Events Archive

Estudios del discurso - The Routledge Handbook of Spanish Language Discourse Studies
Tue, Nov 29, 2022, 12:30 pm1:30 pm

This presentation of the Routledge Handbook of Spanish Language Discourse will include discussion on SPO lecturer Anna Alsina Naudi's chapter 12 entitled "Derechos y discurso" (Law and Discourse). 

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Brazilian Authoritarianism: Past & Present
Wed, Sep 28, 2022, 4:30 pm6:30 pm

A conversation with award-winning author Lilia M. Schwarcz about her new work followed by a reception and book signing

Location
Palmer House
How to Tell Nonfiction Stories: A Conversation with Nat Geo/NYT Writer Jordan Salama (SPO '19)
Tue, Feb 1, 2022, 4:30 pm4:30 pm

Open to Princeton students. Register in advance via Zoom to attend. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.

Jordan Salama of the class of 2019 (Spanish and Portuguese) is a…

Location
Zoom
The Rivers Within Us: Journeys Across Intersectional Identities
Tue, Dec 7, 2021, 4:30 pm4:30 pm

The event is free and open to all, but campus COVID protocols must be followed. 

On Tuesday December 7th, at 4:30pm in Campus Club, Professor Christina Lee of the Department of Spanish & Portuguese will host a conversation with writer and journalist Jordan Salama '19 to discuss stories of journeys that cross…

Location
Campus Club
Yarimar Bonilla & Nelson Maldonado-Torres: Aftershocks of Disaster: Book Discussion
Tue, Dec 3, 2019, 4:30 pm4:30 pm

The concept of "aftershocks" is used in the context of earthquakes to describe the jolts felt after the initial quake, but no disaster is a singular event. Aftershocks of Disaster examines the lasting effects of hurricane Maria, not just the effects of the wind or the rain, but delving into what followed: state failure, social abandonment,…

Location
216 Burr Hall
Presentation of El populismo por venir? (Guillermo Escolar, 2018) & Panel on Populisms in Latin America, Spain, and Beyond
Thu, Apr 18, 2019, 4:30 pm4:30 pm

Participants: 

Germán Labrador
Ángel Loureiro
Rachel Price
Vicente Rubio (Fordham University)

Discussion will be in Spanish

Location
106 McCormick
PLAS Presents: Book Presentation: The Zapatista Movement and Mexico’s Democratic Transition by María Inclán
Wed, Mar 27, 2019, 12:00 pm12:00 pm

What happens to insurgent social movements that emerge during a democratic transition but fail to achieve their goals? How influential are they? Are they able to survive their initial mobilizing boom? To answer these questions, María Inclán looks at Mexico's Zapatista movement, whose emergence she argues was caught between "sliding doors" of…

Location
216 Burr Hall
Brazil LAB: Writing by Ear: Clarice Lispector and the Aural Novel
Tue, Mar 26, 2019, 4:30 pm4:30 pm

In her new book Writing by Ear, Marília Librandi draws from the oeuvre of the wondrous Clarice Lispector, one of Brazil’s most prominent writers, to creatively articulate the relationship between orality and writing. In dialogue with philosophy, psychoanalysis, and sound studies, Librandi presents an aural theory of the novel based on…

Location
3rd Floor Atrium, Aaron Burr Hall
Brazil LAB presents “A discussion of Pedro Meira Monteiro’s new book The Other Roots”
Mon, Dec 11, 2017, 4:30 pm4:30 pm

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Speakers: Pedro Meira Monteiro (Spanish and Portuguese, Princeton University), Lilia Schwarcz (University of São Paulo, Global Scholar at Princeton University, and author) and Jeremy Adelman (History,…

Location
3rd Floor Atrium, Burr Hall