Archived Events

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

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

• Information Session: Accelerated Master's Degree Program in Transcultural  Studies 

August 2025

• Study Abroad Drop-in Advising Sessions: CGIS Spanish-taught Programs - Winter 2026

April 2025

• Study Abroad in Granada Winter 2026
• CGIS Advising Fair
• Italian Film Festival USA

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

December 2024

• French 230 in Grenoble Info Session

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

• Speech and Language Pathologist Kira Griggs

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

• Winter 2024 MEMS Lecture. Mass Expulsion in Medieval Europe

December 2023

• "Death and It's Afterlives: De/composing Boundaries" Conference

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 

• 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

• The Premodern Colloquium. Imperial Logistics and Comparative Racialization in Colonial Mexico 

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

Dialogue with Silvia Federici

Escritura tras la persona: Lectura Facil

Frontiers of Justice: Jews & Muslims in Christians Iberian legislation, 11-12th centuries

December 2022

• Conversation with Teresa Margolles
• Complex Systems Presents the Annual Nobel Symposium 

April 2016

• Ceremony & Reception for Graduating Minors in RLL
• Ceremony & Reception for Graduating Majors in RLL
• II North American Symposium of Galician Studies: Academic Renewal, Artistic Communication and Social Innovation

December 2015

• Lusophone Film Festival "Tattoo" (Tatuagem)

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

The Ethical Turn

• 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?"

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

• Get Rhythm: Comorbidity between Dyslexia, SLI and Dysgraphia

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

• 52nd Ann Arbor Film Festival - Costa da Morte
• Lunch & Romance

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

December 2013

• Lusophone Film Festival "The Great Kilapy" (O grande kilapy)

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

• Spring Reception for Graduating Majors in RLL
• RLL Open House for Graduating Minors

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

• Film: The Cinema Hold Up (Asalto al Cine) (2011)
• Building Memory: The Brazilian National Union of Students under Dictatorship

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

• "Translating Antiquity"
• Prof Rita Copeland Lecture

May 2012

• Spanish Storytime in AADL!

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

• Movie: Harvest (France, 1937)
• Lecture: The Different Characteristics of Italian Thought 
• Movie: Crazy Horse (USA/France, 2011)

March 2009

• Getting to Know RLL: Romance Languages & Literatures Concentrations and Minors Forum