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  2. Year: 2016
  3. Month: October

Month: October 2016

Sonic Space in Djibril Diop Mambety's Films

Posted on October 31, 2016

The art of Senegalese director Djibril Diop Mambety’s cinema lies in the tension created between the visual narrative and the aural narrative. His work has been considered hugely influential, and his films bridge Western practices …

Posted in Faculty Publication

Lyric in the Renaissance: From Petrarch to Montaigne

Posted on October 28, 2016

Lyric in the Renaissance: From Petrarch to Montaigne (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015). 

Posted in Faculty Publication

A Multiliteracies Framework for Collegiate Foreign Language Teaching (Theory and Practice in Second Language Classroom Instruction)

Posted on October 25, 2016

At a time when collegiate foreign language education is changing dramatically, A Multiliteracies Framework for Collegiate Foreign Language Teaching helps educators transform both the material taught in their courses and how it is taught.   In response to …

Posted in Faculty Publication

Early Modern Humanism and Postmodern Antihumanism in Dialogue

Posted on October 25, 2016

This book employs perspectives from continental philosophy, intellectual history, and literary and cultural studies to breach the divide between early modernist and modernist thinkers. It turns to early modern humanism in order to challenge late …

Posted in Faculty Publication

The Cambridge Companion to Montaigne (Cambridge Companions to Philosophy)

Posted on October 25, 2016

Michel de Montaigne (1533-1592) is known for his innovative method of philosophical inquiry which mixes the anecdotal and the personal with serious critiques of human knowledge, politics and the law. His rejection of fanaticism and …

Posted in Faculty Publication

Vasari, Leonardo, and ‘il vero ritratto del tradimento et inumanità,’” Sixteenth Century Journal Vol. XLII No. 3

Posted on October 25, 2016

This analysis of Giorgio Vasari’s 1568 addendum to the vita of Leonardo explores Vasari’s rhetorical and narrative strategies to dramatize the importance of both visual artist and patron’s possessing l’intelletto d’arte—“the intelligence of art.” A close reading of …

Posted in Faculty Publication

Italian Teaching Assistant Ugo Brisolese in action!

Posted on October 25, 2016
Posted in Front Page Photos

UW is now in Rabat, Morocco! Check out our newest French Language Program!

Posted on October 25, 2016
Posted in Front Page Photos

French 931: Femmes et Philosophes au XVIIIe siècle

Posted on October 24, 2016

This course meets with French 630.  Pre-Reqs: Grad st

Posted in Courses, French Courses

Italian Literature in Translation 410: Political Fiction & Film in Modern Italy

Posted on October 24, 2016

This is a Literature in Translation course that meets with Italian 452. LITTRANS 410 counts towards the Certificate in Italian. 

Posted in Courses, Italian Courses
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