Professor Margarita Saona will present at an upcoming conference at Columbia University on December 3-5. Dr. Saona will present on “The Politics of Memory: Victimization, Violence and Contested Narrative about the Past.”
Profesor Rosilie Hernandez will give a seminar talk and a workshop at Johannes Gutenberg-Universität at Mainz, December 3 and 4. The seminar is part of their Ideology of Form Series and the title is…
Dr. Emanuela Zanotti Carney has been selected by the Illinois chapter of the AATI (American Association Teachers of Italian) to receive the 2015 Dante Alighieri Award. The mission of the AATI is to promote the…
The Italian division received a $2,000 private donation to be used for study abroad scholarships. They have also received 5,000 euros from the Italian Government, to be used for scholarships to students in the…
Professor of Hispanic and Italian Studies, Luis López, will give the keynote address at the Hispanic Linguistics Symposium at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. The Symposium will take place September 24-27, and will focus on…
Professor Kara Morgan-Short has been featured in the latest issue of UIC News. The article focuses primarily on Professor Morgan-Short’s work on second language acquisition.
Papers by Kay Gonzalez-Vilbazo, Associate Professor of Hispanic and Italian Studies, are currently among the top 3% most viewed and downloaded publications on academia.edu in the last 30 days.
Professor Margarita Saona has been awarded an honorable mention in the Flora Tristan Book Award for her latest book Memory Matters in Transitional Peru.
Assistant Professor of Hispanic Linguistics Kim Potowski, co-director of the Language in Context Research Group, recently received a $9,000 sub-award as part of The Humanities Without Walls Consortium via Ohio State University and…