Spanish & Portuguese Department SPAN

La Perricholi, a Peruvian Historical Icon

Alonso Cueto, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Peru, will deliver a talk about his forthcoming historical novel (yet untitled) about the famous actress and entertainer María Micaela Villegas y Hurtado de Mendoza, known as La Perricholi, arguably the most famous Peruvian woman of the 18th century. Villegas y Hurtado de Mendoza was known for being the mistress of the Peruvian Viceroy Manuel de Amat y Juniet, but in his novel Cueto attempts to provide a nuanced portrait of this figure in order to shed light on Colonial life in Peru. Cueto’s novel will be released in mid 2019. Dr.

Robert A. Jones '59 Conference Room

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Information Session

Sponsored by:
Spanish Department
Information session for two teaching opportunities during winter term January 2019. Teach English in El Triunfo, Ecuador or in Nosara, Costa Rica. Come find out more information about each program from interns from previous years and information on how to apply.

Franklin Environmental Center, The Orchard-Hillcrest 103

Healers, witches or women: intercultural health and urban folk medicine in Quito

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Spanish Department
Mario Siddhartha Portugal Ramirez will discuss the main findings of his ethnographic research in Ecuador during 2015 and 2016. He argues that women healers provide a particular urban folk medicine that acts in a gray zone of the intercultural health in Ecuador. This zone is a space where women are reproducing and transmitting their traditional knowledge, recovering the meaning of interculturality though an open confrontation of state policies, and most important: giving hope to many people that cannot afford health care in the city. Mr.

Robert A. Jones '59 Conference Room

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Gloria Estela González Zenteno lecture "Latin American Stories of Resistance: A Literary Reading"

International and Global Studies Colloquium lecture “Latin American Stories of Resistance: A Literary Reading” by Gloria Estela González Zenteno, professor of Spanish, Middlebury College. Lunch is free for current Middlebury College students/faculty/staff; $5 for others; RSVP by 2/18 to rcga@middlebury.edu.

Sponsored by the Rohatyn Center for Global Affairs.

Robert A. Jones '59 Conference Room

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Galician Language and Culture in the United States

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Spanish Department
Associate Professor Gabriel Rei-Doval, University of Winsconsin-Milwuakee, is a world renowned specialist in the field of Luso-Hispanic Linguistics. Professor Rei-Doval will deliver a talk about the situation of the Galician region, its language and culture in the globalized world.

This presentation will address the interaction between Galician language and culture, as regarded contemporarily both in Galicia and the US context. 

Robert A. Jones '59 Conference Room

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Frontera de Luz: La última vigilia/Border of Lights: The Last Vigil

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Spanish Department
Megan Jeanette Myers is an Assistant Professor of Spanish and Latinx Studies at Iowa State University. Prof. Myers has a book manuscript under review (On and Off Border: Haiti in Dominican and Dominican American Literature) and is also working on an open access, multimodal anthology, alongside co-Editor Edward Paulino, titled “Bearing Witness to Genocide: A Border of Lights Reader.” In this lecture, Prof.

Robert A. Jones '59 Conference Room

Open to the Public