The idea of cinema as an art is one born of cinephilia. While the term simply means “love of cinema,” cinephilia sets itself apart from the average film fan’s love of stars, spectacle, and popular genres, seeking out more challenging and complex pleasures.

Congratulations to Bethany Bateman on the successful defense of her doctoral dissertation. Bethany’s dissertation, entitled “Contact-induced subjectivization in the compound past: an examination of PP/PRET variation in Cusco Spanish,” examines past reference among monolingual and bilingual speakers of Andean Spanish in Cusco, Peru. The committee was impressed with the clarity of Bethany’s research and the important implications it presents for our understanding of contact-induced language change. We look forward to hearing much more as this exciting research agenda evolves.

EspañaEnCorto is a short film festival that offers an inside look at current short films directed by  Spanish filmmakers. These short films come from different regions of Spain and inspire a unique perspective into the languages, cultures, and the current topics of recent years.

In the world we currently live in, our presence online is almost as important as our presence on campus. Employers today are likely to "meet you" online before they get to see you in person. That is why the GSO has decided to help our graduate students understand and develop their professional presence online with the help of the DigiLab.

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Nathan Brown, Associate Professor of French and Canada Research Chair in Poetics of Concordia University, Montreal will give a guest lecture on Baudelaire.

In one of the key sonnets of Les Fleurs du mal, "Obsession," Baudelaire's speaker declares a resolute orientation toward the void:

Athens Tangueros presents Milonga Tropical – Tango intertwined with Latin Rhythm dancing for a memorable evening of dancing.

Athens Tango Project will be performing with guest pianist Winnie Cheung

Downtown Athens March 31, 2022 from 6:00p – 9:00p at Rialto Club

Brazilian indigenous writer Márcia Kambeba will give a lecture on "Ancestralidade, cultura e identidade: um mergulho no Rio Amazonas". Her talk will be on Zoom. Please, register here.

Create your own painting inspired by Brazilian writer Lygia Fagundes Telles. 

We are pleased to announce that Raymond Friedman has passed his written and oral exams for the MA degree in French (non-thesis with a specialization in linguistics).

Félicitations, Raymond !

Diana Ranson

Catherine Jones

Gary Baker