Past Events
Spanish & Portuguese Annual Graduate Student Conference
Encuentros: Confluencia y colisión en los mundos hispánicos
543 Cherpack Lounge
All are invited and welcome to attend the Department of Spanish and Portuguese’s annual graduate student conference, which will be held on February 27th and 28th. This year, the theme is Encuentros: Confluencia y colisión en los mundos hispánicos. We are pleased to announce that…
(UN)MAKING THE (ABYSSAL)WOMB
A Symposium Centering Afro-Latinas' Roles in Culture, Inheritance, and the "Monstrous" Gestation of Worlds Otherwise
543 Cherpack Lounge
Indigenous and Imperial Histories: A Roundtable
College Hall 209
Hosted by the Department of History, Center for Latin American and LatinX Studies and Department of Spanish and Portuguese This panel brings together scholars of the Iberian world to explore the intersections of Indigenous and imperial histories across the early modern period…
Creative Conservation as Anti-Fascism (1920s-1940s)
543 Williams Hall
Cherpack Conference Room
Miguel Caballero (Northwestern U) presents his recent book The Monument of Tomorrow (PSUP, 2025), shortlisted for the 2026 Morey Book Award by the College Art Association. This is a study of how radicals (liberals, communists, and anarchists) transformed an aesthetic and…
Discussing the State of Black Citizenship in Andean Countries
Cherpack Lounge
543 Williams Hall
Professor Mariela Noles Cotito (Professor of Political Sciences at Universidad del Pacífico, Peru) has a multidisciplinary background in Law, Political Science and inequality studies focused mainly on the Latin American region. Trained extensively in Peru and in the United States…
Documentary Screening of Saravá Shalom
Discussion with filmmaker Alex Minkin
Fisher-Bennett Hall, Room 401
The Department of Spanish and Portuguese presents a screening of the film Saravá Shalom, followed by a panel discussion with filmmaker Alex Minkin, Dr. André Feitosa, and Dr. Andrea Kogen. This event is co-sponsored by the Department of Cinema and Media Studies and the Center for…
Film Screening & Discussion
En la Caliente: Tales of a Reggaeton Warrior
The Max Kade Center
RM 329-A
3401 Walnut Street
Philadelphia, PA 19104
Join director Fabien Pisani together with Professors Marc Perry and Odette Casamayor-Cisneros for a screening and discussion of En la Caliente: Tales of a Reggaeton Warrior, an award-winning documentary that offers a compelling portrait of Cuban youth, music, and social rebellion…
Wolf Conference 2025
Course Projections: Film, Pedagogy, Freedom
Van Pelt Library, Class of 78 Pavilion
(Please carry photo ID to enter the library.)
Join us on Saturday, 18 October 2025 for a day of conversation at the intersection of film, pedagogy, and freedom. This gathering is organized in conjunction with the Open Access publication of Course Projections: Film, Pedagogy, Freedom, eds. Kartik Nair and Karen Redrobe…
Penn Authors Series talk with James Mesiti
Penn Bookstore
3601 Walnut Street
Second Floor
James Mesiti and Marta J. Sanchis Ferrer, who are current Ph.D. students at The University of Pennsylvania in discussion about: Petal / Transport What happens when questioning how language is used and significance is given become the primary lens by which the poetic word decides…
