Brendan Hennessey delivers IASH Lecture
On Wednesday, October 9, Brendan Hennessey gave an IASH lecture entitled "Malaria in Italian Fascist Cinema." His talk was also featured in Pipe Dream. View the article here.
Robyn Cope to present at H.S.A. Conference
Robyn Cope will present her paper entitled "Urban Maroons: Emmelie Prophète's Les Villages de Dieu" at the Haitian Studies Association Conference in NYC, October 10th-13th.
Yulia Bosworth to present at international conference
Yulia will travel to a conference on Linguistic ideologies in the written press and other communication media: the example of Romance languages to present her paper « Molière amoché » : Une analyse comparative du discours journalistique sur la qualité du français des politiciens anglophones dans la presse francophone et anglophone du Canada at the Université de Moncton, October, 9-12
Yulia Boswoth to preside over international conference
Yulia Bosworth will travel to Québec City to attend and oversee the Biennial American Council for Québec Studies (ACQS) conference as president of the organization, October 3rd-6th.
Dora Polachek gives keynote lecture at Old Dominion University
Dora Polachek traveled to Old Dominion University in Norfolk Virginia, to give a keynote lecture entitled "Gaming Strategies in the Heptameron" at the fifth biennial meeting of the Mid-Atlantic Seiziémistes, a conference on 16th-century French literature and culture, September 21, 2024.
Robyn Cope's article appears in New West Indian Guide
Robyn Cope's review of Régine Michelle Jean-Charles' Looking for Other Worlds: Black Feminism and Haitian Fiction appeared in the New West Indian Guide, September 19, 2024.
Bryan Kirschen to present at LASSO 2024
Bryan Kirschen will present at the Linguistic Association of the Southwest (LASSO) conference at the University of Texas at San Antonio. His panel explores Language in the Religious Domain, and he will speak on Ladino throughout Sephardic communities in the US, September 26-28, 2024.
Marisol Marcin to present at an international conference
Marisol Marcin will be a keynote speaker at the 5th International Conference on Professional Development at the University of Nariño, Colombia. She will speak on factors which impact language teaching and learning, September 25-27, 2024.
Miller McLean to present at NCFS 2024
Miller McLean will present his paper entitled "The Production of Scientific Knowledge as Paternal Authority in Émile Zola’s Paris" at the Semicentennial Nineteenth Century French Studies Colloquium, September 19-21, 2024 at Duke University.
Anne-Caroline Sieffert to present at NCFS 2024
AC Sieffert will present her paper entitled “The clothes of Bridgerton: 18th-19th century indiennes, French modistes and the global rise of the fashion industry in the West" at the Semicentennial Nineteenth Century French Studies Colloquium, September 19-21, 2024 at Duke University.
Bryan Kirschen featured in Bing U News
Read about Bryan Kirschen and Dina Danon’s (Judaic Studies and History) work though BU’s Ladino Collaboratory in Bing U News: Saving a language from extinction, Harpur faculty revive Ladino.
Gerardo Pignatiello presented at an international conference
Gerardo Pignatiello presented his paper entitled “Tango y crimen: moral y racionalidad económica” at the III Coloquio del Seminario Entreveramientos at Universidad Veracruzana, Xalapa, Veracruz, Mexico (September 11-13, 2024).
Ana Ros presented at LASA 2024
Ana Ros attended the Latin American Studies Association Congress where she presented her paper on Uruguay: ¿Desobediencia tardía o a pesar de todo?. Dr. Ros also participated in a workshop on the topic of Memoria Activista: Reflexiones sobre la fuerza de la memoria para fortalecer procesos de justicia por crímenes de lesa humanidad y desafiar negacionismos (June 12–15, 2024, Bogotá, Colombia and Virtual).
Ana Ros joins Uruguayan national system of researchers
Ana Ros has been accepted as a member of the (SNI) National Research System of Uruguay, recognizing her for her research and publication record within the Humanities. https://sni.org.uy/investigadores/ (May 2024).
Yulia Bosworth featured in Bing U News
Sociolinguist Yulia Bosworth’s research explores the intersection of language and identity in Quebec. Learn more about her scholarship in Deux solitudes: Understanding the divide between French- and English-speaking Canada.
Yulia Bosworth to present at 12th Québec Studies Colloquium
Yulia Bosworth will present "Navigating Identity and Belonging in François Legault’s Quebec: An Analysis of Discourse(s) in the Context of Bill 96" at the 12th Québec Studies Colloquium at Bishop's University in Québec. March 2024.
Bryan Kirschen published a paper in Mizmor Le-David: Studies in Jewish Languages (CSIC)
Bryan Kirschen's paper "The Judeo-Spanish of Sa‘adi a-Levi: Mis memorias" appears in Katja Šmid, Ora Schwarzwald, and Ofra Tirosh-Becker's edited volume in honor of Prof. David Bunis, Mizmor Le-David: Studies in Jewish Languages, published by Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas. For details.
Yulia Bosworth named Scholar in Residence, to give Distinguished Québec Address
Yulia Bosworth was selected as a “Scholar-in-Residence” SUNY Plattsburgh’s Center for Canadian Studies. In addition to this honor, Prof. Bosworth has been invited to give the 2024 Distinguished Québec Address: "French as 'the Common Language of the Québec Nation': Legislating Language and Identity in Contemporary Québec". The Distinguished speaker series is the “keynote institute-sponsored campus event of the year,” typically featuring Québec ministers and prominent political figures. March 2024.
Gerardo Pignatiello to present at Ithaca College
Gerardo Pignatiello presented “Ten cuidado, mariposa": violencia y racionalidad económica de la moral tanguera” at Ithaca College. March 2024.
Tomás Guerrero Díaz to present at international conference
Tomás Guerrero Díaz presented “El yo femenino ante la incertidumbre del tardocapitalismo y la crisis climática en la poesía de Rosa Berbel” at XXXV Congresos Internacionales de Literatura y Estudios Hispánicos in Oaxaca, Mexico. March 2024.
Marisol Marcin nominated to NECTFL's LEAP
Marisol Marcin has been nominated and accepted to participate in LEAP, a leadership group created by NECTFL. She attended the 70th Annual Northeast Conference in New York City. February 2024.
Bryan Kirschen published a paper in volume on Minority Languages
Bryan Kirschen’s paper “Ladino: Minority Language and Culture of Sephardic Jews” was published in Yasmine Beale-Rivaya’s edited volume Minority and Minoritized Languages and Cultures, through Texas State University Pressbooks. Read more. January 2024.
Bryan Kirschen, Featured in Academic Minute
Bryan Kirschen, was featured in The Academic Minute, a two-and-a-half minute daily module organized by the Association of American Colleges and Universities, which features researchers from colleges and universities around the world.
Rachel Samiani, Collaboration links Italian class, UE schools
Students in instructor Rachel Samiani's Intermediate Italian class give a presentation at Union-Endicott High School. Read more
Professor Cope's article appears in the Journal of Haitian Studies
Professor Robyn Cope's article, " 'We Are Your Neighbors': Edwidge Danticat's New Narrative for Haiti" appeared in the Spring 2017 issue of the Journal of Haitian Studies. The article, like Professor Cope's new upper-level French course, "Haiti's New Narratives," grew out of her research on post-earthquake Haitian literature.
