This event will be held at The Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA with Keynote Speaker Professor Kailani Polzak, Ph.D UC Santa Cruz. The event will be on Friday, October 21, 2022, from 10:00 AM to 4:30 PM. Please see the flyer for more information.
The UCLA Spanish & Portuguese Department invites you to attend this year’s Lois E. Matthews Lecture ft. Nadia Lie, Professor of Arts in the Department of Literature and Cultural Studies, KU Leuven on Wednesday, October 26, 2022, at 4:00 pm. Please RSVP by Thursday, October 20, 2022, at 5:00 pm PDT. For more information please...
The UCLA Department of Spanish & Portuguese cordially invites you to: 'Inclusive language' in Argentina: An overview of its history and current debates, a lecture presented by Karina Galperín, Universidad Torcuato di Tella (Buenos Aires) on Monday, November 7, 2022 at 4PM in Lydeen Library (Rolfe Hall 4302). Karina Galperin is a Professor at the...
The UCLA Department of Spanish and Portuguese 2023 Travel Study Informational Sessions Join us on November 14, 2022 Location: in-person Rolfe Hall 4302 or via zoom Are you interested in Studying Abroad during Summer 2023? The Spanish and Portuguese Department offers three Travel Study Summer Programs. This is an excellent opportunity to take classes with...
The UCLA Department of Spanish and Portuguese 2023 Travel Study Informational Sessions Join us on November 14 & 15, 2022 Location: in-person Rolfe Hall 4302 or via zoom Are you interested in Studying Abroad during Summer 2023? The Spanish and Portuguese Department offers three Travel Study Summer Programs. This is an excellent opportunity to take...
The UCLA Department of Spanish and Portuguese invites you to attend a memorial in English, Portuguese, and Spanish to celebrate the life and academic career of graduate student Trey Barber. We welcome you to attend, share your memories, and provide photos and messages to Trey's family. RSVP for Event (by Nov 10th) Submit Photos/Messages of...
Glendy Agustin es una investigadora, activista y periodista comunitaria maya mam radicada en Comitancillo (San Marcos), en el occidente de Guatemala. Ha realizado múltiples investigaciones centradas en las tradiciones, la medicina, la espiritualidad, la vestimenta y la gastronomía de su comunidad maya mam. Asimismo, ha participado como activista en proyectos de rescate de la memoria...
Over thirty Mayan languages are spoken in Mesoamerica and many of these exhibit considerable internal diversity. In fact, dialectal differences can be so pronounced that mutual intelligibility is affected among speakers of the same language. This talk describes and reflects on the benefits of using a community-based approach for understanding dialectal variation, with a focus...
The UCLA Spanish & Portuguese Department invites you to the 2025 Lois E. Matthews Lecture, taking place on Thursday, April 10th, 2025 at 4:00 pm in the UCLA Faculty Club! Guest speaker Dr. Liliana Sanchez is a professor of Hispanic and Italian Studies at the University of Illinois Chicago, and will be discussing, "The Variability...
The 1613 Confessionario en lengua castellana y timuquana con unos consejos para animar al penitente is one of the earliest books ever published in a Native language of the United States. It is composed of a Spanish language confessional with a parallel set of questions and answers in Timucua, the Native language of much of...