Farid Hafez will give a talk on race and racism in Europe. He connects his expertise on contemporary Islamophobia with larger questions of colonialism, anti-Semitism and the imagination of a post-racial post-Holocaust era in Europe following the end of World War II. Hafez will especially focus on relevant issues of the rising far-right in today's Europe.
❖ April 18, 6 – 7PM | Griffin 3
Gagaku is the classical Japanese court music and dance with over a thousand-year history, which was registered as the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity by UNESCO with its historical, and artistic values.
Solo of the Japanese traditional flute
by Mr. Anzai
(former chief conductor of the Music Department of the Imperial Household Agency of Japan)
Gosechi-no-mai dance
(accompanied by a traditional song and a dragon flute)
❖ April 25 | ‘62 Center Dance studio
Workshop: 4:00-4:45
Performance: 5:30-6:30
Reception to follow
Refiguring Loss: Jews Remembered through Arabic/Amazigh Cultural Memory is a daylong, public workshop that brings together scholars of literature and film from North Africa and the Middle East. Through their engagement with literary and cinematographic works that emerged the predominantly Arabic-speaking world, the participants will discuss how novelists and filmmakers from these areas depict the loss of their Jewish co-citizens in the last sixty years. Ranging from the loss of economic opportunity and cultural diversity to the loss of democracy and plural societies, Jewish emigration from North Africa and the Middle East has had far-reaching consequences, which the workshop will highlight and discuss for an entire day."
❖ Friday, April 26 from 8:30 am to 6 pm | Oakley Center
❖ Mestiza Portrait Series
February 4 – May 10, 2019 | Hollander Hall 1st and 2nd floor lobbies
❖ Artist’s talk
› Opening Reception | March 4 , 4PM | Hollander Hall lobby
› March 6, 4PM | Hollander Hall 1st and 2nd floor lobbies
❖ “Indigeneity” and the Cultural Production of Mexico’s Pueblos Originarios
A Panel Discussion with Citlali Fabián, Ana Daisy Alonso Ortiz, Isaura de los Santos Mendoza and Amal Eqeiq; moderated by Roxana Blancas-Curiel
March 5, 7PM | Griffin 7
❖ I'm from Yalálag Photographic Series
February 4 – May 10, 2019 | WCMA, Object Lab
Save (Rattanakorn) Koontaweepunya '21, a JAPN 302 student and prospective astrophysics major, won the first place in College Intermediate Division Essay Contest, and Sonya Carrizales, a senior at Mount Greylock High School and taking JAPN 302 at Williams, also won the first prize in High School Division Speech Contest at The Ninth Annual Japanese Language Contest for New England College and High School Students, organized by the Consulate General of Japan in Boston. The Speech Contest and the Award Ceremony for both essay and speech winners were held on April 6, 2019. Congratulations!
Mission Park Dining hosted a special Korean meal to celebrate the First Full Moon of the Lunar Year on Tuesday, Feb. 19th from 5-8pm.
The menu included Dak-Galbi (spicy stir-fry chicken), beef bulgogi (stir-fry beef with onions), dobu-jorim (braised tofu), Japchae (glass noodle stir fry), Hobak Buchim (zucchini pancakes), Gyeran Bokkeumbap (egg fried rice), Japgokbap (multigrain rice), Kimchi, Ddeok Mandu Guk (dumpling soup) and Sangchu Moochim (salad). Danpatjuk (sweet bean dessert), Yakgwa (cookie), and Shikhe (traditional rice beverage).
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“There is clearly a difference between how the average “Français de souche” conceives of immigrant cuisine and how French chefs do so. The conception of immigrant cuisine as lower class means that immigrant restaurants have to price lower to bring in customers. This is unfortunate, as the soft, delicate cockles I ate at Le Grand Bol far surpassed the tough, greasy and more expensive escargot I ate at a French bistro the next day.”
Julian Smedley Friedberg Report, 2018
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“After an amazing abroad experience in Dakar, Senegal researching the place of women in film, I wanted to push my research towards a different francophone context with the same subject. Thanks to the Marguerite W. Friedberg Award, I could afford to conduct research on Afro-French and Franco-Senegalese women filmmakers in Paris to see if/how they were combating the male gaze and constructing Senegalese womanhood.”
Merudjina Normil Friedberg Report, 2018
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CFLLC welcomes new faculty with positions in Arabic, Chinese, French, German, Russian, and Spanish. You can check out their new courses in literature and culture below and learn about their teaching and research interests. → Continue
