Speakers Anna María Escobar, University of Illinois-Urbana Vitality of Andean Languages in the Peruvian Context Fabiola Varela-García, UW-Eau Claire Guatemalan Intercultural Language Policy in the XXI Century. Multilingualism and 'Desarrollo con Identidad' Sponsors: Department of Spanish and Portuguese, Sigma Delta […]

Sponsors: Special Collections Library and UWM Libraries, Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, and Sigma Delta Pi National (Collegiate Hispanic Honor Society)

Keynote Speaker Ksenija Bilbija, UW-Madison Tortured by Fashion: Making Memory Through Advertising Speakers Erika Almenara, UW-Milwaukee La poesía como terapia para José Fernández en De sobremesa de José Asunción Silva Heidi A. Backes, UW-Madison La Bella y la Bestia: el […]

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 […]

Speakers David Sheinin, Trent University, Canada Did the Generals have Support? Sport and the Construction of a Dictatorship Culture in Argentina, 1975-1984 Luis Peirano, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú The Tradition of the Auto Sacramental in Peru (with Bertha Pancorvo) […]

Fernando Ramallo, University of Vigo, Spain Why is the Galician Sociolinguistic Situation Relevant from an American Perspective? Kim Potowski, University of Illinois– Chicago The Sociolinguistics of Mexirican Spanish in Chicago Sponsors: Department of Spanish and Portuguese and Sigma Delta Pi […]

Adela Pineda Franco, Department of Romance Studies, Boston University Martín Luis Guzmán ante la Revolución Mexicana Sponsor: Department of Spanish and Portuguese

Keynote Speaker Dinorah Cortéz Vélez, Marquette University Incorporating Ambiguity: Sor Juana and the Aporía of the Neuter Body Student Presentations Amy Olen, UW-Milwaukee Giannina Reyes Giardiello, UW-Madison Allison Christine Reeve, UW-Milwaukee Jason Paul Doroga, UW-Madison Sponsors: Department of Spanish and […]

Speakers José Castro Urioste, Peruvian Ricardo Chávez Castañeda, Mexican Pilar Melero, Mexican/US Latina For information contact Professor Nancy Bird-Soto birdsoto@uwm.edu Sponsors: Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, Sigma Delta Pi, Roberto Hernández Center, and […]

Speakers David MacKenzie, University of Wisconsin-Madison Alex Alonso, Brooklyn College and Graduate Center, CUNY Sponsor: Department of Spanish and Portuguese