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2026
January 2026
- MLK Jr. Lecture: Jan 15th at 4:30-6pm in the RLL Commons
- Translating the Frontier: Just War and Free Circulation of the Roads of Colonial Mexico, A Hear Here: Humanities up Close event with Daniel Nemser: Jan 27th 12:30-1:30pm, 1022 202 S. Thayer
February 2026
- RLL Digital Accessibilty Workshop: Feb 2nd 3-4pm, MLB Commons (4314)
- Italian Classics on Campus Film Screening Series: Feb 10th at 7pm, 2435 NQ
- 13 Latine Research Week: Feb 16th - Feb 19th
- ShareFair Winter 2026: "Sharing Our Teaching Voices in an AI World": Feb 19th 1:30-3:30pm, in RLL Commons (4314 MLB)
- RLL Digital Accessibility Workshop: Feb 23rd 3-4pm, in RLL Commons (4314 MLB)
- RLL Social Raven's Club Event: Feb 25th 4-6pm, 207 S Main St
2025
December 2025
- RLL Faculty Retreat: Friday, December 5th, 1:00-4:00 PM in the Rackham East Conference Room
November 2025
- Translate-A-Thon: November 7th at 5:00pm - 10:00pm and Nomvember 8th at 9:00am - 10:00pm at LRC | 1500 North Quad. Please register.
- Herbal Tea Making: Thursday, November 13th, 1:30-3:30 pm in the RLL Commons
- ShareFair: November 18th, 10:30 - 12:30 in the RLL CommonsLecture and Workshop featuring Victoria Saramago (University of Chicago): November 19th (lecture at 4pm) and 20th (workshop at 11am) in the RLL Commons
October 2025
- Study Abroad Info Sessions: CGIS Spanish 230 and Spanish 232 Program Offerings
- Charles F. Fraker Graduate Student Conference
- Genealogies of the Anthropocene featuring Iván Torres Apablaza
- Día De Los Muertos Community Altar
- Study Abroad Info Sessions: CGIS Advanced Spanish Program Offerings
- Romance Languages Major/Minor Info Fair
- Dia De Los Muertos Community Altar
- Study Abraod Info Sessions: CGIS Advanced Spanish Progarm Offerings
September 2025
August 2025
April 2025
March 2025
- Subjunctive Aesthetics: Mexican Cultural Production in the Era of Climate Change Lecture
- Extractivism Workshop
- II Cineforum: Italian Classics on Campus
- 2025 CLIFF Conference: "Science-Literature-technology: rupture, relation, constellation"
- The Politics of Theater: A Conversation with Professor Juliet Guzzetta (MSU) and Italian Author and Actor Giuliana Musso
- MEMS Lecture Series Sacred and Profane: Andean Guacas and Colonial Extractions, 1569-1636
- Worlds Within: Exploring the Intersection of Humanities, Medicine, and the Arts
- The Return of the Contemporary: The Latin American Novel in the End Times Workshop
- The Logistics of Counter-Revolution: Fast Circulation, Slow Violence, and the Transpacific Empire of Circulation
- The Agrochemical Gothic: Pesticide Writing in South America
February 2025
- Where are the Black Students in Language Education? Critical Race Pedagogy for Social Justice in Language Education
- Latine Research Week 2025
- Workshop/Lecture: Weeping Trees' Tales: Narratives of Hevea Brasiliensis, the Global Rubber Boom, and the Political Ecology of Empire
January 2025
- A Luncheon with RLL Alumna Ashley Mulcahy: How Studying Italian Opens Unexpected Doors
- Indigenous Dispossession and Territorial Recovery in Contemporary Brazil: An Overview of the Tupinamba Case in Bahia State
- II Cineforum: Italian Classics on Campus
2024
December 2024
November 2024
- "Identity Potpourri" Photography Exhibition Opening Reception
- My Name is Ludmilla Mary
- Dating Apps: Space of Vulnerability and Terror
- Revisiting Architecture in Translation
- De/Limiting Translation
- Study Abroad Info Sessions: CGIS Italian 230 Program in Siena, Italy
- WCEE Roundtable. Europe's Polarized Political Landscape: Discussion on European Elections
- I Vitelloni Film Screening
October 2024
- CGIS Study Abroad Fair
- Miracolo a Milano Film Screening
- LACS Indigenous Traditions of Resistance to Extractivism Series. Lecture and Workshop with Lorena Kab'nal
September 2024
- Riso Amaro Film Screening
- MEMS Lecture Series "The Body of the Merchant: Art and Experience in the Commercial Revolution
- Danses et musiques traditionnelles: Traditional dance and music
- Non-Western Marxisms: Challenges and Opportunities of a Concept
May 2024
April 2024
- 2024 Betty Ch'maj Distinguished American Studies Lecture
- The Lombroso Galaxy in South America
- Italian Film Festival
March 2024
- "Death and Its Afterlives: De/composing Boundaries" Conference
- Latinx Research Week 2024
- Los Hijos Film Collective
- Program in International and Comparative Studies Annual International Studies Alumni Career Panel and Reception
- Exhibit tour: A Gathering
- Winter 2024 MEMS Lecture. Since Time Immemorial: Managing Difference through Custom from Medieval Iberia to Colonial Mexico
February 2024
- Imagination or Insurrection: Reparations and Racial Value
- Thinking with Serfs in Late Medieval Poetry
- Wit(h)nessing Aids
- RLL MLK Jr. Annual Lecture: Spain, Race, and the Third Reich: On Carlos Greykey
January 2024
2023
December 2023
November 2023
- Apalache? Appalachia? The Talimali Band of Apalachee Indians, Twenty-First Century Colonialism, and the Struggle for Tribal Sovereignty
- Freedom Dreaming New Worlds: a participatory theater workshop
October 2023
- CGIS Study Abroad Fair
- Transcultural Studies Virtual Info Session
- 2023 Charles F. Fraker Graudate Conference
- Exposure (E. Levinas, F. Moten, K. Lamar)
September 2023
- The Andalus of the Possible
- Anticolonial and Antiracist Approaches to Language Instruction
- 2023 IRWG/Rackham Community of Scholars Symposium
- "Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Schwa?" Exploring the Possibilities of a Gender-Inclusive Italian
April 2023
- The Right not to Gestate
- A Reception to Celebrate the Careers of Professor William Paulson and Dr. Yannick Viers
- Italian Film Festival USA - Metro Detroit
- Queering Identity: A Conversation with 2Fik
March 2023
- 27th Annual Comparative Literature Intra-Student Faculty Forum
- A Storm Was Coming
- Donia Human Rights Center Lecture Reflections on Chile's Constitutional Process and the Proposal for Pluri-Nationality made by Indigenous People
- Elements and Edges: Inhabitable and Uninhabitable Worlds in Medieval Encyclopedias
February 2023
- 2023 Robertson Lecture
- Interested in Teaching a World Language? Join us!
- Beyond the Rhetoric of Power: Feminist Horizons to Create Other Senses of Justice Beyond the Carceral State
- Language, Religion, and Indigenous Identity
- Nam Center Colloquium Series Migrant Conversions: Money, Religion, and Global Projects of Peruvians in South Korea
January 2023
2022
September 2022
- Race and Racism, Comparatively: A Fall 2022 Series
- Afro-Latinos: 500 Years of Glory and Greatness
- Exposed Bodies: Feminist Activism and Performing Arts Since and Beyond the Chilean Revolt
October 2022
- Hear, Here: Humanities Up Close
- Transcultural Studies Virtual Info Session
- Will Bullfighting Survive the Decade?
- Romance Languages Major/Minor Info Fair
November 2022
Escritura tras la persona: Lectura Facil
Frontiers of Justice: Jews & Muslims in Christians Iberian legislation, 11-12th centuries
December 2022
2015
December 2015
November 2015
- Lusophone Film Festival "Bobô"
- Lusophone Film Festival "Horse Money" (Cavalo Dinheiro)
- Lusophone Film Festival "White Out, Black In" (Branco Sai, Preto Fica)
- Lusophone Film Festival "Sacred Bush" (Kadjike)
- Weaving Life in the Andes Photo Exhibit
October 2015
- Weaving Life in the Andes Photo Exhibit
- The Making of Homo Oeconomicus, or, Reading the Cultural Mechanics of Neoliberalism in Contemporary Spain
- Graduate Student Lunch Workshop with Jon Snyder
- Lusophone Film Festival "Obra"
- Latin America and the Crisis of Hegemony: Illiteracy, Affect, Posthegemony
September 2015
- Lusophone Film Festival "Casa Grande or the Ballad of Poor Jean"
- Freedom and the Radical Baroque, or, Reading Sor Juana with Spinoza
- Graduate Student Brunch Workshop with Anthony Geist
- Madriz es mucho Madrid': The Capital Role of Graphic Arts in Identity Formation
- Screening: "Souls Without Borders: The Untold Story of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade"
April 2015
- Speaking of End Times: Prophecy and Messianism in Early Modern Eurasia
- A ‘City of Penitence': Narrating the Apocalyptic Voice of San Francisco Solano
- Tradition and Transition in the Spanish Avant-Garde
- Explaining Mussolini: Hypocrisy, Impotence, and Rhetoric
- Book Presentation and Discussion with Pedro Porbén
March 2015
- Comic Karambolage
- Between Memory and History: Oral History and the Challenge of the Memory Boom
- 2015 Major/Minor Expo
- Famous / Infamous: Exploring Reputation in Early Modern Spain
- Understanding second language fluency development: Comparisons with first language speech and with listener perceptions
- 20th Annual Charles F. Fraker Conference "What Do Social Movements Do?"
2014
November 2014
- Teaching Dictatorship: The Politics of History and Memory in Brazilian Schools Today
- 33rd Hayward Keniston Graduate Student Workshop
- 33rd Hayward Keniston Lecture: Why Epistemologies of the South?
- Lunch & Romance
- Retrospective WWI Exhibit
October 2014
- Doing Religious Studies A Graduate Student Workshop with William A. Christian, Jr.
- Graduate Student Workshop with Sergio Villalobos-Ruminott
- Italy and the Other: identità (trans)nazionali e confini della cittadinanza nella scrittura migrante
- Observaciones sobre el aparato estético: formas de la imaginación en América Latina hoy
- Toward a Progressive Cosmopolitanism: The Reconstruction of Man in Gramsci’s Philosophy
- Italy and the European Union: A Love/Hate Story in Three Acts
- The Mozart-DaPonte Trilogy of Masterpieces: Le nozze di Figaro, Don Giovanni and Cosi fan tutte
- World War I Posters in the History of Visual Propaganda in France
May 2014
April 2014
- Screening of "The Women Workers' War"
- Screening of "Gli Equilibristi"
- Screening of "Benvenuto Presidente"
- Parables of Coercion at the End of Islamic Spain
- Graduate Student Workshop with Seth Kimmel
March 2014
February 2014
- Photography in Crisis
- Weaving Way of Life in Peru - Opening Reception
- Weaving Way of Life in Peru - Photography Exhibit
January 2014
32nd Annual Keniston Lecture: Goya, Modernity, Aesthetic Critique
2013
December 2013
November 2013
- Lusophone Film Festival "Children's Republic" (Republica di mininus)
- Lunch & Romance
- Lusophone Film Festival "Virgin Margarida" (Virgem margarida)
- Ultramar, Ultratumba: Spiritism, Literature, and Politics in Nineteenth-Century Puerto Rico
October 2013
- Lusophone Film Festival "Passerby" (Transeunte)
- Lusophone Film Festival "Tabu" (Tabu)
- Spanish Negreros and Modern Literature
- Verdi at 200: A Celebration of His Music, Life, and Times
- Heroes (and Anti-Heroes) in Boccaccio (and Beyond)
- Manuscript and Print Culture in the Italian Renaissance
- Culture and Vernacular of Early Italian Engravings
September 2013
- Lusophone Film Festival “O som ao redor” (Neighboring Sounds)
- Lusophone Film Festival
- Lusophone Film Festival “Girimunho” (Swirl)
May 2013
April 2013
- Film: I Primi della lista
- Film: Romanzo di una strage
- Politica Comun
- Terrorism and the Years of Lead in Italian Film
- Lunch & Romance
March 2013
- Performing the Chicomexochitl Ceremony in Rural Nahua Communities of Mexico
- Her Hands Were Rough and Smelled of Dead Things: Louisa Ermelino’s “The Black Madonna”
- Introductory Nahuatl Workshop
- Ellis Island: The Madness of Migration in Two Epics with the Same Lines
- Introductory Nahuatl Workshop
- Mexico's First Lynching: Crime, Moral Panic, Dependency
- 31st Keniston Lecture "Taking Action and Sharing Responsibility for Mexico’s Violence"
- Re-Orientations: The Worlding of Marco Polo
- February 2013
- Film: From the Land to the Table (¿Qué Culpa Tiene el Tomate?)
- Film: Southern District (Zona Sur)
- Film: Undertow (Contracorriente)
- Film: I Travel Because I Have to, I Come Back because I Love You/Viajo porque preciso, volto porque te amo (2009)
January 2013
2012
November 2012
- The Ethics of Medieval Translation
- The (medieval) Andalusian Cosmos and the (modern) Arabic Novel: Translation and Transculturation.
- Between Myth and Logos: Miguel Espinosa's Political Theology of Francoism
- Turns and Returns, Envois/Renvois: the Postal Effect in Recent Spanish Filmmaking
- The Cultural and Intellectual Life of Northern Morocco during the Spanish Protectorate (1912-1956) Tradition and the Dynamics of a Relative Modernization
October 2012
- Rackham Centennial Alumni Lecture
- Make it Official: Declare w/ RLL
- Francis the Holy Jester
- What's Andalusi about Andalusi Music? On Index and Origin in Urban North Africa.
- Romance Languages Info Session for Undergraduates
- Sex and Justice Conference
- La settimana della lingua italiana (Italian Week)
September 2012
May 2012
April 2012
- RLL Spring Reception for Graduating Concentrators
- Movie: The Wages of Fear (France, 1953)
- Double Feature Documentary: La femme invisible (The Invisible Woman) (Franco-Cameroonian, 2009) Film: Calypso at Dirty Jim’s (Franco-Cameroonian, 2010)
- Movie: The Salt of Life (Italy, 2011)
- Lecture: What's So New About the New Multicultural Brazil?
March 2012
