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Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen Essay Prize in Portuguese (Undergraduate)

May 6, 2024

 

 

 Prize submission requirements: 

•Open to undergraduates only

•Paper must be from a course offered by theDepartment of Romance Languages & Literatures

•Paper must be written in Portuguese and on atopic related to Portuguese culture or literature

•Minimum of 3 pages

•Student’s name should not appear on the essay

•In...

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Sales Prize (Spanish)

May 3, 2024

Sales Prize for Best Composition in Spanish by an Undergraduate Who Began the Study of Spanish at Harvard

From the bequest of Francis Sales, A.M. 1835, a prize is offered to the best scholar in Spanish "who shall have commenced the study of that language at Harvard College and whose scholarship shall be determined by his proficiency in Spanish composition."

The competition is open to undergraduates only.

Students have one hour to write an essay in Spanish on a topic distributed at the...

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The ‘Straight’ Press: Queer Reading in Theory and Practice, A Lecture by Hannah Frydman

May 2, 2024

The Department of Romance Languages & Literatures Invites you to a Lecture by Hannah Frydman:

The ‘Straight’ Press: Queer Reading in Theory and Practice

Boylston Hall, Room 403

Thursday May 2nd at 3pm 

Hannah Frydman is an assistant professor of French Studies at the University of Washington, Seattle where they research and teach on modern French history,...

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Queering Apocalypse: Queer Latinx Approaches to the Unending End Times of Western Modernity, A dissertation defense by Rachel L. Combs-Gonzalez

May 2, 2024

Queering Apocalypse: Queer Latinx Approaches to the Unending End Times of Western Modernity

A dissertation defense by Rachel L. Combs-Gonzalez

 

Thursday, May 2nd, 10 am- 12 pm via Zoom

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Video Party: Early Video Art in Italy and the Essence of Network Culture A Dissertation Defense by Matthew D'Ambrosio Griffith

May 2, 2024

Department of Romance Languages and Literatures

Dissertation Defense

Video Party: Early Video Art in Italy and the Essence of Network Culture

A Dissertation Defense by Matthew D'Ambrosio Griffith

Thursday May 2nd, 11am-1pm

Boylston Hall 403

Reception to follow

 

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Perverse Freedoms: Genealogies of Black Resistance in Hispaniola, A Dissertation defense by Massiel Torres Ulloa

April 30, 2024

Department of Romance Languages and Literatures

Dissertation Defense

Perverse Freedoms:

Genealogies of Black Resistance in Hispaniola

Dissertation defense by Massiel Torres Ulloa

On Zoom and in-person https://harvard.zoom.us/j/95286508114

 

April 30th, 11am - 1pm

Boylston Hall 403

Reception to follow

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