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Adela Pineda FrancoApril 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

Sociolinguistics

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 Colloqium

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

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

Battle over Spanish

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'

Ernesto Cardenal

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

Indigenous Languages

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

Marquez Symposium

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