Spanish Department

Spanish language mass, at St. Mary’s Catholic Church on the corner of College & Shannon Street.  All are welcome.
This will be the first stop along the path of the Día de muertos Celebration ‘26 Procession!

International Karaoke is back!

The evening will begin with performances from student groups representing each language department - so come cheer on your department and help them win!

After the competition, the stage opens to everyone to sing a non-English song during Open Mic.

Come celebrate language, culture, and community at Middlebury College!

Spanish language mass, at St. Mary’s Catholic Church on the corner of College & Shannon Street.  All are welcome.
This will be the first stop along the path of the Día de muertos Celebration ‘24 Procession!

Spanish House hosts a restorative & creative workshop in crochet ~ making butterflies in honor of the legendary Monarchs that are the spirits of warriors and women who died in childbirth.

Te esperamos para vivir una noche muy especial con velitas, música y comida. Join us for this end-of-semester Luso-Hispanic Studies x PALANA event, celebrating the Colombian Noche de Velitas with battery-candles, music, food, and more!

Experience the tragedy (or not) of seven different stories linked by one common denominator: death. Morir (Un instante antes de morir) is a riveting exploration of life, death, and the fine line that exists between them.

Experience the tragedy (or not) of seven different stories linked by one common denominator: death. Morir (Un instante antes de morir) is a riveting exploration of life, death, and the fine line that exists between them.

“Writing Crime: Transmigrated, Border Subjects and International Violence,” a talk by Professor Ileana Rodriguez, Distinguished Humanities Professor of Spanish at Ohio State University. “In this talk, I examine the case of Doris Ivania Jimenez, a woman who was raped and murdered on November 21, 2006, in San Juan del Sur, Nicaragua. Implicated in the crime are Eric Stanley Volz, Julio Martin Chamorro Lopez, Armando Agustin Llanes Navarro and Nelson Antonio Lopez Danglas. Volz and Chamorro were indicted; Llanes and Danglas were exonerated.

Cuban filmmaker Rigoberto Jiménez presents his documentaries “Four Women” and “Like Mountain Birds” (37 minutes each). Q&A to follow screening. Rigoberto Jiménez is one of the founding members of TV Serrana, an award winning community video project based in the Sierra Maestra Mountains of Cuba. TV Serrana works with and for the campesinos of the Sierra, reflecting in their videos the realities of life in the Sierra. The documentary productions of Jiménez have received both national and international awards.

A bilingual poetry reading/presentation (in Spanish and English) by young Uruguayan poet and academic Laura Cesarco Eglin, an up-and-coming Latin American writer living in the United States (http://laucesarco.blogspot.com/).