UCLA Department of Spanish and Portuguese

You are cordially invited to attend the UCLA Department of Spanish and Portuguese Undergraduate Class of 2021 Virtual Commencement Celebration! We are honored and excited to announce special guest, community leader Dolores Huerta will be joining our celebration! Please join us with family and friends for our online celebration. Link to Dolores Huerta Foundation: https://doloreshuerta.org/... *** Event link will be released on Friday, June 11th to Faculty and Staff *

Congratulations to our Student Laura Czerniecki for receiving The Dolores Huerta Community Service Award!! Laura Czerniecki is an international student whose passion for Latin America and languages stems from her Brazilian heritage and multicultural upbringing. At UCLA, she has received departmental honors and pursued community engagement and professional opportunities that service the Latinx community. Under the guidance of Doctora Suhr, she recently completed a project inve...stigating the disproportionate impacts of human trafficking on the Latinx community through the lens of her experience as an Anti-Trafficking intern at the International Rescue Committee. Laura is currently finishing her Bachelor of Arts in Spanish and Portuguese, after which she will pursue law school. Congrats Laura! The Dolores Huerta Community Service Award Dolores Huerta is a civil rights activist and community organizer. She has worked for labor rights and social justice for more than 50 years. In 1962, she and Cesar Chavez founded the United Farm Workers union. She served as vice president and played a critical role in many of the union’s accomplishments for four decades. In 2002, she received the Puffin/Nation prize for Creative Citizenship, which she used to establish the Dolores Huerta Foundation (DHF). DHF is connecting groundbreaking community-based organizing to state and national movements to register and educate voters, advocate for education reform, bring about infrastructure improvements in low-income communities, advocate for greater equality for the community and create strong leadership development. She has received numerous awards, including The Eleanor Roosevelt Human Rights Award from President Bill Clinton in 1998. In 2012, President Obama bestowed Huerta with The Presidential Medal of Freedom, the highest civilian honor in the United States. The Dolores Huerta Community Service Award is a way to acknowledge our students’ involvement with the Latinx communities at UCLA and the greater Los Angeles area through the Community-engaged Learning Program. This inaugural award will be presented by Dolores Huerta, at our End of the Year Online Celebration Ceremony on Saturday, June 12th, 2021.

The UCLA Spanish and Portuguese Department cordially invites you to attend the 4th Annual Nahuatl Conference at UCLA". This free webinar features new research and teaching on Mesoamerica by 3 native speakers of the Nahuatl language, 3 advanced students at UCLA, 4 scholars from Mexico and Los Angeles, and 3 high school teachers from the LA Unified School District. Nahuatl is the language spoken by the Mexica or Aztecs, and it is still spoken today by about a million people in... Mexico. Presentations will be in Nahuatl, Spanish, and English or a combination of the 3 languages. To register please visit this link: https://bit.ly/3idw03C Date: June 4th, 2021 Time: 9:00 A.M. - 4:00 P.M

Congratulations to our Student Kathia Berenice Rosas Diaz for receiving The Richard Reeve Spring Essay Prize on Spanish American Literature and Culture!! I’m Kathia Berenice Rosas Díaz and will be graduating with a B.A. in Spanish and History with a minor in Chicana/o Studies. I will be pursuing a master’s degree in Latin American Studies here at UCLA starting in the fall. I am a Mexican immigrant, the daughter of hard-working parents, and the granddaughter of a Purépecha wom...an whom I admire most. Her story, the histories of indigenous people of Latin America, and my migration experience inspired my passion for literature and hidden histories of Latin America, which I hope to teach to future generations someday. Soy Kathia Berenice Rosas Díaz y estoy a punto de terminar la licenciatura en Español e Historia con una segunda concentración en Chicana/o Studies. En el otoño empezaré un programa de posgrado aquí en UCLA para recibir la Maestría de Estudios Latinoamericanos. Soy inmigrante mexicana, hija de padres trabajadores y nieta de una mujer Purépecha, la persona que más admiro. Su historia, al igual que las historias de la gente indígena de Latinoamérica y mi experiencia como migrante inspiraron mi pasión por la literatura y la historia no-oficial de América Latina y quisiera educar a las futuras generaciones en estos temas. Congrats Kathia! Richard Reeve Essay Prize Essay on Spanish American literature or culture Professor Richard Reeve (1935-1992) received his BA from the University of Utah and his Ph.D. from the University of Illinois. He taught at Ohio State University from 1966 until 1968, when he joined the faculty of UCLA’s Department of Spanish and Portuguese, where he remained until the end of his life. His scholarly interests focused primarily on twentieth-century Spanish American literature, with a special focus on contemporary Mexican writers. He published numerous articles on Mexican literature, and he was the co-editor, with Professor Gerardo Luzuriaga, of Los clásicos del teatro hispanoamericano.

Congratulations to our Student Emily Vose for receiving The Carroll B. Johnson Outstanding Senior Award of Special Distinction!! Emily Vose is a first-generation, transfer student from Atascadero, CA. She transferred from Cuesta College after earning her Associate’s Degree in Spanish. Upon transferring to UCLA, she became involved with the Transfer Student Center, leading the summer development of the Transfer Mentorship Program alongside a cohort of 3 Mentor Leads. She will ...be graduating Summa Cum Laude with a B.A. in Spanish with a minor in Chicano/a Studies. After graduation, Emily will be teaching Secondary Spanish with Teach for America while earning her Master’s Degree in Teaching from the University of Washington. Congrats Emily! Carroll B. Johnson Outstanding Senior Award Special Distinction Professor Carroll B. Johnson (1938-2007) received his B.A. in Spanish from UCLA in 1960 and his Ph.D. in Romance Languages and Literatures from Harvard University in 1966. He joined the UCLA faculty in 1964 as an acting assistant professor. He became a full professor in 1976 and continued teaching until his death. A Los Angeles native who spent his entire academic career at UCLA, Carroll was president of the Cervantes Society of America from 1997 to 2000, editor of the scholarly journal Cervantes, and Chair of the UCLA Spanish department for an unprecedented 13 years in three separate tenures. He was an influential expert on the Spanish Golden Age known for insightful and groundbreaking research, particularly in his 1983 book Madness and Lust: A Psychoanalytical Approach to Don Quixote. He later wrote from a socioeconomic perspective in Cervantes and the Material World. Professor Johnson also excelled in the classroom, and his students praised his unfailingly generous support of their research and the demanding academic standards he set for both them and himself. He set the benchmark for academic excellence, service to the profession, university service, teaching, and collegiality.

The UCLA Spanish and Portuguese Department cordially invites you to attend "GOAL's Halloween Netflix Party" Visit this link to RSVP: https://bit.ly/35RRpHQ Date: Thursday, October 29th, 2020... Time: 5:00 - 7:00 PM See more

The UCLA Spanish and Portuguese Department cordially invites you to attend "(IN)VISIBLES: Personal Identity and Social Inclusion" presented by the UCLA Latin American Institute, the UCLA Center for Brazilian Studies, and UCLA Department of Spanish and Portuguese. Date: Tuesday, November 24th, 2020 Time: 1:00 - 3:00 PM

The UCLA Spanish and Portuguese Department cordially invites you to attend our Fall Spanish Conversation Hour hosted by Graduate Outreach Advising Link (GOAL). Date: Every Wednesday Time: 1:00 - 2:00 PM

The UCLA Spanish and Portuguese Department cordially invites you to attend the virtual event Contextualizing BLM in the History of Slavery and Segregation hosted by the UCLA Latin American Institue and UCLA History. Date: Friday, October 23rd, 2020 Time: 4:00 - 6:00 PM

The UCLA Spanish and Portuguese Department cordially invites you to attend our virtual Professional Development Workshops for Fall 2020. Date: October 15th, November 12th, and December 3rd, 2020 Time: 10:30 - 12:00 PM

The UCLA Spanish and Portuguese Department cordially invites you to attend the virtual event Read in LA Brazil In Translation. Date: Thursday, June 4th, 2020 Time: 1:00 - 3:00 PM

The UCLA Spanish and Portuguese Department cordially invites you to attend the virtual event Book Presentation Talking Trash: Cultural Uses of Waste". For more information make sure to check out the UCLA Spanish and Portuguese website at https://www.spanport.ucla.edu//book-presentation-talking-/ Date: Thursday, May 28, 2020 Time: 2:00 - 3:30 PM

The UCLA Spanish and Portuguese Department cordially invites you to attend the virtual event 3rd Annual Nahuatl Conference at UCLA. Date: Thursday, May 28, 2020 Time: 10:00AM - 3:00 PM

The UCLA Spanish and Portuguese Department cordially invites you to attend the virtual event Arte y disidencia en El Salvador. Artivismo como respuesta a las políticas de represión estatal presented by the UCLA Central American Working Group, UNICA, and CAIGA. Date: Wednesday, May 20, 2020 Time: 7:00 - 9:00 PM

The UCLA Department of Spanish and Portuguese invites you to participate in our 2020 Spring Essay Contest!

The UCLA Spanish and Portuguese Department cordially invites you to attend the virtual event Life After the BA presented by the UCLA Graduate Outreach Advising Link (GOAL). Date: Wednesday, May 13, 2020 Time: 1:00 - 2:00 PM

The UCLA Spanish and Portuguese Department cordially invites you to attend the virtual event Lido em LA: Leitura Remota Date: Wednesday, April 29, 2020 Time: 2:00 - 3:00 PM

The UCLA Spanish and Portuguese Department cordially invites you to attend the virtual event COVID-19 and Its Impact on Domestic Workers and Day Laborers in LA Date: Wednesday, April 22, 2020 Time: 7:00 - 9:00 PM