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May 1, 2013, 4:30pm - 7:00pm
I UWM Symposium on Luso-Hispanic Linguistics
Merrill Hall 131, UW-Milwaukee Campus
Speakers:
Ms. Maria del Pilar Fernandez Pedraza, UW-Milwaukee
Ms. Ruth Solarte Gonzalez, UW-Milwaukee
Keynote Speaker:
Dr. Fernando Tejedo, Keynote, UW-Madison
April 11, 2013, 4:3pm
Peace and Quiet: Early Spanish Detective Fiction
Garland Hall 104, UW-Milwaukee Campus
Speaker:
Ricardo Landeira, University of Colorado-Boulder
April 9, 2013, 5pm - 6pm
Promoting the Portuguese Language in the Midwest
Enderis Hall 107, UW-Milwaukee Campus
Speaker:
Ambassador Paulo Camargo, Consul-General of Brazil in Chicago
April 5, 2013, 2:30pm
IV Ibero-American and Latino Studies Colloquium
Garland Hall 104, UW-Milwaukee Campus
Speakers:
Roberto García Delgado, UW-Milwaukee
Miguel Santos, UW-Milwaukee
Keynote Speaker:
Amy Olen, University of Texas at Austin
November 29, 2012, 3:30pm-5:00pm
"Prensa, sátira y propaganda. La emergencia del gallego escrito en los albores de la España contemporánea"
Lubar Hall, Room N120, UW-Milwaukee Campus
Speaker:
Dr. Ernesto González Seoane, Distinguished Professor of Galician Linguistics at the University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain
November 28, 2012, 11:30am-1:00pm
Fiction's Turn: 'Post-Testimonial' Novels in Central America
Curtin Hall, Room 739, UW-Milwaukee Campus
Speaker:
Martin Gaspar, UW-Madison
November 19, 2012, 3:30-5:00pm
Conversatorio de Letras Colombianas
Curtin Hall, Room 175, UW-Milwaukee Campus
Speakers:
Dr. Enrique Cabeza
Dr. Gabriel Pabon
November 12, 2012, 6:00pm
Poetry Reading by Brazilian Author Salgado Maranhao
Mitchell Hall, Room 195, UW-Milwaukee Campus
Sponsors: UWM Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies & UWM Center for International Education
October 12, 2012, 2:00pm
Día de la hispanidad: "Encuentros y desencuentros en el día de la Raza"
Garland Hall, Room 104, UW-Milwaukee Campus
Speakers:
Margarita Zamora, UW-Madison
Ruben Antonio Sanchez-Godoy, Southern Methodist University
October 10, 2012, 11:30am
Carlos Núñez: Performance and Discussion
Helene Zelazo Center, Room 171, UW-Milwaukee Campus
Sponsors: Department of Spanish and Portuguese, Center for Celtic Studies, Peck School of the Arts - Music Department, and Sigma Delta Pi
April 23rd, 2012, 4:30pm
Voces Boricuas del Midwest: A Reading in Spanish
Curtin Hall, Room 175, UW-Milwaukee Campus
Sponsors: Department of Spanish and Portuguese and Sigma Delta Pi
Speakers:
Nancy Bird-Soto, UW-Milwaukee
Dinorah Cortés Vélez, Marquette University
and special guest:
Lawrence LaFountain-Stokes, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor
Spring 2012
Portuguese Lecture Series
Homeland and/or Diaspora? The Cultural Politics of Being Jewish in Brazil
- Speaker: Nelson Vieira, Brown University
February 22 at 7pm, Golda Meir Library Conference Center, UW-Milwaukee
On Lusofonia - What It Could Mean in Postcolonial Times
- Speaker: Onésimo T. Almeida, Brown University
March 28 at 3:30pm, Lubar Hall N120, UW-Milwaukee
Regarding Libaninho: The Spectacle of Homosexuality in Eça de Queirós’s The Crime of Father Amaro
- Speaker: Anna Klobucka, University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth
April 18 at 3:30pm, Greene Hall 148, UW-Milwaukee - View event poster - 3.5mb pdf
April 18, 2011, 5:30pm
Literary reading of "Borges's Secretary"
Greene Hall, UW-Milwaukee campus
Speaker:
Lúcia Bettencourt, author
April 5, 2011
UWM Brazil Day - A Symposium on Brazilian Culture
Various locations across UW-Milwaukee campus
Panels on:
- Brazilian Literature: writer João Almino, Ricardo Vasconcelos (UWM) and Luciana Namorato (Indiana U)
- Brazilian Politics and Diaspora: Simone Conceição (UWM), Natasha Sugyama (UWM), and Cassio Muniz (UWM)
- Brazilian Popular Festivals: Simone Ferro (UWM) and Armando Duarte (U. of Iowa)
Other activities included a capoeira performance with Grupo Corpo e Movimento (UWM), a soccer performance by players of the Milwaukee Wave, language classes with Marta Bosio (UWM); film screenings integrated in the UWM Latin-American Film Festival, organized by the UWM Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies; a music performance by René Izquierdo and Caen Thomason-Redus; a Luso-Brazilian book sale organized by Boswell Books.
Please consult the program with more information on our sponsors and more details on the presentations:
February 14, 2011, 4:30pm
The Worlds of the Brazilian Short Story
Greene Hall, UW-Milwaukee campus
Speaker:
Kenneth David Jackson, Yale University
October 20th, 2010, 2:00-4:15pm
III Ibero-American and Latino Studies Colloquium
Mitchell Hall, Room 195, UW-Milwaukee Campus
Sponsor: Department of Spanish and Portuguese
Speakers:
Alicia Johnson, UW-Milwaukee
"El proceso de la transculturación y la muerte en Pedro Páramo por Juan Rulfo"
Michael L. Martinez Jr., UW-Milwaukee
"La lucha para una cultura marginalizada: Lenguaje literario y la ignorancia del imperialismo en la Brevísima relación de la destrucción de las Indias"
W. Michael Rueter, UW-Madison
"The Liber scale and Aljamiado Accounts of Muhammad's Ascension to Heaven"
Keynote Speaker and Presentation:
Armando González-Pérez, Marquette University
"Ethnicity, Identity and Santería Rituals in Pura del Prado's Poetry"
May 3rd, 2010, 2:00 pm
Viaje al corazón de Pablo Neruda
Video Conference in Spanish
Lubar Hall, Room S250
UW-Milwaukee Campus
Sponsor: Department of Spanish and Portuguese
April 29th, 2010, 3:30 pm
Galician Linguistics: From Tradition to Modernity: A Symposium
Holton Hall, Room 180, UW-Milwaukee Campus
Sponsor: Department of Spanish and Portuguese
Speakers:
David MacKenzie, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Alex Alonso, Brooklyn College and Graduate Center, CUNY
April 8th, 2010, 2:00-5:00pm
Latin/o American Writers Symposium
Lubar Hall, Room N110, UW-Milwaukee Campus
Sponsors: Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, Sigma Delta Pi, Roberto Hernández Center, and Women's Studies
José Castro Urioste, Peruvian
Ricardo Chávez Castañeda, Mexican
Pilar Melero, Mexican/US Latina
For information contact Professor Nancy Bird-Soto birdsoto@uwm.edu
October 15th, 2009, 2:00-5:00pm
2nd Student Colloquium of Hispanic and Luso-Brazilian Studies
Garland Hall, Room 104, UW-Milwaukee Campus
Sponsors: Department of Spanish and Portuguese and the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies
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
April 28, 2009, 4:45pm
Video Conference in Spanish
Curtin Hall 319, UW-Milwaukee Campus
Sponsor: Department of Spanish and Portuguese
Adela Pineda Franco, Department of Romance Studies, Boston University
Martín Luis Guzmán ante la Revolución Mexicana
April 6, 2009, 3:00pm
Hispanic Sociolinguistics in Transatlantic Perspective: A Symposium
Bolton Hall B52, UW-Milwaukee Campus
Sponsors: Department of Spanish and Portuguese and Sigma Delta Pi (National Collegiate Hispanic Honor Society)
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
October 3rd, 2008, 2:00pm
1st Student Colloquium of Hispanic and Luso Brazilian Studies
Curtin Hall, Room 175, UW-Milwaukee Campus
Sponsors: Department of Spanish and Portuguese and the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies
Keynote Speaker: Ksenija Bilbija, UW-Madison
Tortured by Fashion: Making Memory Through Advertising
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 imperialismo y la otredad en El verdadero final de la Bella Durmiente
Laura Jara, UW-Milwaukee La rebelión tomochiteca en las sierras Mexicanas. Literatura e historia en Tomochic de Heriberto Frias
October 30, 2008, 2:00pm
Popular Culture in Latin America: Drama on Stage, Court, and Track
Curtin Hall, Room 175, UW-Milwaukee Campus
Sponsors: Department of Spanish and Portuguese, Department of History, Sigma Delta Pi National Collegiate Hispanic Honor Society, and the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies
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)
October 27, 2008, 3:00pm
The Battle Over Spanish in Contemporary Latin America: A Symposium
Lubar Hall S220, UW-Milwaukee Campus
Sponsors: Department of Spanish and Portuguese and the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies
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'
September 16th, 2008, 7:00pm
Ernesto Cardenal: The Role of the Poet in Latin America
Golda Meir Library Conference Center, UW-Milwaukee Campus
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)
March 27, 2008, 3:00pm
Symposium on Latin American Indigenous Languages
Curtin Hall, Room 175, UW-Milwaukee Campus
Sponsors: Department of Spanish and Portuguese, Sigma Delta Pi (National Collegiate Hispanic Honor Society), and the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies
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'
October 9, 2007, 3:30pm
A Tribute to Gabriel García Márquez: A Symposium
Special Collections Library, 4th floor, Golda Meir Library, UW-Milwaukee Campus
Sponsors: Department of Spanish and Portuguese, Sigma Delta Pi (National Collegiate Hispanic Honor Society), Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, Special Collections Library and UWM Libraries
David Draper Clark, University of Oklahoma
Gabriel García Márquez: From Macondo to Milwaukee—One Reader’s Appreciation
Germán Carrillo, Marquette University
One Hundred Years of Solitude Reaches 40 (1967-2007): A Milestone in World Literature