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SPRING 2008

Tuesday, January 1: Dr. Perez read her poetry for the Bowry Poetry Club.

Thursday, January 31: Focus the Nation. Shannon Fell participated in a panel, describing the visit made by the Bridging Cultures class to the Ministry on Environment in Quebec City, Canada; Dr. Beauzethier spoke about current environmental issues in France.

Tuesday, January 29: Department Meeting with Emory Craig, Director ACS, and Marie Rofhok, Director Mooney Center, 12:40-2 p.m., Language Technology Center.

Tuesday, February 5: LTC Update: MCL faculty with Emory Craig, Director ACS, and Marie Rofhok, Director Mooney Center, 1:15-2 p.m., Language Technology Center.

Tuesday, February 19: Orientation to LTC (slide show) with Emory Craig, Director ACS, and Jonathan White, 1:15-2 p.m., Language Technology Center.

Saturday, February 23: Dr. Raia attends the full day winter conference of The New York Classical Club at New York University, 10 am-4 pm.

Tuesday, March 4: Dr. Segura-Rico presents her work "Testimonio and Transculturation" at the SAS Faculty Forum, Student Campus Center, 12:30-2 pm.

March 27-29: Dr. Segura-Rico presents a paper "Testimonio and the Transatlantic: Spaces of Transculturation" at the 14th Annual Carolina Conference on Romance Literatures "Questioning Textualities: A Transatlantic Approach?" in Chapel Hill, North Carolina.

March 27-20: Dr. Beauzethier attends the Northeast Conference on the Teaching of Foreign Languages, New York City.

Tuesday, April 1: MCL Majors-Minors Advisement Meeting. The department honors with a gift and testimonials Drs. Perez and Raia on their forthcoming retirement from teaching. Lunch, SCC-Room B, 12:30-1:50 pm.

Tuesday, April 1: Estella Ayuk, French major, spoke on the panel "Borders or Barriers: Current Topics in Immigration," offered by the Ursuline Institute, 6:30-8:00 PM, Romita Auditorium.

Wednesday, April 2: Dr. Raia offered a workshop on Companion to the Worlds of Roman Women to the Latin students of Honors alum '85 Dr. Maria Marsilio at St. Joseph's University, 10 am.

Wednesday, April 2: Political Science Professor Joseph Diaferia gave a guest lecture "The Influence of American Foreign Policy on Haiti" to Dr. Beauzethier's class "The French Speaking World: Haiti, Martinique and Guadeloupe."

Saturday, April 12: Dr. Raia assists Dr. Barbara McManus in presenting a workshop on VRoma to an NEH funded institute for high school teachers at the College of Notre Dame, Baltimore, MD, 9 am -noon.

Tuesday, April 15: Dr. Raia's Honors Greek Tragedy class performs Euripides' Alcestis (flyer, playbill, play, summary) under the direction of classics major Erin Daley '09. 7:30 PM, Romita Auditorium.

Saturday, April 19: Dr. Perez curates the Poets Circle and reads her poetry (6:30 pm - 7:30 pm) at the Jazz & Poetry Marathon "Other Words Other Worlds," 10 AM-10PM, Flushing Town Hall.

Tuesday, April 22: Drs. Raia and Segura-Rico make a PowerPoint presentation to the SAS faculty on their NEH grant to prepare the seminar Mediterranean Studies. SCC, Room B, 12:15-2 pm.

Thursday, April 24: Dr. Beauzethier leads workshops in a colloquium on Teaching Foreign Languages, Fordham University Prep School.

Friday, April 25: Dr. Perez and the students in "Survey of Spanish Literature" visit the Spanish art collection at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and read aloud poems by the Golden Age poets.

Friday, April 25-26: Dr. Raia presides as President over the spring business meetings of the Finance Committee, Executive Committee, Board of Directors of the Classical Association of the Atlantic States at the Nassau Inn, Princeton, New Jersey, 6-11 pm; 8:30 am-4:15 pm.

Saturday, May 3: Dr. Raia attends the spring meeting of The New York Classical Club at The Hewett School, New York City, 3:30-6 pm.

Tuesday, May 13: Departmental Exit Interview with graduating Spanish major Emy Carpano, 2:30 pm, Mooney Center 301.

Friday, May 16: French major Estella R. Ayuk '09 is awarded the John N. Colaneri Study Abroad memorial scholarship for Summer study in Senegal. Castle, Dean's Suite, 4 pm.

Wednesday, May 21: Hooding and Awards Ceremony and reception for the graduating class in the College Chapel, 4 pm.

Thursday, May 22: Commencement, Radio City Music Hall, 11 am.

FALL 2007

Monday, July 30: Department Meeting, Student Center, Room 205, 10:30 a.m.-2:30p.m.

Tuesday, September 4: Department Meeting, Iselin Room, 10:30-12:30 p.m., Freshman Matriculation Ceremony, College Chapel, 12:45-2 p.m.

Saturday, September 8: Dr. Perez officiated at the marriage in the Bronx, NY, of a Dominican couple; their ceremony was in Spanish and included cultural traditions from the Dominican Republic.

Wednesday, September 5-8: Dr. Segura-Rico attended the international conference of the Latin American Studies Association and presented a paper entitled “Reyita’s testimonio: Transculturaciòn and the Paths of el Cimarròn,” in Montreal, Canada.

Wednesday, September 12: Fieldtrip assignment to Glen Island Park with students in the Mediterranean Studies seminar and Dr. Segura-Rico, 4:30-5:30 p.m.

Friday, September 21: Department Meeting, 1:00-3 p.m., Iselin Room.

Sunday, September 23: Dr. Perez is the featured poet at the Back Fence on Bleecker Street in Greenwich Village, NYC, 3-5 p.m.

Wednesday, September 26: Dr. Susan Canning, CNR Art History Professor, guest lectures to the Mediterranean Studies seminar on identity and gender in prehistoric Mediterranean cultures, 3:30-5:30, MC 160.

Thursday, October 4-7: Centennial Meeting of the Classical Association of the Atlantic States, in Washington, DC. Presentations by Drs. Raia and McManus; Dr. Raia becomes President for 2007-2008; alum Maria Marsilio '85 and Sandra Schnaithman '99.

Thursday, October 18: Dr. Beauzethier and J. McKernan of AIFS will host a Meeting for students interested in studying abroad. SCC-Room 205, 12:30-1:45 p.m.

Wednesday, October 24: Dr. Samira Hassa, French & Arabic Professor, Manhattan College guest lectures to the Mediterranean Studies seminar on East-West Mediterranean encounters, 3:30-5:30, MC 160.

Friday, October 26: Department Meeting with the Academic Vice President, 12:30-2 p.m., Honors Center.

Friday, November 2: Dr. Perez is the invited speaker in the New Jersey Book Arts Symposium "The Book as Body, the Body as Book" at Rutgers University, Newark-Dana campus.

Thursday, November 8: MCL Majors-Minors Advisement Meeting with lunch, SCC-Room C, 12:30-1:50 p.m.

Wednesday, November 14: Dr. Thomas Mussio, Chair, Department of Foreign Languages, Iona College, guest lectures to the Mediterranean Studies Seminar on Italian Perspectives on the Mediterranean: Dante, 3:30-5:30, MC 160.

Friday, November 16: Dr. Perez takes her Caribbean Literature class to the Museo del Barrio, the Julia de Burgos Cultural Center, where they met with artist Marco Dimas, and dinner at a Dominican restaurant.

Wednesday, November 21: Dr. Barbara McManus, CNR Professor Emerita of Classics, gives a guest presentation to the Mediterranean Studies Seminar on Linguistic Approaches to the Comparative Study of Poetry, 3:30-5:30, MC 160.

Monday, November 26: Dr. Miren Edurne Portela, Lehigh University, guest lectures on " Alicia Partnoy's The Little School and Argentina's Dirty War" to Dr. Segura-Rico's INS 400 class "Testimonial Writing in Latin America", 11 am.

Friday, December 7: Department Meeting with Emory Craig, Director ACS, 1:30-3 p.m., Iselin Room.