Bellini Colloquium

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