Tags: Spanish


Milonga Tropical Fall 2025

Athens Tangueros presents Milonga Tropical - Tango intertwined with Latin Rhythm dancing for a memorable evening of dancing, including live dance performances -- Admission: FREE -- Event includes Tango lessons from 6:30-7:00p before the dance party begins Live dance performances by various dance groups Couples, Singles, All levels welcome Detailed Schedule 6:30 – 7:00: Tango Boot camp7:00 – 7:45: Social dancing of tango, salsa, bachata and…

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Embracing Community and Connection in Buenos Aires

By Amelia Rehman Around this time last year, I took home a flyer that had been hanging in Gilbert Hall, one that quickly populated many walls and crevices of the building, advertising the Buenos Aires Study Away program. I had recently changed my Spanish minor to a double major, confident that I wanted to spend the rest of my undergraduate experience strengthening my knowledge and fluency in the language, even if it meant a more demanding…
UGA en Buenos Aires, Spanish, Study Abroad

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Dr. María González-Ferrer Successfully Defends Dissertation

Congratulations to Dr. María González-Ferrer, who successfully defended her doctoral dissertation, entitled "La reduplicación del clítico dativo en español: Adquisición en la L2 y variación" [Dative clitic doubling in Spanish: L2 Acquisition and variation] on May 21, 2025. ¡Enhorabuena, María!  We wish Dr. González-Ferrer the best in her new position as Lecturer of Spanish at Brown University starting in fall 2025.
Romance Linguistics, Spanish

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PhD student in Hispanic Linguistics Awarded Research Grant

Eliot Westdorp has been selected as a recipient of a 2025 Sigma Delta Pi (SDP) Graduate Research Grant Award among a very competitive pool of applicants nationwide. This will be critical in funding Eliot's dissertation research project examining changes related to the loss of seseo and language contact between Spanish and Galician in Galicia. ¡Enhorabuena, Eliot!
Spanish, Romance Linguistics


Dr. Tania Leal (University of Arizona) - Presentation on Second Language Acquisition of French

Dr. Leal will present collaborative research with Elena Shimanskaya (U. Nevada-Reno) on the second language acquisition of French structures by native speakers of Spanish and English. See flyer for link to presentation abstract.

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María González-Ferrer Wins UGA's Excellence in Teaching Award

María González-Ferrer, a Ph.D. candidate in Hispanic Linguistics at UGA, has been awarded the prestigious Excellence in Teaching Award for graduate students. Graduating this May, María is one of up to five recipients of this annual honor, jointly presented by the Graduate School, the Center for Teaching and Learning, and the UGA Teaching Academy. She was recognized for her outstanding contributions to the university’s instructional mission while…
Linguistics, Spanish


Willson Center Distinguished Artists - Dahlma Llanos Figueroa

On October 28, Dahlma Llanos-Figueroa will give the lecture “Forgotten Women:  Giving Voice to the Voiceless” with a brief opening intervention by Marcela Garza, ABD and Racheal Fulford, PhD.   There will be an opportunity for Q&A and to obtain her latest novel, A Woman of Endurance.    Ms. Llanos-Figueroa is a Puerto Rican novelist and memoirist, the author of both Daughters of the Stone and her latest novel, a…


Dr. Karina Vazquez: Bridging Humanities, Professions and Communities

Karina Vazquez, PhD Latin American, Latino, and Iberian Studies, and Director of Community-Based Learning - University of Richmond


Dr. Ania Tizziani: Gender, Labor, and Inequality in Contemporary Latin America: The National Maid Tournament in Argentina

Ania Tizziani, PhD Universidad Nacional de Gral. Sarmiento & Council of Scientific and Technological Research (CONICET)    


Dr. Kim Potowski "The Triple Bullying of U.S. Heritage Speakers and How to Counter it"

15th Workshop on Immigrant Languages in the Americas (WILA 15)  Janne Bondi Johannessen Celebration Lecture Dr. Kim Potowski (University of Illinois, Chicago) "The Triple Bullying of U.S. Heritage Speakers and How to Counter it" Young people raised in the U.S. speaking languages other than English often suffer a triple bullying. First, they are frequently subjected to discourses of “You’re in America, speak English” from some of the English…
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