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Conference: Verbal Kaleidoscope

Please join us Wednesday, April 4 at 9:00am until Thursday, April 5 at 7:00pm in the McCune Conference Room (HSSB) for the First Writers and Scholars in Indigenous Languages and Literatures Conference: Verbal Kaleidoscope.

Talk by Jaume Pons Conca

Join us on Thursday, November 30, 2017 at 2:00pm in the Library and Media Room for a talk by Jaume Pons Conca: "The Digital Multilingual Corpus of Old and Contemporary Catalan Texts (CIMTAC). A Tool for Corpus Linguistics."

Talk by Alessandro Rocco

Alessandro Rocco, professor of the Università degli studi di Bari Aldo Moro, will talk about "J. E. Pacheco y la reescritura de la nota roja en el guion cinematográfico El castillo de la pureza" [J. E. Pacheco and the re-writing of police notes in the script for El castillo de la pureza].

XXI COLLOQUIUM OF MEXICAN LITERATURE, 2017

The Department of Spanish and Portuguese at the University of Santa Barbara & UC-Mexicanistas (Intercampus Research Program) present the XXI Colloquium on Mexican Literature, 2017: Nepantla, Between Comala and California, and other Crossroads.

Professor Sara Poot-Herrera honored as Keynote Speaker

Our Professor Sara Poot-Herrera recently had the honor of being the keynote speaker at the Senate of Mexico for the anniversary of Novo-Hispanic poet Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz.

Talk by Professor Anthony L. Geist

Talk by Professor Anthony L. Geist: How do you say Desvelado in English? On the Challenges of Translating the Poetry of Luis Hernández (Lima, 1941-Buenos Aires, 1977).

eHumanista Volume 31 Published

We are delighted to announce that eHumanista vol. 31 has been posted. It includes, among others, two monographic sections devoted to medieval Portuguese literature and 17th-c. European political theory.

Guest Seminar Featuring Luce Lopez Baralt and Arturo Echavarria

Join us on Friday, October 30, 2:30pm to 4:30pm in the UCEN Lobero Room for a Guest Seminar Featuring Luce Lopez Baralt and Arturo Echavarria.