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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:…

March 26, 2020

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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…

March 2, 2020

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“Urban Amazonian Show & Tell”

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

February 28, 2020

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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,…

February 26, 2020

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Dissertation Defense of Cristi Vallejos “Second Language Writing Fluency: The Effects of First Language Fluency, Working Memory, and L2 Proficiency on Pauses”

The Department of Spanish and Portuguese cordially invites you to attend the dissertation defense of  Cristi Vallejos “SECOND LANGUAGE WRITING FLUENCY: THE EFFECTS OF…

February 14, 2020

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12th Graduate Portuguese and Hispanic Symposium (GRAPHSY) on February 21st

Georgetown’s Graduate Portuguese and Hispanic Symposium (GRAPHSY) is the department’s student-organized graduate conference. This year’s conference welcomes proposals…

February 12, 2020

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Dissertation Defense of Timothy McCormick, “Early and Emergent Bilinguals: The Role of Cognitive Control in the Processing of Structural Ambiguity”

The Department of Spanish and Portuguese cordially invites you to attend the dissertation defense of  Timothy J. McCormick “EARLY AND EMERGENT BILINGUALS:…

February 12, 2020

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Dissertation Defense of Ross Karlan, “Falling into Shame: The Cultural History of an Emotion in Pre-Modern Iberia”

The Department of Spanish and Portuguese cordially invites you to attend the dissertation defense of Ross Karlan, M.S. Falling into Shame: The Cultural History of an…

February 7, 2020

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Dissertation Defense of Felipe Toro, “Atlas: A Cartography of Sports in Latin American Literature (1888–1940)”

The Department of Spanish and Portuguese cordially invites you to attend the dissertation defense of  Felipe Toro, M.S. Atlas: A Cartography of…

February 7, 2020

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The Department of Spanish and Portuguese Spring 2020 Language Coffee Hours

—— The Department of Spanish and PortugueseSpring 2020 Language Coffee Hours Bate-Papo: Portuguese Coffee HourTuesday’s, 2:30 pm – 4:00 pm Hora del Cáfe:…

January 29, 2020