Events Archive

Twenty students will be inducted into three language honorary societies at the Senior Reception hosted by the Department of Modern Languages & Literatures on May 3^th, 2012. 

St. Lawrence’s Eta Delta Chapter of Pi Delta Phi, the National French Honor Society, will welcome Michael Badali, Alexandra Burger, Elizabeth Choiniere, Kyle Donaldson, Madeline Garone, Maura Hamel, Teo Jackson, Stella Leach, Ante Letica, Emily Merrifield, Charlotte Noordsy, and Madeleine Poole.

Students in the seminar Hispanic Protest Music (Special Topic: Spanish 448) are preparing a Festival of Protest Music on Thursday, April 26th at 4:30 pm in the Winston Room, Student Center. They will be doing poster presentations about their research in Hispanic protest music and will be sharing with everyone four emblematic protest songs. Refreshments will be served.
Description of the seminar:

Chinese calligraphy is visible at every corner of the Chinese daily life. This is so, for Chinese calligraphy has two roles to perform, functioning as a language and meanwhile as the twin sibling of painting. Interestingly, calligraphy was not necessarily limited to brush writing. The combination of chisel scribing and brush writing in the early stage initiated the creation of seals, the invention of rubbing methods, and eventually developed to typography printing in the 10th Century.

In honor of the diversity of films from around the world and in homage to the indispensable Cinema 10 series of Potsdam, the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures & the Language Resource Center are pleased to announce their selection for the spring semester at Carnegie 10:

The fourth movie: Le Destin (Arabic with English subtitles)

Le Destin (in English: Destiny) is not only the story of the life of Averroes; it is also a film of adventure, of love, a satire on intolerance, whether western or eastern.