Past Alumni Events
Spanish & Portuguese Studies Alumni Reunion 2008
April 5, 20089:00am - 1:30pm
Folwell Hall and Nolte Center
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Forms can be send back to:
Lynn Argetsinger
CLA External Relations
220 Johnston Hall
101 Pleasant Street SE
Minneapolis, MN 55455
lpa@umn.edu
Office: 612-625-5378
Fax: 612-625-3504
Schedule
9:00 - Pastries, coffee and welcome (Nolte Center)
10:00 - Mini-classes (Folwell Hall)
10:45 - Break (Folwell Hall)
11:00 - Mini-classes (Folwell Hall)
12:00 - Lunch (Nolte Center)
1:30 Informal chats with current students and faculty (Nolte Center, and elsewhere)
Mini-classes
10:00 – 10:45
Joanna O’Connell
"El 'Boom Femenino' and Mexican Women Writers"
Maria Antonia Calvo
"A Year of Elections: Spanish Parliamentary and U.S. Presidential Races in 2008"
Fernando Arenas
"Popular Music in the Portuguese-Speaking World"
Angela Carlson-Lombardi
"Hablando artisticamente / Express Yourself Like an Artist: Strategies for Spanish Instructors"
11:00 – 11:45
Jaime Hanneken
"Visual and Textual Images of Cannibalism, 1492-1992"
Ofelia Ferrán
"Memories of War and Wars of Memory in Contemporary Spain"
Timothy Face
"Dialectologia musical: Pronunciation Across the Spanish-Speaking World"
Marcus Brasileiro
"Vamos Falar Português!” or “Let’s Speak Portuguese!"