Game of Thrones Season 6

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World Languages Fair

We all know languages help bridge the cultural gap, but more importantly, they bridge the hearts. At the World Languages Fair, students, faculty, and staff can not only get to know what languages the University of Minnesota has to offer, but also the languages represented by the international community on campus. Come to join us!

April 10th, 2-6 P.M.
Coffman Great Hall
Presented by Lingo and MISA

FRIT Graduate Conference

Thinking Community

University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Twin Cities

April 8-9 2016

Conference Schedule

Friday, April 8                                                                                                                            
2:00-3:30 pm                            Workshop with Carolyn Dean (Yale University)

Folwell Hall 112                       Paper discussed: "Minimalism and Victim Testimony" (pre-circulated) 

                                                  Coffee and refreshments provided

5:00-7:00 pm                        Opening Remarks- Bruno (Chair of the Department of 
                                                  French and Italian)

                                        Carolyn Dean (Yale University)

Nolte Center 125                      “The Making of the Secular Witness: David Rousset and the Voices of 

                                                   Suffering Humanity” 

                                                   Followed by reception

        Saturday, April 9

          9:30-10:00 am                             Breakfast 

          Folwell Hall 108
        10:00-11:30 am                           Panel 1: Representing Otherness and Communities
          Folwell Hall 108

        Presenters

         Sandra Rellier (Dept. of Spanish & Portuguese Studies, University of Minnesota)
         “The Fragmented Body in Chocolat and Tabu”


         Agnès Schaffauser (Dept. of French & Italian, University of Minnesota)
         “Silences in French Colonial History or how to “Think Community” with blood on one’s 
         hands”


         Selim Rauer (Université Paris 3 Sorbonne Nouvelle / Dept. of French & Italian,
         University of Minnesota) 
        “The Impossible National Community: The Dramaturge Bernard-Marie Koltès and the 
         Issue of Otherness in France in  the 1980s”

        11:30-12:15 pm                           Lunch provided 
        Folwell Hall 108    


        12:15-1:45 pm                           Panel 2: Tracing Individuality and Community
        Folwell Hall 108


        Presenters       

        Shiloh Stone (Dept. of French & Italian, University of Minnesota) 

        “Mining Hope: Forging Community in the Depths of the Earth”

      Patrick Lyons (French Dept., University of California, Berkeley)
       “Being Together Undone: Jules Romains’ Les Copains and the Confused
        Philosophies of Friendship and Community”

       Kate Droske (Dept. of French & Italian, University of Minnesota)
       “From Yetis to Trolls: L’être at the Outer Limits of Correspondence”

      This event is not open to the public

Sports and the Body in Modern France

We are very excited to be offering a brand-new undergraduate French course this spring. Please consider enrolling today!

French 3650, Section 002: "Sports and the Body in Modern France"
MW: 8:15 A.M.-9:30 A.M.
3 credits

Description: Prerequisite: FREN 3015. In the lead-up to the Rio Olympics and the Moscow World Cup, this course will examine the cultural and political uses of sport in the nineteenth through twenty-first centuries, as well as some of the many ways sports have been imagined to make or unmake bodies. Through encounters with literary texts, criticism, film and other cultural materials, we will parse attempts to define what sport is and is not, to understand sport’s ethical, aesthetic, and political implications in the era of mass spectacle, and to describe how sports have participated in shaping bodies in modernity. From the athletic young girls in Proust’s À l’ombre des jeunes filles en fleurs to the sinister games in Perec’s W, from the mythologized footballer in Jean-Philippe Toussaint’s “La Mélancolie de Zidane” to Barthes’ sport “mythologies,” this course will pay close attention to how athletic gestures have been imagined to express aspects of ethnicity, gender, and class identity in motion.

Instructor: T. Wilds

Upcoming Undergraduate Interdisciplinary Conference

 

The Undergraduate Interdisciplinary Conference will be held April 6-8, 2016. The UIC is in its fourth year and provides an opportunity for students with majors or minors in French Studies, Italian Studies, Spanish/Portuguese Studies, ALL, GSD, or GLOS to to showcase their work.

In addition to traditional conference panels and presentations, this year they will be asking students to propose collaborative and discussion-based sessions. The application and abstract deadline is February 24th. More information will be made available on the UIC website z.umn.edu/2016uic. Questions may be directed to Maryanne Williams at will2381@umn.edu.

Mulhollem Cravens Leadership Scholarship

$5,000 Internship Award for CLA Students

CLA Career Services introduces the Mulhollem Cravens Leadership Scholarship. This scholarship opportunity will combine the hands-on experience of a summer internship with an internship reflection course, enhanced career coaching and alumni mentoring opportunities.

Application deadline is December 15. No need to have an internship secured by the time of application. For more information and to apply, visit cla.umn.edu/leadership-scholarship.

SITE Internships

Wish you had a paid opportunity to experience the Italian language and culture while making a difference in the classroom? We have exciting news to share with you.

We have recently developed a partnership with the Study, Intercultural Training, and Experience Program (SITE) to ensure two recent majors in Italian paid internships in Lombardy as English Teaching Assistants. Our first two interns are in Italy right now, and they are having a very exciting time of their lives. You could be the next one!

For information about the program and to submit your application please contact Professor Susanna Ferlito (ferli001@umn.edu) by December 15, 2016.

To learn more about the SITE program, please click here: http://siteprogram.pacioli.net/.
 
"Italy, and specifically Crema, is fantastic! The city is very charming, and I'm enjoying my experience with a host family (I have my own apartment, but they live below). The program itself is also going well. I teach hour-long English conversation/listening lessons to first and third-year students at the moment, and I'm having a lot of fun doing that. Eventually, they will have me teach CLIL, which involves teaching specific subject material in English. On the side, I do private lessons in order to live more comfortably, and this, too, is very enjoyable. I've been starting to travel around northern Italy, and I've found that in the last two months alone I have become very"comfortable with the pace of life here and the local culture. My Italian is also rapidly progressing too!"
-Nick Lambert
"The SITE program has been one of my best experiences so far! I love everything about it and am having the time of my life! Not only do you get work experience, but it also teaches so many other important life lessons that can be applied to a number of different things. The workload isn't heavy either, so there's plenty of time to travel and make friends. I'm enjoying it so much so that I already am thinking about signing up again for next year!"
-Emily Irsfeld