March 7,  2007

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UPCOMING EVENTS

* SWEDISH MOVIE NIGHT—TONIGHT!

Wednesday, March 7th, at 7PM, in FLB room G17.
 "Tjenare Kungen" [Hello there, King]: a punk rock-slapstick musical romp through the 1980s, by Ulf Malmros of “Slim Susie” fame (2005).

* Terminology and Language Policy in the European Union Thursday, March 8, 2007

The European Union Center will be co-sponsoring a mini-conference on language policy on Thursday, March 8, 2007. The conference will be held from 4:00 to 6:30 pm, in the Lucy Ellis Lounge of the Foreign Language Building. Topics will include general language policy in the European Union, as well as policies regarding specific communities and languages.

Speakers are Maria Valdivieso, Director of the Spanish section of the Translation Service at the Council of the European Union; Danielle Candel, director of the research team "Specialty languages, neologisms and terminology" of the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Paris, France; and, Françoise Berdal-Masuy, Professor of French at the Université de Louvain-la-Neuve.

PUBLICATIONS

* Three article by Stephen Jaeger appeared recently:
"Bookburning at Don Quixote's: Thoughts on the Educating Force of Courtly Romance," in Courtly Arts and the Art of Courtliness, ed. Keith Busby & Christopher Kleinhenz, (Woodbridge: Brewer, 2006), 3-28.
"Aura and Charisma," in Eadem Utraque Europa 2 (2006), 125-154.
"The Stature of the Learned Poet in the Eleventh Century," Festschrift für Peter von Moos, (Münster: Lit, 2007), 417-438.

Professor Emeritus James M. McGlathery presented a paper, "Seducer and Seduced in Mozart's 'Don Giovanni,'" at the 2007 meeting of the South Central Society for 18th C. Studies in Tulsa, OK, 22-24 February. Among the papers at the conference was one by Professor James M. Vanderlaan of Illinois State Universary, a 1984 PhD from our department, on the theme of the Eternal Feminine in Goethe's "Faust."

ANNOUNCEMENTS

Congratulations to Carsten Wilmes who has accepted a position at the "World-class Instructional Design and Assessment (WIDA) Consortium" starting July, 2007.  WIDA, housed at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, is a consortium of states dedicated to the design and implementation of high standards and equitable educational opportunities for English language learners. In his position as Assistant Researcher, Carsten will be the Research and Alignment Coordinator for the WIDA Consortium.

WEEKLY DEPARTMENTAL ACTIVITIES

* The Deutsche Konversationsgruppe meets each Wednesday from 2-4 at The Bread Company on Goodwin. Students of all levels are welcome. Instructors of German courses, please let your students know about this opportunity to get extra German practice in an informal, no-pressure setting. More information is available from Frederick Schwink (schwink AT uiuc DOT edu).

* The Scandinavian Coffee Hour meets every Wednesday from 4-6 PM at the Bread Company on Goodwin Street. All speakers of any level of modern Scandinavian languages are welcome to attend. Contact: jfeason AT uiuc DOT edu.

* The IPRH Reading Group "Language and Social Interaction" holds its weekly data session Mondays, 4-5:30, in 3114 FLB.  Anybody with a background or an interest in conversation analysis is welcome to attend.  For more information, contact Professor Andrea Golato golato AT uiuc DOT edu

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