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Italian Studies Lecture: Jane Tylus, Yale University

Jane Tylus, professor of Italian and Comparative Literature at Yale University, will give a lecture entitled "Italy at the Margins of Empire: Pastoral as a Way of Seeing." Tylus's visit to UGA is hosted 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…


Rebecca Scott, Distinguished University Professor, University of Michigan

If your research interests are related to the African Diaspora, litigation by enslaved people, or questions of emerging subjectivities in the Caribbean, or if you are thinking about conducting archival research in relation to your dissertation, please make note of an important upcoming lecture by Professor Rebecca J. Scott, Charles Gibson Distinguished University Professor of History and Professor of Law at the University of Michigan.…


Graduate Student Colloquium: Sarah Lowman and Bethany Bateman

Sarah Lowman, “Román Güemes' Hoy le canto a mi sustento: The Indigenous Kitchen as a Site of Resistance in the Era of Genetically Modified Corn” Bethany Bateman, “Incorporating Oral Narratives as Relevant Data for Linguistic Study”


Dr. Lígia Bezerra talk on "Working Class Consumption in Contemporary Brazilian Literature"

Lígia Bezerra is an Assistant Professor at Spelman College, where she is the director of the Portuguese program. She has a PhD in Portuguese with a minor in Culture Studies from Indiana University, an MA in Portuguese from the University of New Mexico, an MA in Linguistics from the Federal University of Ceará, and a BA in Letras with a double major in Portuguese and English from the Federal University of Ceará as well. Her…


Talks by visiting Afro-Peruvian writer and journalist Lucía Charún-Illescas


Lecture on Concentration Camp Testimonials in Argentina and Spain by Dr. Paula Simón

Dr. Paula Simón of the Universidad Nacional de Cuyo, Argentina will deliver a talk on "Narraciones dislocadas: el testimonio sobre los campos de concentración en España y Argentina." Her talk will be followed with discussion led by Dr. Fernando Reati of Georgia Southern University. 


Lecture by Dr. Sylvaine Guyot

Invited lecturer Dr. Sylvaine Guyot, Roy G. Clouse Associate Professor of French at Harvard University, will give a talk on  “The Bedazzling Effect: Performance and Politics in Seventeenth-Century France.” Click here to see the flyer.


Lecture by Sizen Yiacoup (University of Liverpool) "Of Borders & Betrayal: Remembering the Reconquest of Spain in the Castilian Frontier Ballads"

 "Of Borders & Betrayal: Remembering the Reconquest of Spain in the Castilian Frontier Ballads."    The Spanish frontier ballads famously present the latter stages of the conflict between Castile and Al-Andalus from a Muslim perspective, frequently employing pathos to engage the emotions of the audience and underscore the tragedy of loss through conquest. Basing its critical approach on the Aristotelian premise that the…


"Feeling Latino/a on Broadway: In the Heights's Spectacular Claim for Latinidad and Cultural Citizenship" lecture by Alberto Sandoval-Sanchez

Prominent Latin@ scholar Alberto Sandoval-Sanchez will discuss the construction and performance of Latin@ identity and cultural politics through theater.


Lecture by Ricardo Hernández Otero on "Literatura de orientación vanguardista en Cuba"

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