S&P Research Day is a celebration of works-in-progress (and some poetry!) from graduate students and faculty in the Department of Spanish & Portuguese. This event is open to all, and light refreshments will be served.
2026
February 7, 2026 from 1 pm - 2:45 pm PT
Spanish & Portugese Library, 5125 Dwinelle, Level E
Program
- 10:00 am - Start
- 10:10 am - Opening Remarks
Panel 1
- 10:20 am - Paulina León: "Los polvos de Milán: Fear and Contagion
- 10:30 am - Julian Vargo: "Nasal coarticulation in Spanish-English Bilingual Vowels"
- 10:40 am - Liam Seeley: "Hercule Florence's Aesthetical Nephology: Or, Air a Few Ways"
- 10:50-11:10 am - Q&A
- 11:10-11:15 am - Break
Panel 2
- 11:15 am - Emiliano Arizmendi-Castilla: "Shifting identities and community in Southern California in the 19th century"
- 11:25 am - Isaac McQuinn: "Macunaíma the 'Symptom': Reading Mário through Freudian Psychanalysis"
- 11:35 am - Angeli Valiente Franchini: "'Esta la tierra por descubrir la tierra:' la necesaria colonización y evangelización del Amazonas según Guaman Poma"
- 11:45 am - 12:05 pm - Q&A
- 12:05 - 1:05 pm - Reception
Panel 3
- 1:10 pm - Justin Davidson: "Multilingual Hispanic Speech in California (MyHSiC)"
- 1:20 pm - Marguerite Morlan: "The Politeness Paradox: Experimental Insights into Language Ideologies in Catalonia"
- 1:30 pm - Laura Barber: "'Private and public realms collide:' Mapping the personal and the political in Lourdes Casal's internationalist vision of social change"
- 1:40 - 2 pm - Q&A
- 2:00 - 2:05 pm - Break
Panel 4
- 2:05 pm - Miroslava Guzmán Pérez: "Preserving Nahua Worlds: Jiménez's Zazanilis and Indigenous Resistance in De Portirio Díaz a Zapata: Memoria Náhuatl de Milpa Alta (1968)"
- 2:15 pm - Verónica Grajeda: "U.S. Spanish Nasal Neutralization: A case study on the production on /njV/ and /ɲV/"
- 2:25 pm - Anna Knall: "Anaphora Resolution of Romanian 'One' in Early Child Language: The Role of Morphosyntactic Gender"
- 2:35-2:55 pm - Q&A
2025
Program
- 1:10-1:30: Prof. Estelle Tarica— Holocaust Memory in Guatemala
- 1:30-1:50: Alejandra Decker— The Visual Culture of Silver Mining in Mexico
- 1:50-2:10: Emiliano Arizmendi-Castilla— Los inéditos
- 2:10-2:30: Prof. Alex Saum Pascual— Earthy Algorithms: A Materialist Reading of Digital Literature in the Hispanic World
- 2:30-2:45: Chloe Mauvais— When the Long Trees Are Gone: Vision, Motion, and Environment in Nũhũ Yãg Mũ Yõg Hãm
