Modern Languages & Literatures Events

Come explore our Italian community within the W&M campus!
Tour the language house, chat with current residents and the language tutor from Italy. Sample Italian food and listen to Italian music.

OPEN HOUSE: Thursday, Feb. 1st, 4-6pm Tour the house, chat with residents and house tutors, sample food, and listen to music. The Houses are: Arabic, Chinese, French, German, Hispanic, Italian, Japanese, and Russian 

Professor Mohammad Fadel is William & Mary's 2018 Kraemer Middle East Distinguished Scholar-in-Residence. 

Lunch-time lecture: Of Border Wars and Borderlands: The Open Wound, Politics of Mourning, and Selenidad 

by : Prof. Christina Baker 

Professor Andrew McKevitt (History, Louisiana Tech University) will offer a lecture on ?Consuming Japan: Popular Culture and the Globalizing of 1980s America.? Sponsor: Department of History. Open to the public.

Join us in the Botetourt Theatre (Swem Library, Ground floor) for a showing of this interesting French film!

Join WMCI on Thursday, February 15 from 10 AM to 11:30 AM in Swem Library's Reeder Media Center to see five short films produced as part of the Looking at China project!

Dr. Lily Won will discuss the sex worker figure through transpacific media networks, stressing the intersectional politics of racial, sexual, and class structures. 

Open to the public.

Dr. Jessica Chan and Dr. Lily Wong discuss when Chinese cinema meets the world in different historical junctures and of different aesthetic implications. 

?Screening Racialized France: Immigration, Discrimination, and Citizenship in Contemporary French Cinema? by Prof. Cybelle McFadden ?97 from the University of North Carolina, Greensboro.

Presentations on "Trump, the Indo-Pacific, and Japan-U.S. Relations" (Satoshi Mori, Hosei University) and "Xi, the Indo-Pacific, and Japan-China Relations" (Shino Watanabe, Sophia University).