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Bellini Colloquium

Une soirée chez madame Geoffrin, 1755

The Bellini Colloquium is a lecture series sponsored by the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures. It is an opportunity for Modern Language faculty to show their research.

The Colloquium is named after the first Professor of Modern Languages at William & Mary, Carlo Bellini, a native of Florence, Italy and close friend of Thomas Jefferson. Bellini taught French and Italian from 1779 until 1803, and holds the distinction of being the only Professor to stay in residence at W&M when classes were suspended for two years during the Revolutionary War.

Please join us for this exciting series!

Fall 2023 Program
  • Sabine Waas, Visiting Assistant Professor of German Studies, "Counting Followers or Scoring Goals? German Soccer Celebrities as Influencers." Thursday, November 2, 3:30 in Washington 301. 
Fall 2022 Program
  • Lidia Ponce de la Vega, Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in Environmental Humanities, "The Global South in biodiversity collections: A Latin American perspective on the Biodiversity Heritage Library." (download event flyer) Thursday, October 20, 3:30 in Washington 315.
  • Álvaro Garrote Pascual, Assistant Professor of Hispanic Studies, "A Nostalgic Past: The Spanish Middle Ages Today." (download event flyer) Thursday, November 3, 3:30 in Washington 315.
  • Mona Zaki, Senior Lecturer of Arabic Studies, "The Wounded Mouth: Sins of the Tongue in Jahannam." Thursday, November 17, 3:30 in Washington 315. 
Spring 2022 Program
  • Calvin Hui, Class of 1952 Distinguished Associate Professor of Chinese Studies. Calvin will discuss his recent book, The Art of Useless: Fashion, Media, and Consumer Culture in Contemporary China. (download event flyer) Thursday, March 10, 3:30 on Zoom
Fall 2021 Program
  • Carlos Rivera-Santana, Assistant Professor of Hispanic Studies, and Robin Ellis, Assistant Professor of German Studies. "Unpacking Indigenous Acknowledgement: A Decolonial Discussion Revolving around the 1723 William & Mary Brafferton 'Indian' School." (download event flyer) Thursday, 30 September, 3:30 in Washington 315
  • John Eisele, Associate Professor of Arabic Studies. "Perspectives on the Linguistic Sign: Sound Symbolism in English and Arabic." (download event flyer) Thursday, 14 October, 3:30 in Washington 315
  • Sowmya Ramanathan and Catherine Brix, Visiting Assistant Professors of Hispanic Studies. "La alegría no llegó: Chile's Constitutional Reckoning." (download event flyer) Tuesday, 16 November, 3:30 in Washington 315
  • Kate Conley, Professor of French & Francophone Studies. "Night Dancing and Surrealist Collections." (download event flyer) Thursday, 2 December, 3:30pm in Washington 315
Spring 2021 Program 
  •  Carlos Rivera-Santana, Assistant Professor of Hispanic Studies. "The Epistemology of Coloniality/Philosophy." Held on zoom.
Fall 2020 Program
  • Various MLL Faculty "Teaching Translation and Translation Studies in MLL."
    Thursday, 29 October, 3:30 via Zoom. Please contact [[mghill, Prof. Michael Hill]] to request Zoom link in advance. 
Spring 2020 Program 
  • Nathan Rabalais, Assistant Professor of French & Francophone Studies.
    "Folklore and Collective Experience in French and Creole Louisiana." (download event flyer)
    Thursday, 20 February, 3:30 in Washington 315 
Fall 2019 Program
  • Paul Vierthaler, Assistant Professor of Chinese Studies.
    "Linking the Late Imperial Chinese Book: Network Models of the Ming and early Qing Information Ecosystem." (download event flyer)
    Thursday, 26 September, 3:30 in Washington 315
  • Robin Ellis, Assistant Professor of German Studies.
    "Intimate Exchanges: Interpreting Borders in Hans-Christian Schmid's Distant Lights (Lichter, 2003)." (download event flyer)
    Thursday, 17 October, 3:30 in Washington 315
  • Magali Compan, Associate Professor of French & Francophone Studies.
    "The Invention of the Island: The Photosculptures of Thierry Fontaine" (download event flyer)
    Thursday, 5 December, 3:30 in Washington 315  
Spring 2019 Program
  • Monica Seger, Associate Professor of Italian Studies.
    "
    Stories to Save Lives: Narrating Toxic Exposure in Contemporary Italy." (download event flyer)
    Tuesday, 26 February, 3:30 in Washington 315
  • Jorge Terukina, Associate Professor of Hispanic Studies.
    "Where is the Money? Justice, Aristotelian 'Economic Thought,' and the Inca empire in Inca Garcilaso's Royal Commentaries (1609)." (download event flyer)
    Tuesday, 26 March, 3:30 in Washington 315
  • Matteo Cantarello, Visiting Assistant Professor of Hispanic Studies.
    "Women, Young Adults, and Mexican Violence: The Politicizing Act(s)." (download event flyer)
    Tuesday, 16 April, 3:30 in Washington 315
Fall 2018 Program
  • Brett Brehm, Assistant Professor of French & Francophone Studies.
    "Nina's Song: Music, Sound, and Performance in the Salon of Nina de Villard." (download event flyer)
    Thursday, 20 September, 3:30 in Washington 315
  • Jennifer Taylor, Associate Professor of German Studies.
    "The Haunted Screen: Grief and traumatic Memory in the Modern Horror Film." (download event flyer)
    Thursday, 18 October, 3:30 in Washington 315
Spring 2018 Program
  • Noel Blanco-Mourelle, Assistant Professor of Hispanic Studies.
    "How to Build a Library." (download event flyer)
    Thursday, 8 February, 3:30pm in Washington 315
Fall 2017 Program
  • Mona Zaki, Lecturer of Arabic Studies.
    "The Illiterate Saint and The Scholar: Malediction Stories in Late Malmuk Egypt." (download event flyer)
    Thursday, 28 September, 3:30pm in Washington 315
  • Sergio Ferrarese, Italian Studies Program Director, Associate Professor of Italian Studies.
    "Between Material and Immaterial Labor: Franco Fortini and the Anthropology of the Workforce." (download event flyer)
    Thursday, 19 October, 3:30pm in Washington 315
  • Michael Leruth, French and Franconphone Studies Program Director, Associate Professor of French and Francophone Studies.
    "Hacktivist Pranks, Liminal Interfaces, and Utopian Territories in the Media/Communication Art of Fred Forest." (download event flyer)
    Thursday, 7 December, 3:30pm in Washington 315
Spring 2017 Program
  • Christina Baker, Visiting Assistant Professor of Hispanic Studies.
    "(Re)EnActments of Belonging: Performances of Mexicanidad in Cabaret and Film" (download event flyer)
    Thursday, 20 April, 3:30pm in Washington 315
  • Tomoyuki Sasaki, Associate Professor of Japanese Studies
    "History, Unevenness, and Urban Space in Japanese Cinema: A Case Study"
    Thursday, 30 March 3:30pm in Washington 315
Fall 2016 Program
  • Silvia Tandeciarz, Associate Professor of Hispanic Studies
    "Citizens of Memory: Recollection and Human Rights in Post Dictatorship Argentina" (download event flyer)
    Thursday, 15 September 3:30pm in Washington 315
Spring 2016 Program
  • Chun-yu Lu, Visiting Assistant Professor of Chinese Studies
    "Make Love & War: Chinese Popular Romance in 'Greater East Asia,' 1937-1945"
    Thursday, 7 April 3:30pm in Washington 315
  • Magali Compan, Associate Professor of French & Francophone Studies
    "Deeply Rooted in the Present: Contemporary Street art and Palimpsest Memories on Reunion Island"
    Thursday, 18 February 3:30pm in Washington 305
Fall 2015 Program
  • Nathan Rabalais, Assistant Professor of French & Francophone Studies
    "Acadies divergentes: Language, Education, and Identity in Louisiana and Maritime Canada"
    Thursday, 3 December 3:30pm in Washington 315
  • Monica Seger, Assistant Professor of Italian Studies
    "Narrating Italy's Dioxin"
    Thursday, 29 October 3:30pm in Washington 315
  • Panel discussion on the topic of designing new COLLEGE 100 "Critical Issues
    Participants: (download event flyer)
    Calvin Hui, Assistant Professor of Chinese Studies discussing his seminar Fashion, Media, & Chinese Consumer Culture
    Teresa Longo, Associate Professor of Hispanic Studies discussing her seminar Human Rights
    Giulia Pacini, Associate Professor of French & Francophone Studies discussing her seminar Fictions of Nature
    John Riofrio, Associate Professor of Hispanic Studies discussing his seminar Critiquing the American Dream
Spring 2015 Program
  • Stephen Sheehi, Professor of Arabic Studies
    "Stabilizing Protraits: Arab Photography in the Ottoman Era" (download event flyer)
    Thursday, 16 March 3:30 in Washington 315
  • Katherine Brown, Visiting Assistant Professor of French & Francophone Studies
    "The Spirit Moves: Saintly Mobility in Old French Hagiography" (download event flyer)
    Thursday, 29 January 3:30 in Washington 315
Fall 2014 Program
  • Antoine Krieger, Visiting Assistant Professor of French & Francophone Studies
    "Jean-Luc Godard, Jean Genet, and the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict" (download event flyer)
    Thursday, 4 December 3:30 in Washington 315.
  • Tim McCallister, Visiting Assistant Professor of Hispanic Studies
    "Don Quijote without Don Quijote" (download event flyer)
    Thursday, 13 November 3:30 in Washington 315
  • Elena Prokhorova, Associate Professor of Russian Studies and [[axprok, Sasha Prokhorov]], Associate Professor of Russian Studies
    "Commemorating "Hot" Wars on Soviet Screens: Epic Films as a tool of Hard and Soft Power during the Cold War" (download event flyer)
    Thursday, 30 October 3:30 in Washington 315
  • Rachel DiNitto, Associate Professor of Japanese Studies
    "Bodies in the Zone: Literature from Japan's Fukushima Diaster" (download event flyer)
    Thursday, 23 September 3:30 in Washington 315
Spring 2014 Program
  • Michael Cronin, Assistant Professor of Japanese Studies
    "National Drag: Crossed Genders and Alternate Histories." (download event flyer)
    Thursday, 24 April 3:30 in Washington 315
  • Jennifer Gülly, Visiting Assistant Professor of German Studies
    "Figures of Translation." (download event flyer)
    Thursday, 27 February 3:30 in Washington 315
  • Francie Cate-Arries, Professor of Hispanic Studies

    "Franco's War & Repression 75 years Later: Picking up the Pieces of Mourning & Remembrance." (download event flyer)
    Thursday, 30 January 3:30 in Washington 201

Fall 2013 Program
  • Calvin Hui, Assistant Professor of Chinese Studies
    "Rubbish" (download event flyer)
    Thursday, 21 November 3:30 in Washington 315
  • Michael Leruth, Associate Professor of French & Francophone Studies

    "Interface as Utopia: The Media Art and Activism of Fred Forest." (download event flyer)
    Thursday, 7 November 3:30 in Washington 201

  • Mary A. Knighton, Visiting Assistant Professor of Japanese Studies
    "Making Sense of Nonsense in EdogawaRampo's Insect Narratives" (download event flyer)
    Thursday, 26 September 3:30 in Washington 315
Spring 2013 Program
  • Teresa Longo, A&S Dean of Curriculum Review & Associate Professor of Hispanic Studies
    "Humanity Rendered Visible: It's the Nature of the Beast" (download event flyer)
    Thursday, 25 April at 3:30 in Washington 315
  • Maryse Fauvel, Professor of French & Francophone Studies, Kate Conley, Dean of the Faculty of Arts & Sciences and Sibel Zandi-Sayek, Associate Professor of Art History
    "Museums: sites of memory and oblivion."
    Thursday, 14 March at 3:30 in Washington 315
  • Roy Chan, Assistant Professor of Chinese Studies
    "The People's Heartstrings: Female Sociality, Revolutionary Affect, and Dreams in Zong Pu's Fiction."
    Thursday, 28 February at 3:30 in Washington 315
Fall 2012 Program
  • Meredith Clark, Visiting Assistant Professor of Hispanic Studies
    "Interweaving Verbal, Visual and Tactile Spaces: Andean Textile Imagery in
    the Works of Two 20th-Century Latin American Poets" (download event flyer)
    Tuesday, 11 December at 12:00 in Washington 315
  • Bruce Campbell, Associate Professor of German Studies
    "The Spark of the New: Radio, Modernity and Civic Life in 20th Century Germany"
    Thursday, 1 November at 3:30 in Washington 315
  • Giulia Pacini, Associate Professor of French & Francophone Studies
    "Invaluable Trees, or how and why trees and wood mattered in the long eighteenth century" (download event flyer)
    Thursday, 4th October at 3:30 in Washington 315
Spring 2012 Program
  • Luke Eilderts, Visiting Assistant Professor of French & Francophone Studies
    Thursday, 26 January in Washington Hall 315 at 3:30pm
  • Robert St. Clair, Assistant Professor of French & Francophone Studies
    Thursday, 22 March in Washington Hall 315 at 3:30pm
  • Robert Leventhal, Associate Professor of German Studies
    Thursday, 19 April in Washington Hall 315 at 3:30pm
Fall 2011 Program
  • "From article to book" (download event flyer)
    Participants:
    Rachel Dinitto, Associate Professor of Japanese Studies
    John Riofrio, Assistant Professor of Hispanic Studies
    Anne-Marie Stock, Professor of Hispanic Studies
    Francie Cate-Arries, Professor of Hispanic Studies
    Tuesday, 25 October in Washington Hall 315 at 3:30pm
  • Emily Wilcox, Visiting Assistant Professor of Chinese Studies
    "Inheriting the Future: The Socialist Realist of Legacy in Contemporary Chinese Performance" (download event flyer)
    Wednesday, 9 November in Washington Hall 301 at 3:30pm
Spring 2011 Program
  • Nicolas Médevielle, Assistant Professor of French & Francophone Studies
    "Maps of Desire: French Renaissance colonial Ventures and Cartography"
    Wednesday, February 16
  • Jorge Terukina, Assistant Professor of Hispanic Studies
    "Creoles, Peninsular Newcomers, and Aristotelian 'Economic Thought' in Balbuena's Mexican Grandeur (1604):
    a Transatlantic and Pre-Disciplinary Inquiry" (download event flyer)
    Wednesday, March 23
  • Vlad Dima, Visiting Assistant Professor of French & Francophone Studies
    "Aural Narrative Planes in Film" (download event flyer)
    Thursday, April 21
Fall 2010 Program
  • Michael Cronin, Assistant Professor of Japanese Studies
    "City, Empire, and Flow: Osaka and the Philippines in Oda Sakunosuke’s Waga machi"
    Thursday, October 21
  • John Riofrio, Assistant Professor of Hispanic Studies
    "Joe Arpaio and the Biopolitics of Migration"
    Wednesday, December 1
Spring 2010 Program
  • Bruce Campbell, Associate Professor of German Studies, Rachel Dinitto, Associate Professor of Japanese Studies, and Anita Angelone, Assistant Professor of Italian Studies
    "Team Teaching: Virulent Nationalisms: Japan, Italy and Germany"
    21 April, 2010
  • Roy Chan, Assistant Professor of Chinese Studies
    "Broken Tongues: Race, Sacrifice and Geopolitics in Vsevolod Ivanov's Armored Train 14-69"
    April 2010
  • Sergio Ferrarese, Associate Professor of Italian Studies
    “From Vienna with Love: Stage and Statecraft in Gluck and Calzabigi’s Orfeo e Euridice”
    18 March 2010