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Language Colloquia
Fall 2007
Speaker: Dr. Mercedes Balcells, MIT's Spain Program Director
Title: The Road To MIT: Women and the Sciences in Spain
Date: Thursday, October 11, 4:30-6:00pm
Location: Seminar Room, Central Campus Residence Hall
Flyer: Click here
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Dr. Balcells will speak about women in the Spanish workforce, the state of the sciences in Spain, and Spain's relationship with the rest of Europe and other countries. Special mention in her speech will be made of her linguistic abilities--she speaks five languages--and how that has contributed to her promotion as Director of the MIT-Spain Program. CONDUCTED IN SPANISH |
Speaker: The Honorable
Kimberley Driscoll,
Mayor of the City of Salem
Title: The Benefits of Community Service to Salem & Beyond
Date: Tuesday, September 25th at 4:00 p.m.
Location: Sullivan Building, Room 207A
Flyer: Click here
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Fall 2006
Speaker: The Honorable Carlos Robles, Consul General of Spain in Boston
Title: Spain - U.S.: A Complicated Marriage
Date: November 2, 2006 , 5:30pm-6:30pm
Location: MLK Room, Campus Center
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Fall 2005
Speaker: Michael C. Weber, Ph. D.
Title: "Convivencia" History in Dispute: The Crusades
Date: Tuesday, November 8, 4:30
LocationSullivan 210
Dr. Weber will lead us through Medieval Spain, focusing on the special “convivencia” [living together, getting along] of Jews, Christians and Muslims. Conducted in English.
"One of the key questions of Muslim-Christian relations in the Middle Ages is,” How well and in what specific manners did the two religions get along?” In the literature on Medieval Iberia, this socio-political context is usually termed Convivencia. As is commonly known, Spain in the eleventh and twelfth centuries was the primary place where Jews, Christians, and Muslims lived together and interacted with each other in extraordinary as well as everyday ways."
Spring 2005
Speaker: The Honorable Enrique Iranzo, Consul General of Spain in Boston
Title: Spain - U.S.: A Complicated Marriage
Date: Thursday, April 7, 2005, 5:30pm-6:30pm
Location: Central Campus Recital Hall
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Mr. Iranzo's talk will cover immigration and terrorism issues as they relate to the post-September 11th international climate and the March 11, 2004 bomb attacks in Madrid. Iranzo has served in diplomatic posts throughout the world since 1970, including as consul to Hong Kong, Munich, Berlin and Santo Domingo. He has been in Boston since 2002. The talk will be in English with a question-and-answer period in English or Spanish. |
Conducted in English - Open to the public. All welcome!
Flier in PDF (Adobe Acrobat) format
Maps and directions:
http://www.salemstate.edu/maps/
Sponsored by the
Department of Foreign Languages
and the
Salem State College Graduate School
Speaker: Mr. Paul Nathan, Esq.
Title: Translators, Interpreters and the Legal System
Date: Thursday, March 3, 4:30-5:30
Location: Sullivan Bldg. 207A
As part of the Department of Foreign Languages Speakers Series, Mr. Nathan will address students and faculty on the role of translators and interpreters in the legal system. Mr. Nathan is a practicing attorney of law and has his offices in Salem. He is bilingual and will be speaking and answering questions in both Spanish and English.
All are welcome!
Fall 2004
Speaker: Nichola D. Minott
Tufts University
Title: Educational and Environmental Issues in Latin America:
Paraguay & Bolivia
Date: Monday, November 8, 2004, 5:30PM-6:30PM
Location: Sullivan Building 207A
Invited speaker Nichola D. Minott served in the Peace Corps in Paraguay for three years where she designed teacher-training programs for bilingual school teachers. She holds a Master's of Arts in Law and Diplomacy from the Tufts University Fletcher School, where she specializes in environmental policies in Latin America. Her Master's thesis, entitled Carbon Sequestration and Its Potential as a Market Mechanism Tool for Sustainable Development, uses Bolivia as a case study to explore possibilities for environmental sustainability in South America.
Conducted in English - Open to the public. All welcome!
Flier in PDF (Adobe Acrobat) format
Maps and directions:
http://www.salemstate.edu/maps/
Sponsored by the
Department of Foreign Languages
Fall 2003
Speaker: Marisol Fernández García, Northeastern University
Title: Cultural perspectives: teaching Spanish with the National Standards
Date: Tuesday, October 21, 4:15pm
Location: Sullivan Building 105
This workshop offers participants the opportunity to familiarize with the design of activities that use as a framework the National Standards. Participants will be able to complete Spanish language learning activities that address the five goal areas of the Standards, with especial emphasis on the Culture standard. The workshop will focus on how the activities target specific standards, and what theoretical and practical aspects of language learning/teaching have been taken into consideration.
Marisol Fernández García received her Ph.D. in Second Language Acquisition and Teacher Education from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She is currently an Assistant Professor of Spanish and Applied Linguistics in the Department of Modern Languages at Northeastern University, where she teaches Spanish language, culture, and applied linguistics courses, and trains Spanish majors for secondary school teaching. Before joining Northeastern University, she was Assistant Professor and Director of the Spanish Basic Language Program at Michigan State University. Her research examines the acquisition of Spanish morphemes, the role of attention in input processing, and interaction in oral and computer-mediated communication. She is the co-author of Impresiones, a first-year Spanish textbook that will be published in 2004.
Conducted in English
Maps and directions:
http://www.salemstate.edu/maps/
Sponsored by the
Department of Foreign Languages
Speaker: The Honorable Stanley Usovicz, Jr., Mayor of Salem
Title: Bilingual Issues in Voter Registration
Date: Thursday, November 6, 11:30am-12:45pm
Location: Sullivan Building 207B
Conducted in English
Maps and directions:
http://www.salemstate.edu/maps/
Sponsored by the
Department of Foreign Languages
Speaker: Mr. F. Kelly Landolphi, Esq.
Title: Translating/Interpreting for the Legal Profession
Date: TBA
Location: Sullivan Building 207B
Conducted in English
Maps and directions:
http://www.salemstate.edu/maps/
Sponsored by the
Department of Foreign Languages
Spring 2003
Speaker: James Mandrell, Brandeis University
Title: El género y la cuestión de la literatura de mujeres
("Gender and the question of women's literature")
Date: Tuesday, April 22, 4:15pm
Location: Sullivan Building 208
If women who take up the pen as authors inevitably involve themselves in a pursuit coded as masculine, how is that they can begin to write against the status quo? What is the relationship between genre and gender? To what extent does genre influence or even control an author's viewpoint and the ideological slant of her work? Can a woman--particularly a feminist or a lesbian--freely adopt and adapt a form with in some way recapitulating a point of view that she would not endorse? These are the types of questions to be addressed in terms of contemporary fiction by Hispanic women. Genres to be discussed include erotica and detective fiction.
Conducted in Spanish
Question/answer period in Spanish and English
Maps and directions:
http://www.salemstate.edu/maps/
Sponsored by the
Department of Foreign Languages