Photos from the Class Day reception can be accessed here.
Photo credit: Daiane Tamanaha
The Department announced the following prizes which were awarded to undergraduates at the Class Day reception held June 4, 2018:
Premio Ángel Rama for excellence by a freshman or sophomore in advanced Spanish courses:
Hadley Wilhoite
In April, the Department of French and Italian and the Department of Spanish and Portuguese cosponsored Cesar Cumbe’s week-long visit to Princeton with the help of the 250th Anniversary Fund for Innovation in Undergraduate Education.
Cumbe is a professor of sociolinguistics at the University of Maputo in Mozambique, and an affiliated researcher at the Observatory for Societies of the Indian Ocean, based on the French island of La Reunion.
On April 5th, there was a special screening of the film "The Eyes of the Journey"/"Los Ojos del Camino". The screening was co-sponsored by the Department of Spanish and Portuguese and the Program in Latin American Studies.
On April 9, art historian T.J. Clark delivered the Eberhard L. Faber Memorial Lecture on “Velazquez, Aesop, and War.” The lecture was cosponsored by the Department of Art and Archaeology and the Department of Spanish and Portuguese.
On Friday, April 6, The Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies and Professor Christina Lee, presented a workshop titled The Spanish Transpacific, between East and West, 1521-1815.
Little attention had been paid to Puerto Rico before Hurricane María, perhaps because of the complex colonial relationship with the United States. This colloquium was held on March 9, 2018, to gain a better understanding of the political, material, and cultural dimensions of the fiscal crisis and of citizenship and the construction of the Body Politic in a colony. Panels also included questions related to human rights, gender, public health, migration, community power, and solar heating. Economists, legal scholars, academics, and activists from the island will be speaking.
Last month, Brazilian filmmaker João Moreira Salles came to Princeton for a screening and discussion of his film, "In the Intense Now," a documentary essay that weaves together amateur footage from China, Czechoslovakia and France in the late 1960s.
On December 13, 2017, SPO collaborated with LGSA (Latino Graduate Student Association) and PLA (Princeton Latinos y Amigos) to host a special traditional dinner at the Carl Fields Center. This event (which has reached its fifth installment), featured Brazillian food, including feijoada, a traditional stew of beans, pork and sausage, all catered by the Newark-based restaurant, Brasilia Grill.
SPO and Princeton Capoeira organized the second edition of Noite de Capoeira on Thursday, November 29th.
Students and participants learned a little bit about maculelê and capoeira, which are important expressions of Afro-Brazilian culture. Agulha, the instructor from Princeton Capoeira, explained the relation between maculelê and capoeira.
Overall, participants expressed their enthusiasm learning about Afro-Brazilian culture through this fun and engaging event.
On November 17, SPA207 students paid a visit to Firestone Library to see a recently acquired ephemeral collection that documents the Spanish grassroots protest movement called 15-M, after the date it started (May 15, 2011).
