Spring Conversation Table
Please join us for this semester’s conversation table! We meet on Thursdays 12:30PM-1:20PM in Language Oasis in Curtin Hall. Meetings run weekly 1/25-5/2 except 3/21.
All News
The Festival of Films in French returns in February
Mark your calendars for UWM’s 27th Annual Festival of Films in French, February 16-25, 2024. All films will be free and open to the public at the UWM Union Cinema, and shown with subtitles in English. The complete schedule is coming soon!
UWM Japanese Major wins Klotchke scholarship
Congratulations to Japanese major Salvador Prado for receiving the Klotchke scholarship!
Recipients of 2023 Klotsche Scholarship
Congratulations 2023 Klotsche Scholarship Recipients! Salvador Prado – majors Global Studies-Management and Japanese Mervat Mihyar – major International Studies
Congrats to Jill!
Jill Neuendorf, in our Russian to English MA program, has published “Around the USSR in 1,109 Days: Gleb Travin’s Amazing 1928-1931 Bicycle Trek” in the fall issue of Russian Life. Congratulations Jill!
Pickering-Iazzi in Netflix’s How to Become a Mob Boss
Congratulations to Prof. Robin Pickering-Iazzi (Italian and Comparative Literature), who was interviewed as part of the Netflix docuseries How to Become a Mob Boss, which was released November 14, 2023. Look for her multiple appearances in episode 3, “Dominate Through Terror,” …
Williams publishes The Cross of Christ in African American Christian Religious Experience
Congratulations to Demetrius K. Williams, Associate Professor of Comparative Literature and Religious Studies, whose book The Cross of Christ in African American Christian Religious Experience: Piety, Politics, and Protestwas published by Rowman & Littlefield in October 2023. In it, Williams examines and …
Momcilovic Discusses Zombies on Central Time
On October 23, Dr. Drago Momcilovic (Comparative Literature and Global Studies) was a guest during the call-in show “Central Time” on the Ideas Network, answering questions about COMPLIT 135, Experiencing Literature in the 21st Century: Zombie Metaphors, as well …
Viktorija Bilić was awarded an Advancing Research and Creativity (ARC) Grant
Viktorija Bilić was awarded an Advancing Research and Creativity (ARC) Grant in 2023 by the UWM Office of Research for her research project “Translating the History of Germans in America.” Congratulations, Viktorija!
Jill Neuendorf Translated and Published a Book
Our student Jill Neuendorf (R>E Translation) translated and published The Physics of Planet Earth and Its Natural Wonders, by former Minister of Education and Science of the Russian Federation Dmitry Livanov. In it, he explains many natural phenomena connected with …