FALL, 2013:
Friday, Sept. 13, 3:30-5:00 p.m., Tomson 316
High Tea
Report from participants in the CILA-sponsored writers’ retreat at St. Olaf in June, 2013, led by Diane LeBlanc (English)
Panelists: Trish Beckman (Religion), Chris Brunelle (Classics), Karen Cherewatuk (English), Jason Ripley (Religion), Alberto Villate-Isaza (Spanish)
Friday, Oct. 18, 3:30-5:00 p.m., Tomson 316
Darrell Jodock (Martin E. Marty Professor of Religion and the Academy)
“John Updike and Religion”
Isaac Joslin (French)
“Teaching French from an Afro-centric Perspective: Practical and Pedagogical Considerations”
Friday, Nov. 15, 3:30-5:00 p.m., Tomson 316
Hsiang-Lin Shih (Chinese)
“Wandering into Transcendency: a Chinese Literary Tradition and Its Variation”
Jason Marsh (Philosophy)
“Why the Locked-in Patient Case is Hard”
SPRING, 2014:
Friday, Feb. 14, 4:00-5:00 p.m., Tomson 316
Reporr from Fulbright Foreign Language Teaching Assistants (FLTA) & Alternative Language Study Option (ALSO) Instructors
Qiongda (FLTA—Chinese), Artem Zubov (FLTA—Russian), Ruqaya Ismaeel (FLTA & ALSO—Arabic), Paola De Santo (ALSO—Italian)
Friday, Mar. 7, 3:30-5:00 p.m., Tomson 316
Randy Cox (Library)
“Cleek, The Man of the Forty Faces”—Part II
Arthur Cunningham (Philosophy)
“Two Solutions to One Problem? Boethius on Freedom and Foreknowledge”
Friday, Apr. 25, 3:30-5:00 p.m., Tomson 316
Sylvia Carullo (Spanish)
“Ekphrastic Exercises in The Ugly Christ by the Ecuadorian Writer Alicia Yánez Cossío”
Pin Wan (Chinese)
“Appreciation of Chinese Calligraphy”