Department of Romance Languages
Spanish Calendar of Events
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| September 2009 | ||||
| Wed. 2 | 5 p.m. to 6 p.m. | 1302 MHRA (Social Lounge) | Café Olé: Wendy Jones-Worden "My year as a Rotary Ambassadorial Scholar in Argentina" | |
| Wed. 9 | 5 p.m. to 6 p.m. | 1302 MHRA (Social Lounge) | Café Olé: Emily Harkins "Experiences of an exchange student in Cáceres, Spain" | |
| Mon. 14 | 6:30pm | MHRA 1214 | Movie Night:
La lengua de las mariposas (1999) (Butterfly, in Spanish with English subtitles) by director José Luis Cuerda. Presenter: Dr. Carmen Sotomayor, The University of North Carolina at Greensboro We open the festival through the tender eyes of a shy young boy, Moncho, frightened about starting school and whose relationship with Don Gregorio, his teacher, sets his mind at ease and helps him to begin a transition into adulthood. When the War erupts on July 18, their lives are changed forever. Cuerda's mix of carefree sweetness and foreboding political undercurrent makes the film feel like a children's movie hijacked by the loss of innocence that eventually grips Moncho. The political winds change, and the boy sees everyone he cares about land in grave danger, forced to choose between persecution and painful, shameful denouncement of their ideology. |
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| Wed. 16 | 5 p.m. to 6 p.m. | 1302 MHRA (Social Lounge) | Café Olé: Astrid Ochoa "Carnaval (Mardi Gras) in Barranquilla, Colombia" | |
| Mon. 21 | 6:30pm | MHRA 1214 | Movie Night:
Dragon Rapide (1999) (1990) (in Spanish with English subtitles) by director Jaime Camino. Presenter: Dr. Jordi Marí, North Carolina State University Dragon Rapide focuses on the weeks before the July 18, 1936 appraisal in Northern Africa. The "Dragon Rapide" was the name of the British plane that carried the General Francisco Franco from the Canary Islands to Morocco. That flight marked the beginning of the end of the Republican government in Spain. The movie references the complicated political situation of the day and allows the viewer to submerge into the different political interests and ideologies that surrounded the failed coup-de-état and catapulted the Spanish Civil War. |
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| Wed. 23 | 5 p.m. to 6 p.m. | 1302 MHRA (Social Lounge) | Café Olé: Chilean exchange students "Chile" | |
| Mon. 28 | 6:30pm | MHRA 1214 | Movie Night:
¡Ay Carmela! (1986) (in Spanish with English subtitles) by director Carlos Saura. Presenter: Dr. Ana Hontanilla, The University of North Carolina at Greensboro ¡Ay, Carmela! presents the difficulties of war in the Republican and Nationalist zones. Carmela, Paulino and Gustavete, traveling entertainers trouping through Spain to perform their act before Republican troops, are imprisoned in Franco-controlled territory. Certain to be shot, they are given a chance to live when a former theater director, now a Lieutenant with the Italian troops fighting alongside the Germans in support of Franco, asks them to put on a show glorifying Mussolini and Hitler. Taken from a stage play by José Sanchís Sinisterra, Saura expands the action to show the bombed and ruined towns, but the film remains more a character drama than a war film. |
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| Tues. 29 | 3:30 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. | 1302 MHRA (Social Lounge) | Spanish Info Session: Spanish faculty will be available to answer your questions about the major and minor as well as study abroad, teaching licensure and career options. Any level is welcome--even if you're in SPA 101. | |
| Wed. 30 | 4 p.m. to 5 p.m. | 1302 MHRA (Social Lounge) | Spanish Info Session: Spanish faculty will be available to answer your questions about the major and minor as well as study abroad, teaching licensure and career options. Any level is welcome--even if you're in SPA 101. | |
| Wed. 30 | 5 p.m. to 6 p.m. | 1302 MHRA (Social Lounge) | Café Olé: Rikki Love "Experiences of an exchange student in Córdoba, Argentina" | |
| October 2009 | ||||
| Wed. 7 | 5 p.m. to 6 p.m. | 1302 MHRA (Social Lounge) | Café Olé: Elvira Richard "The tradition of the Mexican 15th birthday or la quinceañera" | |
| Wed. 14 | 5 p.m. to 6 p.m. | 1302 MHRA (Social Lounge) | Café Olé Neyeska Filipski - The Natural Beauty of Venezuela | |
| Wed. 21 | 5 p.m. to 6 p.m. | 1302 MHRA (Social Lounge) | Café Olé Frank Freeman - My experience living and teaching English in Spain. Also, Dr. Ana Hontanilla and Dr. Margo Bender will talk about the 2010 Summer in Spain Program. Applications will be due soon. | |
| Mon. 26 | 6:30pm | MHRA 1214 | Movie Night:
Raza (1942) (in Spanish) by director José Luis Sáenz de Heredia. Presenter: Dr. Anne Hardcastle, Wake Forest University Raza, based on Francisco Franco's eponymous novel, tells the story of a Galician family with deep religious and military convictions. When the Spanish Republic is declared in 1931, three brothers part ways to suffer the consequences of the military appraisal of 1936. To date, Raza is considered the best ideological film in defense of the Nationalist cause and ideology. |
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| Wed. 28 | 5 p.m. to 6 p.m. | 1302 MHRA (Social Lounge) | Café Olé Raneesha Rollins and Olivia Pettigrew - Experiences of two exchange students in Querétaro, México | |
| November 2009 | ||||
| Sun. 1 | 2:00pm | Virginia Dare Room of the Alumni House | Golden Chain Honor Society Induction. The Department proudly congratulates Spanish majors Valentyna Filimonova and Tiffany Jamerson on their selection to the Golden Chain Honor Society. Founded on the UNCG campus in 1948, the Golden Chain recognizes students for outstanding achievement and service to the University. The seven links of the chain are leadership, scholarship, service, tolerance, judgement, magnanimity, and character. | |
| Mon. 2 | 6:30pm | MHRA 1214 | Movie Night:
El laberinto del fauno (2006) (Pan's Labyrinth, in Spanish with English subtitles) by director Guillermo del Toro. Presenter: Dr. Guadalupe Martí-Peña, Penn State University El laberinto del fauno takes place in Spain in May and June, 1944, after the Spanish Civil War. We close the festival through the eyes of another child, Ofelia, whose fantasy world allows the viewer to experience the harsh reality of the Franquist repression. Ofelia's stepfather, the Falangist Captain Vidal, viciously hunts the Spanish maquis, guerrilla fighters who resists Franco’s regime in the region. The conclusion of the movie is a perfect ending for this overview of a topic that continues to generate a multiplicity of narratives. |
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| Wed. 4 | 5 p.m. to 6 p.m. | 1302 MHRA (Social Lounge) | Café Olé Raffinee Archible--Experiences of an exchange student in Cuernavaca, México | |
| Wed. 11 | 5 p.m. to 6 p.m. | 1302 MHRA (Social Lounge) | Café Olé Cathy Lupo -- Experiences studying abroad in Granada and Valencia, Spain | |
| Wed. 18 | 5 p.m. to 6 p.m. | 1302 MHRA (Social Lounge) | Café Olé SALSA (Spanish American Latino Student Association) presents an evening of salsa! Find out about the SALSA organization, experience a mini salsa dance lesson and taste test different types of salsa. | |
| December 2009 | ||||
| Wed. 2 | 5 p.m. to 6 p.m. | 1302 MHRA (Social Lounge) | Café Olé | |
| January 2010 | ||||
| Wed. 27 | 5 p.m. to 6 p.m. | 1302 MHRA (Social Lounge) | Café Olé | |
| February 2010 | ||||
| Wed. 3 | 5 p.m. to 6 p.m. | 1302 MHRA (Social Lounge) | Café Olé | |
| Wed. 10 | 5 p.m. to 6 p.m. | 1302 MHRA (Social Lounge) | Café Olé | |
| Wed. 17 | 5 p.m. to 6 p.m. | 1302 MHRA (Social Lounge) | Café Olé | |
| Wed. 24 | 5 p.m. to 6 p.m. | 1302 MHRA (Social Lounge) | Café Olé | |
| March 2010 | ||||
| Wed. 3 | 5 p.m. to 6 p.m. | 1302 MHRA (Social Lounge) | Café Olé | |
| Wed. 17 | 5 p.m. to 6 p.m. | 1302 MHRA (Social Lounge) | Café Olé | |
| Wed. 24 | 5 p.m. to 6 p.m. | 1302 MHRA (Social Lounge) | Café Olé | |
| Wed. 31 | 5 p.m. to 6 p.m. | 1302 MHRA (Social Lounge) | Café Olé | |
| April 2010 | ||||
| Wed. 7 | 5 p.m. to 6 p.m. | 1302 MHRA (Social Lounge) | Café Olé | |
| Wed. 14 | 5 p.m. to 6 p.m. | 1302 MHRA (Social Lounge) | Café Olé | |
| Wed. 21 | 5 p.m. to 6 p.m. | 1302 MHRA (Social Lounge) | Café Olé | |
| Wed. 28 | 5 p.m. to 6 p.m. | 1302 MHRA (Social Lounge) | Café Olé | |
| May 2010 | ||||