2024 Spanish & Portuguese Research Day ::: Friday, Feb 2 at 11 am ::: S&P Library

January 30, 2024
S&P Research Day is upon us, this coming Friday, February 2nd from 11.00am to 1.30pm in the S&P Library (5125 Dwinelle) — come to see presentations from 9 graduate students, lecturers, and faculty affiliated with our very own Spanish & Portuguese department. Coffee and a light lunch of pupusas will be provided. 

11:00 - Alejandro Múnera - The Lion's Share: León Zuleta's Imagined Communities

11:15 - Lydia Millhon - Narrativas Tejidas: Mixed Media and Multi-Artisan Art in Trinidad, Cuba

11:30 - Riley VanMeter - The Naturalness of Morphosyntactic Change in Heritage Language: Internal Motivations with Cross-linguistic Evidence

11:40 - Dr. Perea Rodriguez - PhiloBiblon and Its Possibilities for Berkeley Students

11:50 - Prof. Nathaniel Wolfson - Ecological Commons: Naming and Kinship among Species in the work of Maria Esther Maciel

12.05 - LIGHT LUNCH (PUPUSAS) PROVIDED 

 

12:30 - Prof. Natalia Brizuela - No Time

12:45 - Gabriel Lesser - Visualizing Race in 19th century Illustrated Novels: Caricatures and jokes in Baile y cochino

1:00 - Marguerite Morlan - Does Peninsular Spanish Sound More Aggressive than Catalan?

1:15 - Jose Miguel Alvarado - Antes de ser canal fui rio: Impensando a Tijuana a través de Aunque es de Noche