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News - 2019

SPO gathers together for holiday reception
Dec. 19, 2019

On December 11, faculty, lecturers, staff, graduate students, and concentrators gathered in Palmer House for the department’s Holiday Reception.

Chair Pedro Meira Monteiro began the evening with brief remarks and announced the departure of visiting faculty member Arturo Arias, as well as Professor Aisha M. Beliso-De Jesús who has been…

Cervantes’ ‘Persiles’ and the Travails of Romance by Marina Brownlee featured in Discovery magazine
Dec. 11, 2019

Marina Brownlee’s book, Cervantes’ ‘Persiles’ and the Travails of Romance, was recently featured in Discovery magazine.

Brownlee's book is a collection of original essays presenting new ways of looking at Cervantes’ final novel, Persiles, work that engages with geopolitical models of race, ethnicity, nation,…

Whispering at Princeton
Dec. 5, 2019

By Alejandro Martínez

On November 25 "The Whisperers", a performance directed by the Argentine theater director Vivi Tellas, took place at Princeton. Students, faculty and staff walked through the campus together while reading various texts about Latin America in a quiet voice.

Reading works by Diamela Eltit, Pedro…

Events - 2019

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