Accomplishments: Department of World Languages and Cultures
Deborah Arteaga (World Languages and Cultures) gave a talk, "Cultural Aspects of Communicating with Hispanic Patients," at the UMC Emergency Medicine Research Program earlier this month.
The Department of World Languages & Cultures hosted the joint 2018 annual conference of the Medieval Association of the Pacific (MAP) and the Rocky Mountain Medieval and Renaissance Association (RMMRA) earlier this month. Held at UNLV, the conference had 120 registrants from around the nation and included participants from New Zealand,…
Jesús Galindo, Manuel Rodríguez and Lizette Arellano (all World Languages and Cultures) presented, respectively, the papers “El homosexual y el revolucionario en El beso de la mujer araña,” “Niebla: La voz masculina y sus interlocutoras femeninas,” and “El vencimiento del hombre blanco por la mujer negra en Maldito amor de Rosario Ferre” at the…
Margaret Harp (World Languages and Cultures) presented the paper "Les Heures et les Psaumes: Navigating the Third Religious War in Le Printemps d'Yver" at the annual conference of the Renaissance Society of America, which took place in New Orleans earlier this moth. She also chaired one conference panel session.
Susan Byrne (World Languages and Cultures) presented the paper "Ficino's Plotinian Metaphysics in Early Modern Spanish Poetics" during the Renaissance Society of America (RSA) conference held in New Orleans earlier this month. She also chaired three conference sessions, and completed her three-year term as Discipline Representative in…
Lizette Arellano, José Galindo and Patricia Zavala (all World Languages and Cultures) presented research papers at the 12th annual Hispanic Studies Graduate Student Conference at the University of California, Riverside earlier this month. Galindo presented “Oppression, Authoritarianism and Religion in Nada.” Zavala presented “The Impact of the…
Lizette Arellano, Shaun Mangelson, and Manuel Rodríguez-Pérez (all World Languages and Cultures) attended the third annual Interdisciplinary Conference in the Humanities held at Sacramento State University in October. They presented as a panel a series of essays on the Spanish post-war novel Nada written by Carmen Laforet. The panel covered a…
Deborah Arteaga (World Languages and Cultures) presented a paper, "Creating an Intermediate Medical Spanish Program at an Urban University," at the 75th meeting of the South Central Modern Language Association, in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
Susan Byrne (World Languages and Cultures) participated in a debate with professor Eric Graf of the Universidad Francisco Marroquín (Guatemala), titled "Tilting at Windmills." The July 22 debate about the multiple messages in Miguel de Cervantes' Don Quijote, was a breakout session during the 11th annual conference (…
Susan Byrne (World Languages and Cultures) recently presented at two international conferences. The first presentation, “Los tres poderes incorpóreos en Cervantes, desde La Galatea al Persiles,” was presented in June at UiT, the Arctic University of Norway, at Tromso, during a conference titled Cervantes en el Septentrión. The…
Susan Byrne (World Languages and Cultures) published "'Essentiae' en Ficino y en el Quijote: Las letras y la preceptiva cervantina" in Cervantes ayer y hoy, a volume of essays on Spanish author Miguel de Cervantes edited by Nuria Morgado and Lía Schwartz, and published by the Hispanic Society of America in New York.
Elena Gandía García (World Languages and Cultures) has been awarded UNLV's Division of Educational Outreach Faculty Excellence Award for 2017. Her efforts will be formally recognized at an awards ceremony April 19.