2026/7/9

On Wednesday, July 1, Kyoto University of Foreign Studies (KUFS) invited two professors from the Interamerican University of Puerto Rico, who engaged in enthusiastic discussions with students of Professor Takashi Ushijima's seminar in the Department of Hispanic Studies, Faculty of Foreign Studies.

The two visiting professors, Dr. Alexander Rosado and Dra. Carola Narváez, gave presentations based on the themes "Images, Literature, and Cultural Memory: A Contemporary Reinterpretation of Puerto Rican Photographic Archives" and "Identity, Resilience and Collective Memory in the Spanish Caribbean Region." During the Q&A sessions following both presentations, seminar students enthusiastically posed questions to the visiting professors, making for exciting exchanges of opinions and ideas.

This opportunity to experience Puerto Rican Spanish, which the students rarely have an opportunity to hear, while learning about important research findings proved to be a valuable experience for all in attendance. In addition to the visiting Puerto Rican professors, Dr. Roberto Negron from Doshisha University and Associate Professor Anna Barinova of KUFS' Department of Russian Studies also took part, deepening the discussions further.

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