Archive: literature and culture

• Portuguese Literature, Hunting, and the African Natural Environment Under and After Colonialism

  Tuesday, November 19thWhite Gravenor 20412:30 pm -1:45 pm This talk explores the interconnections between animal hunting and the spread and fall of the African empire in Portuguese literature.

  Category: Events Tags: colonialism, event, events, literature, literature and culture, natural environment, portuguese

• Repatriating the CID: The Currency of Cultural Patrimony

  The Department of Spanish and Portuguese PresentsRepatriating the CID: The Currency of Cultural Patrimony November 7th, 20194:30 PMICC 450 Reception to Follow Co-sponsored by the Global Medi

  Category: Events Tags: event, events, literature, literature and culture, spain, spanish

• Looking for Juan Ruiz: Remediating the Libro de Buen Amor

  Join the Department of Spanish and Portuguese for Looking for Juan Ruiz: Remediating the Libro de Buen Amor, a discussion with Prof. Michael Solomon.  Prof. Solomon specializes in the remediat

  Category: Events Tags: culture, event, events, literature, literature and culture, medieval studies, spanish

• La vida encarnada: El principio de la fuerza vital en la cultura española del siglo XX

  La vida encarnada: El principio de la fuerza vital en la cultura española del siglo XX October 2nd, 20192:00 pm - 2:50 pmICC 450 This lecture will examine the central notion in 20th-century

  Category: Events Tags: event, events, literature and culture, modernity, philosophy, spain, spanish

• Documentaries, Victims, and Reparation: Investigative Journalism as a Tool for Recovering Historical Memory with Montse Armengou

  Documentaries, Victims, and Reparation: Investigative Journalism as a Tool for Recovering Historical Memory with Montse ArmengouFriday, September 27th4:00 PM - 6:00 PM Location: ICC 462 Montse

  Category: Events Tags: documentary, event, events, film, literature and culture, spain, spanish

• Georgetown GRAD Application for 2020 Admissions Cycle Live

  The Georgetown GRAD application for the 2020 admissions cycle is open for new and returning users.  After you create an account, you are able to access the application form which may be completed in

  Category: News Tags: admissions, graduate, graduate student, linguistics, literature and culture, news

• Talk with Portuguese poet Ana Luísa Amaral

  Organized by the Instituto Camões, the Library of Congress, and Georgetown's Department of Spanish and Portuguese. Amaral is one of the most exciting Portuguese poets, whose work has been describe

  Category: Events Tags: event, events, literature and culture, poetry, portugal, portuguese

• Ph.D. Candidate Looks to Build on Narratives of Enslaved Muslims in the Americas

  Rahma Maccarone (G’23), who is pursuing a Ph.D. in Spanish literature and cultural studies, grew up in Somalia hearing rich oral narratives about heroines and heroes of war and tales of everyday life

  Category: Grants and Awards Tags: americas, award, awards, enslavement, healy fellowship, literature and culture, slavery, spanish

• Arts and Politics in Brazil Today: A Conversation with Moises Patricio

  Join the Department of Spanish and Portuguese for a conversation with Brazilian artist Moises Patricio. We will be discussing his work of art and its relation with social media, every day life in São

  Category: Events Tags: arts, brazil, event, events, literature and culture, portuguese, race

• Imaginaries of Connectivity: From the Invention of America to the Transpacific Indies, A Talk with Prof. Ricardo Padrón

  In this talk, Prof. Ricardo Padrón challenges established narratives about the sixteenth-century invention of America as a continent separate from Asia, tracing the various ways in which the European

  Category: Events Tags: america, cartography, empire, event, events, imperialism, literature and culture