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News &
Events
Upcoming
events:
For information on Spanish
Courses for Fall 2011 & Spring 2012, click
here.
Graduates
of 2011
Congratulations to graduating MFL seniors: Dana Beyer
(Communications / Spanish), Kayce DeRoo (Spanish /
Elementary Education), Heather Jean Fantetti (Art /
French), Kimberly Howard (Spanish /
Elementary Education), Berenice Martinez (French /
Political Science), Shayla Schmidt (Spanish), Lindsey N.
Smith (Spanish / Elementary Education), Lauren
Zak (History / Spanish).
Graduates from 2010
Congratulations to graduating MFL seniors: Erin Deford
(French, History), Sarah Evans (French, International
Studies), Diana Mojden (Spanish), Trish Semetis
(Spanish), Gianna Sagert (Spanish), Megan O'Connell
(Spanish), Shannon Slee (Spanish), Lauren Livingston (Spanish), Hayley Townsend (Spanish)
Cultural
Awareness Week. April 4-10, 2011.
April 04, 2011
7:00-9:00
PM, HT 109:-The Latino & Hispanic Experience. Showing of
the documentary, 9500 Liberty
www.9500liberty.com.
, followed by a Q & A session, led by Professor,
Dianna Ruggiero. Concession stand will carry “Nachos”.
Sponsored by the Office of Intercultural Life.
April 05, 2011
4:30 PM,
Private Dining Room: Meet
and Greet with Tim Wise and
discussion of his book entitled
: Color
Blind.
Sponsored by
the Office of Intercultural Life and
Association
for Student
Activity
and Programing
(ASAP).
7:00 PM,
Dahl Auditorium: Colorblind:
The Rise of Post-Racial Politics and the Retreat From
Racial Equity, by Tim Wise,
Tim Wise is one of the most prominent antiracist
essayist, educator and activist in the United States.
For twenty years he has challenged racial inequities as
a community organizer, public speaker, workshop
facilitator and writer. He has spoken to hundreds of
thousands of people, contributed essays or chapters to
more than twenty books, and has appeared regularly on
radio and television as a guest commentator on race
issues. He is the author of five books:
White like Me: Reflections on Race
from a Privileged Son; Affirmative Action: Racial
Preference in Black and White; Speaking Treason
Fluently: Anti-Racist Reflections from an Angry White
Male, and Between Barack and a Hard Place: Racism and
White Denial in the Age of Obama,
and
Color Blind. In his talk he
will discuss the rise of post-racial politics and the
retreat from racial equity, and how "colorblindness" in
policy and personal practice perpetuate racial inequity
in the United States today.
Sponsored by the Office of
Intercultural Life and Association
for Student
Activity
and Programing
(ASAP).
April 06, 2011
7:00-10:00
PM, Dahl Chapel: Variety
Show:
Cultural identity performances through music, fashion
show, and poetry recitals. Sponsored by Intercultural
Life Social Events Committee,
Raices
and International Club.
April 07, 2011
4:30 PM,
Private Dining Room:
What’s your Gay Point Average?
(GPA )by Shane
Windmeyer, a GLBT activist, and founder of “Campus
Pride”.
Shane Windmeyer will discuss why
learning about lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender
(LGBT) issues does not have to be divisive or difficult
on campus, and will share why college students need to
understand why having a high Gay Point Average is an
important aspect of diversity and preparation for
success in life—This interactive, high impact program
destroys stereotypes, deepens understanding and compels
participants to take the next step in coming out as
visible allies and leaders for all people, including
LGBT people. Sponsored by the Office of Intercultural
Life, Public
Affairs
Committee
(PAC) of the faculty, and
Students
Organized
to Unite
People
(SOUP) .
7:00 PM,
Highlander Room: The Impact
of Hate, by Shane
Windmeyer : The Impact of Hate: Many of us do not
understand the impact of bias and hate on a college
community. We are neither prepared to handle an
incident, nor empowered to actively do anything to
prevent one. Fighting hate begins with awareness. Most
victims are so frightened and shocked, they don’t know
where to turn on campus for help. For more than a decade
as founder of the national Stop
The Hate Train The Trainer Program,
Windmeyer has been helping
students, faculty, and campus life professionals become
advocates for hate-free campuses. He has trained more
than 1,200 people to actively prevent and respond to
hate crimes.
This program is designed to create
a foundation of understanding surrounding hate crimes,
to explore an individual's awareness of prejudice and to
motivate individuals to make a difference fighting bias
and hate within their campus community. Participants are
"dared" to fight the roots of hatred in specific and
individual ways. . Sponsored by the Office of
Intercultural Life, Public
Affairs
Committee
(PAC) of the Faculty, and
Students
Organized
to Unite
People
(SOUP) .
April 10,
2011
Gospel Music,
Time and location TBA
OTHER UP-COMING EVENTS
April 19, 2011
Founder's Day Events-Scholars Day
Students from Professor Ruggiero's
Spanish 310 course, Introduction to Spanish Literature,
will be performing the play "Esperando la carroza" by
Argentinian playwright Jacobo Langser. Students
from Professor Gaster's Spanish 336 course, Theatre in
the Spanish-Speaking World, will perform Cuban
playwright Virgilio
Piñera's
"Estudio en blanco y negro." All performances will be in
the Hall of Fame Room of the Huff Center between
3:15-4:00 on April 19th. See video
here.
April 21, 2011
Teatro
Latino in Chicago
Professor Tim Gaster and students
from his Theatre in the Spanish-Speaking World course will
travel to Chicago on April 21st to view, Chicago-Latina
playwright, Tanya Saracho's "El Nogalar". Click
here for more information on the show, playwright,
and director.
Regular
events:
International Luncheon Program
 The MFL Department organizes the International Luncheon Program every semester.
The presentations take place in the Highlander Room, and international food is
served. The programs, which include a speaker’s presentation and discussion,
begin at noon and last about an hour.
Global
Rhythms
Professor Diana Ruggiero teaches
a dance class
most Wednesdays focusing on rhythms from around the
world like Salsa, Merengue,
Bachata and Bomba.
Tu Voz – Tu
Comunidad
"Tu Voz-Tu Comunidad" is a free Spanish-language "health
and well-being" newsletter
distributed to the Spanish-speaking communities of
Warren and Knox Counties. The newsletter is published
three times a year by an ethnically diverse group of
Spanish- and English-speaking Monmouth College
professors, student interns, and community volunteers
from Monmouth and Galesburg. The printing is funded by a
mix of University of Illinois small grant funds and
revenues from advertisements.
Faculty
News:
Michael Harrison
recently gave an invited lecture at Knox College in
Galesburg entitled "Transitions,
Transformations, and Triumphs: The Emergence of Queer
Culture in Post-Franco Spain".
Michael Harrison
recently authored a scholarly article entitled "The
Queer Space and Fluid Bodies of Nazario's Anarcoma" that
was published in Postmodern Culture 19.3 (2009).
He has also presented a paper entitled "Graphic
Narratives Making (a) Difference: Queer Spanish Comics
of Engagement" at the XX Congreso
Anual de la Asociación Internacional de Literatura y Cultura Femenina Hispánica in Austin, Texas. He also presented a paper entitled "Transformation,
Masks and Dual Identities: Queer Superhero Imagery in
Contemporary Spanish Literature" at the
Understanding Superheroes conference held at the
University of Oregon in Eugene. Read more
here.
Professor Susan Holm
writes and tells of her rewarding experiences in
Turkey.
Susan Holm, the Dorothy Donald Professor of Modern
Foreign Languages at Monmouth College, wrote one of the
32 chapters of "Tales from the Expat Harem," an
anthology that was published in the U.S. by Seal Press
in 2006. For more information read
"Expat Harem."
Heather Brady won
a Robles-Garcia Fulbright award to conduct research on
immigration and teach English in a small town called
Atolinga, in Zacatecas state in Mexico. Some of her most
recent activities include improving her Spanish, going
to the charreada (Mexican rodeo), visiting the nearby
ancient Cazcan archeological site called Teul,
participating in a pilgrimage to a sanctuary at
a ranch named Santa Rita, studying the Saint Cristobal
Magallanes, who lived nearby, and eating gorditas, a
regional corn bread.
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Heather Brady
recently authored a scholarly article entitled "Recovering Claire de Duras's Creole Inheritance: Race and Gender in the Exile
Correspondence of her Saint-Domingue Family" that was
published in L'Esprit créateur,
an academic journal dedicated to the study of French
literature. For more information read
"Lost letters help MC
professor write paper on French author."
Brady has also won a Summer Scholarship
from the American Association of
Teachers of French and the Quebec Foreign Ministry to
study at a French Teaching Workshop at the Université
Laval in Quebec in June and July 2008.
Diana Ruggiero
will present at the 2011 Language
Symposium Foreign Languages as a
Global Skill, which will be held at Northwestern
University on April 15th and 16th. The title
of her
presentation is: "Hybrid
Spanish: Metacognition, College Foreign Language
Instruction, and Virtual Study Abroad."
She is currently implementing this new strategy at
Monmouth College, where she is the language coordinator.
To see what Hybrid Spanish is all
about click
here. Professor Ruggiero will be also teaching Spanish for educators in the
Spring 2012. Diana Ruggiero is also a film-maker. As
part of her dissertation she filmed a documentary called
“Beyond Soccer: The life and music of the
afro-ecuadorians”. She will be directing a documentary
in Monmouth about Latino immigration, collaborating with
Professor Brady and Gaster among others. Diana Ruggiero
just published a scholarly article “La Bomba: Music,
Race, and Globalization Ecuador’s Chota-Mira Valley”
in Perspectivas Latinoamericanas. She is currently
working on an article about Hybrid Spanish.
Timothy Gaster will
present a paper entitled "The Representation of Japanese
Women in Early Twentieth-Century Portugal: A Model of
Social Reform?" at the 3rd
Conference on Orientalisms and the Asian and Arab
Diasporas: Imagining the "Oriental" in the Americas and
the Iberian Peninsula at the University of
California, Merced, in April 2011. Read more
here.
Past
events:
2010
Darwinpalooza!
2009
Mexican Independence Day. September 15, 2009.
Students from Professor Brady's Citizenship course on
Immigration attended Mexican Independence Day
Festivities at the First Street Armory. For more
information read
"Hispanic Heritage Honored."
Véronique Tadjo,
"The Power of African Images:
From Written to Painted
Narratives."
Tadjo is a visual artist and
author of Blind
Kingdom (2008) and The Shadow of Imana (2002).
Thursday, April 24 at 4 pm, Tartan Room, Monmouth
College.
2008
Foreign Language Week
2008
"On the Frontline: Working
in Foreign Languages," Thursday, April
3. Students and alumni
working in the field speak about the second language in
their lives. Participants include: Tammy Peterson
(Bilingual Teacher, Beardstown Schools; Christine Del
Re (International Office, WIU), Ana and Todd Franks
(Monmouth-Roseville High School), Leanna Wilson
(Graduate Student in the Global Master's Program in
International Relations at Webster University) who spoke
from Geneva, Switzerland through Skype.
Kim
Potowski, a member of the University of
Illinois-Chicago’s department of Spanish and Portuguese,
gave a presentation entitled "I Was Raised Talking Like
My Mom: The Influence of Mothers on the Spanish of
MexiRicans," Potowski’s study found that almost 75
percent of the participants were rated as having dialect
traits similar to those of their mother’s
ethnolinguistic group, underscoring the role of mothers
in language transmission and the development of minority
language identity.
Max Morel, Doctors without Borders, "Doctors without Borders and Africa"
Max Morel spoke about his time in the Ivory Coast and the Democratic Republic of
the Congo, where he worked as a logistics volunteer for Doctors without Borders
(Medecins sans frontières). He set up health care programs for displaced
people coping with the legacy of war.
Leisa Kauffmann: Mesoamerica’s Classic Heritage and the Road to Aztlán
Professor Leisa Kauffmann, Assistant Professor of Modern Foreign Languages,
traveled in Mexico and the Southwest with a group of scholars, visiting
architectural ruins of ancient cities as part of a National Endowment for the
Humanities Summer Institute entitled “Mesoamerica and the Southwest: A New
History for an Ancient Land.” The Institute’s site visits were accompanied by
lectures from prominent scholars as well as readings. Leisa will share her
experiences on the road, and something of the cultures that she learned about.
Rosanna Warren: A Hidden Life in French
The poet, writer
and educator Rosanna Warren was one of our keynote speakers for Foreign
Languages Week. Rosanna Warren teaches at Boston University as the Emma
MacLachlan Metcalf Professor of the Humanities and Professor of English and
Modern Foreign Languages and Literatures. Her research interests include
poetry, translation, literary biography and the visual arts.
Marjorie
Agosín: Stitching a Life: Hope in a Time of Sorrow
Following the
notorious 1973 military coupe in Chile, thousands of supporters of deposed
president Salvador Allende mysteriously disappeared. Marjorie Agosín, now a
professor at Wellesley College, was a student involved in the effort to bring
the quilts, or arpilleras, to the United States. She told the moving
story of the wives, sisters and mothers of the victims, known as the arpilleristas, who sewed stories of their loved one’s disappearances into
quilts and smuggled them out of the country to alert the world to the reality of
the situation.
Heather Brady: Lessons About
Kenya
Kenya
may be best known to the western world for its wildlife
safaris and coffee plantations. Professor Heather Brady
went to Kenya with a different task in mind: to complete
an anthology of short fiction. She will speak about
hearing traditional storytelling, living in a missionary
convent and the lessons she learned about rural poverty,
environmental devastation and the controversial role of
writers in transforming their experiences of survival
into beautiful art. For more
information, read "Brady
speaks about Kenya at International Luncheon." |
