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Tuesday, March 23, 2010
Lecture by Anthony J. Cascardi, "Free Speech: Cervantes and the Discourse of Politics"Lecture by Dr. Anthony J. Cascardi,University of California, Berkeley, “Free Speech: Cervantes and the Discourse of Politics”
5:00 PM to 6:30 PM
MB210-01, MLL Conference Room
UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI
DEPARTMENT OF MODERN LANGUAGES AND LITERATURES
Invites you to a
Lecture by
Dr. Anthony J. Cascardi,
University of California, Berkeley
“Free Speech:
Cervantes and the Discourse of Politics”
Tuesday, March 23, 2010
5:00 p.m.
MB 210-01, MLL Conference Room
Refreshments will be served
Anthony Cascardi (Ph.D. Harvard University, 1980 with distinction), is Sidney and Margaret Ancker Chair in Comparative Literature, Rhetoric, and Spanish; and the Director of the Townsend Center for the Humanities at the University of California, Berkeley. His many publications include: The Limits of Illusion: A Critical Study of Calderón (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1984); The Bounds of Reason: Cervantes, Dostoevsky, Flaubert (New York: Columbia University Press, 1986); Literature and the Question of Philosophy,; (Johns Hopkins University Press, 1987); The Subject of Modernity (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992; Ideologies of History in the Spanish Golden Age (University Park, PA: Penn State Press, 1997); Consequences of Enlightenment: Aesthetics as Critique (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999); and The Cambridge Companion to Cervantes (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press).
Dr. Cascardi’s forthcoming book is Cervantes, Literature, and the Discourse of Politics.
This lecture is cosponsored by the University of Miami, Center for the Humanities.
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MB210-01, MLL Conference Room
UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI
DEPARTMENT OF MODERN LANGUAGES AND LITERATURES
Invites you to a
Lecture by
Dr. Anthony J. Cascardi,
University of California, Berkeley
“Free Speech:
Cervantes and the Discourse of Politics”
Tuesday, March 23, 2010
5:00 p.m.
MB 210-01, MLL Conference Room
Refreshments will be served
Anthony Cascardi (Ph.D. Harvard University, 1980 with distinction), is Sidney and Margaret Ancker Chair in Comparative Literature, Rhetoric, and Spanish; and the Director of the Townsend Center for the Humanities at the University of California, Berkeley. His many publications include: The Limits of Illusion: A Critical Study of Calderón (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1984); The Bounds of Reason: Cervantes, Dostoevsky, Flaubert (New York: Columbia University Press, 1986); Literature and the Question of Philosophy,; (Johns Hopkins University Press, 1987); The Subject of Modernity (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992; Ideologies of History in the Spanish Golden Age (University Park, PA: Penn State Press, 1997); Consequences of Enlightenment: Aesthetics as Critique (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999); and The Cambridge Companion to Cervantes (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press).
Dr. Cascardi’s forthcoming book is Cervantes, Literature, and the Discourse of Politics.
This lecture is cosponsored by the University of Miami, Center for the Humanities.
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Friday, March 26, 2010
Talk by Professor Heather Willis Allen, "Investigating language-learning motivation from an activity theory perspective: Contributions and challenges"THE DEPARTMENT OF MODERN LANGUAGES AND LITERATURES
INVITES YOU TO A LECTURE BY
Professor Heather Willis Allen
"Investigating language-learning motivation from ...
4:30 PM to 5:30 PM
MB 210-01, MLL Conference Room
UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI
COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES
THE DEPARTMENT OF MODERN LANGUAGES AND LITERATURES
INVITES YOU TO A LECTURE BY
Professor Heather Willis Allen
"Investigating language-learning motivation
from an activity theory perspective:
Contributions and challenges"
March 26, 2010
4:30PM
MB 210-01, MLL Conference Room
Refreshments will be served
Why do some students enjoy the experience of learning a second language (L2) and persist in language study whereas others do not? Although research has shown that motivation plays an important role in L2-learning outcomes, academic performance, and student persistence, researchers have disagreed as to what L2 motivation is, what factors affect it, and how motivational processes function. Yet whereas Vygotskian sociocultural theory seems well suited for researching L2 motivation, its motivational dimension has been relatively under-theorized, as researchers have tended to focus more on cognitive aspects of the theory. In my presentation I will posit activity theory, which unifies various concepts from sociocultural theory and focuses on the motivational dimension of human activities, as a useful lens for analyzing L2 motivational processes. Data from L2 learners participating in a study abroad program will be used to illustrate both contributions and challenges of conducting L2 motivation research from this perspective. Finally, I will discuss the relevance of research findings on L2 motivation for university foreign language curricula.
Heather Willis Allen holds a Ph.D. from Emory University. Her work appears in the ADFL Bulletin, Foreign Language Annals, The French Review, Frontiers: The International Journal of Study Abroad, the Journal of Studies in International Education, and the Modern Language Journal.
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MB 210-01, MLL Conference Room
UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI
COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES
THE DEPARTMENT OF MODERN LANGUAGES AND LITERATURES
INVITES YOU TO A LECTURE BY
Professor Heather Willis Allen
"Investigating language-learning motivation
from an activity theory perspective:
Contributions and challenges"
March 26, 2010
4:30PM
MB 210-01, MLL Conference Room
Refreshments will be served
Why do some students enjoy the experience of learning a second language (L2) and persist in language study whereas others do not? Although research has shown that motivation plays an important role in L2-learning outcomes, academic performance, and student persistence, researchers have disagreed as to what L2 motivation is, what factors affect it, and how motivational processes function. Yet whereas Vygotskian sociocultural theory seems well suited for researching L2 motivation, its motivational dimension has been relatively under-theorized, as researchers have tended to focus more on cognitive aspects of the theory. In my presentation I will posit activity theory, which unifies various concepts from sociocultural theory and focuses on the motivational dimension of human activities, as a useful lens for analyzing L2 motivational processes. Data from L2 learners participating in a study abroad program will be used to illustrate both contributions and challenges of conducting L2 motivation research from this perspective. Finally, I will discuss the relevance of research findings on L2 motivation for university foreign language curricula.
Heather Willis Allen holds a Ph.D. from Emory University. Her work appears in the ADFL Bulletin, Foreign Language Annals, The French Review, Frontiers: The International Journal of Study Abroad, the Journal of Studies in International Education, and the Modern Language Journal.
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Tuesday, March 30, 2010
TALK BY ALIA BACCAR, "IL ÉTAIT UNE FOIS UNE PAYS ÉMERGENT EN MÉDITERRANÉE:LA TUNISIE"Lecture in French by Alia Baccar, UNIVERSITY OF LA MANOUBA (TUNIS) & UNIVERSITY OF TUNIS
"IL ÉTAIT UNE FOIS UNE PAYS ÉMERGENT EN MÉDITERRANÉE:LA TUNISIE"
11:00 AM to 12:00 PM
MB 210-01, MLL Conference Room
UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI
COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES
THE DEPARTMENT OF MODERN LANGUAGES AND LITERATURES
INVITES YOU TO A PRESENTATION BY
DR. ALIA BACCAR
UNIVERSITY OF LA MANOUBA (TUNIS) & UNIVERSITY OF TUNIS
IL ÉTAIT UNE FOIS UNE PAYS ÉMERGENT EN MÉDITERRANÉE:LA TUNISIE
TUESDAY, MARCH 30, 2010, AT 11:00 A.M.
MODERN LANGUAGES AND LITERATURES DEPARTMENT
CONFERENCE ROOM
(MERRICK 210)
Alia Baccar (Ph.D. University of Provence, 1970; Docteur d’Etat, University of Paris III-Sorbonne Nouvelle, 1988) is Professor Emeritus of the University of La Manouba (Tunis), where she has been Chair of the French Literature Department. She is currently pursuing her graduate teaching at the Faculté des Sciences Humaines et Sociales of the University of Tunis. Made Chevalier dans l’Ordre de la République (the highest civil decoration of her country) in 2002, she was awarded the title of Grand Officier du Mérite Éducationnel et Scientifique (the most prestigious academic decoration of the Republic of Tunisia) in 2006. She is also Commandeur dans l’Ordre des Palmes Académiques of the French Republic since 1999, and has received numerous other distinctions. She has been Visiting Professor at the Universities of Ancona and Oslo, at Middlebury College, and at the University Jaume 1 of Castellon, among other institutions, and has lectured in universities all over Tunisia and in France, Switzerland, Italy, Spain, Algeria, Greece, Turkey, Canada, and the United States. An internationally recognized historian of literatures, cultures and mentalities, Dr. Baccar is the author of seven books, including La Mer, source de création littéraire au 17ème Siècle; Le Lys, le Croissant et la Méditerranée ; Essais sur la littérature tunisienne d’expression française ; and most recently La Méditerranée, odyssée des cultures for which she was awarded in 2009 the prestigious Prize of the Association des Écrivains de Langue Française (Paris). She is the editor of eight other volumes and has published about 70 scholarly articles on French 16th and 17th century literature; the relations between the West and the Orient in French literature from the Renaissance until today; the cultures of the Mediterranean; travel narrative; the legacy of Greco-Latin civilization in the modern and contemporary Mediterranean world; Arabic, Maghrebian, and Tunisian ancient, modern and contemporary literatures and cultures; and francophone studies. Organizer of numerous academic conferences and cultural events, member of several academic and literary editorial and institutional boards, and past President of the Tunisian National Academic Recruitment Commission, among several higher education responsibilities, Alia Baccar is also a fiction writer who has published four novels for children and the youth.
THIS EVENT IS MADE POSSIBLE THANKS TO THE SUPPORT OF THE DEPARTMENT OF MODERN LANGUAGES AND LITERATURES JOSEPH CARTER MEMORIAL FUND. REFRESHMENTS WILL BE SERVED.
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MB 210-01, MLL Conference Room
UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI
COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES
THE DEPARTMENT OF MODERN LANGUAGES AND LITERATURES
INVITES YOU TO A PRESENTATION BY
DR. ALIA BACCAR
UNIVERSITY OF LA MANOUBA (TUNIS) & UNIVERSITY OF TUNIS
IL ÉTAIT UNE FOIS UNE PAYS ÉMERGENT EN MÉDITERRANÉE:LA TUNISIE
TUESDAY, MARCH 30, 2010, AT 11:00 A.M.
MODERN LANGUAGES AND LITERATURES DEPARTMENT
CONFERENCE ROOM
(MERRICK 210)
Alia Baccar (Ph.D. University of Provence, 1970; Docteur d’Etat, University of Paris III-Sorbonne Nouvelle, 1988) is Professor Emeritus of the University of La Manouba (Tunis), where she has been Chair of the French Literature Department. She is currently pursuing her graduate teaching at the Faculté des Sciences Humaines et Sociales of the University of Tunis. Made Chevalier dans l’Ordre de la République (the highest civil decoration of her country) in 2002, she was awarded the title of Grand Officier du Mérite Éducationnel et Scientifique (the most prestigious academic decoration of the Republic of Tunisia) in 2006. She is also Commandeur dans l’Ordre des Palmes Académiques of the French Republic since 1999, and has received numerous other distinctions. She has been Visiting Professor at the Universities of Ancona and Oslo, at Middlebury College, and at the University Jaume 1 of Castellon, among other institutions, and has lectured in universities all over Tunisia and in France, Switzerland, Italy, Spain, Algeria, Greece, Turkey, Canada, and the United States. An internationally recognized historian of literatures, cultures and mentalities, Dr. Baccar is the author of seven books, including La Mer, source de création littéraire au 17ème Siècle; Le Lys, le Croissant et la Méditerranée ; Essais sur la littérature tunisienne d’expression française ; and most recently La Méditerranée, odyssée des cultures for which she was awarded in 2009 the prestigious Prize of the Association des Écrivains de Langue Française (Paris). She is the editor of eight other volumes and has published about 70 scholarly articles on French 16th and 17th century literature; the relations between the West and the Orient in French literature from the Renaissance until today; the cultures of the Mediterranean; travel narrative; the legacy of Greco-Latin civilization in the modern and contemporary Mediterranean world; Arabic, Maghrebian, and Tunisian ancient, modern and contemporary literatures and cultures; and francophone studies. Organizer of numerous academic conferences and cultural events, member of several academic and literary editorial and institutional boards, and past President of the Tunisian National Academic Recruitment Commission, among several higher education responsibilities, Alia Baccar is also a fiction writer who has published four novels for children and the youth.
THIS EVENT IS MADE POSSIBLE THANKS TO THE SUPPORT OF THE DEPARTMENT OF MODERN LANGUAGES AND LITERATURES JOSEPH CARTER MEMORIAL FUND. REFRESHMENTS WILL BE SERVED.
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Tuesday, April 13, 2010
TALK BY RAID ZARAKET, "ÉCOLE D’ALGER ET ALGÉRIANISME: LES DÉSILLUSIONS COLONIALES À TRAVERS LE DÉBAT ENTRE JEAN SÉNAC ET ALBERT CAMUS"Lecture in French by Raid Zaraket, University Paul Valéry-Montpellier III
"ÉCOLE D’ALGER ET ALGÉRIANISME: LES DÉSILLUSIONS COLONIALES À TRAVERS LE DÉBAT ENTRE JEAN SÉNAC E...
5:00 PM to 6:00 PM
MB210-01, MLL Conference Room
UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI
COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES
THE DEPARTMENT OF MODERN LANGUAGES AND LITERATURES
INVITES YOU TO A LECTURE BY
DR. RAID ZARAKET
University Paul Valéry-Montpellier III
TUESDAY, APRIL 13, 2010, AT 5:00 P.M.
MLL CONFERENCE ROOM (MERRICK 210-01)
ÉCOLE D’ALGER ET ALGÉRIANISME:
LES DÉSILLUSIONS COLONIALES À TRAVERS LE DÉBAT ENTRE
JEAN SÉNAC ET ALBERT CAMUS
Dr. Raid Zaraket (M.A., 2003, D.E.A., 2004, University of Paris IV-Sorbonne; Ph.D. University Paul Valéry – Montpellier III, 2010) is the author of Francophonie et Méditerranée: entre idéal et modernité (Paris: Bénévent, 2006) and of a recent critical edition, with introduction and commentary, of Robert Randeau’s Les Colons, roman de la patrie algérienne (Paris:L’Harmattan, 2007). He has published articles on Habib Tengour, Robert Randeau, Claude Beausoleil, and Ali Douagi, and has edited a 2005 issue of the Cahiers de la Société Internationale d’Étude des Littératures de l’Ère Coloniale on Fait religieux et résistances culturelles. His scholarly fields include French literature of the colonial era; the political, cultural, and literary history of colonial and post-colonial Algeria; the representation of the Maghreb in France’s cultural imaginary; and colonial, post-colonial and Mediterranean studies. His recently defended doctoral dissertation, entitled La poétique de l’espace méditerranéen comme source d’écriture et réflexion identitaire à travers la question de l’Algérianité dans la 1ère moitié du 20ème siècle has been nominated for the 2011 Prize of the Conseil International de la Langue Française for interdisciplinary francophone studies. Raid Zaraket has received the University Paul Valéry – Montpellier III International Academic Mobility Grant enabling him to be a visiting scholar in the University of Miami Department of Modern Languages and Literatures in April 2010. This lecture is part of a series which will be dedicated in 2010 to the 50th anniversary of the death of French Algerian writer Albert Camus.
THIS EVENT IS MADE POSSIBLE THANKS TO THE “BOURSE DE MOBILITÉ ACADÉMIQUE INTERNATIONALE” OF THE UNIVERSITY PAUL VALÉRY-MONTPELLIER III, WITH THE SUPPORT OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI DEPARTMENT OF MODERN LANGUAGES AND LITERATURES JOSEPH CARTER MEMORIAL FUND. REFRESHMENTS WILL BE SERVED.
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MB210-01, MLL Conference Room
UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI
COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES
THE DEPARTMENT OF MODERN LANGUAGES AND LITERATURES
INVITES YOU TO A LECTURE BY
DR. RAID ZARAKET
University Paul Valéry-Montpellier III
TUESDAY, APRIL 13, 2010, AT 5:00 P.M.
MLL CONFERENCE ROOM (MERRICK 210-01)
ÉCOLE D’ALGER ET ALGÉRIANISME:
LES DÉSILLUSIONS COLONIALES À TRAVERS LE DÉBAT ENTRE
JEAN SÉNAC ET ALBERT CAMUS
Dr. Raid Zaraket (M.A., 2003, D.E.A., 2004, University of Paris IV-Sorbonne; Ph.D. University Paul Valéry – Montpellier III, 2010) is the author of Francophonie et Méditerranée: entre idéal et modernité (Paris: Bénévent, 2006) and of a recent critical edition, with introduction and commentary, of Robert Randeau’s Les Colons, roman de la patrie algérienne (Paris:L’Harmattan, 2007). He has published articles on Habib Tengour, Robert Randeau, Claude Beausoleil, and Ali Douagi, and has edited a 2005 issue of the Cahiers de la Société Internationale d’Étude des Littératures de l’Ère Coloniale on Fait religieux et résistances culturelles. His scholarly fields include French literature of the colonial era; the political, cultural, and literary history of colonial and post-colonial Algeria; the representation of the Maghreb in France’s cultural imaginary; and colonial, post-colonial and Mediterranean studies. His recently defended doctoral dissertation, entitled La poétique de l’espace méditerranéen comme source d’écriture et réflexion identitaire à travers la question de l’Algérianité dans la 1ère moitié du 20ème siècle has been nominated for the 2011 Prize of the Conseil International de la Langue Française for interdisciplinary francophone studies. Raid Zaraket has received the University Paul Valéry – Montpellier III International Academic Mobility Grant enabling him to be a visiting scholar in the University of Miami Department of Modern Languages and Literatures in April 2010. This lecture is part of a series which will be dedicated in 2010 to the 50th anniversary of the death of French Algerian writer Albert Camus.
THIS EVENT IS MADE POSSIBLE THANKS TO THE “BOURSE DE MOBILITÉ ACADÉMIQUE INTERNATIONALE” OF THE UNIVERSITY PAUL VALÉRY-MONTPELLIER III, WITH THE SUPPORT OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI DEPARTMENT OF MODERN LANGUAGES AND LITERATURES JOSEPH CARTER MEMORIAL FUND. REFRESHMENTS WILL BE SERVED.
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