Juan Villoro

28 September, 2016 | 12:00 pm-1:30 pm Spanish & Portuguese Library, 5125 Dwinelle Hall

September 12, 2016

Critique of the Apocalypse: Narratives of Spectacle, Violence and Grief in Contemporary Mexico – a Lecture by Juan Villoro

26 September, 2016 | 5:00 pm-7:00 pm Geballe Room, 220 Stephens Hall

September 9, 2016

The Spanish Civil War@80

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.

September 8, 2016

Congratulations to Jerry Craddock and Charles Faulhaber!

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.

August 18, 2016

Borges, Buddhism and Cognitive Science

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.

August 1, 2016

Professor Alex Saum-Pascual's Selfiepoetry featured in Berkeley News

Click here for the Berkeley News article.

May 2, 2016

Spanish & Portuguese Commencement

16 May, 2016 | 2:00 pm-5:00 pm Zellerbach Hall, UC Berkeley