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Cinema and Media Studies, College of Arts and Humanities, French, School of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures

Exploring French Art and Film: Brendan Berger’s ‘Life-Changing’ Year Abroad

The senior French and film student took in art at renowned museums and attended the Cannes Film Festival.

October 14, 2024 English, History, Russian, School of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures

2024-2025 Maya Brin Resident Maxim Osipov

The Maya Brin Residency Program is thrilled to announce the visit of Maxim Osipov.
October 10, 2024 Communication, School of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures, Spanish and Portuguese

2024 Mark and Heather Rosenker Lecture featuring Joe Mazza

Joe Mazza presents "Enduring Words" for the 2024 Rosenker Lecture
September 17, 2024 School of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures, Spanish and Portuguese

Honoring ‘Las Muertes’

Ana Patricia Rodríguez and two of her students highlight how D.C.’s Salvadoran diaspora uses art to grapple with painful past in new documentary
June 12, 2024 School of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures, Persian

PERS 251 / HIST219: Student research reflects study in Iranian modernity

A digital exhibit of student work created for PERS251 / HIST219
June 07, 2024 Arabic

Four Arabic Flagship Students Win Prestigious 2024–25 ARHU Boren Scholarships

The students will embark on two semesters of immersive language study in Meknes, Morocco.
June 06, 2024 Persian Flagship, Persian, Roshan Institute for Persian Studies

Persian Flagship Program Renewed for 2024–28

The University of Maryland offers the only Persian Flagship Program in the United States.
April 02, 2024 School of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures

Meet the Eight Language Students Awarded $10,000 in Scholarships

Students prepare for careers in translation, counseling psychology, medicine, linguistics and microbiology informed by language studies and study abroad.
January 23, 2024 Russian, School of Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies, School of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures

2024 Maya Brin Artist-in-Residence Mikhail Durnenkov

The Maya Brin Residency Program is proud to announce Artist-in-Residence, Mikhail Durnenkov, who will be a visiting faculty member in the SLLC and the TDPS for the Spring 2024 semester.
November 20, 2023 Spanish and Portuguese, School of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures, College of Arts and Humanities

Spanish Professor Retakes the Stage

Concert in Chile to reunite his influential 1990s rap group.

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Marie Vieux Chauvet’s Theatres

December 03, 2018 School of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures, French

Thought, Form, and Performance of Revolt

Paris and the Marginalized Author

November 26, 2018 French

Treachery, Alienation, Queerness, and Exile

The Art of the Forbidden City in WWII

November 12, 2018 School of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures, Center for East Asian Studies, Chinese, Japanese, Center for East Asian Studies

How China's vast art collection was kept safe and hidden from Japanese Invasion

Nuclear Futures in the Post-Fukushima Age

November 07, 2018 School of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures, German Studies, Japanese

Recently published in The Faculty Voice

Italian Film Series Fall 2018

October 24, 2018 Italian

Join the Itailan Program as is shows films celebrating the 50th anniversary of the 1968 protests

Chinese Program hosts successful Mid-Autumn Festival

October 16, 2018 School of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures, Center for East Asian Studies, Chinese

The Chinese Program recently celebrated its annual Mid-Autumn Festival

Spain and the Atlantic Coast of the United States

October 12, 2018 School of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures, Spanish and Portuguese

Carmen Benito-Vessels explores historical narratives of the East Coast of the United States through 16th Century Spanish texts.

Hangul Day 2018

October 08, 2018 School of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures, Korean

UMD's annual Hangul Day celebration features special performances, a lecture by Professor Bob Ramsey, and Korean Food
The Independent

Obituary: Ehsan Yarshater: Historian who Transformed the West’s Understanding of Iran’s History and Languages

October 02, 2018 Roshan Institute for Persian Studies, School of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures

Professor Emeritus Ahmad Karimi-Hakkak remembers the Persian historian and linguist.

ARHU Faculty Earn Promotion and Tenure

September 25, 2018 American Studies, Art, Classics, Communication, English, History, Joseph and Rebecca Meyerhoff Program and Center for Jewish Studies, Philosophy, School of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures, School of Music, Second Language Acquisition, Linguistics

22 faculty members from the College of Arts and Humanities have received promotion and/or tenure.