Please join us for 5 lectures offered as part of the Humanities lab directed by Cole Rizki (Spanish) and David Getsy (Art)!
Global Histories and Transgender Studies in the Humanities
A lecture and seminar series sponsored by the Institute of the Humanities & Global Cultures at the University of Virginia
(co-sponsored by QVA)
February 20th, 2023
Professor Allison Bigelow was awarded the 2022 Philip Pauly Prize for her book Mining Language: Racial Thinking, Indigenous Knowledge, and Colonial Metallurgy in the Early Modern Iberian World (Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture and University of North Carolina Press, 2020). This prize "is awarded for the best first book on the history of science in the Americas (broadly defined to include North America, Central America, South America, and the Caribbean) and written in English" (History of Science Society).
On Thursday, February 2 at 2pm, Professor Michela Marzano of the Université Paris Cité will give a talk on "La fragilità della condizione umana e la filosofia incarnata". The lecture will be in Italian with the opportunity for the audience to ask questions in Italian or French.
Join New Dominion Bookshop from 4:00-5:00pm for a reading with UVA professor and poet Fernando Valverde (America) and writer Wajahat Ali (Go Back to Where You Came From). This is a free in-person event, open to the public.
Visit https://ndbookshop.com/events/wajahat-ali-and-fernando-valverde/ for more information.
Please join us on February 3 for a celebration of the contributions of David Gies to the field of 18th century Iberian studies, the Department of Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese, and the wider UVA community. There will be a presentation of a special issue of the journal Miríada Hispánica, dedicated to Professor Gies. Please contact Fernando Operé (fo at virginia dot edu) with questions about the event or how to contribute to it.
Native American and Indigenous Studies is a wide-ranging, interdisciplinary field with arguably two elements at its core: the use of place-based methodologies and a commitment to decolonizing scholarship that serves Indigenous communities. What do these elements mean in different world regions and academic disciplines? Do scholars and communities in Africa, Latin America, and North America understand “place” in the same way? How are Indigenous research paradigms applied across these different contexts?
Rosa Angélica Morales Sarabia received her doctorate in history from UNAM in 2006. Since 1999 she has worked with CEIICH-UNAM (Center of Interdisciplinary Investigations in the Sciences and Humanities), collaborating on projects related to the social, political, and cultural studies of Mexico City. In 2011 she obtained the appointment of Associate Researcher focusing on the history of science. Her current research projects encompass natural history, botanical explorations, and the medical culture of women spanning from the 16th to the 19th century.
On Friday November 11th, 32 new members were initiated into the Sigma Delta Pi honor society! Sigma Delta Pi is the National Collegiate Hispanic Honor Society. Members each must have completed three years of study of college-level Spanish, including at least three semester hours of a course in Hispanic literature or Hispanic culture and civilization at the third-year level, must have a minimal grade point average of 3.0 on a 4.0- point scale in all Spanish courses taken, and must rank in the upper 35% (3.2 GPA) of his/her class.
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 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!
Spanish Ph.D. student Elizabeth Mirabal has been announced as the 2024 Tibor Wlassics Dante Fellowship winner.
