Dr. Priya Wadhera, French Program

Yet another good news!

 Dr. Priya Wadhera has  just won the forum executive committee election for the Modern Language Association.  As the MLA website indicates forums "encompass the scholarly and professional concerns of the association."  As such, she will be playing a key role in her field of 20th- and 21st-Century French for years to come.  Among other things, the executive committee is in charge of the panels their forum offers from year-to-year at our massive annual convention.  This means they choose the topics for these panels, weighing current trends and long-standing priorities in the field. They write the panel descriptions and vet the proposals made to these panels.  This last responsibility is no small task since the MLA is widely-known as the most competitive conference in the field.  Ultimately, executive committee members preside over these panels at our annual conventions, ensuring fruitful dialogue and debate.

Congratulations, Priyta.

Dr. Jonatha Hiller, Italian Program

I want to share more good news! Dr. Jonathan Hiller has been selected to be part of the MLA advisory committee for 17th, 18th and 19th century Italian literature forum in Seattle at the 2020 MLA convention.

Congratulations, Jonathan on winning the elections.

Carla Ojeda representing Adelphi at Hispanic Association of Colleges and University

I just want to share the photos of Carla Ojeda's (Spanish and Anthropology major)  follow-up presentation about her trip, representing Adelphi University, to the Hispanic Association of Colleges and Universities in Chicago during October 2019, to president Riordan and Dean Wang.

Adelphi Authors and Artists Exhibition 2019

I want to share with you photos of the opening reception of Adelphi Authors and Artists Exhibition which took place on Monday, December 2 from 4:00 p.m.–5:30 p.m. 

 

Dr. Archer  talked about the Process of Coloring of Stainless Steel and Dimensionalism in Art (5:00 p.m.) and she also had an stainless steel piece in the exhibition.

Sponsored by the Office of the Provost, the Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs, and Adelphi University Libraries, the Adelphi Authors and Artists Exhibition is an annual tradition. This exhibition showcases recently published and artistic works submitted by faculty, administrators and staff through December 2019. The exhibition can be visited until December 14.

I urge you to visit the PAC, 2nd floor to see the work of our colleague.

Congratulations, Ines.

Adelphi Authors and Artists Exhibition, 2019

I want to share with you photos of the opening reception of A

delphi Authors and Artists Exhibition which took place on Monday, December 2 from 4:00 p.m.–5:30 p.m. 

Dr. Wadhera's book Original Copies in Georges Perec and Andy Warhol,  published by Brill ǀ Rodopi, was part of the exhibition.

Sponsored by the Office of the Provost, the Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs, and Adelphi University Libraries, the Adelphi Authors and Artists Exhibition is an annual tradition. This exhibition showcases recently published and artistic works submitted by faculty, administrators and staff through December 2019. The exhibition can be visited until December 14.

I urge you to visit the PAC, 2nd floor to see the work of our colleague.

Congratulations, Priya 

Japanese Table a t Adelphi

French Program, Dr. Wadhera

I am pleased to share the following good news about Dr. Wadhera, she has had a paper accepted to the 37th annual 20th- and 21st-Century French and Francophone Studies Annual Colloquium to take place in Lincoln, Nebraska this coming spring.  The theme of the conference this year is “Parler la terre / Speaking the Earth” and her paper is called “Parler la cuisine :  Honoring the Contribution of Priscilla Parkhurst Ferguson (1940-2018).”  Ferguson was a mentor of hers from Columbia who was one of the first scholars to discuss food in a French literary context.  

Congratulations Priya,

Tuesday, November 5, Adelphi's inaugural American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL) workshop on "The Role of Grammar in a Proficiency-Oriented Curriculum".

The Department of Languages, Literatures and Cultures at Adelphi, together with the Highs School Program, offered today, Tuesday, November 5, Adelphi's inaugural American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL) workshop on "The Role of Grammar in a Proficiency-Oriented Curriculum". More than 18 educators from across Nassau county signed up and attended this important event. Dr. Steve Everett, Provost and Executive Vice President and Dr. Vincent Wang, Dean of Arts and Sciences gave the welcoming remarks. As a Chair, this is the first of the many workshops we plan to organize, I look forward to continuing more enduring collaboration between our current and future languages HS partners! THE DLLC welcomes and values working with the HS programs and the students.

Italian Program, Dr. Jonathan Hiller

Sharing more good news with you, this time from our Italian Program, Dr. Hiller was at a conference at Georgetown University last Saturday (October 26), entitled “Italian Language and Culture Conference: Challenges in the 21st Century Italian Classroom”. His talk was entitled “Brutti ma buoni: How to use less-than-masterpieces of Italian cinema to engage students”. The conference was supported by the Italian foreign ministry as part of the international “Week of the Italian language” initiative.

Congratulations, Jonathan for your continuous research work!

French Program, Dr. Priya Wadhera

Absence  in Georges Perec

Priya Wadhera, Ph.D.

Associate Professor

Department of Languages, Literatures and Cultures

The celebrated 20th-century French author Georges Perec was a member of the influential OuLiPo group of writers who believe constraints are liberating. Perec made an indelible mark on the history of French literature with his varied and virtuosic œuvre. Case in point is Perec’s La Disparition (1969), a 300-page novel that entirely lacks the letter “e.” This gesture of literary bravado also has a deeper meaning. The lack of “e” evokes a lack of “eux” or them, those who died in the Holocaust, including Perec’s mother. In this paper, Dr. Wadhera studies another stark absence that pervades his works:  the lack of food. Perec’s protagonists rarely eat and the little food one sees are mere scraps, crumbs, morsels. She aims to understand this gesture in an era inaugurated by Marcel Proust, an author whom Perec greatly admired, and his “madeleine episode” which offers a position of privilege to food.        

Priya Wadhera is Associate Professor of French at Adelphi University in the Department of Languages, Literatures and Cultures.  She earned her doctorate at Columbia University where she stayed on for three years as a lecturer in the department and Director of the Maison française before joining Adelphi in 2007. She has been the most senior member of the French program for over a decade at Adelphi where she savors her time in the classroom.

  

Over the years, Dr. Wadhera has established herself as a specialist of Georges Perec.  Her first book, entitled “Original Copies in Georges Perec and Andy Warhol,” came out in 2017 with Brill | Rodopi.  She has given papers throughout the US and France on his works, including by invitation at the Association Georges Perec in Paris, and later this semester in Australia at a conference drawing scholars from around the world who will be speaking on the OuLiPo.  Her published articles on Perec include one recently accepted to the authoritative Cahier Georges Perec, which gathers scholarship from the world’s foremost perecquiens.  In fact, this article was one of four she placed in peer-reviewed journals while on a recent yearlong sabbatical.  “Absence in Georges Perec” is based on another one of those articles.

Foreign Languages Film Festival, 2019

Manuela Sáenz: South American Revolutionary Heroine

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w3csyp5c

French replacement position

Melba Martinez, Assistant Director for ENL, Dual and World Languages for Bay Shore Schools has a French leave replacement position that will be opening in December and she is hoping to get some candidates in for an interview, please  contact her.  The leave replacement is for approx. 8-10 weeks and is a split assignment between the high school and middle school. 


Melba Martinez

Assistant Director for ENL, Dual and World Language

Bay Shore Union Free School District

P: 631-968-1177

E: mmartinez@bayshore.k12.ny.us

Feeling blue? Come to Finland!
Ranked the happiest country in the world in 2018 and
2019 by the World Happiness Report, Finland has
attracted global attention for its innovations and success
in governance, business, education and social welfare. It
is also ranked the safest country in the world. Come find out how they do it!
Professors Laatikainen and Gupta are offering a spring term 1 credit faculty-led study abroad course to Finland May 16-25, 2020. The course, 0187-396-001 Finnish Innovations in Politics and Business (cross-listed with 0210-396-001) runs during the period after commencement until just before the summer session. We will travel to Tampere and Helsinki in Finland and spend one day in Tallinn, Estonia which is renowned for its e- governance. This is a 1 credit spring semester course that could easily fit into your spring and not incur additional tuition costs.
We have planned interesting site visits, including famous Finnish firms like Nokia and the start-up Happy or Not. We will visit Sitra, the government funded innovation fund. We will explore the experiment in universal basic income at the University of Tampere. In Helsinki, we will visit the Finnish Institute of International Affairs and the famous Suomenlinna fortress island. There are planned visits to the Lenin museum and of course we will have a sauna on one of Finland’s 10,000 lakes. We have also worked to ensure that students will meet Finnish students socially throughout the study tour.
Interested students should apply through CIE. The link to the Finland course can be found at: https://adelphi- sa.terradotta.com/index.cfm?FuseAction=Programs.ViewProgramAngular&id=40257
Scholarships are available and info can be found at: https://study-abroad.adelphi.edu/students/scholarships/
The application and deposit deadline is November 19th.
Professors Gupta and Laatikainen would be happy to answer any questions you might have about this program. Please feel free to contact us. Professor Gupta can be reached via email (copied on this email) and his office hours this term are M, W, Th 3pm to 4pm in HHE 333. We are happy to talk about this exciting program, and put you in touch with students who took the course last year!
We thought we might leave you with a chuckle and some food for thought. Brag for Finland is a short, comical video that was prepared for Finland's celebration of its 100th anniversary last year in which citizens of more well-known countries try to teach the famously humble Finns how to brag about their many
accomplishments. Might as Well be Finnish is a half-hour pod-cast produced by the BBC and Sundance to explore how Finland has not only grown but prospered in a challenging geographic neighborhood.

Tervetuloa—Welcome to Finland!

Dr. Keiko Miyajima, Japanese program

Thank you very much for helping us to make the rakugo event happen, the event turned out to be a huge success. Master rakugo-ka Yanagiya Tozaburo's hilarious performance both in English and Japanese and four students from Prof. Miyajima's Japanese classes performed versions of rakugo in Japanese. Each of them did a great job making the audience laugh (in Japanese!). The room was full of laughter from the beginning to the end. Thank you so much again!

Thanks to Prof. Miyajima, coordinator of the Japanese program, for masking this happen.

Dr. Wadhera, French Program

Hello to All,

I would like to summarize Priya's forthcoming c achievement in this new email.

Dr. Wadhera has had three papers accepted to conferences taking place this coming academic year.  In December, she will present “To Eat or Not to Eat:  the Effects of Hunger in the Works of Georges Perec,” at “The Effects of the Oulipo:  Impact, Continuities, Appropriations, Reactions,” at the Australian Society for French Studies Annual Conference (ASFS) hosted by the University of New England and Western Sydney University in Sydney, Australia.  

Then, in January, she will give two papers at the Modern Language Association Annual Convention in Seattle.  The first is called “Accounting for Ferguson:  Why We Talk About Food,” a paper for a roundtable in honor of Priscilla Parkhurst Ferguson (1940-2018), a mentor of hers from Columbia who was a pioneer in food studies from a literary perspective.  The second is “Books Behaving Badly: The raison d’être for Perec’s La Disparition,” a paper accepted to a panel called “Bad Books.”

Further, Dr. Wadhera was just nominated to stand for election to the Executive Committee of the Languages, Literatures, and Cultures “20th– and 21st-Century French Forum” of the Modern Language Association.  

Priya, Congratulations.

Warmly,

Raysa

Sigma Delta Pi, Research Grants Summer 2020 and the 2020-21 Academic year!

SIGMA DELTA PI

"Spanías Didagéi Proágomen"

GRADUATE RESEARCH GRANTS

Sigma Delta Pi is pleased to announce its graduate research grant program for the summer of 2020 and the 2020-21 academic year. An eligible graduate student who is an active member of Sigma Delta Pi may apply for one grant of up to $2000 to support travel ABROAD to Spain, Spanish America or another region outside the U.S. where Spanish is spoken, for the sole purpose of research related to Hispanic Studies.  No more than five total grants may be awarded in 2020 based upon the quality and depth of the pool of applications.

RULES GOVERNING THE RESEARCH GRANT COMPETITION

CRITERIA

To be eligible to receive one of the research grants, a graduate student must (minimal requirements):

(1) request support for research involving learning or teaching of Spanish language, linguistics, and/or Hispanic literature, culture, film or media;
(2) be an active (elected) member of Sigma Delta Pi;
(3) have a superior academic record;
(4) be enrolled on March 1, 2020 as a full-time graduate student;
(5) have earned grades in at least 6 semester or 9 quarter hours of graduate Spanish courses;
(6) be nominated in writing by the chapter adviser(s) of an active chapter of the institution where the applicant is currently enrolled.
(7) send the completed official application form together with all required documentation via e-mail by the stipulated deadline.

INELIGIBLE:

(1) Undergraduate students.
(2) Previous winners, regardless of whether they accepted or declined a graduate research grant.
(3) Proposals to travel to a country that is listed as Level 4 by the U.S. Department of State (click here).  Level 3 may be permitted depending upon the warnings issued for the specific region/city proposed.  The applicant must address these levels in their “Work Plan” of the “Research Proposal” of this application.
(4) Applicants whose transcripts do NOT reflect the national requirements for membership will be automatically disqualified.

OFFICIAL APPLICATION FORM

Applicants must use the official form included in the following downloadable application packet: 2020 Graduate Research Grant Application Packet. The faculty adviser of chapters with more than one applicant must complete the following Ranking Form.

DEADLINE FOR APPLICATIONS

All applications and accompanying materials must sent via e-mail no later than MIDNIGHT Eastern Standard Time (EST), March 1, 2020. Those received after the deadline will be disqualified.

JUDGING APPLICATIONS

Working independently and with a given set of criteria, the judges will select the winners. Their decision will be final.

ANNOUNCEMENT OF AWARDS

Winners will be notified around April 15, 2020.

USE OF RESEARCH GRANTS

Sigma Delta Pi research grants MUST be used solely for the purposes stated in the awardee’s original application (e.g., for research ABROAD in Spain, Spanish America or another region outside the U.S. where Spanish is spoken, exact location[s], length of time specified, etc.) and for research purposes only. Permission will not be granted to alter the originally proposed research plan. Sigma Delta Pi’s research grants are non-transferable. Each awardee will receive half of the amount of his/her grant prior to his/her research trip, and the remaining half at the completion of their trip and after his/her photo and essay have been submitted (see below).

RESPONSIBILITIES OF WINNERS

Within two weeks after the completion of the period of their research trip, each grant recipient must send a passport-style photograph (full face profile in .jpg or .gif format) and an essay (Word format) of approximately 200 words in Spanish reporting on his/her research trip and the related work completed. The photo and essay will be published in the subsequent issue of Sigma Delta Pi’s annual journal, Entre Nosotros. See Guidelines for Essays.

Awardees unable to undertake the research made possible by the grant must inform theExecutive Director immediately and return any funding already received.

If the Chair of the Graduate Research Grant Competition and/or a judging committee member is also a chapter adviser, then their chapter is eligible for no more than one (1) graduate research grant. An exception may be made if 1) the number of applicants is less than the number of available awards and/or 2) the Executive Director, in consultation with the President, concludes that the quality of the applicant pool is deficient.

Interested Student Meeting. September 30, 2019

Scholarship opportunities

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DR. JUAN ANDRADE JR. SCHOLARSHIP FOR YOUNG HISPANIC LEADERS About the Scholarship Since 1982, USHLI has awarded over $1.3 million in scholarships and internships to students from disenfranchised groups. Most notably, the Dr. Juan Andrade Jr. Scholarship for Young Hispanic Leaders seeks to recognize Hispanic students who share Dr. Andrade’s lifelong commitment to servant leadership. Application deadline November 30, 2019 @ 11:59 PM CT Recipients will receive two non-renewable scholarships: A conference scholarship to attend the 38th USHLI National Conference An academic scholarship ($1,000 for a 4-year institution or $500 for a 2-year institution) for undergraduate students. Scholarship Qualifications Applicants must be enrolled or accepted for enrollment as full-time undergraduate students in an accredited four-year or two-year institution in the U.S. or U.S. territories and demonstrate a verifiable need for financial support. At least one parent must be of Hispanic ancestry. Non-U.S. citizens are eligible to apply (DACA or Undocumented). Recipients must also be available to attend the 38th USHLI National Conference in Chicago, IL from February 20-22, 2020. SEE WEBSITE FOR FULL LIST OF REQUIREMENTS, DEADLINES AND COMPONENTS.  ALL APPLICATIONS ARE DUE NO LATER THAN NOVEMBER 30, 2019 @ 11:59 pm CT.  PLEASE DIRECT ANY QUESTIONS TO ADRIAN CALDERON: acalderon@ushli.org Apply Here!

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