Latin American Thought from a Bolivian Perspective: Some Marxist and Indigenous cases

B.B. Comer Hall 241 , United States

Lecture given by Dr. Josefa Salmón, Rev. Guy Lemieux Distinguished Professor of Spanish and Latin American Studies at Loyola University New Orleans While in many Latin American countries Indigenous peoples remain marginalized and oppressed by the governments in power, they have increasingly entered intellectual circles and impacted dialogue and discourse about their cultures and their…

Free

Arabic Coffee Hour (Starbuck at the Ferguson Center)

Ferguson Starbucks

Join Dr. Safa Elnaili and Dr. Saad Bushaala for coffee at Starbucks (Ferguson Center). Engage with other Arabic learning students and native Arabic speakers to practice your Arabic language skills

The University of Alabama Languages Conference

Hotel Capstone 320 Paul W Bryant Dr, Tuscaloosa, AL, United States

The University of Alabama Languages Conference is an annual conference organized by the graduate students of The University of Alabama’s Department of Modern Languages & Classics, in collaboration with graduate students from

LACLS Spring 2019 Film Series: Coraje

Screening of Peruvian director Alberto Durant’s Coraje (1999). The real life story of María Elena Moyano, a woman fighting against terrorism by the infamous Shining Path terrorist group in Peru on behalf of an oppressed population. Free and open to the public. Refreshments will be served.

Free admission

Using the Linguistic Atlas of the Gulf States to Mine Alabama’s Linguistic Mother Lode

Using the Linguistic Atlas of the Gulf States to Mine Alabama’s Linguistic Mother Lode - This is a free workshop for graduate students and faculty given by Dr. Thomas Nunnally, Professor emeritus of English, Auburn University, and Editor of Speaking of Alabama: The History, Diversity, Function, and Change of Language (2018).

free

Jalsa Arabiyya Feb.28th @5:30-7:00 pm/ BB Comer 254

Join us February 28th for the Jalsa Arabiyya (Arabic Gathering) to discuss Jordanian culture, studying abroad in the Middle East, and opportunities for funding your study abroad. Mansaf (a very

Speaking of Alabama and My Return to Y’all: Public lecture by Thomas Nunnally

Gorgas Library 205 , United States

Dr. Thomas Nunnally, Professor emeritus of English, Auburn University, and Editor of Speaking of Alabama: The History, Diversity, Function, and Change of Language (2018), will give the talk, Speaking of Alabama and My Return to Y’all. Reception will follow the talk. 

free

Guest Lecture, Dr. Lindsay Driediger-Murphy – “Roman Gods and Civil War”

Recent decades have seen a resurgence of scholarly interest in the phenomenon of civil war at Rome and how survivors coped with this. However, the question of what impact the civil wars had on Roman religion remains understudied. In this talk, I will argue that civil war posed problems for Romans on a divine level,…

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