Modern Languages & Literatures Events

Directed by W&M professor Nathan Rabalais, Finding Cajun (2018) makes its Virginia premiere during the W&M Global Film Festival. The documentary presents a critical perspective on the origin and evolution of Cajun identity. Q&A with director to follow.

Didem Uca (ABD at the University of Pennsylvania) will give a talk with the title "'Kennst du das Land?' Transnational Girlhood and the Search for Heimat" this Thursday, Feb. y at 4pm in WASH 315.

If nothing seems more natural than to resist oppression, why does decolonization often come as a surprise?  Prof. George Ciccariello-Maher theorizes the space where the colonizer's blindspots meet the imperative of the racialized colonial subject.

 Eric Calderwood argue studies how the legacy of medieval Muslim Iberia, known as al-Andalus, served to justify Spain?s colonization of Morocco and also to define the Moroccan national culture that supplanted colonial rule.

MLL is honored to have received both of the 2019 Jefferson Faculty Awards. Tandeciarz is this year's recipient of the Thomas Jefferson Award, and Gully of the Thomas Jefferson Teaching Award. Both will be recognized at the 2019 Charter Day Ceremony.

Prof. Wadie Said  explores how legal provisions from material support ban to the use of informants suggest that American criminal law enforcement draws on US  international  discourse  for expansive discretion on their prosecutorial activities.

What is going on in Sudan? Why are there mass protests? Why are we not hearing about it? Come, join, and learn from faculty and Sudanese-American students at William & Mary talk about the Sudanese uprising!  .

Anna Horakova will present on Paradigms of Refuge: Layers of History in Jenny Erpenbeck?s Novel Gehen, ging, gegangen Tuesday, Febrary 19 at 4pm in WASH 315

WMSURE Study Abroad Workshop: Featuring Dr. Jennifer Gully

"Surface Feeling: Moroccan Art and the Politics of Whitewash in the City": lecture by Prof. Pieprzak (Williams College)

Ana Navarro is a well-known Republican strategist and a political analyst for CNN and CNN en Espa?ol. She is also a political contributor on ABC?s The View where she co-hosts one day a week.