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Spanish Heritage Language Education – Maria M. Carreira

As a keynote lecture for the 2020 Spanish and Portuguese Academic Research Conference (SPARC), Maria M. Carreira will present this talk. She is Professor of Spanish at California State University, […]

Afrofeminismo toward Racial Justice – Yolanda Arroyo Pizarro

As a keynote lecture for the 2020 Spanish and Portuguese Academic Research Conference (SPARC), Yolanda Arroyo Pizarro will present this talk. She is an award-winning Puerto Rican novelist, short story […]

The Latin American Migrants’ Experience: Amar en los tiempos de la emigración

Students from the course “Spanish in the Community,” in collaboration with the UF Samuel Proctor Oral History Program, will be screening two short documentary films on Spanish American Immigration. In […]

The Latin American Migrants’ Experience: De allá pa’cá

Biogenetics and Autobiography: Extracting Sephardic DNA from Cervantes’ Works – Kenneth Brown (University of Calgary)

Yiddish humor is well-known. But Professor Kenneth Brown researches the “DNA” of Sephardic humor to the most unlikely of places: Cervantes’s famous novel of 1605, Don Quixote of La Mancha. […]

Community Organizing and Keys to Resistance in Pre- and Post-Olympic Rio de Janeiro – Theresa Williamson

In preparation for the 2016 Olympics, the city of Rio de Janeiro targeted several of the low-income communities known as favelas for removal, leaving residents with few viable options for […]

Broken Families Across the Border – Erin Anderson

Erin Anderson works for Al otro lado, an NGO that supports and provides legal advice to families separated by ICE. She will talk about how Al otro lado helps parents […]