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Unexpected Routes and Beautiful Friendships: Refugee Writers in Mexico

Rolfe Hall 4302, Lydeen Library Rolfe Hall 4302, Lydeen Library

Tabea Linhard is a Professor of Spanish, Global Studies, and Comparative Literature at Washington University in St. Louis. Her research focuses on displacement and asylum experiences in the 1930s and 1940s, and she has published extensively on Spanish and Mexican literature and film, Memory Studies, Jewish Studies, and Mediterranean Studies.

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Plotting Coordinates of Blackness in Central America

Rolfe Hall 4302, Lydeen Library Rolfe Hall 4302, Lydeen Library

Dr. Jennifer Gómez Menjívar (Ph.D. Ohio State U) is Professor in the Department of Media Arts and director of the MA in Media Industries and Critical Cultural Studies at University of North Texas. Her research interests include Indigenous Sovereignty Media, Latin American and Latinx Media, Grassroots and Participatory Media Practices, Cinematic Adaptation, Digital Culture, Critical...

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Spain 2025 Summer Study Abroad Information Session

156 Royce Hall 10745 Dickson Ct, Los Angeles

  Please join us this Tuesday to learn more about our Spain study abroad programs happening this Summer! Open to undergraduates seeking to fulfill language requirements or advance their major lower division requirements.

Mapping Dry Land: Valparaíso and Late-Sixteenth-Century Morisco Ecologies

Lecture in the Talk Series "Mapping Dry Land: Valparaíso and Late-Sixteenth-Century Morisco Ecologies", by María Lumbreras, Assistant Professor of History of Art and Architecture at the University of California, Santa Barbara. The event will take place on Tuesday, November 19, 2024, at 4:00 PM in Lydeen Library (Rolfe 4302).

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Book Presentation: Spanish Fashion in the Age of Velasquez: A Tailor at the Court of Philip IV

Rolfe Hall 4302, Lydeen Library Rolfe Hall 4302, Lydeen Library

Amanda Wunder will speak about her latest book, Spanish Fashion in the Age of Velázquez: A Tailor at the Court of Philip IV, which reconstructs the life and work of Mateo Aguado, a court tailor who dressed many of Diego Velázquez's most famous portrait sitters. None of the garments that Aguado made survive today, but...

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Jarchar, or the Art of Crossing in Yuri Herrera’s Señales que precederán al fin del mundo

Lydeen Library 345 Portola Plaza, Los Angeles, CA

Talk also available by Zoom: https://ucla.zoom.us/meeting/register/chd4NGozQ7SRYZGIjGws9A Charlie Geyer (Ph.D., Vanderbilt University) is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at the University of Arizona. He specializes in the comparative study of Latin American and US Latinx literatures and cultures, with a focus on Border Studies and the aesthetics and politics of bordering...

“Voces de la diáspora venezolana: José Rafael Perozo”

Rolfe Hall 4302, Lydeen Library Rolfe Hall 4302, Lydeen Library

Talk also available by Zoom: https://ucla.zoom.us/meeting/register/YIcoCq72Q6OxB6KRkDOvyA Alejandro Castro tiene un doctorado en Español y Portugués de la Universidad de Nueva York. También es Licenciado en Artes por la Universidad Central de Venezuela y Magíster en Literatura Latinoamericana por la Universidad Simón Bolívar. Ha sido profesor tanto de la Escuela de Artes, como de la Escuela...

“Política e identidad maya mam en el siglo XXI: Periodismo comunitario y redes sociales”

Rolfe Hall 4302, Lydeen Library Rolfe Hall 4302, Lydeen Library

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...

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Attend: A Conversation with filmmaker Rodrigo García

Rolfe Hall 4302, Lydeen Library Rolfe Hall 4302, Lydeen Library

Born in Colombia and raised in Mexico City, Rodrigo García is a celebrated award-winning director, producer and writer. A consistent figure in independent film over the last 20 years, Rodrigo has directed the multiple Academy Award®-nominated film, Albert Nobbs, starring Glenn Close, Mother and Child, starring Annette Bening, Naomi Watts and Samuel L. Jackson, Apple...