1 st GRADUATE STUDENT UCLA LADINO SYMPOSIUM JUDEO-SPANISH COMPARATIVE STUDIES: Literary, Linguistic and Cultural Perspectives

SPEAKERS:

Alicia Sisso Raz
of Voces de Haketía
Time: 11:45- 12:45pm
Haketia: Discovering the Other JudeoSpanish Vernacular

Rachel Amado Bortnick
of Ladinokomunita
Time: 3:45pm -4:45pm
Understandings and Misunderstandings:
Confounding Differences between
Spanish and Ladino

Tuesday, February 21, 2012

• 9:30 COFFEE AND REFRESHMENTS
• 9:45 Welcoming Remarks
  Todd Presner | Director, Center for Jewish Studies, UCLA
  Sarah Stein | Maurice Amado Endowed Chair in Sephardic Studies, UCLA
• 10:00 Anamaria Buzatu | Department of Spanish & Portuguese, UCLA
  Semantic-Lexical Variation of Judeo-Spanish
• 10:30 Cheri Robinson | Department of Spanish & Portuguese, UCLA
  The Sephardim in Morocco: A Comparative Study of Three Journals
• 11:00 Bryan Kirschen | Department of Spanish & Portuguese, UCLA
  Vo s, Vo zós i Vozotros: Historical Development and Contemporary Usage
• 11:30 BREAK
• 11:45 Keynote Speaker | Alicia Sisso Raz
  Haketía: Discovering the Other Judeo- Spanish Vernacular
• 1:00 CATERED LUNCH
• 2:00 Alma Heckman and Ceren Abi | History, UCLA
  Turkish and Moroccan Judeo-Spanish Culture in the Throes of Nationalism
• 2:30 Josh Melamed | History, UCLA
  Orthographical Practices of the Judeo-Spanish Sephardim
• 3:00 Francesca Gambini | Department of Spanish & Portuguese, UCLA
  Latino Jewish Experience in the U.S.
• 3:30 BREAK
• 3:45 Keynote Speaker | Rachel Amado Bortnick
  Understandings and Misunderstandings: Confounding Differences between
• Spanish and Ladino
• 4:45 Concluding Remarks
  Marteen Van Delden | Chair, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, UCLA
• 5:00 RECEPTION