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Last Week’s Open Colloquia Explored Stylization in Music!
On October 3rd 2025, Illeana Perez, and Rebeka Compos-Astorkiza gave two insightful talks on Language, Music & Identity: how artists play with words.
More on their exciting panel:…

Bigger Than Me: My Story, My Culture Launches into its Second Year!
The success of the 2024-2025 pilot program for the Bigger Than Me Intergenerational Heritage Workshops and Children's Book Series has prompted a new iteration of the program for 2025-2026! The…

Kichwa Otavalo Community Sound Archive
This summer (2025) Jean-Yves Munch and Michelle Wibbelsman embarked on a research collaboration supported through an Arts and Humanities Accelerator Grant to work with Kichwa Otavalo community…

SPPO Welcomes State University of Amazonas
Earlier this semester, the Department of Spanish and Portuguese (SPPO) had the honor of hosting a delegation from the State University of Amazonas (Universidade do Estado do Amazonas - UEAM). The…

Dr. Anna Babel visits the UMSS in Cochabamba, Bolivia
Dr. Anna Babel visited the Facultad de Ciencias Sociales y Humanidades of the Universidad Mayor de San Simón in Cochabamba, Bolivia and gave two talks.
The first, aimed at graduate students…

Dr. Catalina Iannone's appearance on Voices of Excellence Podcast
Catalina Iannone, Assistant Professor of Iberian Studies, was interviewed by David Staley, Associate Professor of History, on a recent episode of the College of Arts and Sciences podcast Voices of…

Intergenerational workshops help children showcase heritage through book series Bigger Than Me: My Story, My Culture
A local intergenerational workshop series is helping children in central Ohio connect with their history by writing self-published books that tell stories of their unique heritage. The program,…

Kawsay Ukhunchay Welcomes its First High School Intern!
In the autumn of 2024, Lily Crider, a senior at Columbus Alternative High School, joined the Kawsay Ukhunchay Andean and Amazonian Indigenous Art and Cultural Artifacts Research Collection as a…

OSUHALSS 2025
The Call For Papers for the OSUHALSS 2025 is open!! The symposium will take place March 21 and 22, 2025!
The graduate students in the Spanish and Portuguese Department at The Ohio State…