Sunday, October 15, 2017

Dr. Simón-Aleger's Spain Today class!

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 


Here you have Dr. Simon-Alegre's pictures of her class, Spain Today. The students went to the MET to do a Spanish art hunt and to the Paco de Lucia project-flamenco event at Symphony Space in New York.

Judging by the students' faces, I know that they had a wonderful time!

Tuesday, October 10, 2017

Interested Students Meeting!, Oct. 4th, 2017.














Drive to help Puerto Rico! Thanks to the Pt. Lookout-Lido Beach Fire Department




Our drive to help Puerto Rico was a success, thanks Ms. Castellón for coordinating this effort and thanks to the Pt. Lookout-Lido Beach Fire Department for coming to pick-up the goods!

Spanish Program- Dr. Simón-Alegre


 

Prof. Simón-Alegre's  paper "Suicide and Death in Spanish Barracks at the beginning of 20th century" (Suicidio y muerte en los cuarteles españoles a principios del siglo XX) has been accepted to the 2018 NeMLA Convention in the Seminar "Crises on Death in the Hispanic World", coordinated by professor Esther M. Alarcón-Arana (Salve Regina University, Newport).

Also her paper "My First Graduate Papers: Writing between borders" has been accepted to the 2018 NeMLA Convention for the Rountable "Meta-retro considerations: Our first graduate papers and what they tell us today" coordinated by professor Nuria Cruz Cámara (University of Tennessee). The 49th NeMLA Annual Convention will be in April 12-15, 2018
in Pittsburg, PA.
CONGRATULATIONS, ANA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Monday, September 25, 2017

Film Festival 2017-Don't Call me Son/ Friday, October 13 at 3pm, Campbell Lounge




FRIDAY, OCTOBER 13 2017 at 3:00 pm.
Don´t call me son (Mãe só há uma) by Anna Muylaert/ 2016/ Brazil/ 82 min/ In Portuguese with English subtitles. Presented by: Lou Charnon-Deutsch(Stony Brook).
This poignant coming-of-age film from Brazil is focused on Pierre, seventeen and in the middle of puberty. He plays in a band, has sex at parties and secretly tries on women’s clothing and lipstick in front of a mirror. Ever since his father’s death, his mother Aracy has looked after him and his younger sister Jacqueline, spoiling them both.

Friday, September 22, 2017

Interested Student Meeting/ Oct. 4, 1-1:30, Alumnae Hal, 102




Interested Student Meeting
Presented by the Department of Languages, Literatures and Cultures

October 4—1-1:30
Alumnae Hall – Room 102
 


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Please join us!
                                                    Snacks will be provided