| Kick-off Event |
| April 6,
2000 |
Odile Cazenave
Massachusetts Institute of Technology "Writing New Identities:
Post-colonial Literatures Today" |
| Keynote Event |
| October
26, 2000 |
Carlos Fuentes
WORLD-RENOWNED AUTHORVCU
Student Commons, Commonwealth Ballroom A-B
7:30 pm
Campus Maps |
| Series Events |
| September
14, 2000 |
Humphrey Tonkin
President Emeritus, Univ. of Hartford "Language and Culture in a
Global Context"
Read Stephanie Vaughn's evaluation of this event. |
| September
21, 2000 |
Vittorio Cammarota
Italian Cultural Institute, Washington
Steven Rutledge
Dept. of Classics, U. of MarylandVirtual Tour of Rome |
| September
30, 2000 |
John DeMado
DeMado Language Seminars, Inc. Foreign Language Proficiency Teaching
(Workshop) |
| October
3, 2000 |
Henri Alleg
Journalist, Algers Republicans"The Algerian War" |
| November
15, 2000 |
Gertraud Steiner
Daviau
University of Vienna
"Hollywood's Austria, Austria's Hollywood"
Business Building Auditorium
2-4pm |
| November
16, 2000 |
Film, Nordrand Business Building Auditorium
3-5pm |
| November
16, 2000 |
Donald Daviau
Renowned expert on Austrian Literature
"Austrian Identity in Historical Perspective: From Joseph II to the
Present"
VCU Student Commons, Forum Room
7:30-9:30pm |
| November
30, 2000 |
Gaspar Gonzalez
Mayan novelist and poet
"Mayan Literature Today"
VCU Student Commons, Commonwealth Ballroom A
7-8:30pm
Read a translation of one of
Gonzalez' poems. |
| March 8,
2001 |
Helena Goscilo
University of Pittsburgh"Cultural Identity in Post-Soviet
Society" |
| March
14-15, 2001 |
The Spanish
Comedia in Performance
Theater Troupe of the University of Murcia
Tirso di Molina's Marta la Piadosa |
| April
14, 2001 |
An International
Evening of Poetry
Guest poet Edward Hirsch, University of Houston |
For information regarding dates and locations, call
804.278.0187
or visit the Department of Foreign Languages |
This series is supported by the University
Honors Program through an endowment established by a grant from the National Endowment
for the Humanities |
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