From May 12-14, UChicago will host the graduate student and faculty joint conference, Haiti: Beyond Commemorations and Boundaries. The conference will explore the field of Haitian Studies through multiple approaches that go beyond geographical and linguistic boundaries as well as the chronological limitations of a century. The aim is to transcend the curiosity towards the Haitian Revolution, and the extended series of sociopolitical crises made more acute in the wake of the 2010 earthquake.
Maria Anna Mariani, one of RLL's new faculty members in Italian, gave a lecture on the posthumous life of Anne Frank at the Franke Institute's Wednesday Luncheon on February 17th.
Acclaimed French author Maylis de Kerangal will participate in two events on campus this week. On Thursday February 18th at 6:00 pm, de Kerangal will discuss The Heart (in English) with Irina Ruvinsky at the Seminary Co-op Bookstore. On Friday, February 19th, she will give a reading and lead a discussion in French in Wieboldt 207 at noon.
Viviana Hong, PhD student in Hispanic and Luzo-Brazilian Studies, presented a paper at the February 18th Workshop on Latin America and the Caribbean. Her paper is called “Social Violence Through the Eyes of a Child," and the discussant was fellow RLL HLBS student Juan Diego Mariategui.
Chiara Nifosi, RLL graduate student in French, will present her paper “La rhétorique de l’espace dans À la recherche du temps perdu” at the Interdisciplinary Approaches to Modern France and the Francophone World Workshop on March 4th.
