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Talk by Professor Kelly Arispe

Please join us on Thursday, March 7th from 3:30-4:30pm in Girvetz 2112 for our Winter 2024 Applied Linguistics colloquium featuring Professor Kelly Arispe (Boise State University).

Um Machado de Assis para o Século XX

Join us on October 30th and 31st in the Henley Board Room at Mosher Alumni House for an exclusive conference dedicated to the life and works of Machado de Assis.

New Book by Professor Laura Marqués-Pascual

Congratulations to Professor Laura Marqués-Pascual on her latest publication, co-edited with Irene Checa-García: Current Perspectives in Spanish Lexical Development, published by DeGruyter as part of the Studies on Language Acquisition (SOLA) series.

The UC Iberian Studies Consortium Has Been Launched

The Department of Spanish and Portuguese is delighted to announce that thanks to a generous gift from Roberta Lee Johnson (B.A. and M.A., UC Davis; Professor Emerita, University of Kansas), the UC Iberian Studies Consortium has been formed, and will be headquartered at UC Davis.

New Book by Professor Antonio Cortijo Ocaña

Congratulations to Professor Antonio Cortijo Ocaña on the publication of his latest work, Memorias de libros. Censura inquisitorial y comercio de libros en Nueva España. Siglo XVII, released by Tirant lo Blanch—currently recognized as the leading academic press in Spain!

Applied LInguistics Spring 2023 Colloquium

Please join us on Wednesday, May 17 from 3:30 to 5:00pm for our Spring 2023 Applied Linguistics colloquium featuring two of our own students: recent graduate Dr. Samanta de Frutos García (now a Lecturer at Channel Islands State University) and Fellowship awardee Guillem Belmar Viernes (Ph.D. candidate in Linguistics at UCSB).

A Conference in Honor of Eduardo Lourenço

The Department welcomes you to attend "Celebrating the Carnation Revolution": A conference in honor of Eduardo Lourenço on Monday, April 24 from 10:30am to 3:00pm in the 6020 McCune Conference Room (HSSB).

XXI Hispanic and Lusophone Conference

The graduate students of the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at UC Santa Barbara invite you all to join the XXI Hispanic and Lusophone Conference: "Approaches to a more inclusive and equitable university" on Thursday, April 27 to Friday, April 28.