Modern Languages News

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Rocky Mountain PBS interviewed Michael Abeyta, Associate Professor in the Department of Modern Languages, on Día de los Muertos (Day of the Dead) traditions and rituals. “It’s a syncretic holiday—a mixture of Catholic religious belief and indigenous religious belief, and it represents a religious exchange,” he said. “When you think...

Alan Sumler, lecturer in Modern Languages, weighs in on whether the Ancient Romans consumed cannabis. Sumler found enough references to the reefer in Greek, Latin and Roman texts to write a book about it in 2018: Cannabis in the Ancient Greek and Roman World . According to Sumler, there is...

The Spanish spoken for hundreds of years in the San Luis region of Colorado first arrived in the 1500s, when Spaniards and mestizos from Mexico brought words from the old and new worlds as they settled in what is now New Mexico. As mestizos and colonists clashed and then blended...

You've seen him do his high-wire name reading act at graduation for many years with confidence and style. Now hear how Associate Professor and Chair of Modern Languages Devin Jenkins feels about the important service he does for the university. What goes into reading names at CU Denver's commencement Next...