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February 13, 2019

Congratulations, Molly Borowitz!

Congratulations to Molly Borowitz, who will begin as an Assistant Professor at Georgetown University in Fall 2019! Molly is currently finishing her doctoral work, which focuses on Early Modern and Colonial literature and culture. Her dissertation takes up the question of Early Modern forms of self-representation and their complex relations to institutional power.

Professor Saum-Pascual publishes new book!

Congratulations to Assistant Professor Alex Saum-Pascual on publishing her book #Postweb! Crear con la máquina y en la red (Iberoamericana-Vervuert, 2018)In this new book, Prof. Saum-Pascual explores the role of digital technologies in recent literary experimentation in Spain throughout the last two decades.

February 6, 2019

Professor Ignacio Navarrete honored with Berkeley Faculty Service Award

Congratulations to Professor Navarrete, 2019 Berkeley Faculty Service Award recipient! Click here for the full Berkeley News article.

January 16, 2019

Spanish in Los Angeles Urban Signage: Language Attitudes and Linguistic Communities

1 February, 2019 | 1:00 pm-2:00 pm Spanish & Portuguese Library, 5125 Dwinelle Hall

January 15, 2019

“Why Read…Series”: Why Read Santa Teresa’s The Life

31 January, 2019 | 12:00 pm-2:00 pm 370 Dwinelle Hall, UC Berkeley

November 25, 2018

Antígona González: A Bilingual Reading with Mexican Poet Sara Uribe

7 December, 2018 | 12:00 pm-2:00 pm 5125 Dwinelle Hall

November 16, 2018

The Art of Being Woman

30 November, 2018 | 10:00 am-12:00 pm Spanish & Portuguese Library, 5125 Dwinelle Hall

October 28, 2018

From Rio to Ulm: Brazilian Poetry, Design, and State Development

8 November, 2018 | 4:00 pm-6:00 pm CLAS Conference Room, 2334 Bowditch Street

October 24, 2018

What does Infrastructure Do? Water in Mexico City

6 November, 2018 | 12:00 pm-1:30 pm 170 Wurster Hall

October 22, 2018

Colonial al-Andalus

5 November, 2018 | 6:30 pm-7:30 pm

October 20, 2018

The Frozen Revolution. Ruins, Aura and Melancholy in Post-Communist Cuba by Duanel Díaz

1 November, 2018 | 12:30 pm-2:00 pm Dwinelle 83

October 12, 2018

Leonardo Padura: Seminar with Students – Open to Undergraduate and Graduate Levels

26 October, 2018 | 12:00 pm-2:00 pm Spanish & Portuguese Library, 5125 Dwinelle Hall

October 5, 2018

“Why Read…? Series” – Why Read Montaigne’s Essays?

19 October, 2018 | 12:00 pm-2:00 pm 370 Dwinelle Hall, UC Berkeley

October 3, 2018

Encuentros Iberoamericanos en Berkeley: Twenty Years

"Still your Department!"

September 29, 2018

Escritura, Trama Y Deseo (Writing, Plot And Desire) with Diamela Eltit

11 October, 2018 | 5:30 pm-7:30 pm Geballe Room, 220 Stephens Hall

September 22, 2018

México 1968

5 October, 2018 | 12:00 pm-2:00 pm 370 Dwinelle Hall, UC Berkeley

September 20, 2018

Modernisms: intertextualities and dialogues with Contemporaneity

12 October, 2018 | 10:00 am-12:00 pm 201 Moses Hall, UC Berkeley

September 13, 2018

“Why Read…? Series” – Why Read Machiavelli’s The Prince

27 September, 2018 | 12:00 pm-1:00 pm 370 Dwinelle Hall, UC Berkeley

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.