Events
Professor Consuelo Amat (Johns Hopkins University) develops a theory of nonviolent resistance under extreme repression, complementing the traditional "power in numbers" framework with a new logic of "power in autonomy." She argues that in highly…
Join the Spanish and Portuguese Department for a weekly Portuguese language
meet-up! All language levels are welcome and participants will have the opportunity to engage in informal conversation. New homemade desserts will also be…
Join the weekly Spanish language meet-up! Participants will have the opportunity to engage in Spanish conversation with other individuals. We will have different snacks from all over Latin America every week.
The project analyzes how the interactions and displacements of periodicals, newspapers, manuscript books, and their authors and agents, configured systematic translinguistic, transcolonial and transimperial connections and networks that contributed…
Homophily, or the tendency to associate with like-minded individuals, is reinforced on social media through sorting (self-selection into like-minded communities) and pruning (unfriending those with discordant views). The author presents results from…
Few scholars of the Greater Caribbean have been more influential than Richard and Sally Price, whose best-known work began among the Saamaka Maroons of Suriname in the late 1960s and continues today, from Paris to Pernambuco. With dozens of…
¡Celebremos el Mes de la Herencia Hispana! Join us for an afternoon of music, family activities, community resources, and book giveaways for the kids. We will have performance by Fermín Ceballos and Merengue4Four. We will also be highlighting our…
Join the weekly Spanish language meet-up! Participants will have the opportunity to engage in Spanish conversation with other individuals. We will have different snacks from all over Latin America every week.
TerTUlia has relocated to…
This program provides hang-out time for Spanish-speaking and bilingual families with free activities, snacks, and books. Each monthly gathering features a unique cultural activity, door prize book giveaways, and opportunities for families to connect…
One of the simplest and most illuminating properties of human communities is residential density, as it provides a useful summary of many other properties of the associated socio-spatial network. In contemporary societies fast and low-cost commuting…
