This December, David Burke's essay “El mal de Chagas: Su historia y la necesidad de financiar las vacunas para lucharlo” appears in The Classic, the Writing Intensive Program’s journal of undergraduate writing and research. David's paper analyzes how widespread the Chagas disease is in Latin America and the Southern United States and the urgent support needed for vaccine development. 

Congratulations to Clemencia El Antouri for receiving a Thomas R. Pickering Foreign Affairs Fellowship for students interested in careers in the U.S. Department of State Foreign Service. A major in Romance Languages (Spanish and French) and International Affairs, she will receive a scholarship of $84,000 for graduate school, an internship at Capitol Hill, an internship at a US embassy abroad, and entrance after graduate school into the Foreign Service as a diplomat. 

Come listen to live Brazilian music played by students, instructors, and guests. Short presentations about the songs will enrich the experience. Delicious feijoada [Brazilian Black Bean Stew] will be served. Everyone is welcome!

Come join UGA's Delta Gamma Chapter of Sigma Delta Pi in Learning about Colombian Art and Culture with guest speaker Juancho Cano.

The event will take place 5:30-7:30pm. 

MLC room 153

See Juancho on Instagram: @juan.cho.cano

On October 31st, the Portuguese Flagship Program at UGA hosted Dr. Fernanda Guida (Spelman College), three students from Spelman College (Amyre Hobbs, Annis Baron, Latisha Jones), one student from Morehouse (Carleon Outlaw), and Portuguese Fulbright Teaching Assistant (Yasmin Paiva de Siqueira). This event promoted a student-student, student-faculty and faculty-faculty interaction through a collaboration of the Portuguese Programs at UGA and Spelman College.

Come test your knowledge about the languages, cultures, and people of Italian-speaking, French-speaking, Portuguese-speaking, and Spanish-speaking countries. There will be tasty snacks and prizes!

Come learn about memes culture in Brazil and play games around memes. 

Poorvaja earned one of the highest scores on the National French Week quiz. This trivia event, open to students and faculty, was a part of a week-long national celebration of French and the Francophone world.