“Breaking Barriers, Building Bridges: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Research and Teaching” is the XXII Hispanic and Lusophone Conference organized by the graduate students of the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at UC Santa Barbara. This year’s event will take place in the Flying A Room at the University Center in UCSB from 9am to 5pm on April 11, 2024. The conference theme proposes a debate on the necessity of multidisciplinary perspectives in literary research and university teaching in the humanities. This conference is open to the public and is a platform for graduate and undergraduate students to present their research. The keynote speaker this year is Dr. Omar Pimienta, Assistant Professor in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at UCSB. We look forward to seeing you there!

This event is co-sponsored by the GCLR.