Catherine Wood Lange
copresented "A Twofer: Culture (via Film, Text, Song) & Functional Language". The Northeast Conference on the Teaching of Foreign Languages. New York City, April 16-18, 2009.
2008
Ourida Mostefai
presented “Responding to Censorship: the Case of Jean-Jacques Rousseau,” Modern Language Association (MLA) Annual Convention, San Francisco, December 27-30, 2008.
Ourida Mostefai
presented “De Manon à Suzette: le ‘déménagement social’ en révolution,” International Colloquium in Honor of Professor Malcolm Cook: Le Tournant des Lumières, Institut français, London, December 10-12, 2008.
Ourida Mostefai
presented “Ecriture parisienne et écriture genevoise dans La Lettre à d’Alembert” at the Annual Meeting of the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Portland, Oregon, March 2008.
Rena Lamparska
presented two papers at the Institute of Romance Philology of the Jagiellonian University, Cracow, Poland: "Gregorio Caloprese: letteratura e scienza" and "La complessità e la conflittualità della realtà poetica come motivo ispiratorio della teoria letteraria di Gregorio Caloprese". March 2008.
Andrea Javel, Debbie Rusch, and Emmanuelle Vanborre (Ph.D. 2007)
presented "Learning to Read while Reading to Learn" at the Northeast Conference of the Teaching of Foreign Languages in New York City, March 2008.
2007
Ourida Mostefai
presented “Désunion nationale et rêve de réconciliation: correspondances d’émigrés dans le roman de la révolution française,” at the French-American International Conference on “Débats et Ecritures sous la Révolution française: Politique, Esthétique, Ethique,” Aix-en-Provence, October 2007.
Rena Lamparska
presented the paper "Scienza e filosofia nella teoria e nella critica letteraria di Gregorio Caloprese" at the Università Cattolica, Milan, Italy, November 2007.
Ourida Mostefai
participated in a panel on: “Whither the Republic? Are we still the children of the French Revolution?” at the international symposium on the 250th anniversary of Lafayette’s birth organized by the French Embassy in Washington, DC, in September 2007.
Ourida Mostefai
presented “Rousseau lecteur critique de l’Encyclopédie,” at the Rousseau Association Biennial Colloquium, in Lyons, France, June 2007.
Catherine Wood Lange
presented "Becoming Eva Perón: Eva Duarte's Performance in La cabalgata del circo (1946) and La pródiga (1946)" Cine-Lit VI Conference: An International Conference on Hispanic Film and Literature in Portland, Oregon, February 2007.
2006
Sarah Beckjord
presented “Bernal Díaz and the Territories of History.” Division on Colonial Literature, MLA Annual Convention, December 27-30, 2006.
Debbie Rusch
gave a workshop titled "Grammar Presentations That Function." Lecture and Workshop Series of Foreign Language Teaching Strategies - Spanish, Bridgewater, MA, November 8, 2006.
Debbie Rusch
gave a workshop titled "Do You Function in the French or Spanish Classroom?" Boston University, Boston, MA, November 7, 2006.
Laurie Shepard
presented “Children in the Middle Ages.” Five College Medieval Studies Seminar; University of Massachusetts, Amherst, October 26, 2006.
Ourida Mostefai
in collaboration with Margaret Cohen (Education Resource Center), gave a workshop on “Creating and Designing an Academic Integrity Tutorial,” at the Annual Conference on Academic Integrity in Boulder, Colorado, October 2006.
Elizabeth Rhodes
spoke at the conference "From Spirit to Structure: The Constitutions and the Formation of Jesuit Culture" on the Catholic activist Luisa de Carvajal (1566-1614), who preached to infidels in London when priests were not allowed in England. Rome, Italy, October 2006.
Catherine Wood Lange
presented "An Icon is Born: Eva Perón in the Noticiarios Documentales Cinematográficos (NO-DO)." 3rd Romance Languages Film Symposium, at Wake Forest University, October 13, 2006.
Ourida Mostefai
presented “De l’imaginaire libertin à la philosophie politique: la place du corps oriental dans la philosophie des Lumières.” International seminar on “Sensibility in the Literature of the XVIIIth Century in France and in England.” Associazione Sigismondo Malatesta, Rimini, Italy, September 20-21, 2006.
Sarah Beckjord
presented “Science and Religion in the Early Spanish Historiography of America.” Society of Early Americanists, Old Town Alexandria, VA, March 31-April 2, 2006.
Laurie Shepard
gave a talk titled "Gender Markers in Childhood Sacraments." Society for the Study of Early Modern Women (sponsor), Renaissance Society of America; San Francisco; March 23-25, 2006.
Sarah Beckjord
was invited to give a talk titled “Race, Culture and Memory in the Cuban Literary Tradition.” Harvard University, John F. Kennedy School of Government Cuba Seminar, March 15, 2006.
Ourida Mostefai
gave a talk titled “Rousseau's Parisian Walks: Urban Space in the Rêveries.” Annual Meeting of the Southeast American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Athens, Georgia, March 2-5, 2006.
2005
Sarah Beckjord
gave a paper titled “Infidels, Heretics, and History according to Las Casas.” Program of the Division on Colonial Literature, MLA Annual Convention, December 27-30, 2005.
Dwanye E. Carpenter
presented “A Converso Wannabe: Hernando el Marrano and Late-Fifteenth-Century Anti-Jewish Satire.” Forty-Seventh Midwest Modern Language Association Convention. Milwaukee, 11 November 2005.
Dwanye E. Carpenter
gave a talk titled “'Funny, They Don’t Look Jewish’: Confusing Converts in Medieval Spain.” Inaugural lecture of Jewish Studies Program, Boston College. October 11, 2005. Available on “Front Row,” Boston College’s series of public lectures.
Debbie Rusch
gave a talk titled "Keeping it in the L2." Workshop at Quincy North High School, Quincy, MA, October 3, 2005.
Sarah Beckjord
presented “Informing ‘Indians’: Science and Religion in the Histories of Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo.” Colonial Americas Study Association Symposium, Bogotá, Colombia, August 8-11, 2005.
Ourida Mostefai
gave a talk titled “Vérité de la nature et nature de la vérité dans les Rêveries de Jean-Jacques Rousseau.” Biennial Colloquium of the Rousseau Association. Hamilton College, June 9-12, 2005.
Laurie Shepard
gave a talk titled "Laughing in the Face of Tragedy" American Association of Italian Studies; Chapel Hill; April 14-17, 2005.
Catherine Wood Lange
gave a talk titled "A Tale of Two First Ladies: Eva Perón and Carmen Polo de Franco in the Noticiarios Documentales Cinematográficos (NO-DO)." Presented at the Cultural Studies Association at the University of Arizona, April 2005.