The Russian club at TCNJ helped teach the students in first-year Russian how to make pysanki (Ukrainian: писанка, plural: pysanki), the Ukrainian Easter egg. These eggs are decorated with traditional Ukrainian folk designs using a wax-resist (batik) method. The word pysanka comes from the Ukrainian verb pysaty, “to write”, (in Russian: ‘pisat’). The designs are… Continue Reading
Events
Chinese Students greet High School Students on Lions Day
Students from the intensive Chinese language programs, Gabriella Bieniasz, Alice Li, Oliver Lee, and professor, Celia Liu, greeted high school students and their family on Lions Day, March 28th at TCNJ in the Brower Student Center. The students who participated in Lions Day were personally invited by Professor Liu and were very enthusiastic in sharing… Continue Reading
Dr. Simona Wright and Alessandra Testa present their paper, “A Politics of the Body as Body Politics”
Dr. Simona Wright and Alessandra Testa presented their paper, “A Politics of the Body as Body Politics” at the American Association of Italian Studies Conference in Boulder, Colorado (March 26-29, 2015). Their paper is a collaborative research project spearheaded by their participation in Prof. Morton Winston’s Justice Seminar. Grounded in a theoretical framework that engages… Continue Reading
Va’ Pensiero, Itinerant Stories
Ethiopian film director Dagmawi Yimer will present a screening of “Va’ Pensiero, Walking Stories.” The docu-film is an interwoven account of two racist attacks in Milan and Florence and the victim’s painful attempts to piece the fragments of their lives back together. The screening will be on Monday, April 27th, from 5:00pm-8:00pm at the Library… Continue Reading
World Languages and Cultures International Film Festival present: Barbara
World Languages and Cultures International Film Festival presents: Barbara. The viewing will be on April 16, 2015 in the Library Auditorium from 5:30pm-7:00pm. A presentation will be given by Prof. Karen Fenner. Continue Reading
World Languages and Cultures International Film Festival Presents The Women on the Sixth Floor
World Languages and Cultures International Film Festival Presents The Women on the Sixth Floor on February 26th, in the Library Auditorium from 7:30pm- 10:00pm. Set in Paris in the 1960s, Jean-Louis lives a bourgeois life absorbed in his work, with his neurotic socialite wife Suzanne. The couple’s world is turned upside-down when they hire a… Continue Reading
World Languages and Cultures International Film Festival presents: Detective Dee and the Mystery of the Phantom Flame
The World Languages and Cultures International Film Festival will be viewing, Detective Dee and the Mystery of the Phantom Flame on February 12, 2015, 7:30pm-10:00pm at the Library Auditorium. Detective Dee is an action-packed, visually breathtaking Sherlock Holmes-style mystery starring some of China’s top acting talent. Stunningly choreographed by master Sammo Hung, this intricately… Continue Reading
Alison Hassman, TCNJ and WLC’s alumna (Spanish), is taking one more step in her successful theater/stage managing career.
Alison Hassman, TCNJ and WLC’s alumna (Spanish), is taking one more step in her successful theater/stage managing career. She is now directly involved in Los monólogos de la vagina, a Spanish version of Eve Ensler’s piece. The show will open on May 18 at the Westside Theater in Manhattan (the same off-Broadway stage where the… Continue Reading
Alison Hassman, TCNJ and WLC’s alumna (Spanish), is taking one more step in her successful theater/stage managing career. She is now directly involved in Los monólogos de la vagina, a Spanish version of Eve Ensler’s piece. The show will open on May 18 at the Westside Theater in Manhattan (the same off-Broadway stage where the… Continue Reading