You can propose:

• Entire sessions. Sessions will be 1.5 hours long and may include up to 3 presenters (20 minutes apiece) plus a commentator
• Individual presentations (papers, posters, etc.)
• Exhibition or performance of creative work

Student-faculty collaboration on panels is especially welcome.
Prizes of research funding awarded to three top student presentations.
Send 350-word abstract by June 15, 2012 to Amy Merselis (amy.merselis@williams.edu). Any questions can be addressed to the Program Committee Chair, Gail Newman (gnewman@williams.edu).

October 12-13, 2012
Sponsored by the Center for the Study of Critical Difference and the Center for Foreign Languages, Literatures, and Cultures

Wednesday, May 2, 7:00pm-8:00pm | Hollander Hall 241

All Williams students who are planning to study for at least one full semester in any European country during 2012/2013 are eligible to apply for the fellowship. However, it is expected that applicants have demonstrated an active interest in French through course work in French language and literature while at Williams. Note: the fellowship may not be applied to either the charges of a study abroad program or the costs of any travel in France that is part of a study abroad program.

Selection will be based on a written application and a brief essay that describes a coherent and well-conceived project related to travel and cultural observation in France.

If you are interested in applying for the Friedberg Fellowship, please pick up an application form from Lucy Green in the office of the Center for Foreign Languages (Room 227, Hollander Hall).

The deadline for completed applications is Monday, April 9^th. Applicants will be notified by Wednesday, April 25^th.

Monday, May 7 at 4:15pm to 5:30pm | Schapiro Hall, 129

* Sponsored by the Art Department and the Center for Foreign Languages, Literatures, and Cultures

April 9, 4:15 – 5:30Pm | Hollander 241

What others say about the book:

“Well-grounded in classical perspectives and new visions of what it means to live in an intercultural world, the book offers a wonderful array of memoir, research, interviews, theory and even poetry. There’s something for everyone here!”
— Anne P. Copeland, PhD, Director, The Interchange Institute

“I recommend this book to all parents who are creating TCKs; to teachers and professors of TCKs; for general reading and understanding of the making of a citizen of the world; and, finally, to TCKs themselves, who will see that their experiences are shared with many others.”
— Linda A. Garvelink, President, Foreign Service Youth Foundation

Download:

• Introduction by Gene H. Bell-Villada and Nina Sichel (PDF)
• On Jean Rhys, Barbara Kingsolver, and Myself: Reflections on a problem that has no set name by Gene H. Bell-Villada (PDF)
• “I know who I am” by Leyla Rouhi (PDF)

Van Gorp’s research centers on national identity in Russian and East European cinema. She is currently Visiting Scholar at the Comparative Media Studies Department of MIT (Boston) on leave from the media studies department of Utrecht University, The Netherlands.

Wednesday, April 18 at 4:15pm | Hollander Hall, 241

* Sponsored by the Department of German and Russian and the Center for Foreign Languages.

The film “offers a fresh glimpse into how Putin’s Russia actually works. We see why Putin …enjoyed years of popularity. Masha grew up watching him bring order and prosperity to a country that had melted down after the fall of communism. He seemed like a savior.” [J. Powers, NPR]

16 April: Khodorkovsky (Cyril Tuschi, 2011)

“Cyril Tuschi’s documentary about the jailed Russian oligarch Mikhail Khodorkovsky is a fascinating insight into this mysterious and ambiguous figure, into the dark heart of Putin’s Kremlin, and even into the soul of contemporary Russia itself.” [P. Bradshaw, The Guardian]

Images Cinema, 7 PM

* Funded with generous support from Department of German and Russian, The Oakley Center, International Studies, and The Center for Foreign Languages, Literatures, and Cultures.

Tuesday, March 13 at 2:45pm-3:45pm | Hopkins Hall, Room 002/B1964

February 23 | Film Discussion at Images Cinema
Haili Kong, Professor of Chinese at Swarthmore College, will discuss Director Kar-Wai Wong’s Fallen Angels and In the Mood for Love in a talk entitled, “Time, Space, and Being—Kar-Wai Wong and his Cinematic Illustration of Hong Kong Identity.”

Sponsored by the Asian Studies Department and the Center for Foreign Languages, Literatures, and Cultures
Open to the public, admission free

Fallen Angels

Set in the neon-washed underworld of present-day Hong Kong, Fallen Angels intertwines two exhilarating tales of love and isolation in a blitz of ultra-hip style and classical cinematic sensibilities.

In the Mood for Love

Chow Mo-wan rents a room in a Hong Kong apartment building. It’s sheer coincidence that he moves in the same day that Su Li-zhen moves in next door. They never have a real conversation until Mr. Chow realizes that their respective spouses are having an affair.

Dr. Charles Armstrong is The Korea Foundation Professor of Korean Studies in the Social Sciences at Columbia University. He has published extensively on modern Korean, East Asian, and international history, including his forthcoming book, Tyranny of the Weak: North Korea and the World, 1950 – 1990.

February 20 | Griffin 6, 4:15
Sponsored by the Williams College Departments of Asian Studies and History and International Studies