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4th Lusophone and Hispanic Linguistics Symposium
Overview The Department of Spanish and Portuguese at UW-Milwaukee and the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at UW-Madison are pleased to announce the 4th UWM Symposium on Lusophone and Hispanic Linguistics (SLHL 4), to be held Saturday, November 21, 2015 at…
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The Jews of Argentina
The Jewish population in Argentina is the seventh largest Jewish community in the world and the largest Jewish community in Latin America. This talk will focus on the establishment and growth of the Jewish community within Argentina and the challenges…
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Current Research Interests in Lexicography
Current Research Interests in Lexicography Dr. David Pharies (by Skype) UW-Milwaukee Curtin Hall B25 4:30pm Dr. Pharies is Professor of Hispanic Linguistics and Associate Dean of the Humanities of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at the University of…
Find out more »Galician Studies North America: Creating Community, Bridging Gaps
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Mitchell Hall, 361 Friday, April 24, 2015 2:00pm Kirsty Hooper (University of Warwick, UK): Galician Studies in English-speaking Academia. Olga Castro (Aston U, UK): The Politics of Self-Translation in Contemporary Galician Studies. Obdulia Castro (Regis College): The…
Find out more »In Search of the Sacred Book: Religion and the Novel in Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s One Hundred Years of Solitude
Anibal Gonzalez-Perez (Yale University) lecture honoring Gabriel Garcia Marquez, one year after his passing. The event takes place at 4:00 pm in the UWM Golda Meir Library, 4th Floor Conference Center, 2311 E. Hartford Ave. Anibal Gonzalez-Perez Event Poster
Find out more »A Chain of Endless Tigers: Jorge Luis Borges Revisits UWM
Argentine writer Jorge Borges spoke at UWM in April 1976. His talks have been digitized and will be screened during this event. Guests: Daniel Balderston University of Pittsburgh and Director of the BorgesCenter and Editor of the Journal Variaciones Borges…
Find out more »March 2015
Lisbon Stories
Fernando Arenas (University of Michigan) will be giving a lecture focusing on the experiences of migrants in Portugal since the economic boom of the 1990s to the economic crisis of the early 21st century, as they are the object of…
Find out more »November 2014
“From Home to Exile and Back: The Philosophy of María Zambrano”
Visiting scholar María João Neves, researcher at the Universidade Nova de Lisboa, will give a talk titled "From Home to Exile and Back: The Philosophy of María Zambrano" UWM Campus, Bolton Hall B46, 3:00 pm María Zambrano Event Poster
Find out more »“La evolución del léxico español latinoamericano”
Visiting scholar Juan P. Sánchez Méndez, PhD, Director, Institute for Hispanic Languages and Literatures, University of Neuchâtel (Switzerland) UWM Campus, Curtin Hall 319, 3:30 pm Juan P. Sánchez Méndez Event Poster
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