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Spring 2015 the AMBASSADOR Volume XVII Spring 2015 THE AMBASSADOR Department of World languages and cultures . Notes from The chair It’s Spring! The snows of winter have given way to the rains of spring. The crocuses will soon pop up to greet us. And we too arise from our winter doldrums, resurrected from the dark days. Or as e.e. cummings says, Spring is like a perhaps hand (which comes carefully out of Nowhere)arranging a window,into which people look(while people stare arranging and changing placing carefully there a strange thing and a known thing here)and changing everything carefully spring is like a perhaps Hand in a window (carefully to and fro moving New and Old things,while people stare carefully moving a perhaps fraction of flower here placing an inch of air there)and without breaking anything. Inside this issue: Faculty Activities Studying Abroad LAS & Spanish Film Series Department Happenings East German Film Series 2015 Fulbright TA Talk Page 2 Faculty Activities THE AMBASSADOR Dr. Jamie Trnka Holmes Redux.” Robert Downey, saison de l’ombre (64th MIFLC, Jr., from Brat to Icon. Essays on the Greenville, South Carolina, October Film Career. Ed. Erin E. 2014) is currently being reworked into an article. She additionally travelled to Dr. Jamie H. MacDonald. Jefferson, N.C.: London, England in January 2015 to Trnka’s book McFarland, 2014. She is currently attend a conference on Language appeared in print working on an essay on the novels Pedagogy where she presented a paper in February. of Louise Penny for a book on titled “Teaching Foreign Languages Revolutionary Canadian crime fiction, tentatively across the Curriculum (FLAC): Hybrid Subjects titled The Matter of Murder. French/English Courses and their Dual demonstrates Impact on Interdisciplinarity and L2 that East and Competency.” West German She also attended an interesting conference in Tampa, Florida, of the literary interests United States Association of Small in Latin America coincided with Business and Entrepreneurship, to debates about the political relevance of support the course in Social Dr. Habib Zanzana literature in the Cold War. Through a Entrepreneurship that she teaches for combination of close reading, the Kania School of Management. contextual analysis, and careful Dr. Habib theoretical work, Trnka examines Zanzana will be textual instances of aesthetic solidarity, Dr. Marzia Caporale co-director, which, she argues, anticipated with Dr. conceptual reorganizations of the world Caporale, of the connoted by the transnational or the 2015 Faculty- global. Dr. Caporale spent 2013- Led Annual 2014 on Summer Dr. Linda Ledford-Miller sabbatical Program in Florence, Italy, living in May 30th to Linda Ledford- Florence Italy June 2th 2015. Miller gave three and doing presentations research on Dr. Zanzana presented a paper titled, this year, in three Francophone ""Motherhood, Water and the different areas of African women Formation of a Maghrebian Female research: “Art as writers. In Identity," at the 64th Annual Mountain Identity: Arte March 2014, Interstate Foreign Language menor by Betina she was invited by Dr. Natasa Raschi of Conference in South Carolina, in González” XV the University of Perugia, Italy to give October 2014. Dr. Zanzana will be Congreso a lecture titled “Sur la transgression presenting a paper titled, "The Specter Internacional de linguistique: le cas de Calyxthe Beyala of Simone de Beauvoir's La femme Literatura et Léonora Miano.” In June 2014, Dr rompue in Elena Ferrante's Novels Hispánica. Antigua, Guatemala, March Caporale participated in the and Films" at the Intersezioni 2015; “Perderse para encontrarse a sí Conference in Florence, Italy, June 5-7, mismo: Los personajes expatriados en International “Narrative Matters” 2015. las novelas mexicanas de Harriet Conference in Paris France and gave a Doerr.” XII Congreso Internacional de paper titled “Narrating the Past to Write Caminería Hispánica, Madrid, Spain, the Present : Veronique Tadjo’s Reine June 2014; “Gender Roles In Death: J. Pokou: concerto pour un sacrifice.” Dr D. Robb’s Detective Series.” Queens of Caporale has continued to work on Crime Conference, University of writings by sub-Saharan women London, London, England. June 2014. authors. Her latest conference presentation on the topic “Breaking the vow of silence”. Narrating the African She published a book chapter, “Robert slave trade in Léonora Miano’s La Downey, Jr. as Detective: Sherlock THE AMBASSADOR Page 3 Dr. accepted for the XIX Congress of Colombianists Association in Yamile Universidad de Antioquia, Medellín, Silva Colombia. July 2-5, 2015. Silva was Dr. Silva also asked to referee for the academic published journal Ambigua (Universidad Pablo de the peer Olavide, Sevilla). This journal review specializes on Gender and Cultural article: - Studies. “Conquista del espacio Dr. Virginia Picchietti en Relación del descubrimiento del río Dr. Virginia Picchietti, Professor of International Women's Marañón por Gerónimo de Ypori.” Italian, was part of a panel discussion Revista de Estudios Colombianos 45. after the Day 2015 Theme: MAKE IT pp. 14 (Forthcoming March 15, 2015) screening of Oro HAPPEN and the review of Jennifer Jenkins Macht Frei, held Wood. Spanish Women Travelers at on October, 12, Each year International Women's Home and Abroad, 1850-1920. From 2014 at Day (IWD) is celebrated on March Tierra del Fuego to the Land of the Muhlenberg 8. The first International Women's Midnight Sun. Lewisburg, PA: College. Oro Day was held in 1911. Thousands Bucknell University Press; Lanham, Macht Frei is a of events occur to mark the eco- Maryland: Rowman & Littlefield, documentary nomic, political and social achieve- 2014. 413 pp. in Letras Femeninas film about the ments of women. Organizations, (Forthcoming). She presented: Roman Jewish governments, charities, education- al institutions, women's groups, “Peticiones desde el margen: experience under corporations and the media cele- revisiones de testimonios coloniales” at Fascism and under the Nazi occupation brate the day. XIV Congreso de la AILCFH of Italy. Dr. Picchietti organized and Various organizations identify their (Instituto de Literatura y Lingüística/ chaired the session, “Teaching own International Women's Day UNESCO) in Havana, Cuba, bHistory through Italian Cinema,” at theme, specific to their local con- November 10-14, 2014 and “Escritura the November 2014 conference of the topográfica en la Relación del text and interests. Many charities, ACTFL, held in San Antonio, Tx. NGOs and Governments also descubrimiento del Río Marañon por Gerónimo de Ypori” presented at adopt a relevant theme or cam- paign to mark the day. For exam- Jornadas Andinas de Literatura Visiting ple, organizations like the UN, Latinoamericana JALLA in Lecturer Oxfam, Women for Women, Care Universidad Nacional de Costa Rica, Allison Lai International, Plan, World Associa- Costa Rica, August 4-8, 2014. Her tion of Girl Guides & Girl Scouts chapter “Peticiones coloniales desde el Professor (WAGGGS) and more - run excit- Río de la Plata” was accepted to be Allison Lai will ing and powerful campaigns that included in the book Colonialismos Sur present a paper raise awareness and encourage (Bucknell University Press) edited by “Embodied donations for good causes. The Gladys Ilarregui (U. of Delaware) and Approach to UN has been declaring an annu- Ana María Presta (Universidad de Chinese al equality theme for many years. Buenos Aires). Recently, Silva was Language (The source of this article is the named part of the Comité de Learning: Immersion Experience” official website for International Evaluación y Difusión del Programa Womens Day.) Académico y Profesional del Festival through a Faculty led travel course to de la Palabra del 2015. Among other Taiwan at the 2015 Conference on functions, The Commitee offers a Asian Studies. She is currently working Critics Prize of the year and prepares a on an invited paper “Assessing list of the 10 essential authors of new Students, Chinese Communication literature of the Caribbean, Latin Skills through Three Modes of America and its diasporas. Her Communication” which will be proposal “Re-escritura e historiografía published on Journal of Chinese en Relación del descubrimiento del Río Language Teaching and Research in the Marañon por Gerónimo de Ypori” was U.S. (2015 issue). Page 4 Current & Upcoming Events THE AMBASSADOR Latin American film festival spring 2015 Romero (USA, 1989). March 24 The life and work of Archbishop Oscar Romero who opposed, at great personal risk, the tyrannical repression in El Salva- dor. Pelo Malo (Venezuela, 2013). April 14 With minor-key delicacy, Bad Hair (Pelo Malo) focuses on a nine-year-old boy exploring issues of identity and a desire that he doesn’t yet understand. Juan de los Muertos (Cuba, 2010). February 17 A group of slackers face an army of zombies. The Cuban government and media claim the living dead are dissidents revolt- ing against the government. Spanish Film series 2015 Bits and Dots of the most recent Cinema from Spain, O’Hara 307 , 7:00 p.m. Balada triste de trompeta ( Álex de la Iglesia , 2010) Monday March 2 A young trapeze artist must decide between her lust for Sergio, the Happy Clown, or her affection for Javier, the Sad Clown, both of whom are deeply disturbed. Gente en sitios (Juan Cavestany, 2013) Wednesday April 8 A number of different sketches with no correlation. El Niño (Daniel Monzón ,2014) Wednesday May 6 A small-time trafficker working in the Gibraltar Straits. THE AMBASSADOR Current & Upcoming Events Page 5 the Annual East German Film Festival Above image is a scene from The Sailor’s Song, GDR, 1958, Dirs. Kurt Maetzig, Günther Reisch, 125 min. The University of Scranton Department of World Lan- Jamie H. Trnka, PhD, curates the Annual East German guages and Cultures, in collaboration with the Schemel Film Festival, now in its eighth year, in collaboration Forum, will present four remarkable films on the subject with the DEFA Film Library at the University of Massa- of the First World War that were made at the DEFA chusetts at Amherst.
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