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.
Professor Jossianna Arroyo (University of Texas, Austin) will speak on her new book. Caribes 2.0 deviates from the historical-globalized views of subjected, colonized Caribbean bodies and their material conditions to examine the relationship between the local and the global in contemporary Caribbean cultures. It examines the role that media is playing in the invisibility or hyper-visibility of Caribbean cultures in the islands and the U.S. diaspora.
Professor Jossianna Arroyo (University of Texas, Austin) will speak on her new book. Caribes 2.0 deviates from the historical-globalized views of subjected, colonized Caribbean bodies and their material conditions to examine the relationship between the local and the global in contemporary Caribbean cultures. It examines the role that media is playing in the invisibility or hyper-visibility of Caribbean cultures in the islands and the U.S. diaspora.
Estelle Tarica’s 2022 book Holocaust Consciousness and Cold War Violence in Latin America proposes the existence of a recognizably distinct Holocaust consciousness in Latin America since the 1970s. Community leaders, intellectuals, writers, and political activists facing state repression have seen themselves reflected in Holocaust histories and have used Holocaust terms to describe human rights atrocities in their own countries. This unique, controversial approach to the memory of the Holocaust is little known outside the region.
The talk will be in Spanish and English. Tea, coffee, and light refreshments will be provided.
The talk will be in Spanish and English. Tea, coffee, and light refreshments will be provided.
The Center for Teaching and Learning at UC Berkeley has named our Lecturer in Hispanic Linguistics, Jhonni Carr, a 2023-24 Lecturer Teaching Fellow.
In this talk - hosted by City Lights Booksellers - Professor Michael Iarocci discusses his recent publication The Art of Witnessing: Francisco de Goya's Disasters of War (December 2022, University of Toronto Press) with Professor Darcy Crimaldo Grisby.
We are pleased to share that Dr. Tom McEnaney, Associate Professor of Spanish & Portuguese and Comparative Literature, will serve as the next Director of the Berkeley Center for New Media (BCNM), as of July 1, 2023.