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DANCING WITH DEVILS: Latin American Masks Traditions Autumn 2022 Semester
Featuring Latin American festival masks from the Kawsay Ukhunchay Andean and Amazonian Indigenous Arts and Cultural Artifacts Research Collection at The Ohio State University along with…
Research Intern Kai Perez Completes Research Internship with Dr. Anna Babel and the Spanish at COSI Team
Research intern Kai Perez of Metro High School successfully concluded their research internship with Dr. Anna Babel and the Spanish at COSI team. Along with graduate students Melissa Nieves…
Talk by Dr. José Magró: Practical approaches to language and antiracism in the language classroom
On Friday, May 13th, Dr. José Magró gave a colloquium talk entitled "Practical approaches to language and antiracism in the language classroom." He has since given permission for us to post a…
SPPO Alumna Celia Martínez Sáez Interviewed for "Valencians al món"
SPPO alumna, Celia Martínez Sáez, received her PhD from Ohio State in 2019. She is currently an assistant professor of Spanish and French studies at Occidental College in Los Angeles, California.…
Undergrad Adesh Labhasetwar Receives Fulbright Award
The Department of Spanish and Portuguese would like to congratulate undergraduate Adesh Labhasetwar for his recent accomplishment of being awarded the 2022-2023 Fulbright Award to Galicia, Spain…
Kawsay Ukhunchay Visits the Historic Costume & Textiles Collection at OSU
Gayle Strenge (pictured above on the left) invited us to explore Latin American textiles in the Ohio State Historic Costume and Textiles Collection, including rare Nazca textiles (…
Let’s Just Talk with Hallie Fried
Last year, the Kawsay Ukhunchay had the opportunity to talk with the artist who made a tapestry that we recently purchased for our collection. The tapestry, made by master weaver Mama…
2022 SPPO Departmental Awards Recipients
On behalf of the SPPO Awards Committee, we are pleased to announce the recipients of the Rymer, Crane, Iglesias, Munthe, and Kubayanda Awards for the 2022-2023 academic year. We would like to…
Victor Vimos interviews poet Arthur Sze
Last March, I visited Chinese-American poet Arthur Sze, who has lived in Santa Fe, New Mexico, for more than forty years. Sze is the owner of an extensive body of work that brings together more…