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Every semester, students, alumni and instructors can choose from a wide array of University and community events related to the Department of Spanish and Portuguese Studies' interests. Here are some highlights—mark your calendars!

  • Cracks in the Glass Ceiling: Spain, East Asia, and the Limits of Early Modern Eurocentrism

    Padron2.jpgLecture with Professor Ricardo Padrón

    Date: Thursday, April 19, 2012
    Time: 3:30 p.m.
    Where: 121 Folwell Hall

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  • Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics Association (HaLLA)

    Please join the Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics Association (HaLLA) for a presentation

    Day: Friday, April 13, 2012
    Time: 1:30 - 2:30 p.m.
    Where: 317 Folwell Hall

    This meeting will feature presentations by Abby Bajuniemi and Megan Strom. Please see the following summaries.

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  • SPANISH & PORTUGUESE RESEARCH (SPRG) FORUM

    Friday, March 30, 2012
    317 Folwell
    3:00-4:30pm
    Light snacks/refreshments provided

    The Spanish & Portuguese Research Group (SPRG) is holding its next forum! Two of our department's graduate students (Michael Arnold and Molly Leonard) will be presenting their work on a variety of intriguing topics. Please see their abstracts below.

    Michael Arnold
    The Alpha and the Omega of Pony Bravo Imagery: A Case Study in Twenty-First Century Indie Neoflamenco.

    Molly Leonard
    Relaciones geográficas: painting a distinct colonial cartography

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  • "History, Memory, Truth: Cultural Capital in Spain's Memory Wars."

    Lecture with Sebastiaan Faber
    Friday, March 23, 2012
    2:00 p.m.
    112 Folwell Hall

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  • Imagine Fund Annual Award Recipients

    The Department of Spanish & Portuguese Studies would like to congratulate two of our faculty members that received a 2012 Imagine Fund Award. They are, Assistant Professor Ana Forcinito for her project, "Mirrors and Mirages: Human Rights, the Gaze and the Representation of Sex Trafficking," and Professor Carol Klee for her project, "Indigenous Influence in the Personal Narratives of Andean Migrants to Lima, Peru."

    The Imagine Fund grant programs support projects in the arts, humanities and design at the University of Minnesota. The programs are supported by a generous grant from the McKnight Foundation, from new internal reallocations from the University of Minnesota Graduate School and the Office of the Vice President for Research, and from the creation of the chairs through the Permanent University Fund.

    Following are previous recipients, within our department, that have received Imagine Funds.

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  • Spanish & Portuguese Research Group Forum

    Friday, March 2, 2012
    317 Folwell
    3:00-4:30pm
    Light snacks/refreshments provided

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  • Mural por los Derechos Humanos

    Argentine artist and cartoonist, Miguel Rep, will create a mural depicting the struggles of memory and Human Rights in Argentina in the last decades.

    Miguel Rep will be painting the mural on the 4th floor of Folwell Hall between March 1-2. There will be a formal presentation on Saturday March 3rd at 11:00 a.m. on the 4th floor.

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  • The State of Iberoamerican Studies Series: Human Rights Across The Disciplines

    XVII THE STATE OF IBEROAMERICAN STUDIES SERIES:
    Human Rights Across the Disciplines: A Tribute to Cuatrotablas:
    Forty Years of Peruvian Collective and Political Theater

    (FEBRUARY 29-MARCH 3, 2012)

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  • Electric Rio: Lighting, Literature, and Progress in Belle Époque Rio de Janeiro (1894-1914).

    Please join the Department for a lecture on Monday, February 27th, with Dr. Sophia Beal, Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow from Tulane University.

    The talk will begin at 2:45pm in room 120 Folwell Hall.

    Everyone welcomed, refreshments will be served.

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