SIUE Foreign Languages and Literature Department

Our Ukrainian Fulbrighter Ganna Vlasova is giving a talk about the culture of Ukraine for the International Women's Organization.

CAS Graduation today - Dr. Cuervo with Spanish Education Major (Cecilia Alvarez) and other CAS graduates. Congratulations! iFelicidades!

Sigma Delta Pi Members organized the Bilingual Story time in Fairmont City Library this semester. Picture with Spanish students and friends of SIUE and the library.

SIUE's Sigma Delta Pi - Alpha Alpha Epsilon will be hosting Bilingual Storytimes at Fairmont City Library on Thursday April 11th and 25th at 4:30pm. Please contact Dr. Heidy Cuervo at [email protected] if you want to volunteer.

Congratulations to Julia, the president SIUE's Sigma Delta Pi - Alpha Alpha Epsilon, Spanish Honor Society who graduated with a Spanish major. iFelicidades!

iFelicidades en su graduación a la Presidenta de Sigma Delta Pi!

Congratulations to the Spanish Teacher majors (Samantha and Cecilia) joining the Honor Society Sigma Delta Pi, and, to the President (Julia) who is graduating this semester!

Come join us at Goshen lounge for fun activities, games, prizes, and an opportunity to meet our language professors!

There's food, too! The activity takes place today, November 14, from 11 to 1:30 pm!

Please feel free to join us for this great event:

If you are interested in Italian culture, please consider attending this presentation on the Day on the Dead for the Italian American Heritage month.

It will take place on Zoom next Thursday Oct. 5th at 6:30pm- 7:45pm. There will be time for questions.

Here is the info for the Zoom meeting:

Federica Bertolini Phillips is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting.

Topic: Italian-American Heritage presentation
Time: Oct 5, 2023 06:30 PM Central Time (US and Canada)

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Hispanic/Latinx Heritage Month Opening Ceremony with Guest Speaker María Teresa Balogh

María T. Balogh is a multilingual, bicultural poet, fiction writer, performing Caribbean folkloric dancer, and educator. She has a book of poetry in Spanish by Ediciones Torremozas, a Spanish publisher, and a collection of poetry and fiction in English by Cool Way Press. Her fiction and poetry have been published in several different journals from the USA and South America. She has been all over and done just about everything, including building rural aqueducts while in the Peace Corps. She now teaches Spanish, specializing in Latin American literature and culture, and creative writing at the University of Missouri St Louis. She is interested in research in the later trends related to gendered language becoming inclusive and other linguistic changes.



Join us for some refreshments while Ms. Balogh shares her writing and experiences.

Date and Time
Monday, September 18 2023 at 4:00 PM CDT to

Monday, September 18 2023 at 5:00 PM CDT

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Morris University Center Maple, Dogwood Room

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Congratulations Molly!

"I graduated from SIUE with a Bachelor of Arts in Foreign Language Spanish K-12 Education, Cum Laude. In March, I accepted a teaching position to teach Spanish at the high school level. I am very excited for my first year of year teaching and looking forward to having my own classroom!"

"I graduated with a major in Biological Sciences and minors in Chemistry and Spanish. I will be attending University of Illinois College of Medicine in Rockford this August to become a practicing physician in Illinois."

Mackenzie Sievers
Sigma Delta Pi Member

“I am graduating this semester with my bachelor’s in Spanish Language and Literature, a minor in Linguistics, as well as K-12 teaching certification for both Spanish and English as a Second Language. I have recently accepted a position to teach English abroad in Spain for this next school year, which I hope serves as a capstone to help solidify a strong linguistic foundation and cultural understanding! I am excited to see what the future brings!”

Gage Peek
President of Sigma Delta Pi

Congratulations new Spanish teachers Gage and Molly! iFelicidades nuevos maestros de español! - Dr. Cuervo

Come check out our new and improved website!
siue.edu/fll
or
https://www.siue.edu/arts-and-sciences/foreign-languages-and-literature/

Our former FLTA Rodaina Mousa is asking for submissions for her 3 day art exhibition!

There's still time to come check out our Italian Fest, taking place on Wednesday, April 5, from 11:30 until 1:30 pm. We are at the entrance to Science East. There's candy, games, and all sorts of Italian fun.

Interested in learning Italian! Stop by the Quad on April 5th for our Italian Fest!
Like what you see? Register for Ital101 this Fall!!

https://www.alestlelive.com/news/article_a211d19e-c914-11ed-8663-77c1025ded50.html

Here is an article in Alestle about our Ukrainian exhibit.

Ukrainian student shares exhibit to commemorate invasion of Ukraine “Unissued Diplomas” is an international exhibit honoring the stories of Ukrainian students who did not graduate as the result of the Russian war in Ukraine. A Ukrainian student decided to

Announcing the El Salvador Travel Study Opportunity

If you are interested in learning about English Language Learning and/or the Culture and History of El Salvador, please consider the Travel Study opportunity occurring this May. This travel study (May 11 through May 27) is established to support teacher candidates (Early Childhood, Elementary, Secondary, and ESL/ELL) as well as other SIUE students who are interested in immersion experiences addressing language, culture, and cross-cultural experiences. Each SIUE student partners with a Universidad Gerardo Barrios (UGB) teacher candidate in their English department to attend English and Spanish classes, Salvadoran P-12 schools, and cultural events, as well as historical sites for 2 weeks. SIUE teacher candidates can earn six ESL/ELL endorsement credits which address Illinois required clinical hours and cross-cultural studies or 3 to 6 hours toward a history endorsement. Those not interested in an endorsement can use these hours as electives. This exchange is open to other SIUE majors with the consent of the Faculty Program Leader. Newly graduated students and graduate students are eligible. Non-Spanish speakers are welcome. 3 to 6 hours can be earned through this two-week immersion.

Travel Study Website: : https://siue.studioabroad.com/index.cfm?FuseAction=Programs.ViewProgramAngular&id=10501

If you have any questions, please contact [email protected]

Please join us on March 30 at 1 pm CT for a webinar titled “Lorca, Gay Icon” that will be given by Dr. Noël Valis, professor of Spanish at Yale University.

Dr. Valis recently published a book titled Lorca Afterlife about the life and work of the great Spanish writer Federico García Lorca. Lorca’s ex*****on at the start of the Spanish Civil War was not only horrific but transformative, setting in motion many of the poet’s afterlives. He is intimately tied to both an individual and a collective identity, as the people’s poet, a gay icon, and fabled member of a dead poets’ society. The specter of his violent death continues to haunt everything connected to Lorca, fueling the desire to fill in the gaps in the poet’s biography.

Register for the webinar here:

Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: "Lorca, Gay Icon." A talk by Prof. Noel Valis of Yale University about her new book on Federico Garcia Lorca. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the webinar. Prof. Noel Valis of Yale University will join us to talk about her new book "Lorca After Life." Lorca’s ex*****on at the start of the Spanish Civil War was not only horrific but transformative, setting in motion many of the poet’s afterlives. He is intimately tied to both an individual and a col...

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We are honored to host Unissued Diplomas an Exhibition highlighting the tragedy in Ukraine after Russia's invasion on February 24 2022.

Come celebrate Black History Month and pick up a free book at the FLTC!

SIUE Speaker Series Ukraine: A Look Through History

Join us as we take a journey through Ukraine’s history and learn about a beautiful region with a varied history.

Olga Bezhanova, PhD, SIUE Department of Foreign Languages and Literature, takes us through a sweeping

oral history of a country who has fought for their freedom and peace.

We will hear about the historical perspectives of life in the country, as well as the major historical markers in the past.

This event is made possible by the SIUE Library Speaker Series

Talks are held at public libraries in Metro East communities and are free to community members, including Lifelong Learning Institute members.

Who: Open to the general public. You do not need a library card to attend this event.

When: February 15 from 6:30 to 8pm

Where: O'Fallon Public Library First Floor Community Room

Register: https://www.enrole.com/siue/jsp/session.jsp?sessionId=LLS-ULTH-01X&courseId=ULTH&categoryId=23FDD150



Questions? Contact Stephanie at [email protected] or 618-206-4345

Please join us on Wednesday, Feb. 15th, 1-3 p.m. in PH 2311 for the talk by Dr. Greg Viessman titled "From Edwardsville to the Giza Plateau." Dr. Viessman studied French and German here at SIUE while also studying History, before he went to Memphis, TN to study Egyptology. He is currently teaching for the History Dept.

This is what Dr. Viessman wanted to share about his talk: "This will be a background about my time at SIUE doing my BA and MA and how the Foreign Language, History, and Anthropology departments helped in not only my PhD studies, but also in my work on the Giza Plateau. I will spend the second half of my talk discussing my two field seasons working in the shadows of the pyramids and the Sphinx. Of course, I will be providing plenty of pictures as well!"

Come join us at this great event!

SIUE is one of the locations for ICTFL’s Winterfest. Free registration for our SIUE language majors who are in the PK-12 teacher certification program. Email Dr. Cuervo for more information at [email protected]

We would love to have you join us at Winterfest! We are hosting in two live locations and sharing virtually with satellite locations. For more info and to sign up , visit https://buff.ly/3ifJHBz

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Hello Students! There is a new Global Health travel study course for Summer 2023, PBHE 462 Special Topics in Public Health: Travel Study Peru in SIUE's Public Health Program. This course is designed for students to gain intensive exposure to global health from multiple perspectives (public health, sociology, medical anthropology, and clinical medicine). The course is a 10-week 3-credit course. The first 8 weeks are online asynchronous and designed to prepare for travel to Lima, Peru and to learn some global health basics. Then, there is a 1-week travel portion to Lima where students participate in a "global health bootcamp", followed by one more week asynchronous online to wrap up and reflect. The "bootcamp" is being run in partnership with Paul Farmer's organization "Partners in Health". You can find more information on PIH and more specifically on Global Health Bootcamps. (You may need to select "English" on the bootcamp webpage)

There is a 10-student enrollment cap on the course, so if you are interested, we suggest you get your application in soon! Applications and more information can be found here.

Feel free to reach out to Ellen Santos, [email protected] with any questions.