The Bi-Weekly MFLL E-Newsletter
MONDAY, February 4, 2008
The Newsletter for Modern Foreign Languages and Literatures
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• Kodjo Adabra (French) abstract submitted earlier this month to present at the French Studies Graduate Conference at Louisiana State University has been accepted. The title for this year's conference is: "Literature, Language, and Theory: Challenges to Authority." The conference will be held March 7-8, 2008.

• Greg Kaplan (Spanish) will give a presentation sponsored by Humanities Initiative Committee titled "Poking Fun at a Jewish Past: The Psychology of 'Converso' Humor." The presentation will take place on Wednesday, February 6, at 12:30pm in the Tyson Alumni Center.Prior to the talk, coffee and refreshments will be served.

• Dan Magilow (German) recently gave a talk in Miami, Florida, co-sponsored by Florida International University and The Holocaust Memorial, Miami Beach. The presentation, connected to his forthcoming book from Rutgers UP, was titled "Anne Frank and Kitty Weichherz: Two Girls, Two Diaries."

  In connection with his German 350/Judaic Studies 350 course "The Afterlife of the Holocaust", Magilow has set up a film series called "Key Moments in Holocaust Memory." It consists of three films (one in two parts). All are in English or with English subtitles and all are free and open to the public:

  • The Specialist (1999), dir. by Eyal Sivan - Thursday, February 21, Hodges Auditorium 7-10 pm
  • Holocaust: The Story of the Family Weiss (1978), dir. by Marvin J. Chomsky
  • Part I: Wednesday, March 5, Hodges Auditorium 6-10 pm
  • Part II: Sunday, March 9, Hodges Auditorium 6-10 pm
  • Schindler's List (1993), dir. by Steven Spielberg, Monday, March 31, Hodges Auditorium, 7-10:30 pm
  • Lenore and Alberto Rivera Vaca are brand-new parents of a beautiful girl. Isabel Lenore was born Saturday, Jan. 26, at 1:11 pm Alberto is a first-year graduate student in the Spanish program.

• "Murder She Wrote..." This international literary colloquy focuses on "Magdalena the Sinner" (1995), a novel by Austrian Writer Lilian Faschinger. We will discuss this crime, adventure, or horror novel 'murder by murder' in several installments. Meetings are on the following Mondays from 12:20-1:10 pm in the Great Room of the International House:
  • Feb 11 (Introduction, Books will be provided free of charge)
  • Feb 18, Feb 25, March 3, March 10, March 24, March 31, April 7 and April 14 (final discussion).
  Feel free to join us at noon with your Brown-Bag lunch, coffee, cookies, or snack. Special Treat: the author will come to Knoxville in the late April!

  Spaces are Limited. For more information and to register please contact Dr. Stefanie Ohnesorg (ohnesorg@utk.edu) or Dr. Maria Stehle (mstehle@utk.edu). Sponsored by The Department of Modern Foreign Languages and Literatures, the German Studies Program, the International House, and the Ready for the World Initiative.

• The Spanish program is organizing the 16th annual theatre conference (XVI Jornadas Internacionales de Teatro Latinoamericano), July 7-10, in Puebla, Mexico, in honor of dramatist Marcela del Río.

  Immediately following this gathering, and in the same city, they will hold the 3rd annual poetry conference (III Jornadas Internacionales de Poesia Latinoamericana), July 14-17, in honor of poet Dolores Castro Varela. Both distinguished Mexican writers will attend the conferences.

The next MFLL e-newsletter will be published February 25, 2008. Deadline for submission of announcements and news items -- 6 p.m., Sunday, February 24, 2008. Please send to jromeise@utk.edu