Karla Mallette

Professor of Italian, University of Michigan and Willson Distinguished Lecturer

 “Life writing: Lingua franca and cosmopolitan languages in the Mediterranean”

Jaume Antuñano:  “Never Forget, Never Forgive: Sites of Memory in Buenos Aires”

Lisa La Cross: “Variation in Future Temporal Reference in Southern France” 

"The Devil’s in the Details: Redirecting Colonial History in Simón’s Noticias historiales (1627)”

Dallin V. Larsen

“Mire usted Sr. González” vs. "Primero Daniel, vos" vs.  “Mr. President”: A comparative approach to the use of personal deixis in Spanish, Argentine, and American presidential debates"





Julia C. Hernández

“Comparative Historical Linguistics in 16th-century Spain:  Philology and Prestige in Pedro Simón Abril’s Gramática griega escrita en lengua castellana” 

 

Sarah Lowman, “Román Güemes' Hoy le canto a mi sustento: The Indigenous Kitchen as a Site of Resistance in the Era of Genetically Modified Corn”

Bethany Bateman, “Incorporating Oral Narratives as Relevant Data for Linguistic Study”

The Graduate Student Organization 

cordially invites you to the following event: Special Faculty Colloquium

Friday, September 9th, 2016

4:00 PM

Gilbert Hall 118

 

Dr. Francis Assaf

Distinguished Research Professor of French, Emeritus

“Jean Meslier: As Much An Atheist

As Louis XIV Was Most-Christian

(And Even More So)”

“Jean Meslier: As Much An Atheist As Louis XIV Was Most-Christian (And Even More So)”

The Caribbean Studies Group and Latin American and Caribbean Screening Series  presents: 

A visit by Cuban Director, Gloria Rolando, with a screening of her two award winning documentaries, “Reembarque/Reshipment” (2014) and “Diálogo con mi abuela/Dialogue with my grandmother” (2015)  Both events are free and open to the public. 

Film Screening 1: 

Diálogo con mi abuela/Dialogue with my grandmother (dir. Gloria Rolando, 2015, 40 minutes)

Tuesday, September 6, 2016 5:00pm