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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