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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.
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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.
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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...
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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.
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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.
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SLCL welcomes new faculty members
The School of Literatures, Cultures & Linguistics welcomed twenty new faculty members this fall.
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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.
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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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SLCL faculty members receive promotions
The College of LAS has announced 40 faculty promotions to take effect this fall. Several of those faculty members are from the School of Literatures, Cultures & Linguistics.