Congratulations to Meredith Miles, member of the Sigma Delta Pi (SDP) Spanish Honors Society, for winning an SDP undergraduate study abroad stipends for 2017-18. Meredith, who will be studying in Costa Rica, was one of ten stipend recipients awarded nationwide. ¡Enhorabuena!

"From Plague to Cholera: 

Philip Limerick, PhD student in Spanish Linguistics, has received a Willson Center Graduate Research Award for his project "Investigating Language Change in a Georgia Latino Community". ¡Felicitaciones, Philip!

Special Screening of I Like Poems and I Like Life (2015)

Presented by Filmmaker Daniel Rodríguez Moya

 

Opening comments by Fernando Valverde (Emory University)

and Luis Correa-Díaz (University of Georgia)

Ingrid Abisambra Miccheli

“Foreign Language Didactics: The Use of Literature in a Second Language Class, ‘Crónica de una muerte anunciada’ by Gabriel García Márquez” 

Diogo Cosme

“Third Language Acquisition of Object Marking in Brazilian Portuguese” 

"Phonological Intuitions vs. Speech Production in Italian and Catalan"

Brian Gravely: “Ulo u? A Diachronic View of the Grammaticalization of the Galician u”

Gary Waters: “Interpretatio et Inventio: The Tragic in Italian Renaissance Poetics” 

Jenna Robinson (PhD student, Hispanic Linguistics) and Mary Virginia Hahn (MA student, Hispanic Linguistics) presented a poster on the second language acquisition of Spanish syntax and pragmatics at the Bilingualism in the Hispanic and Lusophone World (BHL) conference at Florida State University in Tallahassee, FL on Friday, January 27, 2017.