The Bi-Weekly MFLL E-Newsletter
MONDAY, February 25, 2008
The Newsletter for Modern Foreign Languages and Literatures
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• Nike Arnold (German) has been nominated as a candidate for the position of German Section Head for the American Association of University Supervisors and Coordinators.

• The University of Tennessee Center for Literacy has asked Kathryn Atkins-Roberson (French) to train ESL teachers across the state in TPR Storytelling. She will be conducting six hour training programs in Knoxville, Nashville and Jackson in February. She also taught TPR Storytelling to Adult Basic Education ESL teachers at the Academy for Instructional Excellence in Memphis.

• Susan Edmundson (French) is participating in a working group to study and make recommendations on the non-tenure track faculty employed at the University of Tennessee.

• Erec R. Koch (French) delivered an invited paper titled "Nicole's Tourbillons: Materiality, Motion, and the Passions," February 23, at a conference titled "Spaces of Self in Early Modern Culture." This year-long conference was held at the UCLA Center for 17th- and 18th-Century Studies and explored the mutual imbrication of subjectivity and space in early modern culture.

• Andrew M. Ray (graduate student, Spanish) is the proud father of a boy, Miles Wesley Ray, born January 31.

• Five students of French from the University of Tennessee participated in a "French Scholar's Bowl" at Carson Newman College, February 23. The students are Rachel Lamance (President of the Pi Delta Phi French Honors Society), Shande King, Andrew Kay, Bethanie Haynes, and Travis Lee.

• French Film Series, Hodges Library Auditorium.
  Remaining films:
  • Monday, March 24
    "Kirikou and the Sorceress", by Michel Ocelot, France, 2000 African folktales that have been handed down through the generations are the crux of this animated story about a remarkably gifted child, Kirikou, imbued with physical strength, superior intelligence and the ability to talk from an amazingly early age. The musical score is by Youssou N'Dour.
    
    
  • Wednesday April 16th, 5pm
    "Yeelen" by Souleymane Cissé, Mali, Burkina Faso, France and West Germany, 1987 Yeelen follows Nianankoro, a young man sent by his mother to find his uncle, Djigui Diarra, who may be able to help him escape a curse his own father has put on him. Along the way, Yeelen learns about honor and true power.

• The Fourth Annual Department of MFLL Open House and Awards Ceremony will be held on Thursday, May 8, 2008 at 1:30 pm in the Multipurpose Room of the Black Cultural Center. Refreshments will be served. The entire department is cordially invited.

The next MFLL e-newsletter will be published March 31, 2008. Deadline for submission of announcements and news items -- 6 p.m., Sunday, March 30, 2008. Please send to jromeise@utk.edu