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College of Liberal Arts & Sciences School of Literatures, Cultures & Linguistics

SLCL to welcome intercultural communication expert as part of Intercultural Competence Initiative

The School of Literatures, Cultures & Linguistics will be bringing an expert on intercultural communication to campus this spring as part of the Intercultural Competence Initiative.

Jon Solomon to deliver 2025 Dean’s Distinguished Lecture

The College of Liberal Arts & Sciences has announced that Jon Solomon, a professor of classics and the Robert D. Novak Chair of Western Civilization & Culture, will give the 2025 Dean’s Distinguished Lecture on March 4.

Post-doctoral classics scholar selected for new public humanities program

A newly minted PhD classics scholar has been selected to be part of the College of LAS Public Humanities Fellow program, which gives post-doctoral researchers the opportunity to pursue a public engagement project with the Humanities Research Institute.

Reimagining the ancient world

Professor of classics Clara Bosak-Schroeder’s first book, “Other Natures: Environmental Encounters With Ancient Greek Ethnography,” (UC Press 2020), explored how ancient Greek authors cast humans and nonhumans in complex, inter-dependent relationships. Her latest work blends creative nonfiction and...

Automatic speech recognition learned to understand people with Parkinson’s disease — by listening to them

Listening to people with Parkinson’s disease made an automatic speech recognizer 30% more accurate, according to initial findings from the Speech Accessibility Project. Speech recordings used in the study are freely available to organizations looking to improve their voice recognition devices.

Silvina Montrul named Marjorie Roberts Professor in Liberal Arts & Sciences

When it comes to understanding language acquisition, there are few scholars as renowned as Silvina Montrul.

SLCL welcomes new faculty members

The School of Literatures, Cultures & Linguistics welcomed twenty new faculty members this fall.

SLCL launches Intercultural Competence Certificate in Fall 2024

The School of Literatures, Cultures & Linguistics launched a new certificate focused on building intercultural skills this fall.

U of I students select best French novel of the year

How do you decide which book deserves to be named the best work of French literature of the year? That’s the question students from the Department of French & Italian asked themselves this spring as they participated in FR 322: Movements and Perspectives, which centered on the 2024 US Goncourt...
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