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"Inspiring Women" - a conversation with Gina Vieira Ponte

The Lusophone World Club would like to extend a warm welcome to our next event, a conversation with the Brazilian educator Gina Vieira Ponte de Albuquerque.

Our conversation will center around the Brazilian groundbreaking community-based project "Mulheres inspiradoras" [Inspiring Women], led by our special guest, the Brazilian educator Gina Vieira Ponte de Albuquerque.

https://ucsb.zoom.us/j/89698886721

February 26, 2021 - 11:00am

Applied Linguistics Winter Colloquium

The Interdisciplinary Emphasis in Applied Linguistics, UC Santa Barbara prensents the Winter colloquium

Prof. Julio Torres, University of California-Irvine: The effects of instruction on heritage language learners

Thursday February 18th, 2021, 3:30pm

February 18, 2021 - 3:30pm to 5:00pm

Talk

Online Zoom Workshop - Guest speaker Professor Michelle Wood, Department of English at SUNY New Paltz

Online Zoom Workshop organized by Professor Aline Ferreira, Spanish and Portuguese

Guest speaker Professor Michelle Wood, Department of English at SUNY New Paltz. Sponsored by the Emphasis on Translation Studies, Comparative Literature Program.

February 11, 2021 at 4:00 pm PST. To register, please email translationevents@complit.ucsb.edu

February 11, 2021 - 4:00pm

Pleibéricos 7: editoriales y revistas académicas

Pleibéricos is a prestigious virtual platform created to promote recently published works in the fields of Iberian Studies.

This event will feature some of the most relevant editors in the field (publishing companies and journals), including eHumanista, published by the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at UCSB.

February 2, 2021 - 10:00am

Pleibéricos 9

Pleibéricos is a prestigious virtual platform created to promote recently published works in the fields of Iberian Studies. Pleibéricos 9 is dedicated to Catalan studies.

Professor Eloi Grasset Morell will be discussing his La trama mortal. Pere Gimferrer y la política de la literatura (1962-1975) (2020)

April 21, 2021 - 10:00am to 11:00am

Announcements

XX Hispanic and Lusophone Conference - (Re)framing knowledge

The XX Hispanic and Lusophone Conference, (Re)framing knowledge will take place on Friday, May 14th, 2021. Please see this announcement for the Call for Proposals and the link to register.

Rewriting the Chicano Movement: New Histories of Mexican American Activism in the Civil Rights Era

Mario T. García (Editor), Ellen McCracken (Editor)

The University of Arizona Press, 2021

Nobel Prize author Mario Vargas Llosa recommends "Manuel Puig and the Spiderwoman: His Life and Fictions" by Professor Emerita Suzanne Jill Levine!

Nobel Prize author Mario Vargas Llosa recommends we all read, Manuel Puig and the Spiderwoman: His Life and Fictions by our multi-award winning Professor Emerita Suzanne Jill Levine! As Vargas Llosa indicates, Manuel Puig and the Spiderwoman matters for Latin American culture and literature in Spanish, for Gay/Queer rights, for celebration of the Movies, and because Manuel Puig was a true original, a brilliant artist.

Entrevista con Sara Poot Herrera sobre literatura mexicana en Estados Unidos