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Tag: Spanish and Latin American Studies

  • UW-Green Bay student McKenzie Rasmussen says online learning transition was ‘far smoother’ than she expected

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    Emily Gerlikovski

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    Although UW-Green Bay is intending to be open in fall and welcoming faculty, staff and students back on campus, some classes originally scheduled for in-person instruction will be moving online or having online aspects to them for the safety of the UW-Green Bay community. Current UW-Green Bay students who transitioned to online learning in Spring…

  • Spanish students and faculty are serving as ‘over the phone interpreters’ in Brown County

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    Emily Gerlikovski

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    After the sharp increase of COVID-19 cases in Green Bay linked to food plants, and given the number of Spanish-speakers employed in those plants, some UW-Green Bay Spanish students and faculty from the Spanish Translation Certificate program have joined forces with other bilingual members of the community to serve as “over-the-phone interpreters” and assist Brown…

  • Photos: ‘Las Cafeteras: Sounds of Resistance!’

    Photos: ‘Las Cafeteras: Sounds of Resistance!’

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    Daniel Moore

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    UW-Green Bay welcomed music group Las Cafeteras on Tuesday, Nov. 12, 2019 in Phoenix Room C for a workshop titled “Sounds of Resistance!” The event was co-sponsored by UW-Green Bay Spanish, MESA, Organizacion Latino Americano, Women of Color organization and the Office of Student Life. Click to advance slideshow or view the album on Flickr.…

  • ‘Cultures of Spain’ class digs deep in documents donated by alumnus Cruz-Uribe

    ‘Cultures of Spain’ class digs deep in documents donated by alumnus Cruz-Uribe

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    Sue Bodilly

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    UW-Green Bay Archives and Area Research recently hosted the class, “Cultures of Spain” taught by Spanish Prof. Cristina Ortiz. The students broadened their perspectives, studying a collection of materials donated by alumnus, Benjamin Cruz-Uribe ’73 ’79 (Ecosystems Analysis and Master of Environmental Arts & Sciences). The unique documents had been handed down through generations of his…

  • Alumni Roundtable (Career in Spanish), Oct. 18

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    Sue Bodilly

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    Please encourage students to attend the Alumni Roundtable (Career in Spanish), Thursday, Oct. 18, 2018 in Mary Ann Cofrin Hall Room 206 from 5 to 6:30 p.m. This informal “career roundtable” discussion stresses a diversity of career paths. UW-Green Bay alumni are invited to speak about their unique career path and to take questions from…

  • Xiong and Gardea are roommates, friends and difference-makers

    Xiong and Gardea are roommates, friends and difference-makers

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    Sue Bodilly

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    Student Speaker Bao Nhia Xiong and Stephany Gardea are roommates and friends, with much in common. Both are first generation college students and the first in their families to graduate with a four-year college degree. And both will leave a lasting legacy at UW-Green Bay. Xiong was selected as student speaker and reminded fellow graduates…

  • Former scholar-in-residence pens endearing piece about Green Bay

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    Sue Bodilly

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    UW-Green Bay Spanish Scholar in Residence in 2011, Peruvian writer Jorge Eduardo Benavides, recently published an endearing piece about Green Bay and surrounding areas in the travel section of the most widely read Spanish newspaper, El País. In the article, Benavides encourages Spaniards to visit this region by describing not only the natural beauty of…

  • Faculty Note: Prof. Cruz presented paper at NCCLA conference

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    Sue Bodilly

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    Associate Prof. Marcelo Cruz (Public and Environmental Affairs) spoke at the North Central Council of Latin Americanists (NCCLA) conference at UW-La Crosse, Nov. 4-6. Cruz presented a paper entitled “Challenges for Regional Planning in the 21st Century: Planning for or with indigenous communities in the Ecuadorean Amazon.”

  • UW-Green Bay alumnus meets Nobel Peace Prize winner, Columbia President Juan Manuel Santos

    UW-Green Bay alumnus meets Nobel Peace Prize winner, Columbia President Juan Manuel Santos

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    Sue Bodilly

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    UW-Green Bay alumnus and Spanish graduate Tanner Vodvarka studied in Bucamaranga, Colombia (Spring 2014). During the semester abroad, he had the opportunity to meet the President of Colombia, Juan Manuel Santos, who has been announced ads the recipient of the 2016 Nobel Peace Prize. Santos, has dedicated his prize to the victims of the devastating violent…

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    Great Books: Fernández-Meardi on Pedagogy of the Oppressed

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    Christopher Sampson

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    Association Prof. Hernán Fernández-Meardi will lead a discussion of Paulo Friere’s Pedagogy of the Oppressed as part of Humanistic Studies’ Great Book Series at the Brown County Library on Tuesday (Dec. 8) at 6:30 p.m.  In his critically acclaimed work, Friere advocates for a pedagogy that empowers students as producers of knowledge.