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November 8, 2016

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November 4, 2016

18 November, 2016 | 10:00 am-12:00 pm 5303 Dwinelle (Spanish & Portuguese Conference Room)

November 3, 2016

17 November, 2016 | 5:00 pm-7:00 pm 180 Tan Hall, UC Berkeley

November 2, 2016

16 November, 2016 | 12:00 pm-2:00 pm Spanish & Portuguese Library, 5125 Dwinelle Hall

November 1, 2016

October 28, 2016

10 November, 2016 | 12:30 pm-2:00 pm Spanish & Portuguese Library, 5125 Dwinelle Hall

October 26, 2016

9 November, 2016 | 3:00 pm-5:00 pm Geballe Room, 220 Stephens Hall

October 24, 2016

October 20, 2016

On October 19th the Department of Spanish & Portuguese held a reading on Sproul Plaza in solidarity with the Women's Strike in Argentina, Mexico, Chile, Guatemala, Ecuador, Bolivia against Femicides.

1 November, 2016 | 12:30 pm-2:00 pm Hearst Field Annex B1

October 17, 2016

Clelia Donovan, Portuguese Lecturer and Program Coordinator, has been selected as this year's winner of the Division of Arts and Humanities Distinguished Teaching Award. A reception was held on November 16 in the Durant Atrium to honor her accomplishments.

October 13, 2016

27 October, 2016 | 1:00 pm-3:00 pm Spanish & Portuguese Library, 5125 Dwinelle Hall

September 15, 2016

29 September, 2016 | 12:30 pm-2:00 pm 136 Barrows Hall

September 14, 2016

28 September, 2016 | 12:00 pm-1:30 pm Spanish & Portuguese Library, 5125 Dwinelle Hall

September 12, 2016

September 9, 2016

This year marks the 80th anniversary (1936/2016) of the Spanish Civil War.  In addition to ongoing courses in the department, the Berkeley campus is commemorating the war with a series of events (poetry readings, performances, book-talks, library exhibits, etc. Information on upcoming events can be found here.

September 8, 2016

Emeriti Professors Jerry Craddock and Charles Faulhaber have been elected to join 100 scholars and researchers as foreign corresponding members of the Royal Spanish Academy, or Real Academia Española. Click here for the full Berkeley News article.

August 18, 2016

Last semester (Spring 2016) our Department offered the course "Borges, Buddhism and Cognitive Science". This interdisciplinary and multicultural course gave the students the opportunity to study Borges' work from the triple perspective of art, philosophy and science, as well as to explore the connection between the contents of the course and their own lives. 

August 1, 2016