Spanish and World Language Education major Kristian Joi Walker is UGA's Amazing Student this week! She selected Romance Languages faculty member Tim Gupton as her favorite professor. 

Deborah Cohn, Professor of Spanish and Portuguese at Indiana University-Bloomington, will give a lecture entitled "Cold War American Studies: Robert Spiller, the U.S. Information Agency, and the American Studies Certificate." Part of her current research project, "Cold War Humanities," Cohn's talk examines the history of an American studies academic certificat developed at the behest of the U.S. Information Agency, which targeted non-citizens outside the United States.

The GSO cordially invites you to the following event:

Special Guest Presentation

Dr. Jane Tylus  (Yale University)

"Italy at the Margins of Empire: Pastoral as a Way of Seeing"

If you would like to participate in the GSO Colloquium series, please contact the colloquium planning committee at: 

romlcolloquiumseries@gmail.com

Film screening and Q & A with filmmaker Fred Kuwornu. Kuwornu, activist-producer-writer-director, was born and raised in Italy and is of Italian-Ghanaian descent.18 IUS SOLI: The Right to Be Italian (2012) is an award-winning grassroots documentary about the issue of citizenship for the over 1,000,000 children born in Italy to immigrant parents, who are denied citizenship because they have no Italian “blood”. This event is made possible by the generous support of: The Departments of Romance Languages, and Theatre & Film Studies; The Willso

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 College of Arts and Sciences, and the departments of English, History, Romance Languages, and Theatre and Film Studies.

The GSO cordially invites you to our Graduate Colloquium Series.

Special Guest Presentation:

Dr. Derek Beaudry  (University of North Georgia)

"The Political and the Everyday in Alonso Ruizpalacio’s Film Güeros"

If you would like to participate in the GSO Colloquium series, please contact the colloquium planning committee at: 

romlcolloquiumseries@gmail.com

Magdalena Matuskova, Lecturer in the Department of Romance languages, has been named a Service-Learning Fellow for the 2019-20 academic year. Matuskova is developing a new service-learning course on Spanish-English medical and health care interpreting, in which students will develop skills through taking part in interpreting in health education and clinical settings.

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.

The GSO cordially invites you to our Graduate Colloquium Series:

Special Guest Presentation

Dr. Ary Malaver  (University of North Georgia)

"Book Reading and Presentation: Incidentes"

If you would like to participate in the GSO Colloquium series, please contact the colloquium planning committee at: 

romlcolloquiumseries@gmail.com

You are invited to a bilingual lecture  (Portuguese and English) featuring Afro-Brazilian poet and actress Cristiane Sobral. Author of several collections of poetry, short stories, and plays, Sobral is one of the most important contemporary voices in Afro-Brazilian literature. She is starting a tour of nine universities at UGA!

Title: "I, Black Woman: Erasures in the Canon, Writings of Transgression, Affection and Healing"