Preston Hayes:  “Spilling Blood, Pushing the Envelope: Horror Cinema in the Romance-Speaking World”

Julia Hernández:  “On ‘Translating’ Homer in Fifteenth-Century Spain: Philological Posturing, Vernacular Humanism, and the Curious Case of Juan de Mena’s so-called Omero romançado”

"Dead Agencies: Violent Transactions and the Politics of Dying in Neoliberal Mexico"

Dr. Richard Gordon, 

Professor of Spanish and Portuguese, Director of the Latin American and Caribbean Studies Institute

“Popular Theater in Eighteenth-Century Lisbon: Preliminary Research Presentation and Dialogue on the Development of Book Projects”

Dr. Emily Sahakian

Assistant Professor of French,

Assistant Professor of Theatre

"Restaging Black Histories: Edouard Glissant's Popular Theatre, from Martinique to UGA"

Please note the special time for this event, 3:30 PM

Kate Bundy

“Biopolitics of the Cyborg Body in Science Fiction Short Films in .Sub (Jossie Malis Álvarez, 2012) and Hyper-reality (Keiichi Matsuda, 2016)"

Camila Livio

"Intensification in Brazilian Portuguese: a preliminary analysis of muito and bem"



Martin Ward

“Searching for lo queer in Argentina”

 

A workshop for graduate students to learn how to network within the profession.

An orientation for new graduate students to the University of Georgia and the Department of Romance Languages. Topics covered will include advisement and registering for classes, information for new teaching assistants, an introduction to the ROML Graduate Student Organization, and presentations on equal opportunity and diversity initiatives, academic honesty, disability resources, resources for research, and instructional technology.

Congratulations to the newly-created Department of Linguistics! According to the University Council website, President Morehead approved the creation of the department on May 2, 2017.