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April 25, 2012
The University of Arizona Poetry Center seeks enthusiastic individuals to serve in its docent program helping to provide groups, institutions, and individuals with a positive and engaging introduction to the Poetry Center as a living archive.…
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April 25, 2012
Cecilia Vicuña is one of many talented and fascinating writers, artists, and thinkers who will be participating in the Poetry Center's third international, biennial symposium, Poetry Off the Page.
Read an interview, featured on the UA homepage,…
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April 16, 2012
On April 3, the Center for the Art of Translation in San Francisco welcomed a large crowd to hear Dr. Philip Gabriel and his co-translator, Jay Rubin, to discuss translating Haruki Murakami. They've created a podcast of this event, which you can…
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April 11, 2012
"What immediately comes to mind when you think of the University of Arizona Poetry Center? Probably that the space is for poetry and experienced poets.
"But this could not be further from the truth. By visiting the space, the interplay among poetry…
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April 8, 2012
The purpose of the International Workshop on Spanish Sociolinguistics is "to bring together scholars to share original sociolinguistic research that analyzes Spanish data or data from contact situations between Spanish and other languages."
A wide…
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March 27, 2012
On Tuesday, April 10, Bryan Carter will be giving a talk at 4:00 pm in the Kiva Auditorium of the Student Union.
Bryan Carter is an Associate Professor of English at the University of Central Missouri. He specializes in African American literature…
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March 26, 2012
On Monday, April 2, Marie Darrieussecq will give a talk titled "A Dream About the Forest: Imaginations of Africa in the Mind of a French-Basque Writer" (in English).
Marie Darrieussecq was born in 1969 in the Basque country, in France. She…
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March 26, 2012
Dr. Nicolás Kanellos will comment on the termination of the Mexican-American Raza Studies Program in the Tucson Unified School District and the banning of dozens of books used in the program in two talks with the UA Community. He is the founder of…
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March 26, 2012
April 13-15, 2012, University of Arizona: This coming April, a body of prominent scholars from around the world will convene in Tucson for Multilingual, 2.0?, a symposium supported by UofA’s newly founded Confluence Center for Creative Inquiry.…
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March 8, 2012
On Thursday, March 1, about 250 people came to the University of Arizona Poetry Center to watch and listen to great poetry performed in dramatic fashion by high school students throughout Southern Arizona as they competed for the chance to proceed…
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Feb. 28, 2012
Did you know that the Department of Classics at The University of Arizona is an established Examination Center for the Certificate of Attainment in Modern Greek? Since 2010, the Department has administered the examination in conjuction with the…
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Feb. 28, 2012
Dr. Alain-Phillippe Durand, Director of SILLC and professor of French at the UA, will be the keynote speaker at The NAU French Film Festival this year, which is jointly hosted by Cinema Studies and the French section of the Department of Modern…