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- Roberta Radu Prize-Winning Article
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- Peacemaker: The Foraker Act (1900) and the Poetry of Evaristo Ribera Chevremont
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- El último verano de la boyita
- Gained in Translation: UCL Challenges
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- London World Film Festival 2013 // Rimbaud and Verlaine // Gained in Translation // 6.30 - 8.00 pm Thursday 21 March 2013 // The Bloomsbury Theatre UCL
- International Conference - The Future of Hispanism
Contact Details
Ms Clare Szembek
(Departmental Co-ordinator)
tel 020 7679 3109;
internal extension X33109;
email c.szembek@ucl.ac.uk
Dr Humberto Núñez-Faraco
(Head of Department)
tel: 020 7679 4332;
internal extension X34332;
email: h.faraco@ucl.ac.uk
News & Forthcoming Events
- International Conference - The Future of Hispanism
- London World Film Festival 2013
- Translating 'Live' Poetry
- Gained in Translation
- Dr Deborah Martin will introduce El último verano de la boyita at ISA's 'Staging the Future: Argentine Films in Dialogue' Series
- Graduate student, Kathleen Sparks awarded grant
- Alcalá Galiano Lecture
- LECTURE: Benigno Trigo (Vanderbilt University), 6 June 2012 at 11am
- Vacancy in the department
- Dr Claire Lindsay awarded a Dorot Foundation Research Fellowship
- Professor Stephen Hart's Documentary Summer School in Cuba
- Dr Jo Evans will introduce Mexican film, Miss Bala, at the Cineschool festival 2012
- Vacancy in the department
- Dr Jo Evans will discuss Pan's Labyrinth at the European Institute Film Day
- César Vallejo conference. 16-17 March 2012
- Final year student, Roberta Radu's prize-winning article
- Dept of Spanish and Latin American Studies, UCL nominated for award
- Final year student Roberta Radu shortlisted in Guardian competition
- Award for Dr. Maria del Pilar Blanco
- Alcala Galiano Memorial Lecture
- Alumni Events
El último verano de la boyita
12 February 2013
On February 21,
the Institute for the Study of the Americas, School of
Advanced Study, University of London, will feature
El ultimo verano de La Boyita [The
Last Summer of la Boyita] (2000), a coming of age story directed by Julia
Solomonoff and produced by Pedro Almodóvar. This will be the second of a series of groundbreaking Argentine
productions that offer stimulating responses to issues of gender, race,
inequality, politics, community, and the future. Dr Deborah Martin (Department of Spanish & Latin American Studies, UCL), will introduce the film.
You can find out more here.

