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Departmental Events

Free conversation groups throughout the semester in Spanish and Portuguese

Cafecito Cervantes: Thursdays, 4:00-5:30 p.m. in 612 Phillips Hall

Bate-Papo: Thursdays, 5:30-7:00pm in 612 Phillips Hall

Semester Events

A screening of "The Ascent of Chimborazo" by the East German filmmaker Rainer Simon, who currently makes videos with indigenous peoples in Ecuador.

Fri, Oct. 10
7:30pm in 101 BCSB
Rainer Simon will lecture and screen three documentaries he made in Ecuador.
Fri, Oct. 17
7:00pm in 105 AJB
Faculty Colloquium. Professor Brian Gollnick, "On the Blood Countess: the Masochistic Imaginary in Penrose, Pizarnik and Deleuze".
Fri, Oct. 31
3:00pm in 315 PH

"Guantánamo: A Working-Class History between Empire and Revolution" Jana Lipman, Tulane University, commentator: Paul Kramer

Tue, Nov. 11
4:30pm in 302 SH
Talk entitled, "Performing Faith: A Hebrew aljamiado version of La Danza general de la muerte." by Michelle Hamilton, Associate Professor of Medieval Spanish at UC Irvine (soon of U. Minnesota-Twin Cities), author of Representing Others in Medieval Iberian Literature (Palgrave, 2007).
Mon, Nov. 17
6:30pm in 315 PH
Lecture entitled, "Aviso General: Sobre La Reforma del Hispanismo" by Eduardo Subirats, Princeton University.
Thu, Apr. 9
TBA
2009 SLA Graduate Student Symposium "Second Language Acquisition in the 21st Century". The University of Iowa Co-hosted by The University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Fri, Apr. 17 &
Sat, Apr. 18
TBA

If you are a person with a disability who requires an accomodation in order to participate in these programs, please contact the Department of Spanish and Portuguese in advance at 335-2244.