Modern Languages & Literatures Events

This calendar presented by Modern Languages & Literatures
View: GridListExport: iCal Feed
visualizing ideas in comics
Visualizing Ideas in Comics: Q & A with Mana Neyestani March 18
2pm - 3pm Swem Library, Ford Classroom (and via Zoom) View Full Event
Professor Amy Malek
Cyromania: Imperial Nostalgia and Iranian-American Strategies of Inclusion in Los Angeles March 19
3:30pm - 4:30pm Washington Hall, Room 101 View Full Event
indoors, inside, people, students, arts, masks, hands, theatres, theaters
Camp and Community Stories: A Wild Romp Down Memory Lane March 21 - March 22
3pm - 6pm James Blair Hall View Full Event
Omaid Sharifi
ArtLords March 24
5pm - 7pm Music Arts Center, Concert Hall View Full Event
Katie Holten talk event flyer
Artist, Author, Activist Katie Holten: The Language of Trees: Forest Thinking to Reimagine the World March 25
3pm - 4:15pm Swem Library, Ford Classroom View Full Event
Swem Library
GRI Book Launch: Activism in Hard Times in Central and Eastern Europe: People Power March 26
4pm - 6pm Swem Library, The Ford Classroom View Full Event
Iman Zaki
Iman Zaki March 31
5pm - 7pm Reves Center for International Studies, Reves Room View Full Event
graphic of a podium
Barr Prize in Public Speaking Competition April 3
7pm - 8:30pm Sadler Center, Commonwealth Auditorium View Full Event
poster session in Chesapeake
Spring Honors Research Symposium April 4
10am - 4pm Sadler Center, James, York, Tidewater, Chesapeake View Full Event
Daniel Hernández Salazar
Daniel Hernández Salazar April 10
5pm - 7pm Ewell Hall, Theater, Room 107 View Full Event
Choeurs Atlantiques
Public screening: documentary on the legacies of the slave trade and slavery by Prof. Babana-Hampton April 10
6pm - 8:30pm McGlothlin-Street Hall, Room 20 View Full Event
memorial
The Memory of Slavery and the Slave Trade in Emancipatory Projects by Black French Caribbean Artists April 11
3:30pm - 5pm Washington Hall, Room 201 View Full Event
outdoors, outside, people, students, 2025, commencement, logo, banner, graduation, regalia, graduates, seniors, tassels, mortarboard, robes
Department of Modern Languages & Literatures Graduation Ceremony May 17
4:30pm - 6:30pm Sadler Center, Commonwealth Auditorium View Full Event
Visualizing Ideas in Comics: Q & A with Mana Neyestani
Tuesday, March 18
2pm - 3pm
Swem Library, Ford Classroom (and via Zoom)

Join Prof. Ghobadlou's "Image, Text, Story" FREN/ COLL 100 class for a Q&A with graphic novelist Mana Neyestani.

Cyromania: Imperial Nostalgia and Iranian-American Strategies of Inclusion in Los Angeles
Wednesday, March 19
3:30pm - 4:30pm
Washington Hall, Room 101
    Camp and Community Stories: A Wild Romp Down Memory Lane
    Friday, March 21 - Saturday, March 22
    3pm - 6pm
    James Blair Hall

    Workshop/masterclass that brings students and community members together to devise and co-create theatrical escapades inspired by historical sources from the W&M archives, oral histories, tricorne hats/feather boas, and participants' own stories. 

    ArtLords
    Monday, March 24
    5pm - 7pm
    Music Arts Center, Concert Hall

    Omaid Sharifi, President and Co-founder of ArtLords, will speak about the role of art in fostering freedom and democracy, for the third event of the Spring 2025 Scholarly Perspectives Series on Arts & Democracy. 

    Artist, Author, Activist Katie Holten: The Language of Trees: Forest Thinking to Reimagine the World
    Tuesday, March 25
    3pm - 4:15pm
    Swem Library, Ford Classroom

    NEW DATE!  Artist, activist, and bestselling author, Katie Holten to speak on the Language of Trees and what it means to love a forest.

    GRI Book Launch: Activism in Hard Times in Central and Eastern Europe: People Power
    Wednesday, March 26
    4pm - 6pm
    Swem Library, The Ford Classroom

    Join GRI for the launch of Activism in Hard Times in Central and Eastern Europe: People Power (Routledge, 2024), co-written by Paula Pickering. Co-sponsored with W&M Libraries, Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies, and Government.

    Iman Zaki
    Monday, March 31
    5pm - 7pm
    Reves Center for International Studies, Reves Room

    Iman Zaki, cultural manager, researcher, consultant, and theater maker, is the second event of the Spring 2025 Scholarly Perspectives Series on Arts & Democracy. 

    Barr Prize in Public Speaking Competition
    Thursday, April 3
    7pm - 8:30pm
    Sadler Center, Commonwealth Auditorium

    The competition will feature Barr Fellows, outstanding Arts & Sciences Honors seniors, who will have just five minutes to effectively explain their research and its importance to a general audience.

    Spring Honors Research Symposium
    Friday, April 4
    10am - 4pm
    Sadler Center, James, York, Tidewater, Chesapeake

    The Spring Honors Research Symposium will feature the research of undergraduate W&M seniors from any Arts & Sciences major completing Departmental Honors in a variety of presentation formats. 

    Daniel Hernández Salazar
    Thursday, April 10
    5pm - 7pm
    Ewell Hall, Theater, Room 107

    Guatemalan photographer Daniel Hernández Salazar will be the keynote and final speaker of the Spring 2025 Scholarly Perspectives Series on Arts & Democracy. 

    Public screening: documentary on the legacies of the slave trade and slavery by Prof. Babana-Hampton
    Thursday, April 10
    6pm - 8:30pm
    McGlothlin-Street Hall, Room 20

    Public screening of "Choeurs Atlantiques/ Tales from the Atlantic Beyond," a documentary by Prof. Babana-Hampton (Michigan State U) on the legacies of the slave trade and slavery in the French Caribbean, mainland France, and Francophone West Africa.

    The Memory of Slavery and the Slave Trade in Emancipatory Projects by Black French Caribbean Artists
    Friday, April 11
    3:30pm - 5pm
    Washington Hall, Room 201

    Prof. Babana-Hampton (Michigan State U) will be giving this year's Fauvel Lecture on "The Historical Memory of Slavery and the Slave Trade in Emancipatory Projects by Black French Caribbean Artists Today."


    Department of Modern Languages & Literatures Graduation Ceremony
    Saturday, May 17
    4:30pm - 6:30pm
    Sadler Center, Commonwealth Auditorium

    2025 Department of Modern Languages & Literatures Graduation Ceremony & Reception