The Lusophone Film Festival is underway! Today is day #2 and we are showing "Snu" by Patrícia Sequeira! Come to ILC S350 for FREE pizza, drinks, and a fun movie! @UMassAmherst@UMassHFA#filmfestival#Trending#tonight
Over the last two months, we have been organizing programming with Amherst District Schools to make the language and culture of Spanish-speaking people in our local community more prevalent and accessible. (1/5)
If you would like to participate actively in our "Spanish in the Amherst Community" programming, please communicate in English OR in Spanish with one of our co-directors. (4/5)
As part of their studies in the SpanPort Program at UMass Amherst, graduate students Jessica Beasley and Laurieny Vilela, along with Professor Tal Goldfajn, produced a collaborative translation of the classic Brazilian picture book Exercícios de ser criança by Manoel de Barros.
As part of the course Brazil in Translation (UMass Amherst, Spanish and Portuguese Program) the students together with Professor Tal Goldfajn produced a collaborative English translation of the classic Brazilian picture book O Menino Maluqinho by Ziraldo. (1/2)
Participants include experts on Lorca’s theatrical practice and theater practitioners. All sessions will be live streamed.
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The Universidad Complutense de Madrid commemorates the 90th anniversary of the establishment of La Barraca, a college theater traveling troupe directed by Federico García Lorca. (2/3)
Celia Sainz has been awarded the 2021-2022 NACS dissertation grant. The fellowship, made possible by the Institute Ramon Llul, intends to support her doctoral research in the field of Catalan Studies. (1/5)
Her project focuses on several Catalan productions, like La plaga (dir. Neus Ballús, 2013), Truman (dir. Cesc Gay, 2015), Malamente (ROSALÍA, 2018), and O que arde (dir. Óliver Laxe, 2019), among others. (4/5)
In her work, she joins ecocriticism and affect theory to analyze how different visual works made in the last decade present distinctive emotions and reactions caused by the awareness of living in a world irrevocably harmed by human-made climate change. (3/5)
In her work, she joins ecocriticism and affect theory to analyze how different visual works made in the last decade present distinctive emotions and reactions caused by the awareness of living in a world irrevocably harmed by human-made climate change. (3/4)
Celia is a fifth-year PhD student in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at UMass and is working toward the competition of the dissertation project, “Imaginarios ecopáticos: culturas visuales ibéricas en el Antropoceno.” (2/4)