French & Italian Open House

1418 Van Hise Hall
@ 11:00 am CDT - 1:00 pm CDT
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Join us for food, refreshments, and conversation to welcome the new academic year! This is a great opportunity to gather information and ask questions about our majors, certificates, clubs, events or simply meet and mingle …

Filmmaker Nancy Savoca

@ 4:00 pm CDT -

Nancy Savoca will offer a public lecture in English on her work as screenwriter, fiction writer and filmmaker especially with regard to questions relating to the Italian diaspora, Italian American ethnicity and identity. Followed by …

Humanities = Jobs : The Tactics of Contrarian Entrepreneurial Humanists

Alain-Philippe Durand, Dorrance Dean of Humanities, University of Arizona
TBD
@ 4:00 pm CDT

Dean Durand has made a mission of building enrollment in French, then in Humanities majors at large, and in connecting those forms of study to careers and jobs across disciplines and beyond university life.  While …

Fill the Hill 2024

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Fill the Hill

Fill the Hill serves as campus’s annual fall fundraising campaign and as an opportunity to celebrate one of campus’s most famous pranks. For each gift UW receives during the campaign, a pink lawn flamingo is …

Karen Pinkus

Hilldale Lecture
@ 4:00 pm CDT -

38th GAFIS Symposium

Keynote: Hadja Bakara
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Exploring the liminal The concept of liminality as coined in a text entitled Rites de Passages (1908) and described as a three-fold process–separation, transition and incorporation– and would go on to become a trope found in fields …

Rethinking the Italian Eighteenth Century and its Transnational Connections

Pyle Center
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Rethinking the Italian Eighteenth Century and its Transnational Connections Over the past 25 years, the transnational perspective has played a pivotal role in reshaping the scope of eighteenth-century studies, illuminating vibrant exchanges and interactions across …