Spanish MA Program
Program Highlights
About the Program
Upcoming and Recent Events
Tuesday, April 27, 2021
Lecture: "Forensic Science in the Subjunctive Mood: Mass Graves and Historical Memory in Contemporary Spain"
Dr. Lee Douglas, Universidade NOVA de Lisboa
9:30-10:45 a.m.
Online via Zoom. To Register: https://bit.ly/32csKfE
If you require an accommodation due to a disability, contact Dr. Louie Valencia at lvalencia@txstate.edu, 512.245.2103. Requests should be made at least 72 hours in advance of the program start time to ensure availability.
Tuesday, March 2, 2021
Lecture: "How Populists and Autocrats Learn from the Past: A fascist-populist Moment in Modern Politics and Constitutionalism"
Dr. Adam Krzywon, University of Warsaw
9:30-10:30 a.m.
Online via Zoom
For more information or Zoom link please contact Dr. Louie Valencia
February 18, 2021
Lecture
"Catalan: The Strongest Language in Multilingual Spain"
Dr. Vicente Lledó-Guillem, Professor, Hofstra University & Visiting Chair of Catalan University of Leipzig
12:30-1:50 p.m.
Online via Zoom
For more information or Zoom link please contact Dr. Beale-Rivaya
February 2, 2021
Lecture
"New Speakers of Basque: Challenges and Opportunities"
Dr. Itxaso Rodríguez-Ordóñez, Assistant Professor, Department of Linguistics, California State University, Long Beach
12:30-1:50 p.m.
Online via Zoom
For more information or Zoom link please contact Dr. Beale-Rivaya
October 27, 2020
Lecture: "Más allá del chocolate: el legado del náhuatl en el español"
Dr. Catherine Fountain, Professor, Appalachian State University
2:00-5:00
Event will be held via Zoom. Please contact Dr. Beale-Rivaya for Zoom link information.
October 6, 2020
Lecture:"Colonización y Lengua: El caso del Perú"
Dr. Angela Helmer, University of South Dakota
2-5 p.m.
If interested, please contact Dr. Beale-Rivaya for Zoom link information.
September 29, 2020
Lecture: "La historia del español en California: Fuentes, comunidades y pueblos"
Covadonga Lamar Prieto, PhD
2:45 p.m.
Online via Zoom
Co-Sponsored by The Center for the Study of the Southwest
If interested, please contact Dr. Beale-Rivaya for Zoom link information.
February 3-4, 2020
CONGRESO INTERNACIONAL DE POESÍA ESPAÑOLA / INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON SPANISH POETRY
"Poesía de la Transición: Diversidad y Poéticas" / "Poetry of the Transition: Diversity and Poetics"
Submit abstract to Sharon Keefe Ugalde by October 25, 2019
November 18, 2019
Symposium
"Experiencia de escritura colectiva: Una historia de la Junta de Damas de la Real Sociedad Económica Matritense (1787-1823)"
Presentation of book project by Catherine Marie Jaffe (MIAS-Texas State University) and Elisa Martín-Valdepeñas (Sociedad Española de Estudios del Siglo XVIII)
11 a.m. - 1:30 p.m.
Casa de Velázquez - Sala Widor
C/. Paul Guinard, 3
28040 Madrid
Spain
For more information: contact@madrid-ias.eu
November 6, 2019
Film Screening and Discussion
Los Santos Inoncentes: A Discussion lead by Professor Agustín Cuadrado
4 p.m.
ILC 120
University of Arizona
For more information contact Dr. Agustín Cuadrado
October 19, 2019
Public Lecture
"Lying Tongues: Can we Ever Trust Historical Records?"
Presenter: Dr. Carla Rahn Phillips, retired professor in Comparative Early Modern History
11 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
Centennial Hall Teaching Theater (Room 157)
For more information contact Dr. Yasmine Beale-Rivaya or Dr. David Navarro
July 25, 2019
Lecture: "En sus proprias palabras: Lo que los documentos Arabe-Andalusí revelan de la vida en las tierras fronterizas de Toledo tras su 'reconquista'"
12-1:00 p.m.
Sala Julián Ribera (1C)
Centro de Ciencias Humanas y Sociales del CSIC
Calle Albasanz 26-28, 28037 - Madrid
Spain
For more information contact Dr. Yasmine Beale-Rivaya
June 5-7, 2019
Symposium: The Multi-Cultural Borderlands of Medieval Toledo
Toledo, Spain
April 9, 2019
Lecture: "Forging History: War, Remembrance, and Femininity in the Spanish Film Industry of the 1940s"
Dr. María Elena Soliño, University of Houston
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