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

Philip Limerick, MA student in Spanish Linguistics, will present his paper "Spanish Subject Expression in Roswell, Georgia: dialect formation in an emerging bilingual community"

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Emily Warden, PhD student in Romance Languages at UGA, will present her paper "Determining determiners in Spanish"

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Join us in congratulating Cris Lira, a PhD student concentrating on Brazilian literature, for her succesful application for a Graduate School Dean's Award to help fund her research on the convergence of women's writing with militant political activity during dictatorships in Latin America. 

La ponencia del profesor Argüelles Acosta forma parte de su trabajo de investigación más reciente, Cuba (1959–

2008). Contextos de la literatura: entidades paraliteraria donde se propone una caracterización del desempeño

histórico de algunas de las zonas de contacto de la literatura con su entorno socio–histórico–cultural. Para ello se

acerca a diferentes concreciones de este entorno que han conseguido una identidad ostensible y una autonomía

relativa, estableciendo vínculos de variada naturaleza con las instancias que determinan directamente tal

Sponsored by Willson Center Faculty Seminar on Human Rights and the Construction of Cultural and Social Memories.

Lénablou is a renowned choreographer, scholar, and activist known for her innovative promotion of Caribbean performance cultures through her dance technique: the Techni’Ka. Based in the French Caribbean island of Guadeloupe, her dance company TRILOGIE has toured across the world giving performances in Senegal, Niger, Slovenia, Canada, Mexico, Venezuela, French Guiana, Dominican Republic, Trinidad & Tobago, and France and now Athens, GA. She will visit UGA with three of her dancers and two musicians to hold various public events.

Lénablou is a renowned choreographer, scholar, and activist known for her innovative promotion of Caribbean performance cultures through her dance technique: the Techni’Ka. Based in the French Caribbean island of Guadeloupe, her dance company TRILOGIE has toured across the world giving performances in Senegal, Niger, Slovenia, Canada, Mexico, Venezuela, French Guiana, Dominican Republic, Trinidad & Tobago, and France and now Athens, GA. She will visit UGA with three of her dancers and two musicians to hold various public events.