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150 years of Italian presence in Brazil: Film screening and reception

2025-03-28

Friday, April 11 6 pm - Lucy Ellis Lounge, 1080 LCLB, and LCLB Atrium The year 2024 marked 150 years since the arrival of Italian immigrants in Brazil, a significant event that deeply impacted the country's culture, society, and...

Professor Eda Derhemi receives SLCL Diversity and Engagement Award

2025-03-14

Heartfelt congratulations to Professor Eda Derhemi who is this year's faculty recipient of the SLCL Diversity and Engagement Award in recognition of her efforts to foster local, national, and international outreach activities and extensive work with linguistically endangered communities...

Professor Daniel Maroun selected as HRI Fellow for 2025-26

2025-03-09

Congratulations to Professor Daniel Maroun on having been selected as a Humanities Research Institute faculty fellow for the academic year 2025-26. His proposal, “The Politics of Kinship: Writing Queerness, Filiation, and Race in Contemporary France,” responded to this year’s theme...

Doctoral dissertation defended - Julia Gorham

2025-03-02

Congratulations to PhD Candidate Julia Gorham (French SLATE) who successfully defended her doctoral dissertation “L2 French Students’ and Instructors’ Experiences of Critical Literacies Pedagogy: A Mixed Methods Program” on March 6, 2025 at 11 am in 2090B, LCLB. Members of her committee were...

Join Manie Musicale, a fully online francophone music competition in March!

2025-03-01

This is a March Madness bracket type competition that starts with 16 songs (in French!) that advance by international student voting. You can self-enroll on Canvas to see the...

Professors Clay and Mroz featured in LAS News

2025-02-12

Two of our faculty members have been recently featured in LAS News for their ongoing teaching and outreach initiatives. Professor Aurore Mroz, founder of the Cercle Francophone aims to develop and maintain French English bilingualism and biliteracy in Francophone and Francophile children...

Evening French Conversations (Soirées en français)

2025-02-26

Evening French Conversations to brush up on your spoken French! Event Type Social/Informal Event Location 1080, Lucy Ellis Lounge, LCLB Contact Sacha Craig (acraig22@illinois.edu), graduate...

Italian Program Awarded Grant to Teach Italian in the Summer

2025-01-18

Congratulations to our Italian Basic Language Program that has been awarded a grant by the Italian Ministry of Culture for the second year in a row. Administered by the Italian Cultural Services in the United States, the grant will support our program's course offerings of eight-week...

Professor Mroz receives French in Higher Education Grant

2024-12-27

Congratulations to Professor Aurore Mroz who was awarded one of the Villa Albertine's (French Institute for Culture and Education) prestigious...

Minority Identities in Film and Culture: The Italian American and African American Experience

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TR 9:30-10:50 am Were Italian Americans white? What is whiteness? How does identity politics define the relation between minority groups? To answer these questions, this course explores films by Italian American and African American directors such as Francis Ford Coppola, Martin Scorsese, and Spike Lee, as well as short stories and essays by authors such as John Fante and Thomas J. Ferraro. This class will also welcome guest lectures. This course satisfies the General Education Criteria for: Cultural Studies - US Minority

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