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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4/3
Doctoral Dissertation Oral Defense of Charles LeBel
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4/9
The Aetna Celebration of Creative Nonfiction
The Aetna Celebration of Creative Nonfiction
Thursday, April 9th, 2020
06:00 PM - 07:30 PM
Storrs Campus UConn Bookstore
The Aetna Celebration of Creative Nonfiction with Stephen Kuusisto. April 9th at the UConn Bookstore in Storrs Center. 6:00 pm reading. Readings are free and open to the public.
Stephen Kuusisto directs The Burton Blatt Institute’s Interdisciplinary Programs in disability studies at Syracuse University where he holds a University Professorship. He is the author of the memoirs Planet of the Blind (1997), which was a New York Times “Notable Book of the Year,” Eavesdropping: A Memoir of Blindness and Listening (2006), Have Dog, Will Travel: A Poet’s Journey (2018), and of the poetry collections Only Bread, Only Light (2000) and Letters to Borges (2013). A graduate of the Iowa Writer’s Workshop and a Fulbright Scholar, he has taught at the University of Iowa, Hobart & William Smith Colleges, and The Ohio State University. His daily blog “Planet of the Blind” is read globally by people interested in disability and contemporary culture. -
4/23
Jewish Playwriting Contest 2020 at Charter Oak Cultural Center
Jewish Playwriting Contest 2020 at Charter Oak Cultural Center
Thursday, April 23rd, 2020
07:00 PM - 09:00 PM
Other Charter Oak Cultural Center, 21 Charter Oak Avenue, Hartford
THE 2020 JEWISH PLAYWRITING CONTEST: ROLLING, ROLLING, ROLLING!!
The Jewish Plays Project puts bold, progressive Jewish conversations on world stages. The JPP’s innovative and competitive development vehicle invests emerging artists in their Jewish identity; engages Jewish communities in the vetting, selecting and championing of new voices; and secures mainstream production opportunities for the best new plays.
Deadlines and Dates 2020:
Plays Read and Evaluations Submitted: Monday, February 24, 2020
Selection Meeting: Thursday, February 27, 2020 at 7 pm
Hartford Jewish Playwriting Contest at Charter Oak Cultural Center: Thursday, April 23, 2020, 7 pm
Mark your calendars now!
Be part of the international search for the best unpublished Jewish plays by attending "The Jewish Play Writing Contest: Hartford" on Thursday, April 23 at 7:00 pm at Charter Oak Cultural Center, 21 Charter Oak Avenue, Hartford. During this free program, you'll enjoy selections from this year's top three plays and use your cell phone to vote for the winner. This program is produced in collaboration with the UConn Center for Judaic Studies and Contemporary Jewish Life. -
4/24
32nd North American Conference on Chinese Linguistics (NACCL-32)
32nd North American Conference on Chinese Linguistics (NACCL-32)
Friday, April 24th, 2020
12:00 AM - 11:59 PM
Storrs Campus TBA
32nd North American Conference on Chinese Linguistics (NACCL-32), to be held at the University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT, USA, on April 24 - 26, 2020.
The theme of NACCL-32 is collaborativity and interdisciplinarity in Chinese linguistic studies. -
4/27
3rd Annual Aetna Celebration of Student Writing
3rd Annual Aetna Celebration of Student Writing
Monday, April 27th, 2020
03:00 PM - 05:30 PM
Storrs Campus North Reading Room, Wilbur Cross Building
The Aetna Celebration of Student Writing (ACSW) is an annual UConn event held by the Aetna Chair of Writing to showcase student writing work and writing-related research. Students present their writing work completed in writing-intensive UConn courses (First-Year Writing, “W” courses) and/or research on the subject of writing, rhetoric, or a related topic. Individual and group projects are accepted.
The submission deadline to present at the ACSW Poster Fair is April 1, 2020. Visit http://bit.ly/submit2acsw or http://writing.uconn.edu for more details. -
5/6
Departmental Meeting
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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