Dr. Wilfredo José Burgos Matos will be joining Dr. Sharina Maíllo-Pozo's FYOS 1001 class, Reggaetón’s Impact on Global Culture: Bad Bunny’s DeBÍ TiRAR MáS FOToS in Today’s Musical and Cultural Landscape, on September 15, 2025, at 3:00 p.m.

Unleash your creativity! Create your own painting inspired by Portuguese writer Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen. Event will be led by Dr. Vera Bulla and Fulbright Language Teaching Assistants Késsia Shingu and Mariana Rodrigues. 

Registration is required.

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.”

In August, Luis Correa-Díaz, Distinguished Research Professor in the Department of Romance Languages, was invited by the Instituto de Literatura y Ciencias del Lenguaje (ILCL) at the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso to present his new edited volume:

Join us for a screening of A gaiola dourada (The Gilded Cage) on August 27th. This film follows the lives of a hardworking Portuguese family living in France.  Very charming, the story beautifully blends culture, comedy, and family dynamics, offering both laughs and a thoughtful look at the immigrant experience. 

The film will be shown with English subtitles. Everyone is welcome! 

Students of French, Italian, Portuguese, and Spanish who want to gain experience and make a broader impact on campus regularly participate in the following opportunities. Talk to your professors and advisors to learn more about the ways, as a UGA undergraduate, you can develop research to present publicly, publish your writing, or join a research team that includes graduate students and faculty mentors. 

Gain experience

The Center For Undergraduate Research Opportunities (CURO) is open to all undergraduates.  Work with a faculty mentor and develop a research project from a course present at the annual Spring CURO Symposium. Project abstracts are published.

CURO Program

Publish your work

The Classic Journal promotes writing and research by undergraduate students at the University of Georgia.  Read student authored work and submit your own.  Accepts submissions in languages other than English.

The Classic Journal

Join a VIPR Team

Vertically Integrated Projects for Research Teams (VIPR) connect undergraduates with faculty members and graduate students across disciplines to collaborate on projects at UGA and participate in a number of exciting and impactful areas of study.

Explore VIPR Teams

Athens Tangueros presents Milonga Tropical - Tango intertwined with Latin Rhythm dancing for a memorable evening of dancing, including live dance performances

-- Admission: FREE --

Fuad Elhage, Senior Lecturer of Spanish at UGA, has taught Diversity Through Dance, a course that blends Spanish language and culture with music and dance since 2010. In the past two semesters, a new class, SPAN 4030S has added a service-learning component. Through a partnership with the Athens Community Council on Aging (ACCA), students not only learn dances like salsa, bachata, and merengue but also teach them to older adults, including members of the Dementia Resource Center. 

By Amelia Rehman