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NEWS AND EVENTS NEW EVENTS EVENTS Please click here for 2006-2007 Lecture Series “Old World/New World” Please click here for Lecture Series 2006-2007 Please click here for previous year's events Kim Potowski, Asst. Prof.
of Linguistics, has been selected as a UIC Great Cities Institute
Faculty Scholar for 2006-2007. Her project will study the Spanish
retention of Latino children participating in a heritage languagecurriculum
in several Chicago elementary schools. Prof. Potowski is also a
winner of one of the very competitive AAUW (American Association
of University Women) grants. This grant will be used to support
her study of Spanish language features, including possible dialect
leveling, among members of Chicago's Mexican and Puerto Rican communities. THEME
for the LECTURE SERIES 2006-2007: OLD WORLD/NEW WORLD Has the changing configuration of Europe, a challenging
relationship with the United States and significant third-world
immigration changed "Old Europe's" sense of itself? Is
a different sense of national identity perceptible in the recent
cultural productions of France, Spain and Italy? And how are these
European Powers and their cultures currently perceived from the
outside, particularly by those former colonies shaped in large part
by an ambivalent relationship to their colonial heritage? But perhaps
the current situation has historical precedents? September Remus Gergel, University of Pennsylvania / University
of Tuebingen October Daniel Everett, Illinois State University November José del Valle, CUNY, Graduate Center. SPRING 2007 Lois Zamora, University of Houston March Deborah Jensen, University of Wisconsin, Madison April Sante Mateo, Miami University, Ohio Ana María Shua
Spring 2006 Klaus Muller-Bergh, University of Illinois at Chicago Prof. William Castro, Northwestern University Prof. Alain-Phillipe Durand, University of Rhode
Island Israel Reyes, Dartmouth College Charles Perrone, University of Florida Prof. Jaume Marti-Olivella, University of New Hampshire
Patrick O'Connor Oberlin College Catherine Travis, University of New Mexico Pedro García-Caro, University of Oregon
Please click on image for full size Friday, September 30 2005, Welcome Department Reception,
Friday,
November 04 2005, Lecture by Professor Laura
Martins,
Friday, November 18, 2005,A lecture by Prof. Christian Moevs," Images of God in Dante's Paradiso "
Friday,
December 02 2005, Farewell Party for Professor Graciela
Reyes ,
Wednesday,
December 7, 2005, A
lecture by Prof. Cristina Gragnani,
Study Abroad- Program in the Dominican Republic; Professor Margarita Saona.
Tuesday, March 16, 2006:
Prof. Richard Cameron receives WOW award.
New Books by SFIP Faculty
Steven Buttes organized and chaired at the panel "Shifting Urbanites 20th and 21st-Century Cities in Peninsular and Latin American Prose" at the 59th Kentucky Foreign Language Conference. The panel was mainly of our own graduate students: Steves Buttes: Coackroaches or Coffee?: The "Semi-Public" City in Claudia Hernandez,s Mediodia de frontera (2002). Susana Domingo: De La Habana a Paris, escenario para la memoria: escapando el desarriego en Cafe Nostalgia de Zoe Valdes. Ana Sagredo: The Haunted City: Sombras, hechizos y muerte en la Barcelonade Carlos Ruiz Zafon. Eduardo Ledesma: Barcelona, the Stones still Remember Rodoreda, Laforet and Roig (Re)constructing a City's
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