On November 30, 2022, the non-partisan organization Iranian Scholars for Liberty organized a Campus Rally for Iran at more than 200 colleges and universities around the globe. Prof. Anita Alkhas, faculty advisor to the Iranian Student Association at UWM, was… Read more
Congratulations to Sayila Edmé, the first graduate of the accelerated 5-year program in French. Sayiila graduates in December 2023 with a BA in French and an MA in Language, Literature, and Translation (French and Francophone Studies concentration) in just five… Read more
Robin Pickering-Iazzi published her translations into English of the short stories “Candelora” and “The Lord of the Ship” by Luigi Pirandello, in the collaborative digital edition of Stories for a Year(Novelle per un anno), edited by Lisa Sarti and Michael Subialka…. Read more
On November 30-December 1, 2022, the Instituto Italiana di Cultura in New York and the Casa Italiana Zerilli Marimò at New York University hosted a two-day conference called Liberty Meets Italian Grace: Conversations Around the Timeless Work of Grazia Deledda, a… Read more
Anita Alkhas, Associate Professor of French, and Ruth Adeniyi, Graduate Teaching Assistant in French, shared the UWM French program’s innovative curriculum at the annual ACTFL Convention on November 19, 2022, in a presentation entitled “Custom-Made: Remixing and Localizing Open Educational… Read more
On November 11, Kristin Pitt, Associate Professor of Comparative Literature, presented her research on literary representations of feminicide in talk entitled “Burning Even Ourselves: Self-Immolation in Mariana Enriquez’s ‘Things We Lost In The Fire’” as part of the panel “Transnational… Read more
In November, Anita Alkhas, Associate Professor of French, gave a presentation entitled “Why Study Iran in/through French?/Pourquoi étudier l’Iran en français?” with Andrea Behn (Janesville Parker High School) and Ellen Onsrud (Lake Mills High School) at the Wisconsin Association for… Read more
This November, Christine Wolf traveled to Seoul, South Korea, to present a poster at the Council for International Educational Exchange’s Annual Conference entitled “International Internships: Cultivating the curious, compassionate, and connected professional.” This project was supported by the U.S. Department… Read more
On November 5, Anita Alkhas, Associate Professor of French; Ruth Adeniyi, Graduate Teaching Assistant in French; and Diana Boateng, Graduate Teaching Assistant in French; along with Kristin Woodward, Teaching and Learning Team Lead at UWM Libraries, discussed using free, online… Read more
In October 2022, Christine Wolf, the Assistant Director of the Global Studies program, gave a presentation entitled “International Education: A Call to Action. Black Lives Matter: A Global Comparative Study & Companion Study Abroad” along with Yomarie Castellano, Study Abroad… Read more