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. 

Join in celebrating French and Francophone culture with students and faculty across campus and the Department of Romance Languages:

As part of National French Week, the Pétanque Club of Athens  will be hosting a Pétanque event on campus! 

What: If you have never heard of this game and want to try something new, come out for an introduction to the French sport of Pétanque! Or if you’ve played before, this is a great chance to have fun and show off your skills!  

Where: The brand new Pétanque Club of UGA court in front of the Lamar Dodd School of Art! 

Cecília Rodrigues, Cris Lira, and Ligia Bezerra (Arizona State U) have edited a special issue of the prestigious literary journal Estudos de Literatura Brasileira Contemporânea housed at the University of Brasília. Titled “Occupying Spaces: Legitimation of Contemporary Brazilian Women Writers,” and featuring ten articles, one book review, and two interviews, the dossier aims to highlight the fertile literary production of women writers from all corners of

Come learn about Dr. Smith Limerick's experience in graduate school and navigating the job market. She will be available for questions about preparing your application dossier, the ins and outs of campus visits, and what her experiences have been like on search committees. 

This talk will examine works of contemporary Afro-Spanish authors and artists (Lucía Mbomío Rubio, Desirée Bela-Lobedde and Ruben H. Bermúdez) to comment on the often invisibilized experiences and identity formation of Afrodescendants born and raised in Spain. While Spain is the only country the protagonists of these works have ever known, a theme that resonates throughout them is the questioning of their Spanishness, a constant in a society that considers Spanishness and Blackness mutually exclusive.