Modern Languages: What's New ?
Our Fulbright Scholars
Mike Shirar with Professors Baker and Dillmann
Mike Shirar, German Major, received a Teaching Fulbright to Austria for 2010-2011.
Thomas Simeone with Professors Dillmann and Baker
Thomas Simeone received a Fulbright award to Austria.
Leah Ewing with Professors Baker and Dillmann
German major Leah Ewing has been awarded an Austrian Teaching Fulbright for 2010-2011.
Teresa Young and Kim Lewis with Prof. Llanos
Teresa Young, Spanish / Communication double major and Spanish Fellow, has been awarded a Fulbright to Argentina next year. She has also been selected as this year's graduating class student speaker and she has been nominated for a student leadership award.
Kim Lewis who is Spanish / SocAnth double major, a Spanish fellow and president of Sigma Delta Phi has been awarded a Fulbright to Ecuador.
French Master Chocolatier to Visit
Edouard Hirsinger a master chocolatier from France will arrive on campus on April 28 to share his creative process of high-end chocolate making with our students. While on campus he will attend the French seminar on gastronomy and will offer chocolate tasting sessions. He will also visit the Conversation class that will be studying the movie "A Matter of Taste".
Click here to see photos from the events!
A Collaborative International Theatre Venture – El desdén, con el desdén
From Page to Stage!
Performances on April 18 and April 19 at the Ace Morgan Theatre
Check out our Facebook Group for more details!! => El desdén con el desdén at Denison
CAST:
CARLOS: Jorge Sesé
POLILLA: Ricardo Arqueros
PRINCIPE DE BEARNE: Will McGregor
GASTON, CONDE DE FOX: Claire Navarro and Lauren Mallett
DIANA: Lucía Guerra
CINTIA: Angélica Gutiérrez
FENISA: Carrie Pronai
LAURA: Cali Orr and Katie Stranahan
CONDESA, MADRE DE DIANA: Harlene Bryenton and Hannah Hanssens-Reed
DIRECTOR: Francisco García Vicente (Escuela Superior de Arte Dramático de Murcia)
SET DESIGN: Tamara Honesty
SET CONSTRUCTION: Andrew Johns
COSTUMES: Cynthia Turnbull and Joyce Merrilees
LANGUAGE COACH: Susan Paun de García
Logistical support: Liz Barringer-Smith
Additional funding from The Patty Foresman Fund and The Vail Arts Series
Writing Against War
Ingeborg Bachmann (1926 - 1973)
Exhibit at Mulberry House Gallery
March 22 - April 8, 10 am - 4 pm daily
"For that day I want to keep words fresh,
for the day yet to come on which
the work on weapons ceases (...)"
I. Bachmann, Lay down your Weapons
This interdisciplinary, multi-media exhibition, with texts and video material both in English and German, on Austrian writer Ingeborg Bachmann's work created by well-known Bachmann scholar Hans Hoeller is entitled "Schreiben gegen den Krieg" - "Writing against War." The website www.ingeborg-bachmann.cc provides a detailed description of the project. The exhibition has already been successfully shown in different countries across Europe.
Poster and photos by Jonathan Green '10
Education, Spanish Students Get '360 Degree' Learning Experience in Nicaragua
Span 323 (taught by Prof. Dosinda García-Alvite and EDU 390 (taught by Prof. Lyn Robertson) took a group of 10 students to Nicaragua for a week in February, where they lived on a sustainable farm while visiting Nicaraguan public schools. Read more at http://www.denison.edu/offices/publicaffairs/featuredstories/nicaragua_trip.html
Students will reflect on this experience at an open forum on April 8th at 5:30 in Higley Auditorium.
Language and Culture House
The Language and Culture House is an exciting residential option that gives second, third, and fourth-year students a special environment where they can hone their language skills and participate in special cultural events. If you choose this option, you will live in a small community of peers who share your enthusiasm for foreign languages and cultures. Special extracurricular activities and programming in the Language House will support your language acquisition and you will have opportunities for a close relationship with professors and language assistants from the department of Modern Languages. This option is ideal for students who want to sharpen their daily language skills, as well as for students returning from abroad who want to maintain those skills.
The Language and Culture House, largely administered by its residents with the help of the Modern Languages Department, will organize activities involving all modern languages that are taught at Denison: Arabic, Chinese, French, German, Japanese, Portuguese, and Spanish. Within the house language clusters will be organized, with the make-up of the clusters dependent upon the numbers of students enrolled in the program. The students within the clusters will determine whether or not use of the target language will be required in the House. Activities will include such things as visits by writers, scholars, and artists, performances by dance and theater troupes, celebration of national holidays (for example Día de los Muertos and Mardi Gras), and introductions to Arabic and Chinese calligraphy.
Participants in Preston's Language and Culture Program will enroll in a one-credit fall colloquium. The colloquium will center on the viewing and discussion of foreign-language films chosen for their appropriateness as vehicles for addressing issues of special interest to students of foreign languages and cultures, and for considering the topic chosen for community-wide attention in 2010-2011.