Languages Literatures and Linguistics (LLL)

Save the date! Join us to celebrate and the Harold G. Jones Award for Best Essay! This year’s recipient is Dr. Emily Celeste Vásquez Enríquez, whose talk is entitled “Forecasting Extinction at the Guatemalan Border Forests.” Join us on Monday, September 23 at 3:45PM in the Peter Graham Scholarly Commons (Bird Library).

Symposium is a quarterly peer-reviewed journal of criticism in modern literatures originating in languages other than English. Founded in 1946, the journal is housed in the Department of Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics at Syracuse University. Scholars of literature will find research on authors, themes, periods, genres, works, and theory, often through comparative or interdisciplinary studies.

In honor of the retirement of our dear colleague, Tej Bhatia, Professor of Linguistics and South Asian Languages, LLL will host a colloquium and reception to celebrate him and his long career on Thursday, September 5 beginning at 2 p.m. in Eggers 220. All are invited — come when you can and leave when you must! See flyer for details.

Professor Bhatia has contributed so much to enrich Syracuse University, our student body, and our department. We look forward to celebrating his long and wonderful career!

A warm welcome to all our new and returning students! We can't wait to see you in our language, literature and linguistics classes. 😄

Come join our multicultural community this fall! Learn a new language, explore new cultures, make new friends. Today we helped welcome the Peaceful Forest Taiku drummers from Japan. Enchanting! And there are many more such wonderful events to come.

MULTIMEDIA ARTIST PAULINA VELÁZQUEZ SOLÍS IN SYRACUSE THIS SUMMER

"Me da mucho gusto compartirles mi próximo proyecto, parte del programa Urban Video Project de Light Work en Syracuse, New York, donde estaré generando una video-instalación en el espacio público en el verano de 2024!"

"I am thrilled to share that I was commissioned the Urban Video Project (UVP) hosted by Light Work and the Everson Museum en Syracuse New York. I will be working on an outdoor video installation that will be on view this summer 2024!"

Paulina Velázquez Solís (she/her) is a multimedia artist with an interest in the oddities hidden within nature and the body. She was born in Puebla, Mexico and grew up between Mexico and Costa Rica, where she went to art school. She works in diverse media, including installation, sculpture, drawing, animation, and multimedia performance.

She graduated in Art and Visual Communication in Printmaking at Universidad Nacional in Costa Rica and obtained an MFA in New Genres from the San Francisco Art Institute as a Fulbright Scholar. She moved to Ithaca, NY in 2018 where she is currently faculty at the Art Department at Cornell University and Ithaca College. Her work has been shown around the world, including at the Museo de Arte y Diseño Contemporáneo, TEOR/éTica in Costa Rica, Taipei Fine Arts Museum in Taiwan, ExTeresa Arte Actual in México City, Museo de Arte in San Salvador, Torino Contemporanea in Italy, La Casa de las Américas in Havana, Cuba, Mengi in Reykjavik, Iceland, Museum of the Americas in Washington DC, UCLA Biennial in Los Ángeles, and the Berkeley Art Museum in the San Francisco Bay area.

Now based in Ithaca, NY, multimedia artist Paulina Velázquez Solís is the recipient of the first open UVP Regional Commission competition for her proposal: Un río de todas las épocas II / A river of all ages II.

This project, which will include interactive and performance-based elements, will explore Central NY as a site of “post-industrial natural wonder”. Using regionally extinct species in local herbaria as tools, Velázquez Solís’ work will meditate on the “tension between what prevails and what has shifted or disappeared” in a field of “memory, transformation, and territory”.

Velázquez Solís’ commissioned work will be on view at the UVP architectural projection on the north facade of the Everson Museum of Art in Summer 2024.

Repost 🍊 from Mayor of Florence who was our honored guest and this year’s 2024 Commencement Speaker! Last night we had the opportunity to meet with Mayor Nardella and director Dr. Sasha Perugini in advance of today’s Commencement events. We spoke about the importance of intercultural competency, our mutual love of learning languages, and the inestimable value of study abroad for Syracuse University students. We look forward to visiting Mayor Nardella in Florence soon! 🇮🇹🍊

This Thursday! Join us to celebrate this year’s Books in the Humanities — with intellectual contributions from several LLL faculty: “Dante’s Blood” by Anne C. Leone, as well as “Spatiality at the Periphery in European Literatures and Visual Arts” by Kathryn Everly (Editor); Stefano. Giannini (Editor); Karina von Tippelskirch (Editor).

See you there! 🍊🌍

Today Linguistics MA student Mahmoud Alawneh .k.alawneh successfully defended his thesis, “Information Structure by Phase: an analysis of Rural Palestinian Arabic.” Mahmoud’s research was supported by his thesis committee, Dr. Adam Singerman (advisor), Dr. Arun Brahmbhatt (chair), Dr. Jaklin Kornfilt (reader, virtual), and Dr. Kenji Oda (reader). Congratulations, Mahmoud! 🎉 🥳 🍊

Today we held a special Turkish Tile Art Workshop, hosted by Zeynep ! Participants learned about the unique art of Turkish tiles, listened to Turkish music, and sampled a number of Turkish treats while painting their own tiles! Zeynep will take the tiles home to her studio to fire them before returning the finished product next week. Thank you, Zeynep! We had so much fun!
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More scenes from last Wednesday’s Cultures! What was your favorite activity?

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Last Wednesday, LLL hosted our annual Cultures on the Quad event, which celebrates our department’s – and university’s! – multicultural and multilingual communities. We had tables representing every program, language and culture that finds a home in our department, and we were so grateful for the support and participation from Syracuse University College of Arts and Sciences, students, faculty and friends from across campus. We hope you had a blast!

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Today’s the day! Join us from 11:30am - 2:00pm on the Quad for our annual celebration of language and culture, with tables from every language, culture, and program in our department! And this year, we’re also celebrating our 50th anniversary! 🎂🥳
See you on the Quad! 🌍🍊

Busy weeks here in LLL as we wind down the semester! Stressed about finals? Check out these movies in our Global Film Series — pizza and soda will be served, and all are welcome!

Recently, incoming SU students had the opportunity to experience classes with two professors in LLL: Chinese film with Prof. Darwin Tsen and Linguistics with Prof. Christopher Green! Thanks to for organizing these mini-lectures! We can’t wait to see our new students this fall! 🙌🌍🍊

This week in the Russian program! Join us for three short films about hedgehogs 🦔 : Hedgehog (2009), Hedgehog in the Fog (1975), and Hedgehog (2022). Pizza and soda will be served! 🍕

Yesterday, we hosted the CNY Humanities Cooridor Working Group “Language Documentation in Multilingual Communities”, led by Dr. Rania Habib (SU), Dr. Abigail C. Cohn (Cornell), and Dr. Maya Ravindranath Abtahian (U of Rochester). In the photo, Dr. Adam Singerman (SU) presents his research on documenting and describing Tuparí, a Tupían language of the Brazilian Amazon, based on his extensive fieldwork in the state of Rondônia (Brazil).

In addition to Dr. Singerman’s presentation, the day-long event also included a planning meeting, lightning talks, and rotating breakout research discussion groups. It was a huge success!

More scenes from yesterday’s French Colloquium!

1. Colloquium program and bookmark commemorating the event
2. SU Librarian for French, Barbara Opar, with French undergraduate student Emily who shared original paintings as part of the event, together with the French MA student organizers.
3. Graduate student Joumana Kalouch reads her original poetry during the Colloquium
4. Professor of Architecture Jean-François Bédard présents on 18th-century French architecture.
5. The day’s first panelists prepare for their presentations.
6. Prof. Gwen Cressman presents via Zoom all the way from the Université de Strasbourg!
7. Original artwork on display during the event
8. Spanish MA student Katelyn Miller plays Édith Piaf’s famous ‘La vie en rose’ as part of the event.

Congrats to on their great success today at the 25th annual French Colloquium! Here the colloquium presenters (and event organizers!) gather to celebrate with Dr. Nicole Karam, who gave the keynote address. 💐 We already can’t wait for next year’s Colloquium!

Eight College of Visual and Performing Arts students who are studying abroad at the Daniel and Gayle D’Aniello Syracuse University Program in Florence will have the unique opportunity to work with Artist in Residence Carrie Mae Weems H’17 and attend an international arts conference in Venice in April.

Weems, an internationally renowned artist, will travel to Florence to deliver a public lecture, “Resistance as an Act of Love,” April 17. While there, she will review the work of students in the studio arts program.

Learn more: https://bit.ly/3VJcQGz

Check out the program for tomorrow’s 25th Annual French Colloquium! We hope you’ll join us for a day of scholarship and community, refreshments will be provided!

Tomorrow! LLL is proud to sponsor the 25th Annual French Colloquium: “Les émotions dans le monde francophone” which will take place at Bird Library (PGSC, 1st Floor) starting at 9AM.
Sponsored by and the Moynihan Institute of Global Affairs

À bientôt!

Last night, the Italian program 🇮🇹 hosted their annual Torneo di Briscola (Briscola Card Tournament), a fun event held every year at the end of the spring semester to help students de-stress before final exams and projects take over. We had a great time, and congratulazioni to the winners of the tournament, who took home prize bags with Italian treats! 😋
Thanks to Profs Contreras, Giannini, Sorci, and Surovi for organizing 🙏 See you next year! 🍊🌍

The stars of LLL were aligned to watch the eclipse today.

The College of Arts and Sciences Celebrates Eclipse 2024 On April 8, 2024, the Syracuse University campus will be directly in the path of totality for a solar eclipse. This means the moon will totally obscure the sun, creating a solar corona (wispy, white streamers of gas that radiate out from the sun) for a little over 1 minute at 3:23 p.m. EST. This is....

We’re here at the CAS New Student Welcome event! Come say hello! 🍊🌎

You’re invited to the next Turkish movie night next Tuesday, April 16! Join us for a screening of Mandıra Filozofu (‘Dairy Philosopher’), a 2014 eco-comedy that tells the story of Cavit, whose life is turned upside down after he meets Mustafa Ali to buy his land to build a boutique hotel in Çökertme. Living far from the modern life in his small land, Mustafa Ali’s philosophy confuses Cavit and his big-city ideologies. Part of LLL’s Global Film Series 📽️🎞️

When: Tues., April 16 at 5:15PM
Where: HBC 323A

See you there! 🌍 .arda