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Julia Brown Receives the Fullbright-García Robles Scholarship

Congratulations to Julia Brown on receiving Fulbright-García Robles Scholarship (2021-2022) with the project "From Screen to Society: Breaking the Silence on Discrimination with 1970s Mexican Cinema."

The Metamorphoses of the Archive: Fernando Pessoa's digital edition

Join us on Friday, May 21, 2021 at 2:00pm for the guest lecture series: "pessoadigital.pt or The Metamorphoses of the Archive."

New Book by Osiris Aníbal Gómez, Sara Poot-Herrera, and Francisco Lomelí

Congratulations to Osiris Aníbal Gómez, Sara Poot-Herrera y Francisco Lomelí for their outstanding "Caleidoscopio verbal: lenguas y literaturas originarias", just published by Oro de la Noche Ediciones.

The Current: Indigenous Lyricism

Join us on Wednesday, April 28, 2021 at 3:00pm to hear poet Roxana Miranda Rupailaf of Chile read works in Mapudungun and Spanish in online event.

Talk by Professor Luis E. Cárcamo-Huechante (UT Austin)

As part of the XX Hispanic and Lusophone Conference, (Re)framing knowledge, we are pleased to invite you to the plenary talk presented by Professor Luis E. Cárcamo-Huechante (UT Austin),"The Colonial Ear and its Frontiers: Listening and Knowledge Politics on Mapuche Lands" taking place at 2:00pm on Friday, May 14th.

Pleibéricos 9

Join us on Wednesday, April 21 from 10:00 to 11:00am over zoom. Professor Eloi Grasset Morell will be discussing his La trama mortal. Pere Gimferrer y la política de la literatura (1962-1975) (2020).

XX Hispanic and Lusophone Conference: (Re)framing knowledge

We are pleased to announce the XX Hispanic and Lusophone Conference, (Re)framing knowledge!

Rewriting the Chicano Movement: New Histories of Mexican American Activism in the Civil Rights Era

"Rewriting the Chicano Movement" is a collection of powerful new essays on the Chicano Movement that expand and revise our understanding of the movement.