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Spring 2021 Portuguese Course Offerings
The Department of Spanish & Portuguese has announced their Spring 2021 Portuguese course offerings. See the PDF flyer below for a look at what they are offering next semester!
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“Memoria y salud andino amazónica" Bitácora
As part of the strategic activities co-organized by The Center for Latin American Studies, The Abya Yala Student Organization at Ohio State University, and the Foro Permanente de Estudios,…

Area Studies Centers’ Diversity Speaker Series
Ohio State is taking a fresh look at the Black Lives Matter movement and how it relates to every facet of knowledge we engage in across all disciplines and from multiple cultural perspectives. The…

Featured FLAS Fellow: Nadia El-Yousseph
Nadia El-Yousseph is a 2020-2021 FLAS fellow studying Portuguese.
"I’m learning Portuguese to help increase my language and cultural competency to enable me to assess speech and…

Featured FLAS Fellow: Gabriel Zeballos
Gabriel Zeballos is a 2020-2021 FLAS fellow studying Quechua.
"I am learning Quechua in order to be able to communicate with the native people that live in the Andes of South…

Featured FLAS Fellow: Taisse Torres-Lorenzo
Taisse Torres-Lorenzo is a 2020-2021 FLAS fellow studying Portuguese
"One of the reasons I’m taking Portuguese is because I think it’s an interesting language and since I already speak…

Call for Abstracts: Global One Health Day Conference
Call for abstracts: Virtual Poster Sessions & Student Competition Deadline: October 2, 2020The biennial Global One Health Day Conference at The Ohio State University brings together…

Area Studies Centers Award $1.5 million in FLAS Fellowships for Summer 2020 and Academic Year 2020-2021
The East Asian Studies Center, Center for Latin American Studies and Center for Slavic and East European Studies have awarded more than $1.5 million in student support this year in the form of 64…

Featured FLAS Fellow: Anna Bulkowski
Anna Bulkowski is a 2020-2021 FLAS fellow studying Portuguese
"As a future lawyer, I think it is incredibly important to not only be able to communicate with a wide range of people…