Marina Colacicchi (World Languages and Cultures) published a selection of poetry in Russian literary magazine The Text, Berlin. 

Arpine Mkrtchyan (World Languages and Cultures) has successfully completed the online training ''18e siècle: le combat des Lumières'' organized by Paris Lumières University/ Université Paris Lumières in Paris. She attended eight weeks of training this year and was awarded a certificate of success this month.

Marina Garber-Colacicchi (World Languages and Cultures) participated in the virtual anthology “Women’s Poetry: the Space and Time” presented at the biennale “The Oriental Vector: Women’s Literature of Asian Countries”. The project involved 78 women poets residing in 14 countries and reading the poems of 44 women poets written before 1917. Garber-…

Arpine Mkrtchyan (World Languages and Culturest) took part in the 6th International Conference on the Teaching of French as a Foreign Language (“Colloque FLE 2021”), which was held in San Juan, Puerto Rico last month. This conference, organized by teleconference (Zoom platform), is aimed at applied linguists and researchers in French as a…

Marina Colacicchi-Garber (World Languages and Cultures) has had a new selection of poetry (in Russian) published in Prosodia literary magazine in Moscow.

Giuseppe Natale (World Languages and Cultures) has been awarded a contribution from the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, aimed at supporting and expanding Italian programs at foreign universities. The award of 12,000 euros will support maintenance of existing second- and third-year offerings in Italian…

Susan Byrne (World Languages and Cultures) was interviewed for the Queen Sofía Spanish Institute's video series Lost Legacy. In Chapter 6 of the series, Byrne speaks about the importance of the novel Don Quijote, by Spanish author Miguel de Cervantes, for the U.S. Founding Fathers.

Arpine Mkrtchyan (World Languages and Cultures) has successfully completed the online training, Le Français pour université/French for University, organized by University of Grenoble Alpes, Grenoble, France. She attended eight weeks of training and was awarded a certificate of success on Jan. 11.   

Marina Garber-Colacicchi (World Languages and Cultures) has written poetry, "Tilted Landscape," ("Качнувшийся пейзаж") that has been published in Russian-German literary magazine The Text. 

Arpine Mkrtchyan (World Languages and Cultures) has successfully completed the online training ‘’La Francophonie: essence culturelle nécessité politique-2020" organized by University of Jean Moulin, Lyon, France. She has attended seven weeks of the following training and was awarded a certificate of success this month.

Arpine Mkrtchyan (World Languages and Cultures) took part in an online international colloquium, ‘’Israel est mondialement FLE,’’ in Israel last month. She presented a webinar,'' L’enseignement-apprentissage du FLE à distance: classé inversée." The conference was organized with the Association of French teachers (APFI/FIPF, the general inspection…

Deborah Arteaga (World Languages and Cultures) recently presented a paper, "S or no s?  A lesson plan for integrating dialectal phonology in the beginning Medical Spanish classroom," at the Medical Spanish Summit.