A special issue of The Journal of Spanish Cultural Studies (Vol 24.1) co-edited by Prof. Saum-Pascual has been released: "Futuros: imaginarios, redes, y prácticas digitales en la cultura española. Un catálogo de posibles".
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Professor Justin Davidson has just today been named a recipient of the 2023 Faculty Award for Outstanding Mentorship of GSIs.
Poet and Prof. Saum-Pascual has two digital poetry works featured at the exhibition "Caracteres" at the Instituto Cervantes in New York City, on display April 21-May 12, 2023.
Poet and Prof. Saum-Pascual has two digital poetry works featured at the exhibition "Caracteres" at the Instituto Cervantes in New York City, on display April 21-May 12, 2023.
Professor Julia Chang (Cornell University) will join the Iberian Studies working group via Zoom to discuss the first chapter of her recently published Blood Novels: Gender, Caste, and Race in Spanish Realism (University of Toronto Press, 2022).
Professor Julia Chang (Cornell University) will join the Iberian Studies working group via Zoom to discuss the first chapter of her recently published Blood Novels: Gender, Caste, and Race in Spanish Realism (University of Toronto Press, 2022).
Code-switching in young adults from Gibraltar: a structural and functional approach
Cora Montgomery, the filibuster: Between Cuban Annexationism and U.S Expansionism
This event will be virtual and held in Spanish with simultaneous English interpretation. To register, click here.
Cora Montgomery, the filibuster: Between Cuban Annexationism and U.S Expansionism
This event will be virtual and held in Spanish with simultaneous English interpretation. To register, click here.
Berkeley Book Chats
Estelle Tarica
Holocaust Consciousness and Cold War Violence in Latin America
The Arts Research Center, in partnership with the Engaging the Senses Foundation, will welcome back their 2020 Poetry and the Senses Fellows for a special evening celebrating the launch of their chapbook, on Monday April 10, at 5pm PST.
During their fellowship semester the fellows, among which is Poet and Prof. Alex Saum-Pascual, explored the theme of Emergency. Each fellow will read one of their poems, and chapbooks will be available to sign.
Join us in toasting these incredible poets!
Juan Rosas is a third-generation Mexican-American, a heritage speaker of Spanish, and a language access coordinator. He has a background in linguistic anthropology and is passionate about working with communities to advance racial equity.
Juan Rosas is a third-generation Mexican-American, a heritage speaker of Spanish, and a language access coordinator. He has a background in linguistic anthropology and is passionate about working with communities to advance racial equity.
In Translating Blackness, Lorgia García Peña considers Black Latinidad in a global perspective in order to chart colonialism as an ongoing sociopolitical force. Drawing from archives and cultural productions from the United States, the Caribbean, and Europe, García Peña argues that Black Latinidad is a social, cultural, and political formation—rather than solely a site of identity—through which we can understand both oppression and resistance. She takes up the intellectual and political genealogy of Black Latinidad in the works of Frederick Douglass, Gregorio Luperón, and Arthur Schomburg.
In Translating Blackness, Lorgia García Peña considers Black Latinidad in a global perspective in order to chart colonialism as an ongoing sociopolitical force. Drawing from archives and cultural productions from the United States, the Caribbean, and Europe, García Peña argues that Black Latinidad is a social, cultural, and political formation—rather than solely a site of identity—through which we can understand both oppression and resistance. She takes up the intellectual and political genealogy of Black Latinidad in the works of Frederick Douglass, Gregorio Luperón, and Arthur Schomburg.
In what ways can a Center for Latin American Studies contribute to decentering the very notion of Latin America? To what extent can often overlooked sensemaking practices be centered in a Center for Latin American Studies? How much can margins take center stage? Wapichana Indigenous artist Gustavo Caboco welcomes us to experience the Center for Latin American Studies at UC Berkeley as a site of critical inquiry and aesthetic practice, not as an enclosed space to be taken for granted but as a fertile soil for conjuring alternate itineraries, vocabularies, and belongings.
