"Pierre Fatumbi Verger" a talk by Javier Escudero (UVA Spanish PhD)
“The Indies of the Setting Sun: How Early Modern Spain Mapped the Far East as the Transpacific West” Mellon Book Talk Series with Professor Ricardo Padrón
“The Indies of the Setting Sun: How Early Modern Spain Mapped the Far East as the Transpacific West”
Ricardo Padrón, Professor of Spanish, UVA
2018-19 Mellon Fellow
Friday, November 4, 2022 | 10:00 am - 11:30 am ET
Shawn Austin, "From Warriors to Soldiers: Indigenous Mission Militias and Cultures of Violence in the Río de la Plata via Guaraní Worlds"
Please join us on Thursday, Nov. 17, from 4-5:30 pm in Hotel A (Center for Global Inquiry and Innovation) for a talk by Shawn Austin (History, University of Arkansas). Professor Austin's lecture, "From Warriors to Soldiers: Indigenous Mission Militias and Cultures of Violence in the Río de la Plata via Guaraní Worlds," uses Guaraní-language documents to consider how colonized Indigenous people used violence to advance their own interests under Spanish colonial rule.
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The life and death of Spanish poet Antonio Machado brought to life in “Flamenco y Exilio”
Read all about the Spanish Theater Group's recent performance of Flamenco y Exilio, written by Fernando Valverde and directed by Fernando Operé, in The Cavalier Daily.
Interest meeting: Graduate certificate in Environmental Humanities
PhD students: are you interested in the Graduate Certificate in Environmental Humanities?
Please join us for a working session on the Graduate Certificate in Environmental Humanities with EH Convener Professor Charlotte Rogers on October 21st, 2022 at 3pm in the conference room in the French Department (NCH 349).
Topics include:
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EH Certificate requirements
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Funding opportunities
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Environmental Humanities Graduate Symposium (Spring)
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Upcoming EH events
New Graduate Certificate: Premodern Cultures
The Graduate School of Arts & Sciences will now be offering a new certificate program in “Premodern Cultures and Communities,” which is aimed at graduate students working in chronological fields prior to the Enlightenment, more or less. The core course for the certificate will be offered for the first time during the Spring of 2023. PhD students who are interested in connecting this certificate with their work in the department should contact professor Ricardo Padrón.
Why Graduate Education Matters: Yafrainy Familia in Dialogue with PhD Students Across UVA
Why is graduate education so important to the research, teaching, and service mission of UVA? Hear what Spanish PhD student Yafrainy Familia and students across the disciplines have to say in this new video by UVA's Graduate School of Arts & Sciences.
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Graduation
May 18, 2024
The Graduation Ceremony for the Department of Spanish, Italian & Portuguese will follow the Lawn Ceremony on Saturday, May 18 at 1:30 p.m. The ceremony will be in the ... Read»
Congratulations Fernando Operé!
April 25, 2024
Congratulations to Professor Operé on the publication of the English version of his memoir, In the Name of the Father: Chronicle of Franco’s Spain to Trump’s America.
IWL Distinguished Undergraduate Award Winners 2024
April 10, 2024
Congratulations to Spanish students Luis M. Ruano Campos, Aden Bilchick, and Brenna Meehan and Portuguese student William Woodford who were awarded this year’s Distinguished Undergrad Awards!
