Fulbright Contributes to Dynamic Irish Program at UConn
UConn is lucky to host Sinéad Murray as this year’s Fulbright Foreign Language Teaching Assistant in Irish (Gaelic). Sinéad is a passionate advocate for the Irish language and for Irish Studies both at home, in Ireland, and among those here abroad who are interested in the history, language and culture of Ireland. There is a […]
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The Practical Side: Equipping Graduate Students for Jobs
The Department of Literatures, Cultures and Languages welcomes a mix of Masters and Ph.D. students in German, French, Spanish, Italian, and Comparative Literature (which includes a Chinese Studies Program). Graduate students in programs in the humanities are well aware that the employment landscape has shifted decisively in the past twenty to thirty years. This said, […]
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Liansu Meng’s Ecofeminist Illumnination of Poet Chen Jingrong
As part of the LCL Faculty Colloquium Series, Liansu Meng, Associate Professor of Chinese, presented “Ecofeminism Avant La Lettre: Chen Jingrong and Her Creative Translation of Baudelaire.” The presentation was excerpted from her essay in Chinese Poetry and Translations: Rights and Wrongs (Amsterdam University Press, 2019) edited by Maghiel van Crevel and Lucas Klein, a […]
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Spotlight: Stefan Bronner
Dr. Stefan Bronner, Assistant Professor in Residence of German Studies, obtained his PhD in Germanistik at the Otto-Friedrich-Universität Bamberg and has published on a wide range of topics including German literature and culture, postmodernism, continental philosophy, spirituality, and the contemporary world. Bronner’s work is deeply rooted to his passion for literary scholarship. Bronner has become […]
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2/26
Yiddish Tish Discussions
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2/26
Humanities Fellow Research Talk: Andrea Celli
Humanities Fellow Research Talk: Andrea Celli
Wednesday, February 26th, 2020
04:00 PM - 05:30 PM
Storrs Campus Humanities Institute Seminar Room, Babbidge Library 4th Floor
Our UCHI Fellow will be presenting their research talk on “Hagar the Outcast: Reappraisals of a Biblical Theme in the Context of Post-Tridentine Culture” followed by a light reception. For more information, please visit https://humanities.uconn.edu/fellowships/current-and-previous-fellows/. If you require accommodation for this event, please contact uchi@uconn.edu at least one week prior to the event. -
2/27
ISSS Coffee Hour
ISSS Coffee Hour
Thursday, February 27th, 2020
02:00 PM - 04:00 PM
Storrs Campus The William Benton Museum of Art
Let's travel to Poland!
Stop by for an interactive presentation about the Polish culture and to see the museum's temporary exhibition on DEMOKRACJA GRAFIKA: The Democracy of Print. The museum's exhibition celebrates UConn Professor Emeritus of Printmaking Gus Mazzocca’s gift to the Benton of more than 150 prints by Polish artists. The prints came to Mazzocca through the exchange program that he established in 1984 with the Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow, Poland
ISSS Coffee Hour is sponsored by the International Student and Scholar Services and hosted by the William Benton Museum of Art. -
2/27
Writers Who Edit, Editors Who Write Series
Writers Who Edit, Editors Who Write Series
Thursday, February 27th, 2020
06:00 PM - 07:00 PM
Storrs Campus UConn Bookstore
Writers Who Edit, Editors Who Write Series with Jennifer N. Baker. February 27th at the UConn Bookstore in Storrs Center. 6:00 pm reading. Readings are free and open to the public.
Jennifer N. Baker is a long-time publishing professional, creator and host of the Minorities in Publishing podcast, and contributing editor to Electric Literature. In 2017, she received a NYSCA/NYFA Fellowship and a Queens Council on the Arts New Work Grant for Nonfiction Literature. Her essay “What We Aren’t (or the Ongoing Divide)” was listed as a Notable Essay in The Best American Essays 2018. She is also the editor of the BIPoC short story anthology Everyday People: The Color of Life (2018). Her fiction, nonfiction, interviews and criticism have appeared in various print and online publications. -
3/4
Departmental Meeting
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3/4
CinemAGEnder: How Hispanic Cinemas Visualize Sexuality and Memory in Old Age
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3/11
Berel Lang: “Against the Lachrymose View of Jewish History—Again”
Berel Lang: “Against the Lachrymose View of Jewish History—Again”
Wednesday, March 11th, 2020
01:30 PM - 03:30 PM
Storrs Campus Babbidge Library, Class of '47 Room
Please join us for the Gene and Georgia Mittelman Lecture in Judaic Studies, presented by Professor Berel Lang on "Against the Lachrymose View of Jewish History—Again."
This event is free and open to the public. A kosher lunch will be served.
About the Talk:
The historian Salo Baron attacked the "lachrymose view of Jewish history" as mistakenly focused on events or practices of persecution and violence in that history--at the same time providing strong evidence that still more basic factors shaped the history of Jewish flourishing and survival. But the same lachrymose view still dominates current popular Jewish understanding, and this has (on the talk's claim) severe, even dangerous practical consequences.
About the Speaker:
Professor of Philosophy Emeritus, SUNY at Albany (BA, Yale; Ph.D, Columbia). Visiting Professor at the Hebrew University, University of Connecticut, Wesleyan. Author of twelve books, including 'Writing and the Moral Self', 'Act and Idea in the Nazi Genocide', 'The Anatomy of Philosophical Style', 'Writing and the Holocaust', and 'Primo Levi: The Matter of a Life'. -
3/18
“How Yiddish Changed America and America Changed Yiddish” with Ilan Stavans and Josh Lambert
“How Yiddish Changed America and America Changed Yiddish” with Ilan Stavans and Josh Lambert
Wednesday, March 18th, 2020
07:00 PM - 08:30 PM
Other Mandell JCC, 335 Bloomfield Avenue, West Hartford
How Yiddish Changed America and How America Changed Yiddish - Join us for a book presentation with Josh Lambert and Ilan Stavans!
Prof. Josh Lambert (UMass Amherst) and Prof. Ilan Stavans (Amherst College) will discuss their new book, How Yiddish Changed America and How America Changed Yiddish—a diverse anthology of the influences and inspirations of Yiddish voices in America—radical, dangerous, and seductive, but also sweet, generous, and full of life. The book will be published at Restless Books in January 2020- read more about the book here: https://restlessbooks.org/bookstore/how-yiddish-changed-america
The event is sponsored by Aleph: Institute for Jewish Ideas, the UConn Center for Judaic Studies and Contemporary Jewish Life, and the Jewish Hartford European Roots Project. -
3/25
Yiddish Tish Discussions
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3/25
Yiddish Tish Discussions
Spotlight: Verena Aschbacher
Verena Aschbacher, a new Ph.D. student in German Studies, grew up in South Tyrol (Südtirol in German), Italy. Verena’s small hometown lies at the border of Austria and Switzerland and people from the area speak regional dialects of German and Italian. This borderland zone combines Mediterranean and Germanic languages and cultures in the midst of dazzling […]
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