BW World Languages, Literatures, and Cultures

Reminder - Tomorrow at 5:30 pm!

We hope you can join us.

The Department of World Languages, Literatures, and Cultures

All are welcome~

Today in Dr. Svendsen's intermediate German course, students learned to use subjunctives by designing rollercoasters! The rides included a Baldwin Wallace roller coaster that starts at the Union, goes all the way up the Marting Bell Tower, and (four years later) finishes with a coffee at the Starbucks on Front Street!

REMINDER: TODAY at 6:00 pm in the SAC

We hope you can join us! Don't forget to order your free tickets!

All are welcome~

We hope you can join us! Don't forget to order your free tickets!

Thank you to those who were able to stop by on Sunday for a little R&R before finals week!!!

Your Invited! Free and Open to the Public!

March 30@4:00 pm in the Center for Innovation and Growth, 340 Front Street, Rooms 105/106. Reception to follow.

Lecture guests Kathy Sterio and Christian Vogeler, Learn how language skills and cultural competence open doors and shape the current business landscape in Northeast Ohio.

Click the link below to register

Lecture: "World Languages in the Professions" Featuring Kathy Sterio, president of GE Lighting, a Savant company.

Congratulations, Clara Harb '19, on all of your accomplishments! A stellar example of how interests in French and Francophone Studies and Biology can be fused to create exciting opportunities.

Accolades abound for BW alumna focused on global health Baldwin Wallace biology and French and francophone studies major Clara Harb focuses career on global health

WLLC is pleased to present three films as part of Ritter Library's Hereafter Series.
The final film, Hirokazu Kore-WANDAFURU RAIFU (After Life) will be screened Friday, November 11th at 7:00 in Surrarrer Auditorium, Telfer Hall.
Don't miss this 1998 Japanese classic which asks the provocative question: if you could select just one memory from your life to take to the next, what would it be?

Film: "Wandafuru Raifu" (After Life) If you could choose only one memory to hold on to for eternity, what would it be? That's the question of this fantasia where the recently deceased must select a single cherished moment from their life to be recreated on film for them to take into the next world.

Interested in teaching English in France for a year? Join us this evening to learn about the Teaching Assistant in France Program. Many BW students have been awarded TAPIF assistantships over the years. It's not too early to start planning!

WLLC is pleased to present three films as part of Ritter Library's Hereafter Series.
The second, Wim Wenders' DER HIMMEL ÜBER BERLIN (WINGS OF DESIRE), will be held Friday, October 28th at 7:00 on the steps of the Knowlton Center.
Don't miss this German classic, one of the best films of the 80s, where an angel gives up his immortality to find love in a still divided Berlin!

Film: "Der Himmel Über Berlin" (Wings of Desire) Damiel is an angel over Berlin who can hear the thoughts of the people living below. But when he falls in love with a beautiful trapeze artist, he is willing to give up his immortality and come back to earth to be with her.

WLLC is pleased to present three films as part of Ritter Library's Hereafter Series.
The first, Jean Cocteau's ORPHÉE" (ORPHEUS), is held tonight, Sept. 23rd at 7:00 on the steps of the Knowlton Center.
Please join us for this French classic, where mirrors become the portal to the underworld.

Film: "Orphée" (Orpheus) Join us for Jean Cocteau's update of the Orpheus myth depicting a famous poet scorned by the Left Bank youth and his love for both his wife, Eurydice, and a mysterious princess.

Baldwin Wallace University, Knowlton Center, 370 Front Street, Berea, OH 44017

Thursday, April 7, Event is FREE and Open to the Public!

Happenings in Dietsch Hall ~

Tuesday/Thursday 1:35 -2:50 pm, from August 22 - December 2, 2022 with Dr. Christina Svendsen

Enjoy the final weekend of films over the break! Check out the introduction to NEW FRENCH SHORTS 2021 by BW exchange student from MICEFA Paris, Jade Ugnon-Fleury https://bw.hosted.panopto.com/Panopto/Pages/Viewer.aspx?id=41511ebe-ff6d-4ceb-ae68-ae4d00f5c47a
See https://www.bw.edu/events/2022/international-film-series

Third and final weekend of films! Please register for BEATE, SWIMMING OUT TILL THE SEA TURNS BLUE and NEW FRENCH SHORTS 2021 by Friday, March 4th at 10 AM. https://www.bw.edu/events/tickets/

Mounia Meddour’s 2019 debut feature film Papicha was Algeria’s contender for an Oscar and winner of two French César awards, but its release in Algeria was canceled by authorities without explanation. Please join us on Zoom on Tuesday, March 1st at 7PM to learn more about the context of this film and recent Algerian women’s filmmaking in the wake of its Civil War (1991 – 2002). Register by Friday, Feb 25th at 10:00 AM. https://www.bw.edu/events/2022/03-01-2022-virtual-international-film-series-post-screening-lecture

Looking forward to the second weekend of films! Register for EL PLANETA, BERLIN ALEXANDERPLATZ and PAPICHA by Friday at 10:00! Check out some of the introductions posted on the website. https://www.bw.edu/events/2022/international-film-series

Would you like to live and teach English in France, Martinique, Guadeloupe or La Réunion for 7 months? Have you studied French for 3 semesters or more?

This program isn’t just for students interested in teaching, but a way of gaining international work experience, acquiring French language skills or even fluency, and an opportunity for travel and cultural immersion (all while getting paid and often with housing assistance).

BW has a strong track record of its French majors and minors being awarded Teaching Assistantships in France. It’s not too early to plan! For the 2022 – 2023 academic year, applications are now open and are due on January 15th. For more information, contact Dr. Nadia Sahely, Professor of French and Francophone Studies at [email protected]

Join us on Wednesday, October 27, from 4:00-5:00 pm on ZOOM.

Dr. Feinberg and students attended a performance of La casa de Bernarda Alba by Federico García Lorca performed at LatinUS Theater, a Spanish-language theater space in the Pivot Center in Cleveland’s Clark-Fulton neighborhood.

Sponsored by the Spanish Club

The BW Spanish Club hosted the last Spanish for the Professions Speaker Series for the semester yesterday. Guest Speaker, Angelina Rodríguez, Ph.D., Director of Global Citizenship Program, Professor of Practice, Lehigh University talked to the students.

Quint Newcomer, Director, Sustainability & Business Administration, Architectural Collaborative LCC spoke to students as part of the Spanish for the Professions Fall series sponsored by the Spanish club yesterday!