The Bi-Weekly MFLL E-Newsletter
MONDAY, September 25, 2006
The Newsletter for Modern Foreign Languages and Literatures
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• Amy Bertram (French) will present a paper at SEMA in Oxford, MS on Oct. 14. The title is "A Return to Eternal Return (1943): Rereading Cocteau’s Modernized Version of the Tristan and Iseut Myth.



• Greg Kaplan (Spanish) has been invited to present a lecture at Princeton University on October 5. The lecture, titled "Transferring Bodies: The Seventh-Century Cult of St. Millán in the Cave Churches of Valderredible, Cantabria (Spain)," deals with themes covered in his forthcoming monograph on these cave churches.



• David Lee’s (German) article on two German poems in the journal Das achtzehnte Jahrhundert (30.1 [2006]: 30-47) caught the attention of a writer for the culture section of one of Germany’s leading newspapers, the Frankfurter Allgemeine, and it was the subject of a short article in the newspaper (12 July 2006, N3).



• Dan Magilow (German) spoke on "The Short Life and Death of Kitty Weichherz (1929-1942)" September 10 at the East Tennessee Historical Society.



• Oscar Rivera-Rodas (Spanish) announces that writer Roberto Fernandez Retamar (Cuba, 1930) has accepted an invitation to join the Segundas Jornadas Internacionales de Poesía Latinoamericana, which takes place in Puebla, Mexico, and where they will pay tribute to his work. The event will be held July 9-12, 2007. Fernandez Retamar is one of the most distinguished Latin American poets at the present time, in addition to being a critic and theoretician of Latin American literature. He is also the President of the Casa de las Américas in Havana. This year’s Jornadas de Poesía was dedicated to poet Jose Emilio Pacheco (Mexico, 1938) and experienced great success.

Here are the LRC workshops taking place in the next two weeks. Registration is required as space is limited. Please register by emailing dcanfie1@utk.edu, dialing 974-6494 or visiting the Language Resource Center.

1. The LRC invites you to a workshop in the CMC Series: Skype and Gizmo for Instructional Purposes (1 to 1.5 hours)
   Tuesday, September 26, 10 AM, HSS 205 (PC users)
   Thursday, September 28, 11 AM, HSS 206 (Macintosh users)
   Register To: Douglas Canfield
   
   Goals:
   This session is a resource for instructors who would like to provide students with meaningful, authentic materials and communication in the target language on a sustained basis. A general introduction to VoIP and the leading software will be followed by a walk-through of the initial setup for Skype and Gizmo, and how to get started calling other Skype/Gizmo users for free. Then, we'll explain the paid features you can use with both, and explore pedagogical applications and deployment strategies.



2. The LRC invites you to a workshop in the Web Development Series: Introduction to Basic HTML (1 to 1.5 hours) Tuesday, October 3 @ 2pm, HSS 205 (PC Lab)
   Register To: Sumarni
   
   Goals:
   This session is intended for instructors who would like to learn how to create websites for educational purposes. This Basic HTML session will include 5 lessons and a hands-on practice lesson.
   • Lesson 1: Introduction to HTML
   • Lesson 2: Getting Started With HTML – Create Title and Body Text Formatting (Bold, Italic, Underline)
   • Lesson 3: Headings, Line Breaks, Comments, Horizontal Line
   • Lesson 4: Create Hyperlinks and Insert Images
   • Lesson 5: Create Ordered and Unordered Lists
   • Practice Lesson

   Requirement:   UNIX (Web Space) Account

   • You MUST activate your UNIX account before you can attend this workshop!
   • Questions on how to activate your UNIX account? Visit the OIT website at: http://accounts.utk.edu/cgi-bin/uact/uact2-register.cgi?func=loginform&type=unix (or call the helpdesk at 4-9900).
   • Want to learn more about UNIX? Visit: http://oit.utk.edu/usag/unixmenu.html

3. The LRC invites you to a workshop in the Web Development Series: Blackboard Content Modules and Gradebook (1 to 1.5 hours)
   Thursday, October 5 @ 2pm, HSS 205 (PC Lab)

Goals:
This session is for instructors who would like to provide students with around-the-clock access to the most current grade information for their course, AND/OR for those who have Web pages that they would like to easily deploy as-is in their Blackboard courses. First, we will discuss how to upload previously-created Web pages into blackboard and set them up to monitor use by your students. This workshop will end with a demonstration on building a Gradebook, managing items and grades, setting up weighting, and other options offered in the Blackboard Gradebook.

• Faculty Research Seminar on Modern Germany
  The next session of the Faculty Research Seminar on Modern Germany will take place this Wednesday, September 27, at 4 PM in Temple Court 205. This will be a roundtable discussion of the recent "Living On" Holocaust-related lectures given by Professors Gilya Schmidt and Dan Magilow. Attendance at these earlier lectures is not necessary, but if you'd like to read the papers or see the Powerpoint presentations, please refer to the Seminar calendar at: http://web.utk.edu/~mfll/languages/german/research_seminar



• Hispanic Heritage Festival
  September 30, 2006
  Market Square
  12 to 7pm
  For further information, contact Margarita Yong, myong@utk.edu
  
  
• We take special pride in announcing the following event at our next department meeting: the Inaugural Lecture of a truly distinguished member of our profession and newest member of our department, Dr. Robert C. Holub.