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News and features
Year Abroad stories: Anu Abicht
In this blog post, Spanish MA (Hons) student Anu Abicht writes about how she discovered a passion for teaching yoga during her Year Abroad in Almería, Spain.
How Latin American feminist theory can help battle toxic masculinity
Elisabeth Goemans, a PhD candidate in Spanish, Portuguese and Latin American Studies, tells us about writing an opinion piece for the newspaper De Standaard, and what happened next.
Meet our graduates: Harry Richards
We talk to Harry about how his year abroad in Mexico and Colombia inspired him to write a feature film.
Shaping the Sustainable European University
Students of Spanish, Rachel Weller and Gabriel Vargas, talk to us about their involvement in the second Una Europa Student Congress.
What’s it like to be a virtual language ambassador?
Recent French and Spanish MA (Hons) graduate, Anna, talks us through her final year experience.
Meet our graduates: Damian Platt MBE
We talk to the author of “Nothing by Accident: Brazil on the Edge” about how studying Spanish at Edinburgh led to a career in human rights and building a world-class skatepark.
What's on
Event listing
Conectando: Scottish Encounters with Spanish & Portuguese
An exhibition celebrating 100 years of the Spanish Degree at the University of Edinburgh, with items from the archives and collections exploring connections between Scotland and the Spanish and Portuguese-speaking worlds.
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SPLAS Seminar Series: Bárbara Fernández Melleda
'Neoliberalism and its Discontents: Three Decades of Chilean Women’s Poetry (1980-2010)'. A free seminar by our colleague Dr Bárbara Fernández Melleda (University of Edinburgh).
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