Conversation Workshops Winter 2024

If you would like to join us for practicing Spanish in our Conversation Workshops or need a one-on-one tutorial for your homework, come to the Spanish Resource Centre at YH 047. Our workshops begin the week of January 15th. FREE. You can get 2 participation points to apply in your Spanish courses. See our schedule.

Times of Women Writers with Eugenia Zicavo/October 5th

Talk Women and Resistance in Art and Education/September 25th

Conversation Workshops Fall 2023

We are open! If you would like to join us for practicing Spanish in our Conversation Workshops or need a one-on-one tutorial for your homework, come to the Spanish Resource Centre at YH 047. We also are offering writing training for the Trilingual Certificate (Spanish). Our workshops begin the week of September 18th. FREE. You can get 2 participation points to apply in your Spanish courses. See our schedule.

Academic year 2022-2023 activities

Lecture: Irene Vallejo

The Department of Hispanic Studies at Glendon College, York University, is pleased to invite you to the lecture Those unique survivors called books by the writer and scholar Irene Vallejo.

Dr. Vallejo is the author of the award-winning book El infinito en un junco (Siruela, 2019), translated into English as Papyrus: The Invention of Books in the Ancient World (Penguin Random House, 2022).

Le Département d’études hispaniques du Collège universitaire Glendon, Université York, est heureux de vous inviter à la conférence Ces survivants uniques appelés livres par l’écrivaine et professeure Irene Vallejo.

Dr. Vallejo est l’auteur du livre L’Infini dans un roseau. L’invention des livres dans l’Antiquité (Paris: Les Belles Lettres/LGF).

Conversation with the Afro-Chilean artist Luta Cruz

Join us for a great conversation with the singer and Afro-Chilean activist Luta Cruz to talk about her anti-racism activism and her compositions. March 21st, 5:00pm Glendon Campus YH-A201. FREE

Free film/film gratuit: Mis dos Voces/ March 9th, 17:00/YH-A201

The Department of Hispanic Studies and the Spanish Resource Centre present the film: Mis dos voces, a poetic reflection on the fluid nature of identity. Colombian filmmaker Lina Rodriguez will be in attendance.

In Spanish with English subtitles.

Le Département d’Études Hispaniques et le Centre de Ressources de l’Espagnol présente le film: Mis dos voces, une réflexion poétique sur la nature fluide de l’identité. La cinéaste colombienne Lina Rodriguez sera présente.

En espagnol avec sous-titres anglais.

Free film screening: Lecciones para Zafirah

The Department of Hispanic Studies presents the film: Lecciones para Zafirah. Testimonies around “The Beast” the migrant’s train to the North.

Documentary (Mexico, 2021), directed by: Carolina Rivas and Daoud Sarhandi.

In Spanish with English subtitles.

February 2nd, 18:00/YH-A201. FREE!

A conversation with /conversation avec Oakland Ross. Feb 2nd, 5pm YH-A201

The strength of knowing Spanish. The Department of Spanish Studies and the Spanish Resource Centre invite you to join our conversation with Oakland Ross, writer and former Globe and Mail & Toronto Star correspondent. Thursday, February 2nd 17:00-18:00 YH-A201, Glendon College.

La force de connaître l’espagnol. Le Département d’Études Hispaniques et le Centre de Ressources de l’Espagnol vous invitent à participer à notre conversation avec Oakland Ross, écrivain et ancien correspondant du Globe and Mail et du Toronto Star. Jeudi 2 février 17:00-18:00 YH-A201, Glendon College.

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Virtual information session NALCAP (Program to go to Spain) January 30th, 3-4pm

Register at: src@glendon.yorku.ca

Advanced Spanish Summer Abroad/Hybrid information session January 26th (13:30-14:30)

New Spanish course! This is an opportunity to immerse yourself in the Spanish language and in Mexican culture. Spend two weeks in Taxco, an important Mexican silver-mining city. Hybrid information session January 26th, 13:30 to 14:30. Register here: https://yorku.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJYpf–tpz8qGNajkIE2NTRbT5AHRp8v2aLT

More information: Professor Shanna Lino, slino@glendon.yorku.ca

Conversation Workshops Winter 2023

We are open! If you would like to join us for practicing Spanish in our Conversation Workshops or need a one-on-one tutorial for your homework, come to the Spanish Resource Centre at YH 047. See our schedule.

Collective altar for the Day of the Dead with the Department of Hispanic Studies

(November 2, 2022).– Students from various programs at Glendon contributed to the collective altar organized by the Spanish Resource Centre with the Department of Hispanic Studies. This year’s altar was dedicated to the many Indigenous children who endured the Canadian residential school system.

With candles, photographs, toys, school supplies, poems, flowers, and handwritten messages, staff members, students of Spanish and Hispanic Studies, and many others, decorated the altar to celebrate the Day of the Dead, a tradition officially recognized by UNESCO in 2003 as an Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity.

On the Day of the Dead, November 2nd, Professor María Constanza Guzmán, Chair of the Department of Hispanic Studies, welcomed attendees to a warm celebration at the Spanish Resource Centre, and Professors Shanna Lino and Alejandro Zamora explained the importance of this ancestral celebration. Students, staff, and all attendees were able to taste “pan de muerto”, the special bread for the occasion, and learned more about the main elements that compose the altar for the dead while practicing the Spanish language. 

The colourful altar (“ofrenda”) can be seen at the Spanish Resource Centre, located at YH047.

Watch our video here: https://www.instagram.com/p/CkdsaXyjb3G/

             

 

Conversation Workshops Fall 2022 

We are open! If you would like to join us for practicing Spanish in our Conversation Workshops or need a one-on-one tutorial for your homework, come to the Spanish Resource Centre at YH 047. See our schedule.