Archive: Announcements

• The Portuguese Proficiency Exam

  The Portuguese Proficiency Exam will be on Friday, April 24: from 10:00-12:00PM.  The exam will be via Zoom, and students must sign up in advance to secure a time slot. Please, send an email to Pr

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• The Department of Spanish and Portuguese Spring 2020 ONLINE Coffee Hour

  The Department of Spanish and PortugueseSpring 2020 ONLINE Coffee Hour Join us online to practice your language skills and connect with others in the Department! Hora del Cáfe: Spanish

  Categories: Announcements, Events Tags: coffee hour, hora del cafe, language learning, spanish

• Plants that Keep the Bad vibes Away: Boundary Maintenance & Human-Plant Communication in Urban Amazonia

  Across Amazonia, people keep plants in their home gardens to ward off unwanted presences--from bad vibes and thieves to malevolent spirits and disease. In this talk, I show that such plants are not a

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• “Urban Amazonian Show & Tell”

  Nicholas Kawa, Professor of Anthropology, The Ohio State University April 2nd, 2020 ICC 219B3:30 PM - 5:00PM At times it feels like Amazonian scholars are destined to grapple with the same t

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• The Routledge Handbook of Study Abroad Research wins 3rd place for the 2020 Best Book Award by The CIES Study Abroad & International Students SIG Awards Committee

  The CIES Study Abroad & International Students SIG Awards Committee has confirmed that The Routledge Handbook of Study Abroad Research and Practice has been selected as the 3rd place winner for the 2

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• “Intervocalic /s/ voicing in Spanish: Sociophonetic insights from communities of language contact”

  Event Description:Though the variable production of the Spanish voiceless alveolar fricative (/s/) is perhaps the most widely researched speech feature in Hispanic Linguistics, the vast majority of s

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• Summer Study Abroad Applications for Barcelona, Lisbon, and Quito due February 13th

  Applications for the summer study abroad programs in Barcelona, Lisbon, and Quito are due February 13th, 2020. For further information on the study abroad programs offered through the Department of S

  Category: Announcements Tags: barcelona, lisbon, quito, study abroad, summer study abroad

• Dissertation Defense of Angela Donate

  The Department of Spanish and Portuguese cordially invites you to the dissertation defense of Angela Donate, M.S. titled Cognitive Task Complexity, Foreign Language Anxiety and Task Performance in L2

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