America Reads Spanish launched, with great success, its first panel for translation rights in the United States, showcasing the latest titles coming from Spain with rights available for translation.

Centro Cultural Español Miami presents “Ciclo de Cine: Intercambio cultural entre España y Argentina” every Tuesday of May, at 7 p.m.

The second edition of LéaLA will be held May 11 – 13 at the Los Angeles Convention Center. The event is organized by University of Guadalajara.

Nielsen BookScan, part of the Nielsen Company (US) LLC, and America Reads Spanish (ARS) present the free, weekly list of the Spanish bestseller titles in the US Market for week 18 of 2012 (week ending 05/06/2012).

The “Learning the Language” blog goes over a recent study published by Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences about how bilingualism affects the brain, in a positive way.

In his blog at the Wall Street Journal, Robert Lee Histz writes about a study which claims that the ability to speak two languages can make bilingual people better able to pay attention than those who can only speak one language.

The four-day Intensive Course of Short Stories by Jorge Eduardo Benavides at Centro Cultural Español Miami is open to the general public.

The movie, based on José Zorrilla's “Don Juan Tenorio”, is featured this week at the Días de Cine Reading Club. This initiative is sponsored by the America Reads Spanish program and the American Library Association to promote literature and the Spanish language in American libraries and universities.

Learn how to apply for the “Lánzate” travel award and the HACU scholarship, read about the free College Board 101 webinar, the award presented to the Secretary of Labor and more, at the Hispanic Association of Colleges and Universities eNewsletter.

The publisher's May releases include the titles “El Pintor de mujeres sin rostro” (Algaida), “El rey Arturo, el guerrero de occidente” (Alianza Editorial), “Cuanto sabes... de Historia de España” (Vox) and many more.