African filmmaker Abderrahmane Sissako will visit Atlanta on Nov. 6 and 7, sponsored by UGA's Willson Center for Humanities and Arts, the French Consulate, and the Bronze Lens Film Festival. Sissako's most recent film, Timbuktu (2014) won 7 César awards, including Best Film and Best Director, and was a finalist for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. Friday events will include two workshops with Sissako and a screening of his 2002 film Heremakono: Waiting for Happiness at 7 pm (SCADshow).

African filmmaker Abderrahmane Sissako will visit Atlanta on Nov. 6 and 7, sponsored by UGA's Willson Center for Humanities and Arts, the French Consulate, and the Bronze Lens Film Festival. Friday events will include a workshop with Sissako from 5-6:30 pm and a screening of Heremakono (2002) at 7 pm (SCADshow), and on Saturday there will be a screening of Timbuktu (2014) at 4 pm followed by a public discussion with the filmmaker at 6 pm (Woodruff Arts Center).

Come and Join the conversation where you will learn about this beautiful language and enriched history of its Haitian origins.

We hope to see you there! Click here to see the full flyer.

Chocolotl, tomatl, coyotl. Do you recognize these words? 

That´s right, we get "chocolate," "tomato," "coyote," and many other words from Nahuatl, the language of the Aztec empire that is still spoken by about 2 million people.

Join the Náhuatl Study Group for our first weekly meeting this Wednesday, September 9 at 4:15 pm in Gilbert Hall room 309. Our goal is to study Nahuatl language, literature, and culture in a collaborative environment. 

Open to everyone interested in practicing their Portuguese language skills. Non-students are also welcome!

Fenton Gardner will present his paper "Double Trouble: Why clitic-doubling of strong pronouns is obligatory in Romance". The presentation will start at 3:00pm, and will last 20 minutes followed by 10 minutes for questions and discussion. Brief abstract will be forthcoming. 

Mr. Gardner is a doctoral student in Romance Linguistics.

Congratulations to Dr. Susan Quinlan, Portuguese professor in the Department of Romance Languages, who received the 2015 Lifetime Achievement Award at the Kentucky Foreign Languages Conference!

Please join us in recognizing our students graduating with M.A. and Ph.D. degrees and announce awards won by all of our graduate students during the 2014-15 academic year. A reception will follow the ceremony.