Faculty Publications, News, Lectures, Travels, & Achievements
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October 24th: Prof. Simona Wright was invited as keynote speaker at the conference entitled Italy in the Age of Globalization, held at the University of California, Chico, October 22-23rd, 2012. The Title of her address was: A Gaze from Lampedusa: Messages from the Outpost of Europe.
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One of our Spanish faculty, Isabel Kentengian, also serves as a volunteer trip administrator for Healing the Children New Jersey. Since 1999, she has led 14 surgical teams in plastic surgery, ophthalmology, ENT, urology, and general pediatric surgery to Ecuador, Thailand, Bolivia, and the Dominican Republic. She will again lead a team of 25 to Esmeraldas, Ecuador this January. Read about Traveler With a Cause.
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September 25: Read Dean Rifkin’s essay on the national standards and the essential learning outcomes.
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June 28th: Documentary film series: “Routes: The Spiritual Odyssey of Chinese American Artists/藝途：旅美華人藝術家的心靈之路” held a successful premiere at Asia Society and Museum in New York. Dr. Jiayan Mi served as consulting producer and academic advisor for this docufilm series.
“Routes” is a documentary series about the spiritual odyssey of 12 well-established Chinese American visual artists: Cui Fei, Ho Sin-ying, Hu Bing, Lin Yan, Ma Xinle, Shen Ruijun, Song Xin, Tan Liqin, Wei Jia, Zhang Hongtu, Zhang O, and Zheng Lianjie. Each episode runs for 30 minutes. These series were sponsored by J. P. Morgan Chase Bank and the World Journal Media Group and Produced by JL Global 娛樂製作有限公司 (JLG) and xIN.ec Media 新意思媒體 (xIN.ec).
The documentary film series will air from July to September in the following television stations: Sinovision, New York Sat 7:00pm EST Starting 6/30; San Francisco KTSF 26 Sat 5:30pm PST Starting 6/30; LA18 Los Angeles Sun 7:00pm PST Starting 7/1; Phoenix TV National Sat 7:30pm EST / 4:30pm PST.
See the Trailer. Read about the Premiere.
For more information about the film series, please visit Routes official website.
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De Novo
April 3rd: Hundreds of TCNJ students, faculty and staff enjoyed a performance of “De Novo,” an original play by the Houses on the Moon Theater Company. Using court documents, interviews and letters, the play retells the gripping true story of Edgar Chocoy, an undocumented Guatemalan teen and his struggle to remain in the United States.
Following the play, students began a dialogue about immigration policy with the play’s actors and with Jeffrey Solomon, the writer and director of the play. Philippe Weiz, a practicing immigration attorney, accompanied the director and actors on stage and answered many questions about current immigration laws and practices. The play sparked many questions and many students and professors continued having lively conversations about immigration in the atrium of the Social Sciences building, enjoying desserts and beverages provided by the School of Humanities and Social Sciences. Many thanks to the sponsors of the event and to those who worked hard to bring the event to campus and make it a success.
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CEL II Project with Spanish 270
March 22nd: Students from Professor Isabel Kentengian’s SPA270 class, a new topics course on immigration, and clients from El Centro de las Familias, an agency in Trenton that provides social services to the Latino community, viewed the documentary “The Other Side of Immigration” by Roy Germano. The animated and honest conversations that followed showed the human side of policies that push people to migrate in search of economic opportunities, far from family and home. It was a fitting culminating activity for our community engaged learning work with El Centro during which our Spanish students partnered with clients for eight weeks to help them learn computer skills or prepare for their citizenship exams. We thank Roberto, Sandra and the rest of the El Centro staff for welcoming us warmly and Paula, Karena and the Bonner Center for their incredible support that made this new partnership a success.
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March 16th: Assistant Professor Federica Anichini chaired a panel entitled Nature and Authors in Italian Poetry at the 43rd Annual NeMLA Convention (2012), in Rochester, NY.
March 8-9th: Assistant Professor Federica Anichini last week delivered a paper entitled Paradiso III: Language per modum affectus of the Blessed in the Heaven of the Moon at the Conference Dante and Heterodoxy: The Temptation of Radical Thought in the 13th Century, Department of Italian Studies, New York University, New York. Read more….
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Hear what Dr. Moussa Sow of the Department of World Languages and Cultures have to say about a Ghanian film in the Philadelphia Inquirer. Read.
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TCNJ at The Royal Academy of the Spanish Language
February 16th: The Instituto de la Lengua Castellano y Leonés and the Real Academia de la Lengua Espanola invited Dr. Teresa Anta San Pedro and other Hipanistas from the United States to participate in the presentation of a 461 page book entitled El Español y su Literatura en los Estados Unidos, published by the Instituto in Honor of the Royal Academy. Dr. Anta San Pedro was honored with this invitation as author of one of the articles in this volume, “Puerto Rico y la defensa de su identidad lingüística” (Puerto Rico and the fight for its linguistic identity). This article represents TCNJ’s major contribution to the field of Hispanic studies. It was written with the cooperation of Casey Eriksen, a student researcher. “I would not have been able to write this paper without the first-rate research that Casey did,” said Professor Anta San Pedro. As recognition of his top-flight research, Eriksen’s name appears next to the author’s on the first page of the article.