events
Fall 2012
December 3. SIP Colloquium. Florencia Henshaw (UIUC). "Catch my Errors if you Can: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly of Peer Editing in the Foreign Language Classroom." 4-5pm. Lucy Ellis Lounge
November 26. SIP Colloquium. Rebecca Foote (UIUC). "The Production of Agreement in L2 Spanish." 4-5pm. Lucy Ellis Lounge
November 12. SIP Colloquium. Eleonora Stoppino (UIUC). "Tarzan in Tuscany: Wild Children and Education in Fourteenth-Century Italy." 4-5pm. Lucy Ellis Lounge
November 5. SIP Colloquium. Steven N. Dworkin (University of Michigan). "Issues in the Study of the History of the Spanish Lexicon." 4-5pm. Lucy Ellis Lounge
November 5. European Minority Languages Charter Symposium. Organized by Zsuzsanna Fagyal (French) and Eda Derhemi (SIP). 9am-5pm. Lucy Ellis Lounge and FLB 2090B.
October 29. SIP Colloquium. Ignacio Sánchez Prado (Washington University in St. Louis). "Alfonso Cuarón, Carlos Reygadas and the Ends of National Cinema in Mexico." 4-5pm. Lucy Ellis Lounge
October 23. Dante Marathon. Organized by Eleonora Stoppino. 9am-6pm. Lucy Ellis Lounge
October 19. Resentment's Conflicts, A Symposium. Co-organized by Elena Delgado and the IPRH. Pine Lounge (Illini Union)
October 8. SIP Colloquium. César Braga-Pinto (Northwestern University). "Othello's Pathologies: Adolfo Caminha and Cesare Lombroso." 4-5pm. Lucy Ellis Lounge
September 11. Reading Primo Levi. 7:30pm. Levis Faculty Center
September 6-8. Eleventh International Congress of the Brazilian Studies Association (BRASA XI)
Spring 2012
May 5. 40th Anniversary of the Barcelona Study Abroad Program. Levis Faculty Center
May 2. Lourdes Oñederra. "Why Do We Write (in Basque)?". 4:00pm. Lucy Ellis Lounge
April 25. Laura Freixas (George A. Miller Visiting Scholar). “Is Literature Hermaphrodite?” 4:00pm. FLB 2090B
April 18. Eda Derhemi. "'Dangers’ of researching endangered languages: the case of Arbëresh of Italy and Arvanitika of Greece." 4:00pm. Lucy Ellis Lounge
April 12. Round Table: "Basque Fictions: Utopias and Challenges." Arantxa Urretabizkaia and Eider Rodriguez, Writers. Presentation: Blanca Urgell Lzaro (Minister of Culture, Basque Government). Moderators: Mari Jose Olaziregi (Etxepare Basque Institute) and Estibalitz Ezkerra (UIUC). 3:00pm. Lucy Ellis Lounge
March 28 (LEL 3:30pm-5:00pm). Steven Wagschal (Indiana University). “A Cognitive Approach to the Smellscape of Don Quixote." 3:30pm. Lucy Ellis Lounge
Fall 2011
November 30. SIP Colloquium. Silvina Montrul, Justin Davidson, Rebecca Foote and Israel de la Fuente (UIUC). “Linguistic Knowledge in Second Language Learners and Heritage Speakers: Where are the differences?” 4:00pm. Lucy Ellis Lounge
November 9. Antje Muntandem. "The intonation of focus in Andean Spanish noun phrases". 4:00pm. Lucy Ellis Lounge
October 27. Graduate Workshop. Ericka Beckman. "Steps in the Process of Applying for an Academic Job: From Cover Letter to Job Interview". 4:00pm. FLB 4080A
October 7-8. Conference: The Dialectics of Orientalism in Early Modern Europe, 1492-1700
September 28. SIP Colloquium. Susan Martin-Márquez (Rutgers University). “Transported Identities: Global Trafficking and Late-Imperial Subjectivity in Spain’s African Penal Colonies”. 4:00pm. Lucy Ellis Lounge
September 22. Graduate Workshop. Ericka Beckman. "Writing a Cover Letter". 4:00pm. FLB 4080A
September 14. SIP Colloquium. William Childers (CUNY - The Graduate Center). "Morisco Questions: Negotiating Identities in Sixteenth-Century Castile". 4:00 pm. Lucy Ellis Lounge
Spring 2011
April 7-9. Conference: New Francophonies and Colonial Languages in a Global World. Knight Auditorium, Spurlock Museum
March 30. SIP Colloquium: Albert Russell Ascoli (Italian Studies, UC Berkeley). "Performing Salvation in Dante's Divine Comedy". 3:30 pm. Rare Book and Manuscript Library
March 7. SIP Colloquium: Melissa Bowles (SIP and SLATE, UIUC). "Mutual benefit, mutual detriment, or somewhere in between?: Heritage learners and L2 learners in Spanish language classrooms". 4:00-5:00 pm. Lucy Ellis Lounge
February 7: Doctoral Defense: Claudia Holguín. "Language, Gender, and Identity Constructions: Sociolinguistics Dynamics in the Borderlands". 11:00am-1:00pm. FLB 4080A
January 21. Workshop: Ericka Beckman. "The Campus Visit: What to Expect, How to Prepare". 4:00-5:00pm, FLB 4080A
All semester long:
"Dynamics of Language Variation and Change Reading Group / Seminar"
Fall 2010
December 2. Symposium: Mediterranean Vices. 2:00-5:00pm. Levis Faculty Center (co-sponsored with Program in Modern Greek Studies)
November 10. Talk: Javier Irigoyen-García (SIP, UIUC). "Moriscos Passing as Moors in Early Modern Spain". 12:00-1:00pm. Lucy Ellis Lounge (sponsored by the Center for South Asian & Eastern Studies)
October 28. Talk: Alamir Aquino Correa. "Elegiac temper in Eden: a portrait of sadness and cordiality in Brazil". 4:30-5:30pm. Lucy Ellis Lounge (co-sponsored with the Lehmann Institute for Brazilian Studies)
October 28. Workshop: Ericka Beckman. "How to Write a Successful Cover Letter for Job Application". 4:30-5:30pm. FLB 1120
September 23-24. Conference: Geographies of Risk
September 11. Faculty Retreat. Illini Union, room 210
September 9. Talk: George D. Greenia. "Marketing St. James: Medieval Motives and Modern Travelers." 5:00-6:00pm. Noyes Lab 165
September 3. Talk: Manuel Rota. "The Constitution of Europe: European Integration & the Idea of Europe". 12:00-1:00pm. Lucy Ellis Lounge (sponsored by The European Union Center)
Spring 2010
April 28. Talk: Edward Muir (Northwestern University). “People Who Believe in Nothing: Skeptics in Late Renaissance Italy”. 5:00-6:30pm. Lucy Ellis Lounge
April 1. Workshop: SIP Professional Workshop on Graduate Student Publishing II
February 22. Workshop: SIP Professional Workshop on Graduate Student Publishing I
Fall 2009
November 10. Talk: Ericka Beckman (SIP, UIUC). "Creative Accounting: Narrative and Financial Crisis". 4:30-6:30pm. Lucy Ellis Lounge
November 5. Talk: Stephen Rupp (U of Toronto). “Anti-language and Anti-romance: Ginés de Pasamonte in his Vida”. 5:00-6:00pm. 4080A
October 20. Talk: Irene Small (Art History, UIUC). "The Folded and the Flat: On Art and Information in Brazil c. 1960". 5:30-7pm. Lucy Ellis Lounge
October 6. Talk: Francisco Ordóñez (Hispanic Languages and Literatures, SUNY-Stony Brook). "Word Order in Questions in Brazilian Portuguese and Caribbean Spanish". 4:30-6:30pm. Lucy Ellis Lounge
Spring 2009
April 21. Talk: Dara E. Goldman (SIP/CLACS, UIUC). "Lines in the Sand: Guantánamo and the Representation of 'Enemy Territory' in Cuba" 4:00-5:00pm. Lucy Ellis Lounge
April 13. Talk: Barbara Fuchs (UCLA). "Influence, Appropriation, Piracy: The Place of Spain in English Literary History". 5:00-7:00pm. Lucy Ellis Lounge
March 18. Talk: Silvina Montrul (SIP/Linguistics), UIUC). "Incomplete Acquisition in Bilingualism: Re-Examining the Age Factor". 4:00-5:00pm. Lucy Ellis Lounge
Spring 2008
April 18-19. Conference: Erich Auerbach and the Future of Criticism.