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Tiger tracks: Poetry & Performance from Southwest China
Featuring Aku Wuwu, well-known Chinese Poet from the Yi minority group of southwest China.
Monday, October 26th, 2009
Kimbrough 101, 6:30 p.m.
Reception to follow with food and beverages
Department of Foreign Languages and Cultures Faculty Speaker Series Fall 2009
“The Aesthetics of Suburbia in Early Modern Japan;
or, Issues in Reading and Translation”
Puck Brecher, Assistant Professor of Japanese
Wednesday, October 21, 2009
Time: 4:10 - 5:10
Place: Thompson Hall 109
Hearts in Motion
Dr. Mark Paxton (on Left) spoke to WSU students about the Hearts in Motion charity during an informational presentation on Thursday, Sept. 18 in the CUE. The Hearts in Motion organization will be taking a trip to Zacapa, Guatemala March 20th- 29th, 2010 to provide health care to patients of all ages.Last year eight WSU students attended the trip, and this time there are 20 slots available for WSU students.
Read the full article in the Daily Evergreen: http://www.dailyevergreen.com/story/29457
Hearts in Motion homepage: http://www.heartsinmotion.org/
Photo: Alumni Dr. Mark C. Paxton D.D.S. ('76) and Howard S. Wright III also gave a presentation on behalf of the Hearts in Motion organization at WSU in October 2008.
WAFLT Distinguished Service Award
Our colleague Rachel Halverson has received the WAFLT (Washington Association of Foreign Language Teachers) Continued Distinguished Service Award. This award is presented to a person or persons whose contributions to the world language profession have been unflagging and have enjoyed widespread impact. WAFLT recognized Rachel at its awards luncheon during the fall conference at the Davenport hotel in Spokane, Friday, October 9. Congratulations, Rachel!
Falles Concert 2009
The Falles Concert 2009, sponsored by the Department of Foreign Languages & Cultures and the International Center at WSU, on April 14th was a great success. The Butch's Den room didn't have enough chairs for everyone (more than one hundred people attended the concert).
The International Center (from the International Programs Department) paid for the room and chairs rental and the beverages. The Pullman Community Band played for free and are committed to do it again next year. Faculty and Staff made this event possible including Cecil Williams taking pictures and video, Tsun-Ju Lin and Sere Previto (her paints) creating the Falla, Vilma Navarro-Daniels, Ana María Rodríguez-Vilvaldi and Francisco Manzo-Robledo donating stuff for the students awards, Jamie Billings and Mike Owens moving the Falla from the Lab to the CUB, Eloy González supporting the event, Chad, Paulette and Rebecca from International Center doing the marketing, Heidi Jarvis and the Community Band playing "our" music.
Thanks to all who helped out and attended for your wonderful support of this event.
Chinese Author Yu Hua, Talk & Reading, March 02nd
Acclaimed Chinese author Yu Hua gave an afternoon talk and reading from his latest novel, "Brothers", in the Honors College lounge on Monday, March 02nd.
"A million-copy bestseller upon it's publication in China, accliamed writer Yu Hua's BROTHERS (Pantheon Books, January '09) encapsulates the whole of modern Chia, giving a satirical, compassionate and unforgettable portrait of life after Mao.
Professor Christopher Lupke and Chinese Author Yu Hua, after the reading in the WSU Honors Lounge.
Mo Yan and the Reemergence of Literary Voice in Contemporary China
An Evening of Bilingual Readings and Conversation was held January 5th at the Microsoft Auditorium, Seattle Central Library.
Internationally acclaimed Chinese writer Mo Yan, one of the most illustrious contemporary Chinese authors, read from and discussed his work. Questions were taken from the audience and a book signing and reception were held afterwards. His novels include "Red Sorghum" and "Life and Death Are Wearing Me Out" (which won the 2007 Man Asian Literary Prize).
More Info (Pdf)
Congratulations to Birgitta Ingemanson
...on the release of her new book, "Letters from Vladivostok, 1894-1930", which came out in Russian in Vladivostok recently, and will be presented at the big Book Fair in Moscow, Russia Nov 26-30, 2008. Birgitta will be there to give a presentation, and has also been engaged by the US Embassy's Speakers Bureau to give a few talks, including at Moscow State University, Department of History, on relations between the United States and the Russian Far East.
Photo:Birgitta signing copies of her book for the crowd at the Arseniev Museum in Vladivostok, for the opening of her book exhibit on October 24, 2008
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Congratulations to Rachel Halverson, Professor of German, who has been awarded the Pacific Northwest Council on Foreign Languages 2008 Ray Verzasconi Pacific Northwest Postsecondary Teacher of the Year Award!
Professor Vilma Navarro-Daniels (right) with Spanish author and poet Ana Rossettiat the 16th International Conference of the Asociacin Internacional de Literatura Femenina Hispnica. Ogden, Utah.
Matteson Professor of Foreign Languages and Cultures Award
Professor Ingemanson
On behalf of the entire department of Foreign Languages and Cultures, our sincerest congratulations to Birgitta Ingemanson, winner of the first ever Marianna Merritt and Donald S. Matteson Distinguished Professorship in Foreign Languages and Cultures.
Marianna Merritt Matteson and Donald S. Matteson (Sept. 2007)