PAST EVENTS:

FALL 2009

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

October 7. 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 16. Professor Constanza Lopez will be 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 21, Wednesday. The Italian Club presents Dino de Laurentis “Le notti di Cabiria”. 1:00-3:00pm in B126 HW.

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

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

November 11, 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 16. Writers Alfredo Villanueva Collado and Margarita Drago will read excerpts from their work in Professor Costa’s course  SPAN. 276 Readings in Modern American Literature on Monday, November 16, 2009. 509C HW.

SPRING 2009

April 22, Speaker: Distinguished filmmaker Jackie Raynal "How to Make Small-Budget Films That Will Last a Long Time."  Chanin Screening Room B126 HW 5:00-7:00pm.

April 1, Speaker: Equatorial Guinean writer Donato Ndongo "La literatura de Guinea Ecuatorial en el contexto de las literaturas hispánicas". 6:00pm B126 Hunter West. In collaboration with the upcoming conference: Between Three Continents: Rethinking Equatorial Guinea on the Fortieth Anniversary of Its Independence from Spain at Hofstra University (April 2-4)

March 18, Speaker: Dr. Orlando José Hernández "Hostos y Martí: Dos antillanos en Nueva York"
Unidos por la lengua: José Olivio Jiménez Biennial Lecture Series.  HW B126 5:30pm

The Romance Languages Poetry Reading event took place on Wednesday, April 22 at 1:30. If you wish to read a poem in French, Italian or Spanish, please contact the department.

FALL 2008

December 16, Speaker: Verónica Cortínez , Professor of Spanish and Film, Department of Spanish and Portuguese
University of California, Los Angeles. "Women in Post-Dictatorship Chile: The Case of The Sentimental Teaser"   2008, 3:45 PM , HW 215

November 19, Speaker: Federigo Argentieri
"The Evident and Not-So-Evident in Italy's Politics" from 1:30-3:00 in B126 HW

November 5, Speaker: Joseph Recappitto, "Fratelli" 5:30pm in B126 HW
"In Fratelli, the four Falcone brothers leave their small southern Italian town in an attempt to save the family granite cutting business.  This is a story of a family divided—as some prosper in America, some do not and others are left behind to face a war."

November 3, Speaker: Joseph Recappitto, 1:30 in B126 HW

October 29, Italian Club Lecture, Fred Gardaphe Distinguished Professor - "Gansters and Goblins in American Society" English and Italian American Studies, Queens College --1:30pm in 1344 HW
"Like the fabled goblins, gangster figures have caused a great deal of mischief within American culture in the name of Italian America. This talk examines the history and origins of the gangster and the impact this figure has had on Italian American culture."

October 22, The Dante Club and The Italian American Club -Canto XXVI of Dante's Inferno, by Cathleen McLoughlin, Carmelina Cartei & David Ciriaco- 1:30pm, 1327 HW
"Hear Ulysses tell the story of his last voyage to where no man had gone before."

September 24, Speaker: Richard Brody, 6:00pm in B126 HW