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Oumelbanine Nina Zhiri, professor of French at the University of California San Diego, will give a lecture entitled “Ahmad al-Hajarî, Worldmaker.” Zhiri will be hosted at UGA by the Early Modern Studies Research Group, an Andrew W. Mellon Foundation grant-funded research project in the Global Georgia Initiative of the Willson Center for Humanities and Arts. Matching funds are provided by Franklin College of Arts and…
Dr. Andries Coetzee (University of Michigan) will be the second speaker in this year’s talk series, Language Variability in Latin America, funded by the Willson Center. He will be giving a research talk and lead a more informal, interdisciplinary discussion.  Information and abstracts for both are below.   Research talk: Language, Place and Identity in Post-Colonial Societies: Three Case Studies from Afrikaans, MLC 268, 1:15-…
Lecture with Mexican historian, writer and university professor associated with the Universidad Autónoma de Chihuahua (UACH) in Mexico, Nithia Castorena‑Sáenz.    Sponsored by Romance Languages and the Willson Center for Humanities and Arts    
Lecture (in English) with Portuguese Scholar, Dr. Patrícia Vieira from the University of Coimbra, Portugal.
Lecture with Brazilian Scholar Dr. Izabel Brandão from the Federal University of Alagoas, Brazil. Email Dr. Cecília Rodrigues to request a link for the online lecture. Email: ceciliar@uga.edu
Associate Professor Dr. Antonio Pedrós‑Gascón (Colorado State University), an internationally recognized scholar of Peninsular literature, will deliver a lecture on Concepción Gimeno de Flaquer, one of the key feminist voices of the 19th‑century transatlantic world. Dr. Pedrós‑Gascón currently leads the scholarly edition of Gimeno de Flaquer’s Complete Works, a major contribution to the recovery of this influential yet underrecognized figure…
We will welcome Dominican author and screenwriter Miguel Yarull as our guest speaker. His talk, From Page to Screen: Exploring the Dominican Dream, Identity, Translation, and Film, promises to be a compelling exploration of literature and cinema.
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The Brazilian Identity Puzzle: How Euclides da Cunha Shaped the Perspective on “Sertanejos” through Prejudice—Reframed by João Guimarães Rosa’s Grande Sertão: Veredas   This presentation explores the contrasting representations of the sertanejo in Euclides da Cunha’s Os Sertões and João Guimarães Rosa’s Grande Sertão: Veredas, through the lens of Embodied Cognition—a concept from cognitive science that posits human thought is…