CLAS is in Session

March 28, 2022

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The Summer Seminars Abroad for Spanish Teachers program has four spots open!

SSAST, a workshop in Spanish linguistics specially designed for Spanish teachers, will take place July 5-21, 2022 in Montevideo.

For more details, visit the program website.

Request additional information using this form.

Marlyse Baptista talk on Creole pronominal systems

Join us on Friday, April 8th from 2:20-3:40 PM in Hagerty Hall 255 or via Zoom for a talk by contact linguist Marlyse Baptiste entitled "On the emergence of Creole pronominal systems: Social and linguistic factors."

Dr. Baptista's lecture will address Upper-Guinea Creoles, of which Portuguese is one of the source languages, as well as Spanish-lexified Creoles like Palenquero. Her discussion will also address preconceived notions about Creoles, inherited from colonial times and perpetuated by current neo-colonial distorted narratives.

Learn more and access the Zoom link here.

New episode of Prologued podcast

Check out the latest episode of Prologued, the serial-style history podcast created by Origins: Current Events in Historical Perspective.

Season 2 examines The Global War on Drugs, and the latest episode is entitled "Counterinsurgency and Drugs in Cold War Thailand and Mexico."

2022 Graduate Associate Teaching Awards

Congratulations to this year's recipients of the Graduate Associate Teaching Award, OSU's highest recognition of exceptional teaching by graduate students.

This year's cohort included three students from the Department of Spanish and Portuguese, all of them Latin Americanists:

Kendra Dickinson (Hispanic Linguistics)
Tania Espinales Correa (Latin American Cultural & Literary Studies)
Melissa Nieves Rivera (Hispanic Linguistics)

60 years of Peace Corps at OSU

OSU will hold two events, on April 6th and 7th, to showcase the legacy of the Peace Corps and memorialize its 60-year history at OSU.

April 6, from 5:30-8:30 pm, in 220 Sullivant Hall: screening of A Towering Task: The Story of the Peace Corps, a documentary about global citizenship, with dicussion with producer and director Anala DeJoseph to follow.

April 7, from 4-6:30 pm, in 220 Sullivant Hall: Peace Corps 60th Anniversary Commemorative Event featuring a panel discussion with returned Peace Corps volunteers, including in Panama, El Salvador, and the eastern Caribbean.

Find more information here.