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Jessica Burke, assistant professor of Hispanic Studies, presented a paper and chaired a session at the 93rd annual meeting of the American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese, held in Washington D.C., July 6-9.

Cuban filmmaker Miguel Coyula will present his film Memories of Development on Friday, March 4, from 7 p.m. to 10 p.m. in the Science Center’s Kennedy Auditorium. A discussion will be led by Coyula following the film screening. The screening and discussion are free and open to the public.  

Teaching Fellow in Hispanic Studies and Fulbright Scholar María Gabriela Portal discussed her first semester experience in a presentation titled “My First Three Months on the Hill,” at the Fulbright Foreign Language Teaching Assistants (FLTA) Conference held December 8-11, in Washington, D.C.

Associate Professor of Hispanic Studies Edna Rodríguez-Plate was invited to participate in the symposium, Culture and Politics in Post-Soviet Cuba, at the University of Birmingham, England, on Nov. 24. She gave the paper "Shrinking the Space of the Nation: Cuban Cinema from 35 mm to You Tube."

Assistant Professor of Hispanic Studies Jessica Burke chaired a session and presented a paper at the 8th Annual Hawaii International Conference on Arts & Humanities held on Jan. 13-16.

Edna Rodriguez-Plate, associate professor of Hispanic studies, will present a talk titled "The Cuban Revolution and the Creation of a National Film Industry" on Wednesday, Dec. 9, at 7:30 p.m.at the Other Side in Utica. This is the fourth event in the Imagining America collaboration between Hamilton College and The Other Side.

Associate Professor of Hispanic Studies Edna Rodríguez-Plate was a guest speaker at the 16th annual "Hispanic Forum" at the University of Vermont on October 23. She was invited to give a lecture on Cuban film and presented "The Cuban Revolution and the Creation of a National Film Industry." She also took part in a panel discussion on the Cuban/Caribbean Exile Experience.

Charlotte Rogers, visiting assistant professor of Hispanic Studies, presented her paper "El sabio curandero: Shamanism and Afro-Caribbean Power in the novels of Alejo Carpentier" at the conference "Re-Thinking the Mangrove: Second Symposium of Critical Practices in Caribbean Cultural Studies." The conference was held at the Universidad de Puerto Rico, Mayaguez, Oct. 15-17.