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Written and directed by Marcos Colón, Beyond Fordlândia (2017, 75 min) presents an environmental account of Henry Ford’s Amazon experience decades after its failure. The story addressed by the film begins in 1927, when the Ford Motor Company attempted to establish rubber plantations on the Tapajós River, a primary tributary of the Amazon. This film addresses …
March 13, 2018 The Associate Director of LACIS, Alberto Vargas, was a recipient of the first “The Kaleidoscope Faculty Support Award”, in recognition for his outstanding and unconditional support to the Graduate Student Conference of the Department of Spanish & Portuguese.
February 8, 2018 This fellowship will allow him to complete a book examining race in Cuba, other Latin American countries, and the United States. Congratulations, Víctor!
January 31, 2018 Professor Guillermina De Ferrari has been awarded a four-year Senior Fellowship at the Institute for Research in the Humanities. IRH Senior Fellowships are awarded for innovative research in the humanities, and carry four semesters of leave from teaching over a two-year period. Beginning in Fall 2018, Professor De Ferrari will be in …
January 9, 2018 The Department of Spanish & Portuguese is thrilled to announce that Brianna Butera has been named a recipient of a Capstone PhD Teaching Award. She was nominated for this prestigious, highly-competitive award because she is on track to defend her dissertation this academic year and because she has defined teaching excellence throughout …
December 5, 2017 New York, NY – The Modern Language Association of America today announced its twenty-seventh annual Katherine Singer Kovacs Prize for an outstanding book published in English or Spanish in the field of Latin American and Spanish literatures and cultures. The winner is Nancy J. Gates Madsen, of Luther College, for her book …
November 6, 2017 After Teatro Línea de Sombra (Mexico) came to Madison for a workshop and to perform Baños Roma in October, 2017, a number of students and faculty made the trip to Chicago to see their staging of Amarillo. It was a fortuitous chance to glimpse an expanded view of the group’s dynamic practice. …