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Gifford Lecture:
Florencia Garramuño (Universidad de San Andrés, Buenos Aires)
"Brazilian Culture in the Age of Transgression"
Mon., April 23, 7:30-8:45pm
Olin 011
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The Langsam/Barsam/Simches Lecture:
Prof. Zeina Hakim: "The Dissident Path: The Case of Courtilz de Sandras (1644-1712)" (in English)
Tuesday, April 17, 5 pm, Cabot 702
Reception to follow in Cabot 701
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Dario Borim (UMass Dartmouth)
April 11, 6:00-8:00 pm, Barnum 104
"Antônio Carlos Jobim: Before, Within and Beyond Bossa Nova."
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Lizabel Mónica (Cuban independent scholar and poet)
April 4, 7:30-8:45 pm, Olin 011
"La cultura en Cuba hoy" y lectura de poemas
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Romance Languages Majors' Day Event
Monday, Feb. 27th
12:00-1:30 pm
Olin, 2nd floor
Come meet with Department Faculty and learn about majoring in French, Spanish, and Italian!

ROUND TABLE:
Félicie de Fauveau: "Sculpture, Gender, Politics, & Romanticism"
Nov 16th, 6:00-8:00pm, Olin 011
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José Ignacio López Soria
Oct 26, 6:00-7:15pm, Oin 012
De la filosofía colonial a la filosofía de la independencia
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Mabel Moraña (Washington University in Saint Louis)
Oct. 20, 3:00-4:30pm, Olin 213
"El Ojo que Llora": Bio-política, nudos de la memoria y arte público en el Perú de hoy
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Fifth International Conference of Peruvianists
Oct. 13-15
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Raúl Zurita (Chilean poet)
Sept. 28, 6 pm, Olin 012
Poetry Reading in Spanish
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Piero Boitani (Università La Sapienza, Roma)
Sept. 27, 6:30 pm, Braker 001
"Rome and/in Film" (in English)
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Professor Eduardo González Velázquez (Universidad de Guadalajara): "La migración de mexicanos y centroamericanos hacia Estados Unidos" (in Spanish)
Tuesday, April 19, 6 pm, Terrace Room, Paige Hall
Reception to follow in Laminan Lounge (Olin Center)
Sponsored by the Diversity Fund
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Marcony Almeida, "I Came Through Mexico: Remarkable testimonies of Brazilians who crossed the Mexico-U.S. border"
Director of Organizing and Advocacy at the Massachusetts Immigrants and Refugees Advocacy Coalition (MIRA) and co-editor of The Brazilian Journal Magazine, a statewide bilingual publication.
April 11, 2011, 6pm, Olin 011
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The Langsam/Barsam/Simches Lecture
Prof. Millicent Marcus (Yale University): "Return of the Repressed: Italian Cinema and Holocaust Memory" (in English)
Monday, March 14, 6 pm, Olin 012
Reception to follow in Laminan Lounge (Olin Center)
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Prof. Rodolfo Cerrón-Palomino (Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú): "Contactos y conflictos lingüísticos en los Andes: el castellano y las lenguas indígenas" (in Spanish)
Thursday, March 3, 6 pm, Olin 011
Sponsored by the Charles Smith Fund
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Richard Wolin: "The Wind from the East: French Intellectuals, the Cultural Revolution, and the Legacy of the 1960s"
Friday, Dec. 10, Noon-2 pm, Crane Room, Paige Hall (lunch will be provided)
Richard Wolin is Distinguished Professor of History, Comparative Literature, and Political Science at the City University of New York Graduate Center. His previous books include Heidegger’s Children and The Seduction of Unreason and he writes regularly in Dissent, the Nation, and The New Republic.
Co-sponsored by the Department of Romance Languages and the Center for the Humanities at Tufts (CHaT).

"Nahuatl Language Revitalization in Mexican Higher Education: the IDIEZ project" (in English)
Dr. John Sullivan, Professor of Nahuatl Language and Culture, Universidad de Zacatecas, Mexico, and director of the IDIEZ Project
Monday, Nov. 15th, 4:30, Tisch 316
Sponsored by the Department of Romance Languages and the Toupin Fund, Office of the Dean of Undergraduate Education

The Gifford Lecture: Clayton Eshleman, renowned American poet:
A Bilingual Reading
Tuesday, October 19th, 6:30 pm, Cabot Center 205
The Romance Languages Annual Gifford Lecture presents Clayton Eshleman, renowned American poet and translator of the Complete Poetry of César Vallejo. He will read from his own work and Vallejo's "The Miners Left the Mine..." in homage to the rescued Chilean miners.
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