Events

Rosalía Cornejo Parriego is Professor of Spanish in the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures at the University of Ottawa. She is the author of La escritura posmoderna del poder and Entre mujeres: Política de la amistad y el deseo en la narrativa española contemporánea, editor of the collection of essays Memoria colonial e inmigración: La negritud en la España posfranquista, and co-editor of the special issue "Queer Space" (RCEH) and the collection of essays Un hispanismo para el siglo XXI. Ensayos de crítica cultural.

Following the success of our first talk, the Department of Spanish and Latin American Studies is excited to announce its second Alumni Series Talk.

Sharing Knowledge Series - Presentation 1

Please join Monica Leoni and the SPAN 390 (Introduction to Spanish Business Translation) students for a presentation entitled:

 “The View from the Trenches: Freelance Translating Told Like It Is”

Griselda Zuffi is a Full Professor in the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures at Hood College, Maryland. Her research focuses on post dictatorship testimonial narratives of the Southern Cone that denounce the effects of authoritarian discourses. She has done extensive research on topics such as discursive representations of Peronism through fiction, the uses of history in Chilean women writers of the XIX and XX century, and the relationship of human rights groups, journalists and women writers to the government.

Sharing Knowledge Series

Please join Prof Leoni and the SPAN 390 (Introduction to Spanish Business Translation) students for a presentation entitled:

Sharing Knowledge Series with Alicia Partnoy

Please join Prof Sillato and the SPAN 400 ( Memories and Representations: Constructive Truths and Competing Realities) students for a conversation (via Skype) with Alicia Partnoy, author of The Little School: Tales of Disappearance and Survival in Argentina (La escuelita: Relatos t

Sharing Knowledge Series with Professor Montoya Vélez

Please join Prof Sillato and the SPAN 400 (Memories and Representations: Constructive Truths and Competing Realities) students for a conversation (via Skype) with Professor Martha Helena Montoya Vélez

SPAN 217 Special Event

Please join the Spanish and Latin American Studies Department in welcoming Prof. Lori Campbell, Director, Shatitsirotha Waterloo Indigenous Student Centre. Lori is a 2-Spirit nēhiyaw āpihtāwikosisān iskwew from Treaty 6 territory in kīwētinohk kisiskāciwan with matrilineal ties to mōniyawisākahikanihk. Lori is an intergenerational survivor of the Indian Residential School system and a child from the Sixties Scoop generation. 
 

AATSP Annual Conference

With keynote speaker Dr. James Skidmore, Director of the Waterloo Centre for German Studies

New approaches to teaching cultural studies online

SPAN 217 Spanish & Latin American Studies Guest

Dr. Mario Boido will be presenting about the current situation of Indigenous Peoples in Argentina, as part of SPAN 217 First Nations, Native Americans, Pueblos Originarios course. Dr. Boido is a professor in the Department of Spanish and Latin American Studies. Dr. Boido’s scholarly work currently concentrates on Argentinean memory and testimony studies.