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Monday, October
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8:00-10:00 am
Drawings, refreshments in the Staff Dining Room:
breakfast and the chance to win a goodie bag.
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8:10-9:00 am
Chinese, English and Spanish students read, recited, and explained poetry in languages other
than English. Professors Richard Castillo, Susan Petit, and Jing Wu. Staff
Dining Room. |
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11:10-noon Screening of the first half of Il Mostro, starring Roberto Benigni, in Italian with English subtitles. Refreshments. Professor Tiziana Balestra. 18-207. |
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Pack your bags and travel!
Above, our display case
in the Staff Dining Room |
Above, Tiziana Balestra in the Foreign Language Center. |
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| 10:15-11:30 Live performance of international sacred and secular songs sung in English, Spanish, Mandarin, Cantonese, Arabic, Italian, Japanese, and Indonesian. The Catholic Club on Campus. Staff Dining Room. |
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evening
6:30 pm
Screening of La Cuisse de Jupiter (Jupiter's Thigh) in French with English subtitles. Professor George
Khoury. 14-122. |
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6:30 pm
Screening of Ye Yan in Chinese with English subtitles. Professor Jing Wu. 18-307. |
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6:30 pm
Screening of Il Mostro, starring Roberto Benigni, in Italian with English subtitles. Refreshments. Professor Tiziana Balestra. 18-202. |
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6:45-9:15 pm ESL
students presented poems, songs, stories, and proverbs in
their native languages and explain them in English. The languages
included Arabic, Chinese, German, Japanese, Kria, Kono, Mende, Portuguese, Punjabi, Russian, Spanish,
and Thai. Professor
Shoshana Bianchi-McElwee. 18-301.
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left top, Professor Shoshana Bianchi-McElwee. Other photos:
students present in Spanish and Russian. Second row center,
a student from Guatemala explains the Guatemalan flag. Below,
the entire class. |
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8:30-9:30 pm
Professor Barbara Baraff showed scenes from La meglio
gioventù (The Best of Youth), in Italian with English subtitles. Refreshments. 18-203.
Tuesday, October
16
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11:10-noon Screening of the second half of Il Mostro, starring Roberto Benigni, in Italian with English subtitles. Refreshments. Professor Tiziana Balestra. 18-207. |
1:00-2:00 pm
French cheese
tasting! Cheese, crackers, beverages, good company! The
French Club. Staff Dining Room (Building 5). We had Basque shepherd's cheese (sheep), garlic and herb boursin (cow), brie (cow), camembert (cow), comté (cow), morbier (goat), Port Salut (cow) and an especial favorite: kirsch gourmandise, a sweet dessert cow's milk cheese flavored with cherry brandy. |
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evening
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6:30-9:30 pm Screening of Rosenstrasse in German with English subtitles. Professor Roslyn
Raney. 18-203. |
6:30-7:00 pm
refreshments
7:00-9:30
Guest speaker Paola Costantino discussing travel, followed by the screening of
a video on Rome, Florence, and Venice. Professor
Guy Marra. 14-105. |
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Above, a student doing an interview in the Foreign Language Center.
Right and below, one of our glass cases. |
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6:30 pm
Screening of Rush Hour 2 in Chinese with English subtitles. Professor Jing Wu. 18-307. |
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8:10-9:00 am
Professor Jing Wu gave a lesson in Chinese paper cutting in celebrating Chinese social events. 18-307. |
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10:30-11:00 am
Professor Barbara Baraff taught Italian gestures with illustrative film clips. Refreshments. 18-302.
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evening
6:30-9:30 pm
Screening of The Lives of Others, in German with English subtitles. Professor Diane Musgrave. 18-203. |
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6:30-7:00 pm
refreshments
7:00-9:30
Guest speaker Paola Costantino on travel followed by presentations by students on Italian history, literature, opera and art. Professor Guy Marra. 18-301. |
6:30 pm
Screening of Chronicle
of a Disappearance, a 1998 French film in Arabic, Hebrew, French,
and English, focuses on
the Arab experience in Israel. Professor David Laderman. 2-141
(the Choral Room). |
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6:30 pm
Screening of Memoirs of a Geisha, in Chinese with English subtitles. Professor Jing Wu. 18-307. |
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Dawn breaks on the campus in early fall. |
7:00-9:00 pm Screening
of Mujeres cubanas Marcadas por el Paraíso (Cuban
Women: Branded by Paradise), a documentary by Mari Rodríguez
Ichaso, in Spanish with
English subtitles. Discussion before and after the film, which
shows interviews with women who chose to leave Cuba. Professor Jennifer Lisses. 18-204.
Thursday,
October 18
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All these lovely
photos of the Right Bank
of Paris were taken by Frédéric
de la Mure.
Above, la colonne
de la Bastille; above right, l'Arche de la défense;
right, les fontaines dans la place de la Concorde. |
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9:10-10:00 am
Presentation of slides of the Right
Bank of Paris taken by Susan Petit over many years
of visiting France.
Refreshments. Professor Susan Petit. 18-203.
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1:10-2:30 pm
ASL students "signed story." Refreshments. Professor Michael
Cheung. 18-304. |
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1:10-2:25 pm
English students presented works in their native languages,
including Czech, Spanish, French, Japanese ,
and English as
well as works translated from Bengali. Professor Deborah Garfinkle. 18-203. |
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evening
6:30-9:30pm
Screening of Marx und Coca-Cola, in German with English subtitles. Professor Roslyn
Raney. 14-105. |
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Friday, October
19
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8:10-9:00 am
Screening of House of Flying Daggers in Chinese with English subtitles. Professor Jing Wu. 18-306.
noon-1:00 pm
ESL students gave short talks on "Visiting My Homeland,"
telling what visitors need to do before arriving, recommending
places to visit, warning visitors of any dangers, and teaching a few
helpful phrases. Professor Frances Schulze. 10-109. |
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1:10-2:30
Screening of Dîner de cons (The Dinner Game), a film in French with English subtitles. The French Club. 18-203. |
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Richard
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Susan
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Jing
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A Later Activity:
One more film!
Choose your evening:
Tuesday, October 23 in 14-104
Wednesday, October 24 in 14-200
Thursday, October 25 in 14-103 |
6:30 pm, discussion
7:00 screening of Dîner
de cons (The Dinner Game) in French with English subtitles.Refreshments. Professor Marilyn Carter. |
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