On Monday, May 4th, the Chinese Calligraphy class will be making lanterns to distribute on the lake. Creating the lanterns will take place in, Armstrong Building, Room 102. Supplies are first come first serve! If you have any questions, please contact Celia Liu, luic@tcnj.edu Sponsors: World Languages and Cultures and Chinese Student Association Continue Reading
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Lecture by Dr. Ying Xiao, New Social Media and Chinese Identity
Lecture by Dr. Ying Xiao, New Social Media and Chinese Identity. Dr. Ying Xiao is an assistant professor of Chinese film and media at the University of Florida. She received her Ph.D. from the Department of Cinema Studies at New York University where she finished a dissertation on soundtrack and Chinese cinema. When: Tuesday, May… Continue Reading
Russian Club Decorates Ukrainian Easter Eggs
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
Congratulations to Mi-Yeon Park!
Congratulations to Mi-Yeon Park, a TCNJ sophomore in Chinese 152 this semester, who was awarded a Boren Scholarship for the 2015-2016 academic year! She will study at the Beijing Foreign Studies University. Continue Reading
Congratulations to Dr. Mi who Spoke at Yale University
Congrautations to Dr. Mi who gave a talk on “Poetry of Protestand the 1989 Tiananmen Movement” on April 13th at Yale University. The China Council at Yale invited Dr. Mi to talk at the campus. Overall, the talk went well and had a good turnout. Continue Reading
Congratulations to Erin Grosskurth!
Congratulations to Erin Grosskurth who was accepted into the Masters Program of Education at University of Maryland with certification in teaching Chinese. Erin has a self-designed double major in Chinese language and International Studies. She was also accepted into Masters Program of Education with specialization in Chinese at the University of Iowa, a MA in… Continue Reading
Congratulations to Scott Samuels and Andrew Wallach!
Our last Spanish Section meeting was the presentation of the second annual Excellence Awards to two students of the Spanish minor. We presented the awards respectively to Scott Samuels and Andrew Wallach. In addition to a certificate, each awardee received a gift card. We are proud of them!! Continue Reading
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