The next Humanities Collaborative luncheon will take place on Friday, November 22, noon to 1:30 p.m., in the Teske dining room. Lunch will be provided courtesy of the CAS dean’s office.
The featured presenter will be Matthew Warshawsky, international languages and cultures, who will discuss “Making the Baroque Less Baroque: Helping Students Understand Texts from Long Ago and Far Away.” This conversation invites you to share strategies for engaging students with texts that at first glance they might consider unrelated to their own experiences, but that in fact have a surprising and important relevance. The frame through which Warshawsky approaches that challenge is literary and artistic production in Spain during the Medieval through Baroque eras, asking students to consider questions of right and wrong, idealized love, gender roles, religious (in)tolerance, and what makes a “good” and even holy life. Participants will consider translations of two poems that students read as a way of approaching some of these issues: “The Dark Night,” by San Juan de la Cruz, and “She Argues to be Inconsistent the Desires and the Criticisms of Men, Who in Women Find Culpable That Which They Themselves Cause,” by Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz.
Space is limited, so please RSVP to Andrea Egger, egger@up.edu, as soon as possible. Also contact Laura McLary with questions at mclary@up.edu.
The Department of International Languages and Culture is proud to present “A Fall Night of Cultural Fusion through Salsa Music and Dance,” sponsored by Diversity and Inclusion Programs, on Sunday, November 24, 5 to 8 p.m., in Mehling Ballroom. The event is free and open to all. Refreshments will be served.
To wrap up Latinx Heritage Month (Sept. 15-Oct.15) the offices of diversity and inclusion programs, College of Arts and Sciences, FGEN, ASUP Films, and international languages and cultures proudly presents a free screening of the film Hailing Cesar, a documentary on Eduardo Chávez, the grandson of César Chávez, and his journey as he learned about his legendary grandfather. Eduardo Chavez will attend the screening and speak about his journey and answer questions on Thursday, October 10, 5-6:30 p.m., in Dundon-Berchtold Hall’s Brian Doyle Auditorium. Light concessions will be provided. Please RSVP using 
The German studies program of the Department of International Languages and Cultures is pleased to announce three recipients of the German Academic Exchange Service’s (DAAD) summer language and culture course stipends. Caitlyn Hott ’21 and Elizabeth Reich ’21 are heading to Düsseldorf, Germany in June for four weeks of intensive German language and culture instruction. Maddy Smith ‘20 will participate in a four-week course in Augsburg, Germany.
Oscar A. Pérez of Skidmore College will present “Spanish for Science and Engineering in the United States: Past, Present, Future” on Tuesday, March 12, at 5 p.m., in Franz Hall room 120. His talk is sponsored by international languages and cultures and the Shiley School of Engineering.
Students will perform original comedies in Spanish, which they have adapted from four classic plays dating 1806-1933, on Wednesday, April 18, 5-6 p.m., in Mago Hunt Center, according to Lora Looney, international languages and cultures. All are welcome to attend. As part of the class Nation & Identity in Spanish Theater, students scripted one-act plays around the theme of “Prom Night 2018” with visiting playwright Emilio Williams, to poke fun at literary icons like Don Juan and the Maiden. Paradigms that students gently mock include triangulation and male honor, marrying for money, seduction at any cost, as well as rigid constructs of female identity. A final course assignment, this performance is funded by the Beckman Humor Project.
Six out of eight University of Portland student applicants have been accepted for teaching assistantships in France by the Cultural Services of the French government, and two were placed on the waiting list, according to Trudie Booth, French studies. The following students will go to France this fall:
The German Studies program invites students, faculty, and staff to a panel discussion on migration and integration from both European and American perspectives on Monday, November 6
On Sunday, September 24, Germans will go to the polls to vote in a federal election. What’s at stake, and who is running for office? You are cordially invited to take part in these upcoming events to find out more, according to Jeffrey White, international languages and culture.
The German Studies Program and Department of International Languages and Cultures have announced three awardees of the DAAD (Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst) University Summer Course Grants for intensive German language learning in Germany this summer. The awardees are Maria Edwards ’18 (Tübingen), Emily McClung ’18 (Aachen), and Haley Lemens ’18 (Aachen).