Lecture Series: Spanish as a Heritage Language – Heritage Language Pedagogy

Speaker: Dr. Sara Beaudrie

Date: March 4, 2021
Time: 4:00pm

On March 4, the Institute for the Study of the Americas and The Department of Romance Studies at UNC will host Dr. Sara Beaudrie, Associate Professor of Spanish Borderlands at Arizona State University, as part of the virtual Lecture Series on Spanish as a Heritage Language. Dr. Beaudrie’s presentation is titled “Heritage Language Pedagogy.” The Zoom info for this presentation is given in the provided photo. Mark your calendars for this upcoming event!

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Lecture Series: Spanish as a Heritage Language – Apples and Oranges

Speaker: Dr. Kim Potowski

Date: February 17, 2021
Time: 4:00pm

On February 17, the Institute for the Study of the Americas and The Department of Romance Studies at UNC will host Dr. Kim Potowski, Professor of Spanish at the University of Illinois at Chicago, as part of the virtual Lecture Series on Spanish as a Heritage Language. Dr. Potowski’s presentation is titled “Apples and Oranges: Best Approaches in Working with Spanish Heritage Speakers.” The Zoom info for this presentation is given in the provided photo. Mark your calendars for this upcoming event!

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UNC-PRAGDA Film Festival – The Guardians

Date: February 9, 2021
Time: 9:00pm EST

An indigenous Mexican community and millions of monarch butterflies are under threat of extinction in the ancient forest they call home.

Spanish and English with English subtitles.

The UNC-PRAGDA Film Festival is sponsored by the Department of Romance Studies, The Institute for the Study of the Americas, and The Graduate School Diversity and Student Success. Register in advance for this meeting. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.

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UNC-PRAGDA Film Festival – Un Traductor

Date: February 12, 2021
Time: 7:00pm EST

Based on the little-known true story of how twenty thousand Chernobyl victims were eventually treated in Cuba, Un Traductor unfolds as a tale at once historical and personal, brought to life in crisply shot, beautifully realized period detail of a Havana on the brink of economic crisis. This film was Cuba’s submission for Best Foreign Language Film at the Academy Awards.

Spanish and Russian with English subtitles.

The UNC-PRAGDA Film Festival is sponsored by the Department of Romance Studies, The Institute for the Study of the Americas, and The Graduate School Diversity and Student Success. Register in advance for this meeting. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.

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UNC-PRAGDA Film Festival – Yvy Maraey, Land Without Evil (Yvy Maraey, tierra sin mal)

Date: February 5, 2021
Time: 7:00pm EST

A Bolivian filmmaker and a Guaraní Indian travel together through the forests of southeastern Bolivia to make a film about the Guaraní people. The starting point is a 1911 film by Swedish explorer Erland Nordenskiöld. But today’s reality turns out to be much more intense than the nostalgia for a lost world.

Spanish and Guarani with English Subtitles.

The UNC-PRAGDA Film Festival is sponsored by the Department of Romance Studies, The Institute for the Study of the Americas, and The Graduate School Diversity and Student Success. Register in advance for this meeting. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.

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UNC-PRAGDA Film Festival – Ciro and Me

Date: February 3, 2021
Time: 7:00pm EST

Ciro Galindo was born on August 29, 1952, in Colombia. Wherever he went, war always found him. His children were recruited by the armies of war; his family was repeatedly displaced; and his wife Anita, an indigenous woman, died of sadness. Foreign to the system, but a victim of the system, Ciro has led a heroic anonymous struggle to live life on his own terms.

Spanish with English subtitles.

The UNC-PRAGDA Film Festival is sponsored by the Department of Romance Studies, The Institute for the Study of the Americas, and The Graduate School Diversity and Student Success. Register in advance for this meeting. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.

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UNC-PRAGDA Film Festival – Perro Bomba

Date: January 29, 2021
Time: 7:00pm EST

Steevens Benjamin is a young Haitian immigrant living a challenging, but somewhat stable life in Santiago de Chile: he has a construction job, a home, friends, and fun. This precariously balanced life is disrupted when Junior, a childhood friend from Haiti, arrives in Chile seeking assistance from Steevens to establish himself.

Spanish and Creole with English subtitles.

The UNC-PRAGDA Film Festival is sponsored by the Department of Romance Studies, The Institute for the Study of the Americas, and The Graduate School Diversity and Student Success. Register in advance for this meeting. After registering you will receive a confirmation email containing information about the meeting.

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Lecture Series: Spanish as a Heritage Language – Spanish in North Carolina

Speaker: Dr. Jim Michnowicz

Date: February 3, 2021
Time: 4:00pm

On February 3, the Institute for the Study of the Americas and The Department of Romance Studies at UNC will host Dr. Jim Michnowicz, Professor of Hispanic Linguistics at North Carolina State University, as part of the virtual Lecture Series on Spanish as a Heritage Language. Dr. Michnowicz’s presentation is titled “Spanish in North Carolina-Insights into Heritage Spanish/El español en Carolina del Norte-perspectivas sobre el español de herencia”. The Zoom info for this presentation is given in the provided photo. Mark your calendars for this upcoming event!

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Translation as Feminist Collaboration: A Conversation with Cristina Rivera Garza, Lauren Hook, and Sarah Booker

Speaker: Cristina Rivera Garza, Lauren Hook, and Sarah Booker

Date: January 22, 2021
Time: 5:00pm

Join us for a conversation on the exploration of literary translation from a feminist perspective. This virtual event will address questions of how translation illuminates diverse understandings of gender and sexuality. Speakers participating in the conversation are Cristina Rivera Garza, a 2020 Macarthur Fellow and one of the most prominent Mexican authors writing today; Lauren Hook, the interim director and publisher of The Feminist Press; Sarah Booker, a PhD student in Romance Studies at UNC and an accomplished translator. A text that the talk will focus on is Grieving: Dispatches from a Wounded Country, written by Rivera Garza, edited by Hook, and translated by Booker. This event is sponsored by the Working Group on Gender and Sexuality in Latin America and the Caribbean, Duke Cultural Anthropology, and the Carolina Conference on Romance Studies. Register at here to receive the meeting sign-on information.

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ISA Graduate Symposium

Speaker: Mark Levine & Mireya Jamal

Date: March 29, 2021
Time: 6:00pm

Join us March 29 for the ISA Graduate Symposium. Mireya Soledad Jamal (UNC Romance Studies) will present “Par de views canijas”: Gender Transgression in Daniel Sada’s Una de dos. Mark Levine’s (UNC Music) presentation is titled “!Estoy Pegao!: Piracy, Viral Music, and USB Sticks in Cuba’s Underground Internet.”

Register via Zoom at https://go.unc.edu/gradsymposium

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