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You are cordially invited to Dr. Olivia Cosentino's upcoming talk "Affect and (Dis)embodied Cinema: Jayro Bustamante’s La Llorona (2019)," which will take place via Zoom on Tuesday, April 25 at 4:30 p.m. 

You can register here: https://ucdavis.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJEpcOiorj0tGtxAncwrPwD5YY0fg2fpsn0L

Welcome to spring quarter 2023! The undergrad advising team is here for any advising needs, make an appointment, https://appointments.ucdavis.edu/, we’re happy to help and connect you to any campus resources!  We continue to have drop-in advising Tuesdays from 1:30-3pm, https://langlit.stage.advisingfrontdesk.lsit.ucdavis.edu/signin.

Join us for info about Club de Español and Spanish and Portuguese programs, music, games, pizza and more!

Friday, 14th April
2-4 pm
Sproul Courtyard

This year's colloquium will be a hybrid event held on April 6th (online) and 7th (in-person).

This event focuses on the relationship between humanities, technological resources and social justice.

The Department of Spanish and Portuguese cordially invites the UC Davis community to a series of films by Argentine documentarian Andrés di Tella, offered in the context of Professor Lazzara’s graduate seminar on “Memory, Culture, and Human Rights.” The last film in the series (March 10th) will be followed by a live conversation with the filmmaker. His film 327 Cuadernos (327 Notebooks) (2015) is of special interest, since it is based on the diaries of Ricardo Piglia, who was a professor in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese during the 2000-2001 academic year.

This event focuses on the relationship between humanities, technological resources and social justice.

This year's Calaveritas Contest had many fantastic entries, see the winning entries!

Las calaveras son poemas satíricos que forman parte de la
celebración del Día de Muertos. A manera de epitafio
burlesco, relatan la muerte de una persona.
Tradicionalmente suelen estar dedicadas a personas de
autoridad o figuras de la vida pública, y comúnmente
encierran críticas sociales o comentarios políticos.

CATEGORÍA 1

Ankita Karthik

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Dialogic is a Davis Humanities Institute podcast that features guests from across the arts, humanities, social sciences, and beyond. Through interviews, conversations, and creative storytelling, Dialogic bridges disciplines to bring listeners the latest in humanities research and public scholarship at UC Davis and the surrounding community.

A departmental working group for the project "Preparing Bilingual Spanish Speaking Students for Careers in Immigration Law" has been awarded a Certificate of Recognition by the League of United Latin American Citizens "for championing the needs of bilingual students and promoting bilingualism in the legal profession." The award was presented on October 10, 2022, at a meeting of the working group with five UC Davis alumni who returned to campus to offer feedback on the project.

With support from the National Endowment from the Humanities, the Global Migration Center, and the Spanish and Portuguese department, Professors Robert Irwin and Emily Vázquez hosted the event "Careers in Law, Advocacy, and Social Services for Immigrant Communities." At this event, a panel of distinguished alumni from the Spanish and Portuguese department talked about their experiences following career paths that focus on helping Latinx communities, and about how their Spanish major has helped them accomplish their professional goals.

On Wednesday, October 5, 2022 from 9-10:30 am (Pacific), Professor Robert Patrick Newcomb will interview the writer Humbert Hernández. They will discuss Hernández's new book, Mis patios perdidos: memorias de una infancia gibraltareña. The event is open to the public, will be bilingual (English/Spanish), and will take place over Zoom.

Welcome back and to Fall quarter.  The Advising team is excited for another great year.  We are now able to offer virtual drop-in advising. Please visit this link, https://langlit.advisingfrontdesk.lsit.ucdavis.edu/signin, on Tuesday’s from 1:30-3pm or Friday 9-11am. We are looking forward to assisting you with your advising needs.

Virtual Drop-in Advising Flyer.pdf

Read the full article here: https://www.ucdavis.edu/majors/blog/3-reasons-why-you-should-major-or-minor-language

On May 23rd, the Department of Spanish and Portuguese hosted an interview with Bernardino Gabriel Hernández. 

Hernández graduated from UC Davis with a BA in Spanish in 2009. Being undocumented, he had difficulty entering the US workforce. He therefore returned to his native country of Mexico where he eventually managed to set up his own business. He is now a successful businessman, one of “the other DREAMers”.