On Friday, December 8, 2023, from 12-1 pm, our Graduate Student Marguerite Morlan will deliver a talk entitled “'Sexual things sound weird in Catalan': Metalinguistic Evaluations of Language-Theme Patterns in 6,000 Graffiti Across 40 Towns in Catalonia." This event will be in hybrid format: both in-person at the Spanish & Portuguese Library (5125 Dwinelle) and on Zoom (room 434 755 6358). This study triangulates data from transgressive signage (graffiti, stencils, stickers, etc.) on public walls...
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.
This Salon featured a captivating conversation with a digital artist (Prof. Saum), a psychologist, and...
Annie Helms, PhD Candidate in Romance Languages and Literatures (RLL) - Linguistics Track, will defend her dissertation entiltled: "Trilingual production and perception of lexical stress: Extending the cue-weighting transfer hypothesis to L3 acquisition" on Thursday, November 16, 2023, 4 - 5:30 PM at the S&P Library, 5125 Dwinelle Hall Level E. Helms' Dissertation Committee: Justin Davidson (Spanish and Portuguese) [chair], Keith Johnson (Linguistics), Isaac Bleaman (Linguistics), Mark Amengual (Languages and Applied Linguistics [UC Santa Cruz]) This dissertation analyzes the...
On Friday, December 8, 2023, from 12-1 pm, our Graduate Student Marguerite Morlan will deliver a talk entitled “'Sexual things sound weird in Catalan': Metalinguistic Evaluations of Language-Theme Patterns in 6,000 Graffiti Across 40 Towns in Catalonia." This event will be in hybrid format: both in-person at the Spanish & Portuguese Library (5125 Dwinelle) and on Zoom (room 434 755 6358). This study triangulates data from transgressive signage (graffiti, stencils, stickers, etc.) on public walls...
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.
This Salon featured a captivating conversation with a digital artist (Prof. Saum), a psychologist, and...
Annie Helms, PhD Candidate in Romance Languages and Literatures (RLL) - Linguistics Track, will defend her dissertation entiltled: "Trilingual production and perception of lexical stress: Extending the cue-weighting transfer hypothesis to L3 acquisition" on Thursday, November 16, 2023, 4 - 5:30 PM at the S&P Library, 5125 Dwinelle Hall Level E. Helms' Dissertation Committee: Justin Davidson (Spanish and Portuguese) [chair], Keith Johnson (Linguistics), Isaac Bleaman (Linguistics), Mark Amengual (Languages and Applied Linguistics [UC Santa Cruz]) This dissertation analyzes the...
Dr. Jhonni Carr, Lecturer of Spanish Linguistics in the Spanish & Portuguese Department, has organized a series of lectures in Spanish featuring exciting works by Scholars working across the Linguistic landscape. For more information on this event, please contact Prof. Carr directly at jhonni@berkeley.edu
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)