Tuesday, January 22, 2019

Spanish program/ Dr. Simon-Alegre

I want to share with you the good news about Ana's research and publication:


At the Modern Language Conference. Chicago, Friday, January 4th 2019, at the round table that Ana led, 'Queer Women: Readers and Writers in 19th & 20th Peninsular Spanish Literature’ she read the paper ‘Queer Women in Peninsular Spanish Literature’. 
Her paper ‘Suicide in the Spanish Army as a Trigger for the Crisis in Hegemonic Masculinity at the Beginning of the 20th century’ was selected to be part of the book Death in the Hispanic World, coordinated by professor Esther M. Alarcón-Arana and published by Peter Lang Publishing. 
She is coordinating with professor Aurélie Vialette (Stony Brook) for the 2019 NeMLA the seminar titled: ‘Queer Women: Reading and Writing in 19th & 20th-century Peninsular Spanish Literature’ She will present a paper titled: ‘Unique Literary Friendship a from Concepción Gimeno de Flaquer to Carmen Laforet’.
Her paper "Tracking the female 'I' and the author 'I' in Correspondence in the Late 19th century" has been accepted to the conference The Nineteenth-Century in 2019. Mapping Women’s Writing in the Long Nineteenth Century. This conference will take place at California State University, Long Beach, April 25th-28th.
 CONGRATULATIONS!

Saturday, January 19, 2019

Dr. Vincenzo Selleri/ Italian Program



I want to share the good news:

Dr. Selleri has been invited to present a paper at the conference "State Building and Minorities: the Jews in Italy" that will be held at the University of Maryland, College Park and John Hopkins University, Baltimore May 5-7, 2019. He will present the paper "Ludeca: Jewish Space and Jewish Rights in 15th Century Kingdom of Naples."



Tuesday, January 8, 2019

Spain programs/ 2019-2020

Auxiliares de conversación extranjeros en España
Convocatoria 2019-2020
Acceso al servicio online
Plazo de presentación de solicitudes:PRÓXIMA APERTURA desde el 10 de enero de 2019 hasta el 10 de abril de 2019
Información general
Descripción
Ayudas a graduados o estudiantes de último curso de países con los que existe acuerdo bilateral para ser auxiliar de conversación extranjero en centros educativos públicos españoles.
Destinatarios
Graduados y estudiantes universitarios en su último año académico de los siguientes países:
Alemania, Australia, Austria, Bélgica (francés o inglés), Bulgaria (inglés), Canadá (francés o inglés), China (chino e inglés), Estados Unidos, Federación de Rusia, Filipinas, Finlandia (inglés), Francia, Irlanda, India (inglés), Italia, Luxemburgo (inglés), Malta, Marruecos (francés), Noruega (inglés), Nueva Zelanda, Países Bajos (inglés), Paises de Oceanía (Fiyi, Islas Salomón, Tonga y Vanuatu), Portugal, Reino Unido, Singapur, Suecia (inglés), Suiza (alemán, francés o italiano) y Túnez (francés)

Spanish Program/ Dr. Amador

I would like to share the good news about my work during the sabbatical leave, in addition to the acceptance of my two papers, one at NeMLA in Washington DC and one at the Congreso Internacionales in Chile, my article "Exploring the Self: Angelina Beloff and Frida Kahlo" has been published in the Journal #5, 2018, Se Acabó la tinta.  Artes Visuales.

I have also accepted the invitation to participate as a member of the  “Congreso Hispanoamericano de Prensa”, this entity has been in existence for more than 20 years organizing congresses, conferences, and seminar with an active community participation. 

In addition to all above, I was also able to complete the revision of the manuscript for the Intermediate Spanish textbook.

Monday, December 3, 2018

Dr/ Amador's papers, 2019

Dr. Amador will be attending the following Conferences:

1.   Her paper, “Exploration of the Self: Angelina Beloff and Frida Kahlo” was accepted at the XXIII Congreso Internacional de Literatura y Estudios Hispánicos (Santiago, Chile, March 6-8, 2019). 



2. Her paper “The Body as a Marker: Cristina Garcia and Judith Ortiz Cofer” has been accepted by the Feministas Unidas panel at Northeast Modern Languages Association in 2019 in Washington, D.C.

Survey of Hispanic Lit./Dr. Aponte's Class. La vida en sueño by Calderón de la Barca

Last Thursday, Dr. Aponte-Olivieri "Survey of the Literature of Spain" class dramatized a number of selected scenes from Calderón de la Barca's play "La vida es sueño". Our students fully embraced the joys and challenges of interpreting -- critically and dramatically-- this Baroque text in all of its richness and complexity. See the class in action with this set of pictures from the dramatization.

The cast is as follows: 








JORNADA I
      Escena 2            Segismundo: Josué Muñoz-Lara
                                   Rosaura: Nuvia Velasquez
                                  Clarín: Priscilla Smith
     Escena 5             Astolfo: Arianna Thomas
                                  Estrella: Zullimar Adamés
JORNADA II
     Escena 14           Astolfo: Salma Aguilar
                                  Rosaura: Justin Bergson
      Escena 19          Segismundo: Iván Sakkal
JORNADA III
      Escena 2           Soldado 1: Priscilla Smith
                                  Clarín: Mariana Steinbuch
                                  Soldado 2: Josué Muñoz-Lara
                                  Todos: Justin Bergson
       Escena 3           Soldado 1: Justin Bergson
                                  Segismundo: Matthew Petrouskie
                                  Clarín: Iván Sakkal
                                  Soldado 2: Salma Aguilar
                                  Voces: Nuvia Velasquez
                                  Todos: Estefanía Martínez

Friday, June 22, 2018

French Program- Daniela Volaric

Dear Daniella

Welcome back and congratulations in the acceptance to medical school!

Daniella, I am proud and happy to know that your staying in France has been a life changing experience. I had no doubt that you had made the right decision when you finally accepted the opportunity to teach in Tergnier.

Now, you will soon start a new journey in medical school in Poland and I am convinced that you will succeed!

Please let me know if I can share your story in FB, newsletter and in our blog!

In the meantime, I want you to know that I will be in next Wednesday, I hope you can stop by the office!

Warmly,

Raysa Amador
Sent from my iPhone

On Jun 20, 2018, at 3:01 PM, DANIELLA VOLARIC <daniellavolaric@mail.adelphi.edu> wrote:

Hello!!

    I'm back in the states, and I just wanted to give you all a few life updates. Firstly, I want to thank you all again for your encouragement and support when it came to my participating in TAPIF. It was difficult at times, as expected, but it was an overall incredible experience, and you have no idea how glad and relieved I am to have made the right choice in going. My students were all unbelievably sweet, and although it was very sad to leave them, I came home with piles of drawings, handmade bracelets, cards, and French pokemon cards! 

Apparently, (as my parents feared) I loved my time there enough that I couldn't stay away from Europe for long. This fall, I will begin medical school in Poland at Poznan University of Medical Sciences. The program is in English and I will earn a US medical degree, but it looks as though I'd better start quickly learning some key Polish phrases (although I already love pierogis, so at least I'll be assimilating into the food aspect of their culture without too much trouble). To be honest, I'm even more nervous about this next chapter than I was about TAPIF. Four years is a long time, and this is a language and culture that are almost entirely unfamiliar to me. But once again, also less directly this time, I have all of you to thank for this experience. I would never have even considered this as an option if I hadn't spent the past year in Tergnier. I repeatedly surprised myself by doing things that I, a person who has never really enjoyed or been comfortable with change, was afraid to do- traveling by myself, exploring new cities, making friends, and seeing new cultures with very little help and guidance. I think back to how afraid I was before each new step, and to how proud of myself I was for each new thing I accomplished- how proud of myself I was for continuing to travel and experience new things despite how nervous the prospect made me beforehand. Now, although I am back in the "fear" stage- and believe you me, there is plenty of fear to go around- I  can comfort myself with the knowledge that the pride phase is coming. Although I don't know when, and although it will be very difficult in the meantime, I know that I have that feeling to look forward to. I also have a new support system of friends in France and Germany (thanks to TAPIF) who will make it a little bit easier as well. So again, I thank you for encouraging me to make what has undoubtedly been the best decision of my life this far, which has opened doors for me that two years ago, I never would have thought myself capable of. 

I'm sorry that I've written you a short novel here, but it's really important to me that you all know how much I appreciate your support. I hope all is well at Adelphi and with you all. Thank you again.

Best wishes,
Daniella Volaric