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Is Culture a Human Right?

We would like to welcome you to the general lecture, "Is Culture a Human Right?"

American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese Fall 2018 Meeting

The Southern California chapter of the American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese (AATSP) is meeting October 27, 2018 at the University of California Santa Barbara.

AATSP-SoCal Fall 2018 Meeting

The department reminds you that the 2018 AATSP-SoCal Fall Meeting will take place on Saturday, October 27.

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.