This Week in LACS 3/11/2024

March 11, 2024
Categories: Community Events, General Events, General News Tags: 2024, chinese, french, german, japanese, spanish, study abroad
This Week in LACS

I hope you all had a wonderful Spring Break with time to rest and relax. We are heading into the second half of the Spring Semester, which means Summer is right around the corner.

Dates and Events this Week

March is Women’s History Month.

March 12

  • Chair Office Hours: moved to 3:30-5:00 pm, Virtual only

March 13

March 14

  • Chair Office Hours: moved to 11:00-1:00 pm
  • 1:30-2:45 pm, CHESS Dean Candidate 1, Presentation Popp Martin Student Union Movie Theater
  • RPT Workshop, 3:00-4:00 pm, CHESS-RPT Workshops- RSVP

March 15

  • RPT Workshop, 10:00-11:00 am CHESS-RPT Workshops- RSVP
  • Spanish Graduate Faculty Meeting 12:30-2:00 pm
  • Department Meeting 2:30-4:00 pm, LRC 

Looking Ahead

Dates and Events

March 18

  • Faculty Forum for Promotion to Full Professor, 3:00-5:00 pm, Cone 314/Lucas Room (Register)

March 21

  • 1:30-2:45 pm, CHESS Dean Candidate 2, Presentation, Popp Martin Student Union Movie Theater

March 25

  • Application deadline for OIP’s Global Learning and Internationalization Institute.

March 27

  • 1:30-2:45 pm, CHESS Dean Candidate 3, Presentation, Popp Martin Student Union Movie Theater

March 29

March 31

  • Environmental Health and Safety Compliance Training due

April 1

  • Faculty Achievement Recognition Celebration 
  • Inaugural Education Abroad Faculty Award Celebration, 1:00 pm, Halton Reading Room, RSVP  by the end of March. 

April 2

  • 4:30-5:30 pm, Witness in Residence, rescheduled event

April 12

  • Department Meeting 2:30-4:00 pm, LRC 

April 19

April 30

  • Department Meeting 10:30 am-12:00 pm, Party 12:00-2:00 pm 

May 1

  • Deadline to submit Book Orders for Fall 2024 here

May 4, 

May 11,

  • CHESS Commencement, 10:00 am, Halton Arena
  • Graduate School Commencement, 3:00 pm, Halton Arena 

May 13-17

May 15

Congratulations 

Congratulations to Jane Houston who is named the Inaugural Education Abroad Faculty Award Winner. Jane is being honored for her unwavering support of students interested in international experiences. She has served as the faculty director for the long-running France: French Culture and Civilization in Paris short-term education abroad program, and for the nearly four decades she has served our institution, she has been a consistent pillar of support for students interested in immersing themselves in a foreign culture – French or not. 

Please join us in celebrating Jane at the Award Ceremony on April 11 at 1:00 pm, Halton Reading Room, RSVP by the end of March. Read more about Jane and the award here. 

Congratulations to David Dalton for publishing: “Reactionary, Robo-Sacer Dystopias: Cyborg Oppression and Right-Wing Biopolitics in Francisco Laresgoiti’s 2033.” Confluencia, vol. 39, no. 1, 2023, pp. 91-103.

Congratulations to Anton Pujol for publishing: Fernández, Esther, Anton Pujol, and Alejandra Juno Rodríguez Villar. “Introduction. The Limits of Representation in Spanish Theater.” Arizona Journal of Hispanic Cultural Studies, vol. 27, 2024, p. 105-115. Project MUSE, https://doi.org/10.1353/hcs.2024.a920066.

Congratulations to Allison Stedman for publishing the following two articles: “D’Aulnoy’s Histoire d’Hypolite: A Manifesto for the Subversive Power of Music.” Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture, Volume 53, 2024, pp. 311-329 and Review of Making the Marvelous: Marie-Catherine d’Aulnoy, Henriette-Julie de Murat, and the Literary Representation of the Decorative Arts by Rori Bloom. Eighteenth-century Fiction 36 (1): 187-190. She also gave two presentations at the MLA in January 2024: “Representations of Medical Care in the Correspondence of Madame de Sévigné (1646-1696),” and “Pre-Cartesian Medical Theory and Practice in the Correspondance of Madame de Sévigné (1646-1696).”

Congratulations to Sandra Watts for being awarded a grant from the University Career Center to complete the University of Minnesota’s Center for Advanced Research on Language Acquisition (CARLA) summer workshop “Integrating Career Readiness Into Language Programs,” a Mini Grant from the Free Expression & Constructive Dialogue Task Force at UNC Charlotte in order to complete intergroup dialogue training, a Venture Fund Grant to complete the “Integrating Career Readiness Into Language Programs” Summer Institute with the Center for Advanced Research on Language Acquisition (CARLA) at the University of Minnesota. Sandra also received a grant from the UNC Charlotte Free Expression & Constructive Dialogue Task Force to complete the Intercultural Conflict Style Inventory Certificate Program. Finally, congratulations also for having been awarded a Career Collaborator award from the University Career Center and for her presentation at the in-person QM Connect national conference in November 2023 (“Equity by Design: The Student Experience Project Meets QM Standards”) being selected to be re-presented as part of the QM Quality in Action virtual spring conference. 

Congratulations to Ryan and Michèle for leading a successful Spring Break Study Abroad program to Martinique. 

Announcements and Updates 

Three candidates for the Founding Dean of the College of Humanities & Earth and Social will give presentations to the campus community.  Please, if possible, plan to attend the candidate presentations.

Thursday, March 14, 1:30-2:45 pm, Popp Martin Student Union Movie Theater

Thursday, March 21, 1:30-2:45 pm, Popp Martin Student Union Movie Theater

Wednesday, March 27, 1:30-2:45 pm, Popp Martin Student Union Movie Theater

Candidate names will be announced closer to the interview dates and will be posted on the CHESS Dean search webpage.

Commencement Date and Time
Please remember that all faculty members are required to attend at least one Commencement ceremony or Student Convocation. The commencement ceremonies in May will take place in Halton Arena at the following times:
Saturday, May 11, 10:00 am
College of Humanities & Earth and Social Sciences
Saturday, May 11, 3:00 pm
The Graduate School (Doctoral, Master’s and Certificate Programs)

Thank you for all you do. 

All the best,

Anabel