Monday, January 29, 2024
2:00 - 3:15pm
Maude Fife Room 315, Wheeler Hall
The Arts Research Center welcomes writer Deborah Miranda to Berkeley for a reading and conversation, free and open to the public. Her reading will be followed by a short conversation with Estelle Tarica, Professor of Latin American Literature and Culture and Chair of the Dept of Spanish & Portuguese.
Photo exhibition:"The Braceros and the Rubber Soldiers: A History of labor and power in the Americas"Feb 15th - March 15thLocation: Bauer Wurster Hall, UC Berkeley (Lobby)Curated by: Laura Belik (Architecture, UC Berkeley)Opening events [free and open to the public/ light refreshments provided]:Feb 15th
Photo exhibition:"The Braceros and the Rubber Soldiers: A History of labor and power in the Americas"Feb 15th - March 15thLocation: Bauer Wurster Hall, UC Berkeley (Lobby)Curated by: Laura Belik (Architecture, UC Berkeley)Opening events [free and open to the public/ light refreshments provided]:Feb 15th
Widely acknowledged as a major turning point in the history of visual depictions of war, Francisco de Goya’s renowned print series The Disasters of War remains a touchstone for serious engagement with the violence of war and the questions raised by its artistic representation.
In Berkeley Talks episode 186, a panel of UC Berkeley scholars from the College of Letters and Science discusses the transformative potential of artificial intelligence in academia — and the questions and challenges it requires universities and other social institutions to confront.
Prof. Saum-Pascual was one of the faculty panelists in the "L&S in the Age of AI: Research Innovations Across Disciplines", held in October 2023.
The L&S Salon Series showcases the exceptional diversity and range of disciplines embedded across the five divisions in the College of Letters & Science. This series brings together L&S faculty from different disciplines to interrogate and explore a universal question from their disparate fields and perspectives.
Prof. Saum-Pascual was one of the faculty panelists in the "L&S in the Age of AI: Research Innovations Across Disciplines", held in October 2023.
The L&S Salon Series showcases the exceptional diversity and range of disciplines embedded across the five divisions in the College of Letters & Science. This series brings together L&S faculty from different disciplines to interrogate and explore a universal question from their disparate fields and perspectives.
Ana de Alba holds multiple degrees from UC Berkeley. She graduated in 2002 with a dual major in Spanish & Portuguese and Political Economy of Industrial Societies and earned her J.D. at Berkeley Law in 2007.
A first-generation Mexican American who worked in the fields with her farmworker parents has been elevated to the largest federal appeals court.
Ana de Alba holds multiple degrees from UC Berkeley. She graduated in 2002 with a dual major in Spanish & Portuguese and Political Economy of Industrial Societies and earned her J.D. at Berkeley Law in 2007.
A first-generation Mexican American who worked in the fields with her farmworker parents has been elevated to the largest federal appeals court.
At least 60 languages — from Mongolian and Old Norse to Polish, Catalan, Ancient Egyptian, Arabic and Biblical Hebrew — are taught at UC Berkeley, one of the nation’s top institutions for the breadth and depth of its world languages program. A growing emphasis also is being placed at Berkeley on revitalizing and preserving endangered languages, most of them spoken by Indigenous peoples.
Visiting Ph.D. Candidate from the University of São Paulo, Fernando Borsato will deliver a talk in Portuguese entitled "Autoridade e Dispersão - questões de autoria nos romances de Machado de Assis" on Wednesday, October 25, from 12-1 pm in the Spanish & Portuguese Library (5125 Dwineele Hall, Level E)
Visiting Ph.D. Candidate from the University of São Paulo, Fernando Borsato will deliver a talk in Portuguese entitled "Autoridade e Dispersão - questões de autoria nos romances de Machado de Assis" on Wednesday, October 25, from 12-1 pm in the Spanish & Portuguese Library (5125 Dwineele Hall, Level E)
On Wednesday, Oct. 25, from 4-5 pm in the Spanish & Portuguese Library (5125 Dwinelle Hall - Level E), Professor María Labarta Postigo (University of Valencia) will speak about the limitations of translating English to Portuguese and Spanish using machine translation (MT) systems and ChatGPT, an AI-powered chatbot. MT-systems have improved significantly over the last years, and large language models (LLMs) like ChatGPT have also recently proved to be effective at translating text.
On Wednesday, Oct. 25, from 4-5 pm in the Spanish & Portuguese Library (5125 Dwinelle Hall - Level E), Professor María Labarta Postigo (University of Valencia) will speak about the limitations of translating English to Portuguese and Spanish using machine translation (MT) systems and ChatGPT, an AI-powered chatbot. MT-systems have improved significantly over the last years, and large language models (LLMs) like ChatGPT have also recently proved to be effective at translating text.
