Spanish Course (SPAN) Spring 2021
Spanish (SPAN) Courses – Taught in Spanish
SPAN 3030 – Sí se puede: Community Engagements in Spanish-Speaking Charlottesville with Esther Povedo
Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, 11:00 - 11:50am
Allison Bigelow, Mining Language: Racial Thinking, Indigenous Knowlege, and Colonial Metallurgy in the Early Modern Iberian World
Please join us at the Institute of Humanities and Global Cultures on Friday, Oct. 30, from 10-12 (EST) for a talk by Allison Bigelow on ways to read around colonial archival silences. The talk is drawn from her recently published book, Mining Language: Racial Thinking, Indigenous Knowledges, and Colonial Metallurgy in the Early Modern Iberian World (UNC Press/Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture).
Aj Xol Héctor Rolando, "Significados de 'tiempo' en el Popol Wuj"
Please join us on Nov. 12 at 6 pm (EST/5 pm in Guatemala) on Zoom for a talk by artist-scholar Aj Xol Héctor Rolando (Maya Q’eqchi’) on “Significados de ‘tiempo’ en el Popol Wuj.” This talk, held in Spanish, draws from recent collaborative research with the Fundación Proyecto Lingüístico Francisco Marroquín (Guatemala) and Multepal Project (University of Virginia, USA).
Benedict
Nora Benedict received her Ph.D. in Spanish from UVA in 2017. From 2017-2019, she was a postdoctoral fellow in the Center for Digital Humanities at Princeton University. Nora is currently an Assistant Professor of Spanish and Digital Humanities at the University of Georgia.
Marroquin
Jessica (Jessie) Marroquín is an ACLS Emerging Voices Fellow at the University of Chicago in the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures in the Division of the Humanities. She is further developing her research project on the Santa Muerte, or Holy Death, in Mexico and the U.S.-Mexico Border. She collaborates with interdisciplinary efforts at the University that focus on public and digital humanities, with the goal of lessening the gap between non-academic and academic communities.
Meerkhan
Nasser Meerkhan holds a joint position as Assistant Professor between the departments of Spanish & Portuguese and Near Eastern Studies at UC Berkeley. His book project, tentatively titled From Muses to Makers: Women Writers of Medieval Iberia, retells the literary history of medieval Iberia from the perspective of women writers.
Vassar
David Vassar currently serves as assistant dean for professional and corporate programs at Rice University’s Susanne M.
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Have a question? We are available through Zoom from 10:00am to 12:00 pm, and 1:00 pm to 3:00pm every weekday to answer your questions.
https://virginia.zoom.us/j/91659131645?pwd=cVlxYXpoWXRyZnpxUS9FdFhFb0gwdz09
Early Modern Studies Workshop with Ricardo Padrón
Please join us at the Early Modern Workshop on Friday, September 25, 12-1:30pm, for a presentation by Ricardo Padrón
Ricardo will be speaking about his new book, The Indies of the Setting Sun: How Early Modern Spain Mapped the Far East as the Transpacific West (University of Chicago Press, 2020), which challenges prevailing narratives about the so-called “invention of America” by exploring the transpacific commitments of the Spanish Indies as a geopolitical concept.
Our events are free and open to the public. Please register below on Zoom:
Spanish Major Workshop
5:00 pm
Join Virtually at: https://virginia.zoom.us/j/98032912476?pwd=Q2pvblUySFFKRDBtY3FMcTFFUXc3UT09
Students who want to declare a Spanish major should attend.
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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»
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!
Congratulations Elizabeth!
April 12, 2024
Spanish Ph.D. student Elizabeth Mirabal has been announced as the 2024 Tibor Wlassics Dante Fellowship winner.
