Virtual Open House for Ph.D. in Second Language Acquisition

September 30, 2021 | 8:00 p.m.

Virtual Open House for our Ph.D. program in Second Language Acquisition. 

Latinx Hispanic Heritage Month Film Series

Sunday, October 3 | Posner Hall 152
Saturday, October 9 | Posner Hall 153
Sunday, October 17 | Posner Hall 153
4:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m.

Monday, October 11 |Posner Hall 153 | 6:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m.

Join us for various film screenings in honor of Hispanic Heritage Month!

Bucharest: The City and Its Stories

October 29, 2021 | 12:00 p.m. - 1:30 p.m. 

All four speakers have deep connections to Bucharest, and those connections will become more visible as they will share their own stories and memories about the city.

Fadi Kattan's Matbakh: Heritage, Terroir, and National Identity

November 1, 2021 | 1:25 p.m. - 2:45 p.m. |

Fadi Kattan, franco-Palestinian chef and hotelier, has become the voice of modern Palestinian cuisine. When Fadi started his Fawda Restaurant in 2016, he created a cuisine honouring Palestine’s best produce with a modern twist, raising to the challenge of rendering this traditional kitchen into a gourmet dining experience. From a Bethlehemite family that has on the maternal side cultivated a francophone culture and on the paternal side, a British culture with passages in India, Japan and Sudan, Fadi’s cuisine and savoir-faire combine worldly influences, a desire for perfection, and a passion for the local terroir. After completing his hotel management studies at the Institut Vatel and working in Paris and London, Fadi came back to Palestine to join the family business. After 15 years, influenced by the ever-changing situation in Palestine, Fadi decided to go back to his passion, the kitchen.

Co-sponsored by Dietrich College of Humanities and Social Sciences, The Department of Modern Languages, and the Department of History's Global Studies Program.

MLRC Wednesday Night at the Movies

Retablo | November 3 | 7:30 p.m. - 9:15 p.m. | 343 Posner MLRC

The first of 3 films on the theme of Gender, Sex and Race. The film follows Segundo , a young boy in Ayacucho in rural Peru whose father Noé is training him in the family tradition of designing and building religious retablos, but whose secret shatters Segundo's world and everything he believes in. Awarded the Best Peruvian film at the 2017 Festival de Cine de Lima. Quechua & Spanish with English subtitles.

Huit Femmes|November 10 | 7:30 p.m. - 9:30 p.m. | 343 Posner MLRC

Eight women find themselves snowbound in a house with a dead man--a man each of them (his wife, sister, sister-in-law, mother-in-law, daughters, housekeeper, and chambermaid) had reason to kill. Secrets tumble forth, accusations fly, catfights flare, and confrontations turn steamy, all accompanied by campy performances of 1960s French pop songs. French with English subtitles.

The Perfect Candidate | November 17 | 7:30 p.m. - 9:20 p.m. | 343 Posner MLRC

A young female Saudi doctor's run for office in the local city elections forces her family and community to accept their town's first female candidate. Arabic with English subtitles.

November 17 | 1:30-2:45pm EST |

Ronit Vered is a journalist and a food researcher. Her column engages with local food traditions and has appeared weekly since 2007 in the Haaretz newspaper. Ronit is a frequent lecturer and moderator of international panels on themes relating to cuisines and identity, food and politics, the Jewish kitchen, and the flourishing of Israeli and Palestinian cuisines. In the past few years she has also been involved in culinary curation, creating artistic-culinary programs for cultural institutions (including the Tel Aviv university art gallery, the Jerusalem Cinematheque and the Polish Cultural Institute). She teaches a course in Local cuisine culture at Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design in Jerusalem and acts as senior consultant and Gallery curator at "Asif: culinary institute of Israel".

Global Communication & Applied Translation Information Session

 THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 18 | 5:00 P.M. |

This three-semester master's program provides training in the principles and practices of professional translation, localization, and global communication. Join us on Thursday, November 18 to learn more!