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Congratulations to professor Ana Teresa Pérez-Leroux! A faculty member in our department, she has been recently recognized with a 2025 National Achievement Award by the Canadian Linguistic Association (CLA). 🥳

For more details, please visit uoft.me/bHq

🚨 Next week ONLY! 🚨 Drop-in advising sessions related to our undergrad courses or programs.

🗓️ Monday July 7 to Friday, July 11
⏰ 10:00 to 11:30 AM
❓ All your questions about Spanish, Portuguese or Latin American Studies
🤝 with Dr. Berenice Villagomez, our Undergrad Coordinator
🔗 uoft.me/bGP

Heartfelt congratulations to Sam Jambrovic and Catia Dignard, who convocated recently, for achieving this milestone! 🎓 Both are graduates from our Ph.D. in Spanish program.

We're so proud of you! Best of luck for the road ahead, wherever it may take you. 💫

Check out our NEW Certificate in Global Latin America! 🌎

A unique combo of language study (any level of SPA or PRT courses), cultural and political history, and an in-depth look at regional perspectives on global debates to complete 2.5 credits. More: artsci.calendar.utoronto.ca/section/Lati...

Do you have high school credits in Spanish? Did you learn Spanish at home? Are you hoping to work with Spanish-speaking communities?

Our NEW Certificate in Spanish Language might be the right option for you!
For details: artsci.calendar.utoronto.ca/section/Span...

Did you learn Portuguese at home? Do you speak other Romance languages and are interested in adding another, but don't have space in your degree for a Minor? Then, our NEW Certificate in Portuguese Language is for you!
Check it out! artsci.calendar.utoronto.ca/section/Port...

If you have questions, please reach out to us: we'll be glad to talk about what to expect in the process, who should complete the test, and any other concerns about our language courses!

Our placement test period opens on Monday, June 23 and is all done remotely. Visit our website for more information: www.spanport.utoronto.ca/undergraduate

If you are enrolling in a Spanish or Portuguese course for the very first time in the upcoming academic year, listen up!

Be sure to complete our mandatory placement test before you add your course or place yourself in the waiting list to make sure you are enrolling in the appropriate level.

Have questions about our courses, pre-requisites, or program requirements before course enrolment? Want to make sure you're on the right path for graduation?
Meet with our Undergrad Coordinator to ask all your questions so you can be confident in your course selection for 2025-26! uoft.me/bBF

One of my favourite events of the academic year is the Undergraduate Research Day for LAS, which celebrated its 10th edition in 2025! 🥳

Here are some photos of the day: we learned from our budding Latin American Studies scholars, caught up with friends and got to make new ones too! 📚 🌎

Congratulations to Raul Galvão for receiving the 2024 Pedro da Silva Award for achievement in the Portuguese program! 🥳 🎈
For a profile of Raul, please visit our website: uoft.me/bzb
Grateful, as always, to Marisol Ribeiro and Caixa Geral de Depósitos, for their continued support of our students!

Last Tuesday, we hosted a doctoral workshop in preparation for the New Sounds 2025 conference. In this day-long event, PhD students had the chance to present their research and receive meaningful feedback from faculty members who had arrived to Toronto in advance and other graduate students.

A full day of presentations, workshops and posters for the third day of New Sounds 2025. Here are some photos of the activities of today!

Thank you to everyone who joined us for this conference! We are looking forward to seeing you again in 2028 in Lisbon.

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Here are some photos of the second day of New Sounds 2025. We hope you are enjoying the conference as much as we are!

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We are delighted to welcome more than 180 participants from around the world to New Sounds 2025, the 11th International Symposium on the Acquisition of Second Language Speech. Here are some photos of the first day of the conference, hosted in the beautiful campus of Victoria College.

Celebrate undergraduate research on Latin America at UofT with us! 🎉

Join our 10th Undergraduate Research Day, sponsored by the Latin American Studies program. Come support, get inspired, and be part of the conversation!

🗓️ April 15
⏰ Starting at 9:30AM
📍 VC211
✉️ More details: uoft.me/bu5

Join us for a talk by Mariana Cavalcanti exploring how climate change transforms the ways we read, write, teach and tell urban histories.

Águas do Caju: Rethinking Urban Histories, Futures and Collective Life under Climate Change
🗓️ Fri, April 11
⏰ 2:00 - 3:30 PM
📍 VC 102
More details: uoft.me/btL

Do you have a final exam in a SPA, PRT or LAS course?
Join us next Monday for snacks, study sesh with peers, and answers to your questions before the final exam.
🗓️ April 7, 2025
⏰ 3:00 - 5:00 PM
📍 Victoria College 304

Support for:
SPA101H1, SPA102H2
SPA221H1, SPA381H1
PRT102H1, and LAS201H1

Congratulations to Catherine Sawyer, a PhD candidate in Spanish and member of our teaching staff, for being shortlisted for the prestigious TATP TA Teaching Excellence Award! 🎉 While the final results will be announced on April 28, we’re already celebrating you and your incredible contributions!

Join us for an Eng/Span language exchange session with students visiting from the Universidad Autónoma de Querétaro. 🇨🇦 🇲🇽

🗓️ Wednesday, March 26, 2025
⏰ 3:00 to 4:00 PM
📍 Victoria College 115
🤝 @coordiomas.fi.sjr @idiomastxfi_uaq @fiuaq
No registration needed.
See you there!

Take a break from essays or finals, and join us for a piñata workshop! 🪅 🤩 Led by Mtro. Jaime Ortiz, all materials provided. Limited spots.

🗓️ Tue, March 25
⏰ 4 - 6PM
📍 NF 119
✉️ Register before March 21: uoft.me/bod Open to all UofT students.
🤝 @coordiomas.fi.sjr @idiomastxfi_uaq @fiuaq

Join us on Wednesday for the presentations of the LAS Graduate Fellows: Roxana Escobar and Luísa Duarte

Intersecting Geographies
🗓️ March 19, 2025
⏰ 4:00 - 5:30 PM
📍 Victoria College 304
Free and open to the public: everyone is welcome!
No need for registration.

For details, visit: uoft.me/bp2

Our heartfelt congratulations to Samuel Jambrovic, who last week successfully defended his PhD dissertation. 🎓 👏

His project - in Hispanic Linguistics - is titled, "The structure and interpretation of (pro)nominal expressions in Spanish".

Our best wishes for the path ahead, Sam. 💫
#uoftspanport

Thank you to Profs. Paula Karger, Bob Davidson and Ana Teresa Pérez-Leroux for being part of our first Teaching Café event last week! ☕️ Your insights and tips for handling challenging classroom situations were incredibly valuable. 🙌✨
And thank you to our audience for joining too!

This Friday! Learn about the growing field of Sound Studies in the humanities, with an invited lecture by Tamara L. Mitchell (UBC) on two novels by Mexican writer Guadalupe Nettel.

Sound Unseen: Auscultating Gendered Violence in Mexican Fiction
🗓️ Friday, March 14, 2025
⏰ 2:00 - 3:30 PM
📍 VC 102

This Wednesday! Have you heard about Capoeira? Join us for a demonstration + workshop about this spectacular Afro-Brazilian martial art. Free and open to all the U ofT community.

🗓️ Wed, March 12, 2025.
⏰ Starting at 4:00 PM
📍 Victoria College 304
No need to register, everyone is welcome!

DYK that professor Carolina Sá Carvalho, faculty in our Portuguese program, won multiple awards for her first book "Traces of the Unseen"?

Join us for this presentation, as she revisits the book
🗓️ Friday, March 7, 2025
⏰ 2:30 - 4:00 PM
📍 VC 101
For complete details, visit: buff.ly/lfAmpvw

Congratulations to our LAS Fellows for 2024-25!

Stay tuned to learn more about the presentations of their work as fellows, coming up very soon!
And join us in congratulating them! 👏