L&S News & Notes is a monthly blog and e-newsletter for faculty,
staff, graduate students and alumni and friends of the UW-Madison 
to expand. | Winspur, Palm praised for their work in French & Italian |
The Department of French and Italian is delighted to announce that Steven Winspur, Professor of French, has been selected as the recipient of this year's Letters & Science Faculty Advising Award, in recognition of his outstanding work as a graduate advisor for the French MA/Ph.D program.
The Department's Graduate Secretary, Andrea Palm, has also been singled out for praise this year, as a recipient of a Classified Staff Excellence Award from the College of Letters & Science.
Please join us in congratulating both of these individuals on their achievements.
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| Albert Camus Colloquium: April 22-23, marking the 50 years since his death |
Albert Camus: 50 ans après — International Colloquium, April 22, 23
All events are free and open to the public
This colloquium will reexamine Camus' literary and political writings on the occasion of this watershed anniversary marking 50 years since his death.
Presenting will be an array of national and international scholars, including André Abbou, Université de Paris XIII and Paris IV, and Martine Mathieu-Job, Université de Montaigne Bordeaux III.
The keynote speaker, André Abbou, will give his address at The University Club at 6 p.m. Please note: most of the presentations will be in French.
For more information, see: www.uwcifs.wisc.edu
- Thursday, April 22 at the French House, 7:30p: Public reading of selected Camus works. Note: readings will be in French.
- Friday, April 23 at the Pyle Center, Room 232, starting at 8:30a: Presentations from visiting scholars
- Friday, April 23 at the University Club, 7:30p: Keynote Adress: André Abbou
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| Professional French Master's Program turns 10, hosts symposium in May |
The Professional French Master's Program (PFMP) celebrates its Tenth Anniversary this year.
To celebrate the program's achievement, there will be a PFMP Decade Symposium on May 8, 2010 in Madison.
PFMP alumni will return for a roundtable discussion and other events.
For more information, please contact PFMP Executive Director Ritt Deitz at mdeitz@wisc.edu, (608) 262-4090 or visit the program's website at: http://pfmp.wisc.edu
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| Kleinhenz publishes history of the Friends of UW-Madison Libraries |
The Friends of the UW-Madison Libraries: A History of the First Sixty Years.
Emeritus Professor Christopher Kleinhenz (French and Italian) has published The Friends of the UW-Madison Libraries: A History of the First Sixty Years (Madison: Parallel Press, University of Wisconsin-Madison Libraries, 2009).
The book is a thoroughly researched compilation chronicling the history of the Friends organization on the UW-Madison campus since its inception in 1948.
The book includes archival images of former chancellors, Friends presidents, and other key figures in the Madison community.
Kleinhenz has served as President of the Friends association for three years in 2006-09. In 2009, he was elected a Fellow of the Medieval Academy of America and directed an National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Seminar on Dante in Prato, Italy.
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 | New year brings in awards, accolades |
Here's a round-up of all of the recent awards and honors to faculty, staff and students in L&S:
- Four L&S faculty receive development grants
- Bement wins Kellet Mid-Career Award
- Anderson receives National Ground Water Association Award
- Five classified staff members receive Excellence Awards
- Four from Hebrew Department receive Teaching Awards
- Schatzberg, Nyhart win scholarly publication awards
- Severn wins 2010 Presidential Honorary Membership for work with DARE
- Hall, von Schneidemessner named Fellows of Dictionary Society
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| UW support helps revive 'France Synergies' e-newsletter |
France Synergies, an electronic newsletter for French instructors, has been reinstated thanks to substantial support from the Division of International Studies, with continuing contribution from the Department of French and Italian.
This newsletter offers pedagogical material (internet-based lessons based on cultural information, news, songs, films, and language issues) to serve K-12 and post-secondary French instructors throughout the state. It is sent by email without charge every other week during the academic year.
Anyone interested in receiving it should write to Professor Sally Magnan at: ssmagnan@wisc.edu
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| La Colonie graces the stage again 2/12/10 |
La Colonie, a local musical comedy, will be performed again February 12.
After a successful debut in October 2009, the Department of French and Italian troupe will perform a reprised reading of the musical comedy, La Colonie.
Written by UW-Madison Professional French Masters Program Executive Director Ritt Deitz, La Colonie is a play in French. The play débuted October 9, 2009 to a full UW-Madison French House audience made up of university and community members.
La Colonie may be the first all-French-language musical to be written and débuted in Madison—it is certainly the first one about Madison, even an imaginary one.
The play will held February 12, 2010 at the Hemsley Theatre at 8 pm. The performance is free and doors open at 7:30 pm.
Deitz (PhD'94, French) teaches a course on Quebec every spring in the Professional French Masters Program and has long been fascinated by the odd nature of that miniature French-language society.
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