LCL’s Glorimarie Peña Alicea wins Aetna Translation Award
Glorimarie Peña Alicea has won the Aetna Translation Award from UConn’s English department for her translation of Claudia Hernandez’s short story “El hijo muerto” as “Dead Child’s Manual.” Glorimarie’s translation will appear in the 2023 edition of the Long River Review. Congratulations, Glorimarie, on this signal achievement. Glorimarie writes that Hernandez’s story, “published in the book titled […]
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LCL Professor Valérie Saugera Wins NEH Fellowship
Valérie Saugera, Associate Professor of French and Director of the Language Program in French, has been awarded a National Endowment of for the Humanities (NEH) grant for her project, “Chronicling Louchébem, the Resilient Secret Language of the Butchers of Paris.” This Fellowship, one of the most prestigious in the humanities, will allow Professor Saugera time […]
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UConn’s Translation Minor Offers Multicultural Opportunities
Starting in the spring 2020 semester, the University of Connecticut began offering a minor that allows students to explore literary translation while learning how to interact with people from other cultures or those who speak different languages, according to the minor’s website. The literary translation minor is interdisciplinary, incorporating many majors outside of its own department. Translation […]
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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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4/3
Film Screening of Marianne and Discussion with Director Valentina Canavesio
Film Screening of Marianne and Discussion with Director Valentina Canavesio
Monday, April 3rd, 2023
06:00 PM - 08:30 PM
Storrs Campus Oak Hall 101
Join us for this beautiful documentary film featuring seven Muslim French women who share their unique stories about life in secular France. The 75 minute film will be followed by a discussion with the film's director, Valentina Canavesio. -
4/24
UCHI Talk: Hassanaly Ladha
UCHI Talk: Hassanaly Ladha
Monday, April 24th, 2023
03:30 PM - 04:30 PM
Storrs Campus UCHI Conference Room, Homer Babbidge Library
"Solomon's Mirror: The Language of the Qurʾān"
With response by Shihan Zheng
This talk will take place in the Humanities Institute Conference Room in Homer Babbidge Library. Please register if you wish to attend virtually. The event will be livestreamed with automated captioning.
Register to attend virtually: https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_d3gLEKeiRSyWb9uXwGDw6A
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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