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Photo exhibition:

"The Braceros and the Rubber Soldiers: A History of labor and power in the Americas" 

Feb 15th - March 15th 

Location: 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

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.

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.