Presentations, Lectures, Conferences
2015
- Melinda A. Cro presented "Pastoral Galleries in Remy Belleau’s Bergerie (1565): The Function of Collectionist Ekphrasis in Belleau’s Conception of the Pastoral Mode" to the division on Sixteenth-Century French literature at the Modern Language Association annual convention in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Cro also presented “Onomastic Deviations and Metaliterary Consequences in the Gascon extravagant (1637)” to the seventeenth-century French literature panel at the Southeast Coastal Conference on Languages and Literatures in Savannah, GA on Friday, March 27.
- Robert Clark presented a paper, "In Your Skin: Incarnation and Our Humanity," at the meeting of the Annual Convention of the Modern Language Association, Vancouver, Canada, January 12, 2015.
- Derek Hillard presented: "Emotions and the Divided Self in 1900 Austria." Association of Comparative Literature Association Annual Meeting. Seattle, March 2015.
- Yasmin Gavigan presented “This is Your Brain in Spanish” at the Big XII Conference for Teaching and Learning in Stillwater, Oklahoma on July 30, 2015. The presentation was co-authored by Mary Copple, and is part of a larger research study on instructional strategies supporting cognitive processing when learning second languages, supported by the Teaching and Learning Center.
- Sara Luly presented the paper "The Role of Quacks in Legitimizing Animal Magnetism" at the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies annual meeting on March 19th.
- Benjamin McCloskey presented a paper titled "Cowards and Slaves: Greeks on the Periphery in the Cyropaedia" at the 111th annual meeting of the Classical Association of the Middle West and South in Boulder, CO, which met from March 25-28th.
- Janice McGregor presented the paper It doesn’t matter if I’m a foreigner: Negotiating “enoughness” in study abroad at a conference on the Culture of Study Abroad for Second Languages, July 14-17, 2015, Halifax, Canada. McGregor was invited to give a talk on "The interactional accomplishment of authenticity in study abroad" at The Pennsylvania State University on March 6, 2015 as a part of the alumni lecture series. McGregor also presented the paper "Conflicting competences: Negotiating 'enoughness' in study abroad" at the American Association for Applied Linguistics on March 23, 2015.
2014
- María Teresa DePaoli presented "Defying Culture: Women Screenwriters’ Struggle in the Mexican Film Industry, and the Dynamics of Fashion in the Workplace." Screenwriting Research Network 7th International Conference, Oct. 16-19, at the Film University Babelsberg-Konrad Wolf in Potsdam, Germany.
- Melinda A. Cro presented "The Function of Space in Honoré d'Urfé's L'Astrée: The Interplay of Physical, Textual, and Imaginary Spaces" at the annual meeting of the Society for Interdisciplinary French Seventeenth-Century Studies in London, Ontario, Canada on October 16, 2014.
- Laura Kanost presented “Exploring Kansas Service Learning Practitioners’ Usage of Best Practices.” With co-presenters Anna M. Page and Carrie J. Lane. Campus Compact Heartland Conference. Oct. 2, 2014.
- At the German Studies Association conference in Kansas City in September, four Modern Languages faculty members made presentations:
- Necia Chronister presented a paper, "Death in the New Economy: Reevaluating the Oberflächenästhetik in Judith Hermann’s Alice"
- Derek Hillard was on a roundtable, "Conclusions and Perspectives: The Body and Emotions, 1500–1990."
- Jan Oliver Jost-Fritz presented a paper, “Languages of the Self. Pietism, Affect, and Poetry in the Long Eighteenth Century.”
- Sara Luly presented a paper, "Observing Pain: Women, Physicians and the Case Studies of Animal Magnetism"
2013
- Earl Brown was invited to form part of a panel discussion in the colloquium "Celebrating Varieties of New Mexican Spanish" held on September 27th, 2013 in Albuquerque, New Mexico, in conjunction with Homecoming at the University of New Mexico. The colloquium was organized to honor the work of Dr. Garland Bills and Dr. Neddy Vigil, especially the corpus "New Mexico - Colorado Spanish Survey". Dr. Brown was asked to prepare a more in-depth answer to the question: "How have the New Mexico - Colorado Spanish Survey and other corpora of spoken Spanish contributed to our understanding of Southwest Spanish?".
- Laura Kanost presented “Screenplay Translation and Skopos: Practical Examples from Works by Mexican Women Screenwriters.” Screenwriting Research Network International Conference. University of Wisconsin-Madison. August 21, 2013.
