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October 2012, Professor Ender’s class Nineteenth-Century French Literature (1800-1850) spent an evening at the Metropolitan Opera House to see the opera Carmen, whose libretto was inspired by a tale by Mérimée studied in class. You can see Students' pictures and testimonials HERE.

Monday, November 26, 2012.  The Department of Romance Languages & the Spanish 276 Class
present a reading in Spanish by Josefina Báez and Margarita Drago at 7:20 pm in room 509C HW. For more information CLICK HERE

Monday, November 12, 2012. Presented by Maria Cornelio, Coordinator of the Spanish Major Concentration in Translation/Interpretation program in conjunction with the Department of Romance Languages and 2Leaf Press present Translating the Nuyorican Experience. A panel discussion feauturing the translation team of Hey Yo! Yo Soy! Adam Wier, Carolina Fung Feng and Marjorie González with a special appearance by the poet Jesús Papoleto Meléndez from 5:30-7:30pm in the Chanin Language Center B126 HW. For more information CLICK HERE.

Thursday, November 8, 2012. The Department of Romance Languages presents FOUND IN TRANSLATION. A conversation with three great literary translators and writers. Marta López Luaces (Spain), Jeannette L. Clariond  (Mexico) and José Manuel Prieto (Cuba). Come listen to them talk about translation and its relation to their own literary work at 6:00pm in the Chanin Language Center B126 HW. For more information CLICK HERE.

Tuesday, November 6, 2012. The Hunter College Italian Club and Department of Romance Languages present the screening of 18 IUS SOLI: Il diritto di essere italiani (the right to be Italian)  by filmmaker Fred Kuwornu. A documentary about the struggle for citizenship of second-generation immigrants in Italy at 6:00pm in the Chanin Language Center room B126W. For more information CLICK HERE.

Thursday, September 20, 2012. The Department of Romance Languages invites you to a presentation by Catalan poet, writer and photographer, Ramon Dachs. The event will be held in B126 HW at 6pm. For more information, please click here.

Wednesday, May 2, 2012. The Department of Romance Languages invites you to the Annual Poetry Reading Event, in French, Italian and Spanish. The event will take place at 1:30pm in room B126 HW.

Tuesday, May 1st, Weds. May 9th, Fri. May 11th and Mon. May 14th, 2012 in room 1344HW, Xoan Gonzalez Millan seminar room. You are invited to a series of French films titled "Funny in France" Four French cult comedies. This event is organized by French instructor Tim Wilson. For more information CLICK HERE

April 18, 2012 Wednesday 1:30-3:00PM in room B126 HW, Cecile Insdorf Screening Room. The Department of Romance Languages invites you to the Annual Poetry Reading, in French, Italian and Spanish.

March 24, 2012 Saturday 10:00am in room 522 HW The Department of Romance Languages presents a lecture from the Translation/Interpretation program by Mr. Adrian Delgado an interpreter for the United Nations. For more information CLICK HERE

Thursday, February 23, Weds. March 21, Weds. April 18, and Thurs. May 10th 2012 6:00pm in room B126 HW. The Department of Romance Languages cordially invites you to "Contemporary Italian Cityscapes: Screening the Marginal". A series of four films articulating Italian contemporary urban landscapes in their connection to "the other" and "the marginal".  Each of the films articulates a different rendering of the cultural and historical experience of the contemporary Italian cityscape.  For more information CLICK HERE

2011 EVENTS:

November 21, 2011 Monday 4:00PM in room B126HW. Cecile Insdorf Screening Room. The Department of Romance Languages is pleased to present a special lecture by Federigo Argentieri, Guarini Institute for Public Affairs, John Cabot and Temple University, Rome. "The World and Italian Unification". For more Information CLICK HERE

October 31, 2011 Monday 7:30PM in room B126HW. Cecile Insdorf Screening Room. The Department of Romance Languages cordially invites you to attend: Unidos por la Lengua: Jose Olivio Jimenez Biennial Lecture Series "Romancero Pan-Hispánico  Letra y Música de un proyecto inacabado" with Dr. Susana Asensio Llamas. For more information CLICK HERE

October 26, 2011 Wednesday 1:30PM in room B126HW. Chanin Language Center. The Department of Romance Languages and the John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College. Mario Fratti Internationally Acclaimed Playwright and Drama Critic. Professor Emeritus of Italian Literature at Hunter will present a dramatic reading of his play Garibaldi.

October 17, 2011 Monday 4:00PM in room B126 HW. Chanin Language Center. The Department of Romance Languages and the Calandra Italian American Institute presents a lecture in celebration of Italian Heritage and Culture Month entitled: The Unification of Italy: An examination of the Historical Significance of Italy's Unification, Past, Present and Future.

May 11, 2011 The Department of Romance Languages cordially invites you to the Prizes and Awards ceremony that will take place at 1.30pm in HW B126.

April 6, 2011 The Department of Romance Languages invites you to the Annual Poetry Reading, in French, Italian and Spanish. The event will take place at 1.30 in HW B126.

March 22, Tuesday in HW B126, Distinguished Professor Paul Julian Smith discussed his text "Lorca and Foucault" with the students in SPAN 704, Contemporary Spanish Theater. For more information click HERE

March 9, Saturday in Lang Recital Hall at 7pm. The Cuban Cultural Center of New York in co-sponsorship with The Department of Romance Languages at Hunter College presented “A Cuban Maestro Revisits The Beatles”. Free admission. Please RSVP: cccofny@aol.com For more information click HERE.

March 7, 2011 at 5:35pm in TH 105, the students in Professor Costa's class (SPAN 342) will perform the sixteenth century comedy Las aceitunas by Lope de Rueda. Their innovative production promises to be surprising. For more information click HERE

PAST EVENTS 2009/2010

Dec. 16, 2010 Thursday at 6pm. There will be a memorial service for Professor Bettina Knapp at B126 HW. Please click HERE for more information.

Nov. 20,2010 Saturday at 7pm in Hunter West, 7th floor, Lecture Hall. "Lolita Lebron: A commemoration of her life." For further information, please click HERE.

Oct. 29, 2010 Friday at 6pm in B126 HW. The North American Academy of Language (ANLE) and the Department of Romance Languages at Hunter College are proud to announce the conference on “Tendencias de la poesía española actual.” For more information, please click HERE.

Oct. 27, 2010 Wednesday at 6pm in B126 HW. The Dante Club presents a reading. Hunter students will read Canto's I, XVII and XXXIII from the Inferno. For more information click HERE.

October Lecture Series. In conjunction with Professor Hernandez-Ojeda's course SPAN 370 (Transatlantic Literature: The Canary Islands and the Americas), Professor Germán Santana Pérez from Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria will give a series of lectures at Hunter College. Please click HERE for further information.

Oct. 6, 2010 The Dante Club presents a screening of the SILENT FILM L’INFERNO DIRECTED BY Francesco Bertolini & Adolfo Padovan IN 1911. (Adapted from Dante’s Inferno) Free Admission. Refreshments. 1344HW at 1:30pm. Please click HERE for more information.

May 13, 2010 at 4pm in B126 HW, "Pinochet's Trial: Human Rights Violations, Impunity, and the Search for Justice," a lecture by Judge Juan Guzmán Tapia. As the first judge to prosecute former dictator Augusto Pinochet on human rights charges in his native Chile, Juan Guzmán Tapia is hailed as a champion of social justice. In January of 1998, he led the investigation of a lawsuit filed by human rights lawyers against Pinochet. For more information, please click HERE.

May 5, 2010 The Department of Romance Languages cordially invites you to the Prizes and Awards ceremony that will take place at 1:30pm in HW B126.

April 27, 2010 The Department of Romance Languages invites you to the Annual Poetry Reading Event, in French, Italian and Spanish. The event will take place at 1.30 in HW B126.

April 6, SPRING 2010 SPANISH COMPREHENSIVE REVIEW at 7:30pm in room 1441 HW. Contact: Prof. Hortas chortas@hunter.cuny.edu  212-772-5009 or Prof. Perkowska mperkows@hunter.cuny.edu 212-772-5132

March 8, 2010. Emmy-winning documentary MADE IN L.A. on Monday, March 8th at 5.30pm in B126 HW. The filmmakers answered questions from the audience after the screening.  Space is limited. Please RSVP at mhern@hunter.cuny.edu. For more information click HERE.

March 3^rd, 2010. The Dept. of Romance Languages and The Italian Club  invite you to a lecture by Prof. Maria Paynter titled Silone's Works Revisited and "Revised":The Proof is in the Text, at 1.30pm, 1334 HW

March 2, 2010.  Hostos Community College - A round table to discuss the edited edition of La resaca by Enrique A. Laguerre La resaca, edited by Professor Marithelma Costa. The participants include Arcadio Díaz Quiñones, Silvio Torres Saillant, Alfredo Villanueva Collado, Orlando José Hernández and Marithelma Costa. HERE you will find further details.

February 9, 2010. From Equatorial Guinea, renown writer Juan Tom ás  Ávila Laurel spoke at Hunter College.  A native of the island of Annobón, now living in Malabo—Juan Tomás Ávila Laurel is an immensely prolific writer and one of the most internationally celebrated. For more information, click HERE

December 29, 2009. Professor Fischer read a paper in the 125th Modern Language Association Convention to be held in Philadelphia, entitled "'El Ojo Silva' de Roberto Bolaño o la ética arraigada de un cosmopolita". The panel Permutations of Cosmopolitanism: Bolaño and Others, was arranged by the MLA Division on Twentieth-Century Latin American Literature.

November & December, 2009. You are invited to a series of French films that will be shown (without subtitles) in room 1344HW at 7pm on Sundays. This event is organized by French instructor Tim Wilson. For more information click HERE.

November 16, 2009. Writers Alfredo Villanueva Collado and Margarita Drago read excerpts from their work in Professor Costa’s course  SPAN. 276 Readings in Modern American Literature on Monday, November 16, 2009. 509C HW.

November 11, 2009.  Wednesday from 6:00-7:30. The Translation/Interpretation Program will have an Open House. Location: Hunter West Building (68th St. & Lexington Ave) Chanin Language Center, room B126 (Subway Level). Get program information and meet current and former students!!! For more information, please contact TransInfo@hunter.cuny.edu

November 7 & November 14, 2009. Extracurricular activities for Spanish MA students. Please click HERE for more information.

October 28, 2009.  New York/Paris Exchange Program informational meeting 1:15-2:45 pm. Room: 206 HW. Click HERE for flyer.

October 21, 2009. The Italian Club presents Dino de Laurentis “Le notti di Cabiria”. 1:00-3:00pm in B126 HW

October 16, 2009. Professor Constanza Lopez was one of the speakers at the conference entitled "Women Narrating Violence in Colombia." October 16, 2009 at 5pm at The Graduate Center, Skylight Room 9100. For more information, please click HERE.

October 7, 2009 1:30-3:00PM, The Romance Languages Department and the Italian Club at Hunter College cordially invite you to the lecture (in English): Elizabeth I’s contradictory Use of Machiavelli’s “mirror of princes", Dr. Paola Baseotto, Università degli Studi dell’Insubria, Como (Italy). Room TBA, at Hunter College. Refreshments will be served. Please see the flyer HERE.

October 2, 2009. Welcome meeting for new graduate students in our Spanish MA, TOP/TEP programs at 2:00pm. Room TBA

Click HERE for past events (prior to fall 2009).