Did You Know?
September 15 to October 15 is National Hispanic Heritage Month!
For more information, please visit the National Hispanic Heritage Month Page.
October is National Italian-American Heritage Month!
For more information, please visit the National Italian American Foundation Website.
Upcoming Events
Romance Studies Events:
International Education WeekROMS Event:
Come Fly with Us: Personal Accounts from Abroad
Tuesday, October 8 from 5:30 pm to 7:00 pm
Study Abroad Conference Room, Usdan 169
Organized by your FREN, HISP, and ITAL UDRs, the is an opportunity to hear from students who have studied abroad in different countries and with different programs. These will be honest accounts of their adventures abroad. Ask questions, see pictures, and eat food!
"Meet the Majors/Minors Event¨
TBA
Shiffman 217
Pizza!
Meet faculty, UDRs, and students in all three Romance Studies areas: French and Francophone, Hispanic, and Italian Studies. Representatives from Study Abroad Office and the Hiatt Career Center. More info coming soon.
"Entretiens sur la poésie with Jean-Paul Avice"
November 19, 3:30 pm
venue TBA
"A Reading by Richard Blanco"
Thursday, November 21 at 5:00 pm
Admissions Presentation Room
Barack Obama selected Richard Blanco as the fifth inaugural poet in history, joining a select group that includes Robert Frost, Maya Angelou, Miller Williams and Elizabeth Alexander. Blanco is the author of four collections of poetry, City of a Hundred Fires (1998), winner of the Agnes Lynch Starrett National Poetry Prize; Nowhere But Here (2004); Directions to The Beach of the Dead (2005), winner of the PEN/American Center Beyond Margins Award; and Looking for The Gulf Motel (2012). Beacon Press will publish his For All of Us, One Today: An Inaugural Poet’s Journey two days before the Brandeis event.
Blanco will sign copies of his books—which will be available for sale, including For All of Us, One Today—after the reading.
Please stay tuned for more information and new ROMS events!
Other Campus Events:
Teaching the Humanities Online: What Works and What Doesn't
Tuesday, October 8 from 9:30 am to 11:00 am
DuBois Lounge, Rabb 119
For more information, please see the Teaching the Humanities Flyer.
Maryanne Wolf, Ed.D., Director of the Center for Reading and Language Research at Tufts University
Wednesday, October 9 at 12:00 noon
International Lounge, Usdan
Maryanne Wolf, Ed.D. studies the origins of reading, language-learning, and reading interventions. She received her doctorate from the Harvard University Graduate School of Education, where she began her work on the neurological underpinnings of reading, language, and dyslexia. She is well-known for her research concerning a conceptualization of developmental dyslexia, the Double-Deficit Hypothesis. She has edited a book, Dyslexia, Fluency, and the Brain and is the author of Proust and the Squid: the Story and Science of the Reading Brain. (Co-sponsored by the Department of Romance Studies.)
Film, Television and Interactive Media Screenings:
This film explores the most pernicious misconceptions of North Korea and argues that the propaganda-fueled national ideology has played an integral role in keeping the country together.
Thursday, October 3 at 7:00 pm at the Wasserman Cinematheque
The Act of Killing
This film follows the story of Anwar Congo from small-time gangster to founding father of Indonesia's most powerful right-wing paramilitary organization. It is about killers who have won, and the sort of society they have built. Unlike ageing Nazis or Rwandan genocidaires, Anwar and his friends have not been forced to admit they participated in crimes against humanity. Instead, they have written their own triumphant history, becoming role models for millions of young paramilitaries.
Sunday, October 6 at 6:00 pm at the Wasserman Cinematheque
Please stay tuned for more on-campus events.