Annual Lectures

The Department of Spanish & Portuguese's annual lecture series is curated to showcase the most relevant research, teaching, and learning in the field and provides the department's faculty, students, alumni, and the public with an opportunity to engage in today's most pressing issues. 

2026 Annual Lecture Series

Lecture #1

September 11, 2026 from 12 pm - 2 pm PT

Spanish & Portuguese Library, 5125 Dwinelle Hall

Miquel Simonet is a Professor of Ibero-Romance, Languages and Linguistics, at the University of Arizona.


2025 Annual Lecture Series

October 3, 2025

Jorge Sánchez Cruz

Black Travesti (Re)Mattering 

 

November 14, 2025

Urayoán Noel

Lit/oral Poetics and the Noise of Transfer

 

April 10, 2026

Adriana Michele Campos Johnson

River Lines


2024 Annual Lecture Series

S&P Lecture Series