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The Battle Over Spanish in Contemporary Latin America: A Symposium
October 27, 2008 @ 3:00 pm - 5:00 pm
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Speakers
- Luis Gabriel-Stheeman, The College of New Jersey
The Rhetorics of Rigor: Linguistic Reasoning, Legitimacy and the Battle over Spanish - María del Pilar Melgarejo Acosta, UW-Milwaukee
Language and Power: Nation-Building in Colombia - Barry Velleman, Marquette University;
The Language Battle in Argentina: Nation, Identity, and the ‘Art of the Insult’
Sponsors: Department of Spanish and Portuguese and the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies