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Early Modern Studies Lecture: Oumelbanine Nina Zhiri

Oumelbanine Nina Zhiri, professor of French at the University of California San Diego, will give a lecture entitled “Ahmad al-Hajarî, Worldmaker.” Zhiri will be hosted at UGA by the Early Modern Studies Research Group, an Andrew W. Mellon Foundation grant-funded research project in the Global Georgia Initiative of the Willson Center for Humanities and Arts. Matching funds are provided by Franklin College of Arts and…


From Page to Screen: Exploring the Dominican Dream, Identity, Translation, and Film

We will welcome Dominican author and screenwriter Miguel Yarull as our guest speaker. His talk, From Page to Screen: Exploring the Dominican Dream, Identity, Translation, and Film, promises to be a compelling exploration of literature and cinema.


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The Brazilian Identity Puzzle: How Euclides da Cunha Shaped the Perspective on “Sertanejos” through Prejudice—Reframed by João Guimarães Rosa’s Grande Sertão: Veredas, lecture by Dr. Felipe Fiuza

The Brazilian Identity Puzzle: How Euclides da Cunha Shaped the Perspective on “Sertanejos” through Prejudice—Reframed by João Guimarães Rosa’s Grande Sertão: Veredas   This presentation explores the contrasting representations of the sertanejo in Euclides da Cunha’s Os Sertões and João Guimarães Rosa’s Grande Sertão: Veredas, through the lens of Embodied Cognition—a concept from cognitive science that posits human thought is…


Language Variability in Latin America Talk Series

Dr. Iván Ortega-Santos (University of Memphis) will be the first speaker in this year’s talk series, Language Variability in Latin America, funded by the Willson Center. He will be presenting his current research, titled “Data Reliability and Representativity in Generative Grammar.”  


Presentation by Dr. Ignacio López-Calvo (University of California, Merced)

Dr. Ignacio López-Calvo, who is the top scholar in the field of Latin American Transpacific Studies with 6 books and dozens of articles on the topic, will give a broader presentation on Asian-Latin American cultural relations in a talk entitled: "La literatura asiático-latinoamericana como agente transformador en el marco de los estudios transpacíficos, la literatura mundial y el cosmopolitismo."


Guest Presentation by Dr. Carlos Villacorta (University of Maine)

Dr. Carlos Villacorta will present a talk on "'On the Yellow Shores of My Nation': Body and Nation in the Poetry of José Watanabe"


Dr. Tania Leal (University of Arizona) - Presentation on Second Language Acquisition of French

Dr. Leal will present collaborative research with Elena Shimanskaya (U. Nevada-Reno) on the second language acquisition of French structures by native speakers of Spanish and English. See flyer for link to presentation abstract.

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Djamila Ribeiro visits campus, challenges lecture attendees to complicate their worldviews

On Oct. 17, the Black feminist scholar Djamila Ribeiro visited the University of Georgia’s campus to speak about her new book Where We Stand — her first work translated into English. “Seeing my work translated into English has been particularly rewarding as it allows my ideas to resonate with a broader audience while maintaining the core of what’s rooted in my experiences as a Black woman in Brazil,” Ribeiro said. While in Athens, Ribeiro met…
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Willson Center Distinguished Artists - Dahlma Llanos Figueroa

On October 28, Dahlma Llanos-Figueroa will give the lecture “Forgotten Women:  Giving Voice to the Voiceless” with a brief opening intervention by Marcela Garza, ABD and Racheal Fulford, PhD.   There will be an opportunity for Q&A and to obtain her latest novel, A Woman of Endurance.    Ms. Llanos-Figueroa is a Puerto Rican novelist and memoirist, the author of both Daughters of the Stone and her latest novel, a…
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