Happening @ Michigan

LACS Central American Contexts Series. Crises of Care: Narrating Central American and Mexican Migration through Children and Families

Paige Andersson, Postdoctoral Scholar, DePauw University

By the time the Trump Administration's family separation policy took effect in 2018, children had been a focus of news coverage of...

Germanic Languages and Literatures Graduate Student Conference

Embodying Vision/Envisioning Embodiment

Thursday, October 17th @ 5:30 - 7:00 pm (Forum Hall): “Present Tense: Time, Madness, and Democracy”: Keynote Lecture by Professor W. J....

Germanic Languages and Literatures Graduate Student Conference

Embodying Vision/Envisioning Embodiment

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 18TH (Forum Hall):...

Germanic Languages and Literatures Graduate Student Conference

Embodying Vision/Envisioning Embodiment

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 19TH (Rackham East Conference Room):...

The Lyric Authority of Goats and Women

Dr. Elizabeth Hebbard, Indiana University Bloomington

This talk explores the world of names, naming, and namelessness in troubadour songs and in the manuscripts that transmit them. I show how...

Richard T. Rodríguez Lecture

"The Stars Down Below: Sex, Labor, and the Fantasy of Hollywood"

This talk will examine the politics of fantasy in relation to representations of Latino male sexuality in contemporary independent and queer...

Andean Space and City Modified by New Social and Economic Bolivian Actors

Professor Emeritus Gastón Gallardo

This presentation will address the surge of urban social actors who have changed the traditional criollo city of La Paz into a newly-born...

Poetry, Politics and Mapuche Feminism: Readings and Dialogues with Daniela Catrileo.

Lecture

Join us in a dialogue with the mapuche poet and feminist activist Daniela Catrileo. She will talk about indigeneity, feminism and mapuche...

Poetry, Politics and Mapuche Feminism: Readings and Dialogues with Daniela Catrileo.

Workshop

The mapuche poet and feminist activist Daniela Catrileo will lead a workshop about mapuche poetry, with the reading of selected poems and...

Lunch and Romance - Romance Languages Major/Minor Drop-in Info Session

Studying French, Italian, Portuguese and/or Spanish helps you develop the necessary skills to be an effective participant in the global...

The Silence of Others

Film screening and panel discussion with filmmaker Almudena Carracedo

Please join us for a screening of The Silence of Others (2018). Following the screening, Almudena Carracedo,...

Critical Conversations: Ecologies

Omolade Adunbi | Petra Kuppers | Benjamin Mangrum | Peggy McCracken | Susan Scott Parrish (chair)

"Critical Conversations" is a monthly lunch series organized by the English Department for 2019-20. In each session, a panel of...

Between Life and Death: The Cultural Politics of Modern Spanish Medicine, 1770-1808

Nicolás Fernández Medina, Pennsylvania State University

In 1770, Charles III of Spain issued a royal decree to overhaul the university system throughout his kingdom. As part of this overhaul, a...

Romance Languages & Literatures Awards and Recognition Ceremony

Save the date!

The Department of Romance Languages and Literatures is pleased to invite graduates and their guests to an awards and recognition ceremony in...