2022-02-10
- Laurie Johnson, professor of Germanic languages and literatures, is the new director of the Campus Honors Program (CHP).
2022-02-08 - LAS International Programs and the Department of Classics are overseeing a new study abroad program starting in the fall, Illinois in Athens. The program centers on a humanities and social sciences curriculum tailored for a truly immersive study abroad experience and offers a limited number of for-credit internship opportunities.
2022-02-08 - The following is a column written by Brett Ashley Kaplan for the Feb. 3, 2022, News-Gazette, reprinted with permission from the News-Gazette and edited for style. Kaplan is director of graduate studies, director of the Initiative in Holocaust, Genocide and Memory Studies in the Program in Jewish Culture & Society, and a professor of comparative literature at the...
2022-02-04 - Jeeyoung Ha, director of the Korean language program for the Department of East Asian Languages & Cultures, has been selected by the College of Liberal Arts & Sciences awards committee to receive the LAS Academic Professional Award.
2022-01-28 - The Cambridge Handbook of Heritage Languages and Linguistics, edited by Spanish & Portuguese and linguistics professor Silvina Montrul, together with University of Maryland professor Maria Polinsky is now available.
2022-01-25 - Classics professor Antony Augoustakis has just published an edited collection of essays called Screening Love and War in Troy: Fall of a City.
2021-12-22 - Linguistics professor Xun Yan has been chosen to receive the Test of English as a Foreign Language Essentials New Scholar Award this year.
2021-11-08 - On October 29th and 30th, SLCL hosted its first symposium as a school, “How Does Culture Move? Mobility and Stasis in Global Cultural History,” co-sponsored by the Humanities Research Institute. The symposium took place in a hybrid format with in-person sessions held at the Levis Faculty Center, which were also simultaneously streamed via Zoom. Take a...
2021-10-28 - The Graduate Student Association of French and Italian, a registered student association at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, will be hosting a Photo Contest fundraiser this fall semester of 2021! All students and faculty are welcome to submit personal photos featuring Italy, Italophone, France, and Francophone regions and cultures during the week of Nov. 1st - 7th...
2021-10-25 - Nearly 20 new faculty have joined the College of LAS this fall, with their research and teaching interests ranging from African American religious diversity to the human brain and the role of law during periods of crisis. Read below for a feature on one of SLCL's new professors, Alexia Williams. Other new SLCL faculty this fall include: Naoko Gunji, East...
2021-10-14 - The Humanities Research Institute (HRI) at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign has announced the inaugural Interseminars project, led by professors Carolyn Fornoff of the Department of Spanish and Portuguese, Josue David Cisneros of the...
2021-10-13 - George Gasyna, Associate Professor of Slavic Languages and Literature was interviewed recently on the topic of the Polish mid-20th century "angry young man" author Marek Hłasko. This interview was part of a series called "Encounters with Polish Literature," which was created by the Polish Cultural Institute in New York. With the interviewer, David Goldfarb, they covered topics such as the...- 2021-09-28 - Congratulations to Professor Emanuel Rota (FRIT & EUC) and the transatlantic team of researchers associated with the project “Understanding Narratives of Racialization in the Mediterranean” for their grant from the Embassy of France! This grant has been awarded through the France@Illinois Center of...
- 2021-09-17 - Dov Weiss, Associate Professor of Religion, was recently interviewed by Kveller about the television series "Lucifer," a police procedural that touches on themes of sin, forgiveness, and the afterlife. Read Weiss’...
2021-09-13 - Hosted by the School of Literatures, Cultures & Linguistics and the Humanities Research Institute, "How Does Culture Move? Mobility and Stasis in Global Cultural History" will take place on October 29th and 30th. The symposium will have a hybrid format, meaning the sessions will be held simultaneously in-person at the Levis Faculty Center and...