Tags: Portuguese


A Matter of Space

A Matter of Space The Acquisition of Motion Lexicalization Patterns by English and Portuguese learners Ph.D. Candidate in the Department of Linguistics at UGA Why can you “drive a car” but not “drive your sister to school” in Portuguese? How can Brazilians visit Japan if they won’t “fly to a place”? This talk addresses the acquisition of L2 motion encoding lexicalization patterns by late English-Brazilian Portuguese bilinguals. By looking into…


An Afternoon of Art in Portuguese

With Elisa Braga, Vera Bulla, and João Pedro Gomes Create your own painting inspired by Brazilian writer Clarice Lispector.


Comics in Portuguese

Led by Laura Isabel (Ph.D. candidate) Elisa Braga (M.A. student) João Pedro Gomes (Fulbright teaching assistant) Delve into the captivating universe of Brazilian comics and gain a deeper understanding of their formative and enduring impact on Brazilian society. Create your own comics and explore the creative process behind this beloved art form. Join us for an immersive experience and unleash your creativity!


SLAVE NARRATIVES ACROSS THE ATLANTIC

Lecture by Antonele Luciano (in English) This lecture will present an overview of the narratives of enslaved people in Brazil and the United States addressing specifically the letters of Esperança Garcia (1770) and Anne Davies (1861). These documents show the writing of Black women, who suffered the most during slavery, as an instrument of resistance and memory of Black people across the Atlantic.  


HOW DO I PRONOUNCE THAT?

Portuguese Pronunciation Workshop with Jean Costa Silva  


Dr. Luis González of Wake Forest U. visits UGA for talk and corpus workshop

People from all departments are welcome at this event. Please, feel free to share this info and the flyer with your students.  1. TALK on Wednesday, November 9, 4:00-5:00 pm, Gilbert Hall 113 "Rules that work: a verber/verbed fragment of a grammar of Spanish" This talk, meant for language students and instructors as well as linguists, will show that rules of language are easier to state, understand, retain, and apply if…


French + Portuguese Movie Night

On Wednesday, November 16th from 5-7pm, Fala Aí, the magazine of the Portuguese department at UGA,  will sponsor a French + Portuguese film night in Gilbert Hall room 118. The movie being shown is "La Cage Dorée" or "The Gilded Cage", which is a French-language comedy about the lives of Portuguese immigrants living in France. It will be subtitled in English. Light refreshments will be served, and there will be a discussion in English…


An Afternoon of Art in Portuguese 2

Join us for an Afternoon of Art in Portuguese and in English from 3:30 to 5:00. Come make your own painting inspired by Jarid Arraes's cordel "Corpo escuro". This workshop is led by our very own Romance Languages students Elisa Braga, Vera Bulla & Victória Lane Silva.


"In What World Do You Live?"

Join us for a conversation with Brazilian writer José Falero as part of the Contemporary Brazilian Literature Speaker Series. The event will be on Zoom.  Register here. 


Clarice Lispector's Short Stories: The Symbolism Behind Her Beasts

Clarice Lispector is one of the biggest names in Brazilian literature. The everyday life around her is a canvas on which she paints her perceptions and pains to cope with them. Join us for a workshop on how to interpret the symbolism behind the animal characters in her short stories "Temptation" and "The Crime of the Math Professor", and thus understand their roles in her literary psychological journey.  This workshop will be offered in…
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