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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
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 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 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…
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Feb. 23, 2012
On April 26, six films created by undergraduates and performed entirely in Spanish or Portuguese will be aired at the second annual DSP Film Festival. This project was dreamed up by Nate Mehr and Guillermo Martínez-Sotelo, both graduate students in…
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Feb. 13, 2012
Taken at the Exhibit Reception for BeMine: Collaborations between Writers and Artists, the following slide show highlights some of the performance and works of art that were presented on Monday, February 13, 2012 from 5:30-7:00 pm. The Artwork of…
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Feb. 13, 2012
The UA Africana Studies Program celebrates Black History Month with a series of lectures co-sponsored with the School of International Languages, Literatures and Cultures (SILLC).
In the first of these, Dr. Kristina Bishop, a lecturer in the School…
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Feb. 7, 2012
Each year, Phi Beta Kappa, the oldest academic honors society in the United States, sponsors visiting lecturers all over the nation. Through this series, PBK aims to participate in "national dialogue about the important issues of our time."
Classics…
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Feb. 6, 2012
John T. Price reads at the Poetry Center at 7 p.m. on March 19 as part of the UA Prose Series, curated by the Creative Writing Program. In this interview with Price by nonfiction M.F.A. candidate Sarah Minor, Price discusses the ecological crisis…