Friday, May 17th
Folwell 317
3:00 to 5:00pm
Portuguese Studies Assistant Professor Sophia Beal will present "Walking All over Brasília: Cultural Texts of the Capital from the 1970s to 2000s" for the final SPRG forum of the academic year. Please join us!
Hispanic Literatures & Cultures Ph.D. Candidate John Trevathan will be presenting his doctoral dissertation research Beyond the Niche: Ecological Cultural Production in the Iberian Peninsula. His dissertation comparatively analyzes regional representations of landscapes in film, poetry, novels, painting and art installations in order to re-think the place of nature in the discourses of Iberian cultural identity. This public presentation will be part of John's doctoral final exam.
Thursday, May 16th
12:30 p.m.
Folwell 121
Free of charge. Everyone welcome.
Friday, April 19th
11:00am to 12:30pm
107 Folwell Hall
Please join us for the last HaLLA meeting of the semester, which will include research presentations by linguistics graduate students Ana Burgers and John Trimble.
Friday, April 12th
317 Folwell Hall
3:00 to 5:00pm
Two graduate students in Hispanic Literatures and Cultures, Carla Manzoni and Ángela Castro, will give presentations on their research this Friday.
On the occasion of the centenary of Cuban author Virgilio Piñera's birth, Modesto Milanés explores the thematic and stylistic lines of development of Piñera's narrative oeuvre over the trajectory of his four-decade career.
9:00am - 5:00pm
1210 Heller Hall
Painting and recording session with Holocaust Survivors
An art project by internationally recognized portrait artist
Hispanic Literatures & Cultures Ph.D. Candidate Michael Arnold will be presenting his doctoral dissertation research, Saudade, Duende, and Feedback: The Hybrid Voices of Twenty-First-Century Indie Neoflamenco and Neofado. His work is a comparative, pan-Iberian study of contemporary national identity and hybrid culture with relation to contemporary music. This public presentation will be part of Michael's doctoral final exam.
Friday, February 15th
3:30 p.m.
Folwell 112
Free of charge. Everyone welcome.
Friday, March29th
Folwell 317
3:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Two Ph.D. Candidates in Hispanic Literatures and Cultures, John Trevathan and Megan Corbin, will give presentations on their research.
Faculty, staff, and students are invited to join us for the First Annual Undergraduate Interdisciplinary Conference (UIC), hosted by the Department of Spanish and Portuguese Studies and the Institute for Global Studies. This conference will take place on April 4th and April 5th and will include presentations in Spanish, Portuguese, and English.
Applications are due February 15th. Submit applications to spadvise@umn.edu.
Application UICApplicationForm.doc
The Undergraduate Interdisciplinary Conference (UIC) planning committee will be holding a series of workshops to guide you through the process of proposing and presenting a conference paper: Writing an Effective Abstract and What Makes an Effective Conference Presentation?
