The Bi-Weekly MFLL E-Newsletter
MONDAY, October 9, 2006
The Newsletter for Modern Foreign Languages and Literatures
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• Edmund Campion (French) will read a paper on Senghor's "Elegie pour Georges Pompidou" at the international Senghor Colloquium to be held later this month at the University of the West Indies in Barbados to celebrate the 100th anniversary of Senghor's birth.



• PhD in Spanish candidate Cristina Campos Fuentes had her article "En el país de la parodia: el criollismo en Adán Buenosayres, de Marechal", accepted for publication in Chasqui (edited by David Foster, State University of Arizona). Her work will appear in one of the 2007 issues.



• Welcome to Professor Greg Kaplan's (Spanish), article, “Teaching to the Masses: The Design and Implementation of a Large Lecture Hispanic Culture Course," has been published in the most recent issue of Foreign Language Annals, the journal of the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL).



• John Romeiser (French) gave a talk, "The Making of a Combat Reporter: Don Whitehead's World War II," to the Knoxville Writers' Group, September 27.

• Japanese film, 6:15 pm, Monday, October 9, Hodges Library Auditorium
  “Water Boys”, a 2001 comedy directed by Shinobu Yaguchi. With Chinese and English subtitles. Free. La Tertulia is a time to relax and socialize with native Spanish-speakers, and just about everyone else who is interested in learning more about Spanish and Latin American cultures in a very friendly fashion and in an informal atmosphere. Join us every Friday at 5:00 p. m. at Cool Beans (1817 Lake Avenue, across the street from the new parking garage on Lake Ave.)



• Monday, October 9
  The Spanish 211 film series is presenting the Spanish movie "El Bola" at 4:00 in the Hodges Library Lindsay Young Auditorium. Please note that the Tuesday showing has been canceled. Everybody is welcome.



• The next meeting of the Lecturers' Association will take place at Susan Edmundson's house at 5:00 P.M. on Sunday, November 5. Please bring a dish to share. The official meeting will begin at 5:30 P.M.. The address is 1131 Heatherfield Lane, Knoxville, 37909. If you need directions, call Susan at 670-1067.



• Panelists/presenters at the joint TFLTA/ACTFL conference in Nashville next month are urged to turn in their travel requests for funding to Beth Cole ASAP.

Patrick S. Brady, holder of the Shumway Chair of Excellence in Romance Languages and Professor of French, died September 30. A Memorial service and Mass will take place Tuesday, October 10, at 4:00, at the Church of the Immaculate Conception, 414 W. Vine Avenue, with the Fr. Joseph Ciccone, CSP officiating.