An orientation for new graduate students to the University of Georgia and the Department of Romance Languages. Topics covered will include advisement and registering for classes, information for new teaching assistants, an introduction to the ROML Graduate Student Organization, and presentations on equal opportunity and diversity initiatives, academic honesty, disability resources, resources for research, and instructional technology.

Congratulations to the newly-created Department of Linguistics! According to the University Council website, President Morehead approved the creation of the department on May 2, 2017. 

Dr. Elizabeth Flores-Salgado, Universidad Autónoma de Puebla (Mexico)

Featuring Readings by published and aspiring poets in the Romance Languages Department including:

Luis Correa-Díaz • Khédija Gadhoum 

Kate Bundy • Jorge García-Granados • Megan Mavity

 

Reception to follow

Sponsored by the Graduate Student Association and made possible through generous contributions from the Romance Languages Fund and the UGA Small Clubs Allocation Committee

The UGA Department of Romance Languages will have three graduate student presenters at the upcoming Kentucky Foreign Languages Conference in Lexington, KY April 20-22, 2017. 

Congratulations to Meredith Miles, member of the Sigma Delta Pi (SDP) Spanish Honors Society, for winning an SDP undergraduate study abroad stipends for 2017-18. Meredith, who will be studying in Costa Rica, was one of ten stipend recipients awarded nationwide. ¡Enhorabuena!

"From Plague to Cholera: 

Philip Limerick, PhD student in Spanish Linguistics, has received a Willson Center Graduate Research Award for his project "Investigating Language Change in a Georgia Latino Community". ¡Felicitaciones, Philip!

Special Screening of I Like Poems and I Like Life (2015)

Presented by Filmmaker Daniel Rodríguez Moya

 

Opening comments by Fernando Valverde (Emory University)

and Luis Correa-Díaz (University of Georgia)