By Michelle Tong
On Friday, October 29, 2021, the Department of Spanish and Portuguese gathered together in East Pyne 010 for the inaugural SPO Research Day. This event highlighted current and ongoing research projects as well as creative and literary endeavors by Spanish and Portuguese faculty, lecturers and students.
By Oriele Benavides, Renee Congdon and Catarina L. Oliveira
On Friday November 5th, 2021, graduate students from different departments attended the second screening of The Boquitas Pintadas Club, a film club organized by SPO graduate students Oriele Benavides, Renee Congdon and Catarina L. Oliveira.
By Michelle Tong
On Friday, September 24, 2021, Professor Christina Lee hosted a virtual conference that focused on highlighting the complexities and cultural richness of Afro-Asian identities and communities in Latin America. The conference featured prominent speakers who presented talks focusing on a different aspect of this rich field of study.
On Friday, November 20, a panel of SPO graduate alumni spoke to current graduate students to share insight and advice about pursuing career paths with a Ph.D. in Spanish and Portuguese.
View the full list of graduates and thesis titles.
More photos can be found on the department's Facebook page.
On June 1, 2020, the Department of Spanish and Portuguese hosted a virtual Class Day event in celebration of the Class of 2020.
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 appointed as a full time professor in the Program in American Studies effective in the spring.
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.
By Julie Clack
Last month, Monica Heller, a professor of linguistics and anthropology at the University of Toronto, came to Princeton to speak on “Language in Late Capitalism: Commodification and the Commons.” Professor Alberto Bruzos Moro introduced Heller to the audience.
By Julie Clack
Last month, Professor Javier Guerrero, in collaboration with Northwestern University’s Nathalie Bouzaglo, convened the first international Drag Kings symposium at Princeton. The three-year project, titled “Drag Kings: An Archeology of Spectacular Masculinities in Latino America,” “debates the future of gender in the unequal, plural, and contradictory space that we call Latino America.”
By Yangyou Fang & Alejandro Martinez
