Past Events
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Nov 7Translation Ecologies: Re-Thinking Binaries (Session 2)
Ulizes Zarazúa
Dear 4W-WIT friends and colleagues: 4W-WIT literary translation sessions and public events kick off on October 3rd with a virtual visit from Latin American writer, Ulizes Zarazúa (Mexico). Join on Zoom for Session 2 (of 3). Title: Bestiary or New Imaginary Beings Bestiario o nuevos seres imaginarios VF 4W WIT PROGRAMA OTOÑO 2025 _VISITA ESCRITORES
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Oct 28Francisco Scarano Lecture Series – Inaugural Talk
Professor Francisco Scarano
Chazen Museum Auditorium
Join us for the inaugural lecture of the Puerto Rican Studies Hub’s Francisco Scarano Lecture Series, honoring UW–Madison Professor Emeritus Francisco A. Scarano, a leading historian of Puerto Rico and the Caribbean. In his talk, “Peasants, Doctors, and Empires: Puerto Rico at the Turn of the 20th Century,” Professor Scarano will examine the relationship between jíbaro peasants, physicians, …
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Oct 28Casas vacías y la literatura latinoamericana
Brenda Navarro
206 Ingraham Hall
Please note: This talk will be given in Spanish. Brenda Navarro ha ganado diversos premios literarios en España y ha finalista al Premio de la Bienal Vargas Llosa 2023. Fue parte del International Writing Program de la Universidad de Iowa en 2023 y Visiting Assistant Professor en el MFA de Escritura creativa en la misma …
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Oct 15Connect and Share: Experimenting with AI in Language Teaching
Join us for Connect and Share: Experimenting with AI in Language Teaching, a panel with recipients of Spring 2025 instructional awards to share the outcomes of projects to pilot instructional activities or develop materials using generative AI. Following the brief presentations, attendees will be invited to participate in an open discussion. Moderated by Dianna Murphy, Language …
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Oct 3Translation Ecologies: Re-Thinking Binaries (Session 1)
Alejandro Von Düben
Dear 4W-WIT friends and colleagues: 4W-WIT literary translation sessions and public events kick off on October 3rd with a virtual visit from Latin American writer, Alejandro Von Düben (Mexico). Join on Zoom for Session 1 (of 3). Title: Reflections in Deep Waters: Literature as a Looking Glass Reflejos en el agua: la literatura como un espejo profundo VF …
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Oct 2“Caring and Careful Memory Work: Developing and Performing REWIND in Latin America and the UK.”
Professor Alison Ribeiro de Menezes of the University of Warwick (UK)
Bascom Hall 260
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Oct 1Language Teaching Philosophy Writing Workshop
1418 Van Hise Hall
The Second Language Acquisition (SLA) Student Organization is happy to invite all UW–Madison graduate students and teaching assistants in language(-related) programs as well as other language educators to a Language Teaching Philosophy Writing Workshop co-led by SLA Steering Committee members Dr. Heather Willis Allen (Dept. Of French & Italian), Dr. Karen Evans-Romaine (Dept. of German, Nordic & Slavic+), and Dr. …
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Apr 24¿De qué casa eres? (Where Do You Call Home?)
Dr. Pérez-Quiroga
Social Sciences 6203
¿De qué casa eres? (Where Do You Call Home?) “Where do you call home?” was the question repeatedly asked by the nearly 3,000 Spanish children exiled in the Soviet Union due to the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939). This is the story of one of those children, Angelita Perez, who lived from the age of 4 …
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Apr 23TA Workshop: AI Writing for the Curriculum
1120 Van Hise Hall
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Apr 4Teatro Décimo Piso presents: Ruido by Mariana de Althaus
Ruido (2016), by Mariana de Althaus, is a Peruvian satirical comedy that captures the disarray and instability of a family during the 1990s Peruvian Civil War. The play unfolds in Augusta’s house, where a desperate neighbor arrives just before the curfew, searching for her missing husband and pleading for an alarm—loudly disturbing the entire neighborhood—to be …