Le Cercle Francais at Adelphi 1943-1946: who we are in and who we were in the French Program at Adelphi:

Summer news

Italian Program:

Dr. Jonathan Hiller  presented  at the conference entitled "Tuscan Territories: Rural-Urban Dynamics" held at the Monash University Prato Centre in Prato, Italy on June 19-20.  He presented a paper on three operatic depictions of the city of Florence entitled "Firenze, da lontano ci parve il paradiso: Tuscany and National
Mythmaking in Donizetti, Leoncavallo and Puccini".

Congratulations!

Summer news from the Department:

French Program

Dr. Nicole Rudolph  delivered the paper “The Rise of the Jardin d’hiver: The Effect of the Grenelle de l’environnement on French Ideas of Home,”  at the Annual Meeting of the Society for French Studies, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, Scotland, June 30-July 2, 2014. The Society for French Studies is the oldest and largest association in the UK and Ireland, actively representing the interests of scholars and students of French in Higher Education and sustaining a disciplinary community at a time of rapid change.

Spanish Program 

Dr. Raysa E. Amador  have been selected to serve as a reviewer for the IFLE Fiscal Year (FY) 2014 National Resource Centers Title VI Program Competition Peer Review of the U.S. Department of Education in Washington, DC, from August 4th to August 8th. The program provides grants to establish, strengthen, and operate language and area or international studies centers that will be national resources for teaching any modern foreign language. Grants support: instruction in fields needed to provide full understanding of areas, regions or countries; research and training in international studies; work in the language aspects of professional and other fields of study; and instruction and research on issues in world affairs.

Dr. Rakhel Villamil-Acera will represent AdelphiI at the annual UN DPI/NGO Conference, which will take place this year at United Nations Headquarters in New York City on August 27-29, 2014. The 65th UN DPI/NGO Conference is titled '2015 and Beyond: Our Action Agenda,' is being organized by the UN Department of Public Information and the NGO/DPI Executive Committee, and will focus on the theme of 'The role of civil society in the post 2015 development agenda'. The event seeks to provide an opportunity for civil society networks and activists to mobilize messaging, advocacy strategies, partnerships and accountability frameworks in the lead up to the start of the intergovernmental negotiations on the post-2015 development agenda. The outcome of the conference will be a declaration that will be shared with the UN system, the UN Member States, the global civil society and other stakeholders.  

Many Languages, One World June 2014

http://nwsdy.li/1lw8j2x

Multilingual masters recognized at Adelphi University
Newsday
Originally published: June 26, 2014 9:49 PM
Updated: June 26, 2014 10:09 PM
By ZACHARY R. DOWDY

International students Tamara Anaie and Joagni Pare, of Burkina Faso, are part of the Chinese group who are now on the stage practicing their speech at the Performing Arts Center at Adelphi in Garden City on June 26, 2014. (Credit: Newsday / J. Conrad Williams, Jr.)

To Tamara Anaie, whose family fled an anti-Christian crackdown by Saddam Hussein when she was 6 months old, language holds the power to help heal even a country as riven as Iraq.
"We fled because of religious persecution," Anaie, 19, of Sparta, New Jersey, said at Hagedorn Hall on Adelphi University's Garden City campus. "That enabled me to really want to pursue international law, mainly so I can speak for those who really don't have a voice."
Anaie is one of 60 students from 26 countries who gathered at Adelphi Thursday to be recognized as winners of an international essay contest on the role of multilingual ability in global citizenship.
The contest drew more than 1,400 entries from 128 countries.
The catch was that the writers had to write in a language other than their native tongue and in one of the six official languages of the United Nations, which is a sponsor of the Many Languages, One World contest. Those languages are Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian and Spanish.
Anaie, who studies at Montclair State University in Montclair, New Jersey, chose Chinese -- one of five languages she's fluent in. She said she wrote about fleeing Iraq and her subsequent interest in international law.
"I need Chinese because Chinese is the No. 1 spoken language in the world," she said.
Anaie and the other winners, many of whom were in the United States for the first time, practiced presentations of their essay topics at Adelphi. They arrived Wednesday and are slated to showcase their work before the ambassadors of the UN General Assembly Friday as part of a youth forum.
The contest is made possible through a partnership of ELS Educational Services Inc., the United Nations Academic Impact program and Adelphi.
"Adelphi has had a long relationship with ELS," said Peter DeBartolo, administrative director of Adelphi's Levermore Global Scholars Program, adding that the school is also closely affiliated with the United Nations, where it is accredited as a nongovernmental organization.
Adelphi regularly hosts speaking engagements by UN ambassadors and envoys, and hosts forums on global issues. Adelphi students attend events at the UN.
"Global learning is in the mission statement of the university," DeBartolo said.
Joagni Paré, a native of Bur-kina Faso and a student at National Chung Hsing University in Taiwan, wrote about how having learned Chinese helped him understand his own West African culture better.
"I'm confronting myself with a new culture," he said. "It's like a mirror."
Paré, who speaks English, German, French, Chinese and his homeland's five languages, said he is encouraged by the business partnerships developing in Africa between China and several other countries, adding that he would like to play a role.
He aspires to work in international relations, perhaps as an official of the United Nations Children's Fund, or UNICEF -- or as secretary-general of the UN.
"They need people who can serve as a bridge between the African and Chinese market," he said.

The ELS and United Nations Academic Impact (UNAI) “Many Languages, One World Essay Contest and Global Youth Forum”  broadcasted live on Friday, 27 June 2014 from 10am until approximately 1:15pm EDT (3pm to 6:15pm GMT).   See the essay competition winners present at the UN General Assembly: http://www.ManyLanguagesOneWorld.ELS.edu/webcast

ELS Educational Services

PS:  You can also visit WebTV.UN.org for this and other United Nations broadcasts.  Background information on this event follows below:

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Great News for Multilingualism! 

Winners of multilingual essay contest to meet at UN Headquarters on 27 June 2014

Sixty college and university students from 28 countries have been invited to attend a youth forum at UN Headquarters on 27 June 2014 to discuss the role of multilingualism in a globalized world.  They are winners of an international essay contest, organized by ELS Educational Services, Inc. and the United Nations Academic Impact (UNAI) of the UN Department of Public Information. 

The contest, Many Languages One World, invited university and college students to write an essay on global citizenship in one of the six official UN languages, which must not be their mother-tongue, or the medium of instruction of their education. More than 4,000 people from 128 countries took part in some phase of the contest.  The official languages of the United Nations are Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian and Spanish.  

The people who participated in the contest ranged from college freshmen to Doctoral candidates, and their fields of study ran the academic gamut, including all of the arts and sciences, medicine, pharmacy and dentistry, engineering, law, business, finance and management, agriculture, architecture, communications and linguistics and translation.  A large number of publications across the globe picked up this story, and the social media platforms, especially Facebook and Twitter, provided strong support.   

At the invitation of the ELS Educational Services Inc., ten winners from each language group will travel to New York in June, and participate in a 5 day Global Youth Forum in conjunction with Adelphi University.  They will work in their language teams to create action plans around principles from the United Nations Academic Impact.

For more information please visit: http://www.ManyLanguagesOneWorld.ELS.edu

Many Languages, One World Essay Contest/ Mutilingualism and Global Citizenship/ June, 2014

The purpose of the Many Languages, One World Essay Contest and Global Youth Forum is to highlight the importance of multilingualism as it relates to global citizenship. Students from all over the world submitted thoughtful, insightful essays on the subject, and we appreciate and applaud the efforts of all the students who took the time to share their views on multilingualism.

Below, organized by language group, we are pleased to present the winning essays of the Many Languages, One World Essay Contest.

Arabic

Mr. Mohammad Abul Mofazzul, India
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Mr. Abdunasir Bereket Adem, Ethiopia
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Mr. Irfan Ahmad, India
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Mr. Farhan Ansari, India
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Ms. Kalie Duong, Vietnam
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Mr. Tajammul Haque, India
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Ms. Linh Thuy Le, Vietnam
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Ms. Yasmin Mohammed, Brazil
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Ms. Amanda Robyn Tomlinson, United States
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Ms. Lin Zhao, China
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Chinese

Ms. Tamara Anaie, United States
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Mr. Alistair Bayley, Australia
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Ms. Jennifer Allison Bond, United Kingdom
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Mr. Babur Halitov, Uzbekistan
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Mr. Aidar Kairatovich Kaliakparov, Kazakhstan
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Mr. Rottana Ly, Cambodia
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Ms. Kelly Kathleen McCarthy, United States
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Ms. Marie-Alice McLean-Dreyfus, Australia
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Mr. Joagni Pare, Burkina Faso
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Ms. Minah Sandratrarivo Randriamanohisoamalala, Madagascar
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English

Ms. Rehema Aanyu, Uganda
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Ms. Yasmin Afina, Indonesia
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Ms. Pei He, China
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Ms. Roberta Johansen, Argentina
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Ms. Elina Karimova, Russia
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Ms. Whitney-Martina Nosakhare, Germany
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Mr. Eduard Valentin Stanciu, Romania
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Ms. Phuong Vu, Vietnam
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Ms. Aliia Zainullina, Russia
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Mr. Zhenyu Zhou, China
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French

Ms. Yasmine Akrimi, Tunisia
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Ms. Ella Louise Mary Beckett, United Kingdom
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Mr. Sami Chakroun, Tunisia
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Ms. Pelumi Folawunmi Fadare Owolabi Owolabi, Nigeria
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Mr. Ralph Romeo Florencio Ferolino, Philippines
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Ms. Katharina Helmer, Germany
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Ms. Victoriya Kiseleva, Kazakhstan
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Mr. Damian Gerard Oakes, South Africa
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Mr. Antonio De Jesus Rodriguez Camarillo, Mexico
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Mr. Timothy Robert Wilhelm, United States
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Russian

Ms. Mara Bukovska, Latvia
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Ms. Alexandrina Buruian, Moldova
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Ms. Tatev Hrayr Derzyan, Armenia
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Mr. Samuel Kim Gilbert, United States
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Mr. Michel Max Gomas, United States
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Mr. Taras Kalynych, Ukraine
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Ms. Lauren Klein, Canada
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Ms. Najiba Abdumajidovna Tojiboeva, Tajikistan
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Ms. Agnese Veckalne, Latvia
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Ms. Gulzhazira Dautkyzy Yesmakhanova, Uzbekistan
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Spanish

Mr. Jonas Attilus, Haiti
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Ms. Julia Louise Collins, United States
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Ms. Nadezhda Alexandrovna Dobritckaia, Russia
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Ms. Sujin Heo, Korea
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Mr. Karim Ibrahim, Portugal
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Mr. Eric Joseph Krasnow, United States
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Ms. Maria Lebedeva, Belarus
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Mr. Francesco Ripa, Italy
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Ms. Holly Muriel Taylor, Australia
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Ms. Rachna Vyas, United Kingdom
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Today I attended "Career

  Day" at PS #7 Abraham Lincoln Elementary School in Brooklyn, I had the opportunity to meet students from grades 2 to 4! What a great treat to join many professionals speaking to young elementary school children about career possibilities!!!!