September 30: Guest Lecture on the Renaissance

Are you interested in French literature, the Renaissance, or the study of nature?
Professor Francois Rigolot, Meredith Howland Pyne Professor of French Literature at Princeton University, will give a lecture entitled “Errors of Nature and the Renaissance: A Literature of Demystification” on Tuesday, September 30 at 4 p.m. in Jepson Hall.
Rigolot will discuss the attention Renaissance [...]

Events! Events! Events!

Now that the semester is well underway, a lot is happening both on campus and in the city.  When we hear of an event related to languages, literatures, and cultures, we’ll post it here.  
Please scroll down to learn about three important events taking place September 23 and 24!
If you have an event you’d like [...]

Sept. 24: Come to the Spanish Tertulia

Tertulia is a relaxed conversation group for students of all levels to improve their Spanish. 
There will be an informational meeting for all students interested in the Spanish tertulia group Wednesday, September 24, at 2:30 in Tyler’s Grill.  Depending on the different levels of students who are interested, there may be several different groups.

Sept. 23: Censorship Program

The Virginia Holocaust Museum and the Virginia ACLU is participating in the American Library Association’s Banned Books Week with an evening of reading from the works of censored works and banned authors.  The evening will also mark the opening of a new Museum exhibit on censorship as a tool of genocide.
Date:  September 23
Time:  7 – 9 [...]

Sept. 23: Lecture on Islamic Culture

Farzaneh Milani, noted professor of Persian Literature and Women¹s Studies,
will speak at the University of Richmond on Sept. 23, at 7 p.m., in the
Brown-Alley Room of Weinstein Hall, in the first event of the 2008­09
WILL/WGSS/Quest Speaker Series.
The title of her lecture is ³The Veil: A Modern Fetish,² and it will include
her theories on what the [...]