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Arabic & Quran: A Transformative Experience!
With the timely need for understanding, humility, and gratitude in celebration of our humanity as a multi-faith, multi-linguistic, and multi-racial creation, please take a few moments to read Aliya's blog post: Arabic & Quran: A Transformative Experience. Aliya's story is all of our stories in finding serenity in our faith and the power of language in the process!
"Touched" by Ebru: Language-Art Interface
Our Arabic program at Loyola University Chicago was honored to welcome well-known Chicago-resident Turkish artist, Sevim Surucu, to a special Ebru art workshop with our Arabic students Fall 2018. Please enjoy our last entry this semester for "students’ voices", a blog that shares some of our Arabic students' reflections and photos on events sponsored by the Arabic program at Loyola.
Ibn Haldun University: Arabic Immersion In Istanbul
Dr. Sawsan Abbadi visited prominent Arabic programs in well-established study abroad centers and universities in Jordan and Istanbul as part of the Liebentritt Faculty Development Award. This blog shares a few insights about the Arabic Program at Ibn Haldun University; a rigorous program for Arabic language and cultural studies with immersion experiences. With attention to recent demographic changes due to Syrian refugees and immigrants in Istanbul, the program is well situated to offer mini immersion experiences modeling that of Arabic neighborhoods.
The Altenheim: A German “Old People’s Home” Through the Ages
On Friday, June 22nd, at 7:30pm a talk will be given by Dr. Reinhard Andress at Dank Haus German American Cultural Center. The topic is the Altenheim, a German "Old People’s Home" in Forest Park. For decades the Altenheim served the aged German-American community before becoming a senior residency open to other ethnic groups as well. It is still in operation today.
Symposium of the North American Society for Exile Studies
On May 18-19, 2018, the Dept. of Modern Languages and Literatures and the College of Arts and Sciences is hosting a meeting of the North American Society for Exile Studies (NASES) on the Lakeshore Campus of Loyola University with papers and other events surrounding the topic of the“Early Stages of Exile: Somewhere Between Home and Arrival” within the context of German Exile Studies.
“What’s up?” Arabic @ CIEE Amman
Dr. Sawsan Abbadi visited prominent Arabic programs in well-established study abroad centers and universities in Jordan and Istanbul as part of the Liebentritt Faculty Development Award. This blog shares a few insights about CIEE- Amman/Jordan; a study abroad program for Arabic language and cultural studies with immersion experience and travel around fascinating personal exposure.
"How Do We Proceed with Our Own Internal Conflict?: On the Translation of Mihail Sebastian’s “For Two Thousand Years”
A review by Julia Elsky, PhD, Assistant Professor and Undergraduate Program Director for French.
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D. Scott Hendrickson, S.J. Honored as Founding Member of First European Chapter of Alpha Sigma Nu
D. Scott Hendrickson, S.J. of the department of Modern Languages and Literatures at Loyola was inducted into Alpha Sigma Nu by his twin brother, who is president of Creighton.
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Life Begins Anew—Rediscovering the Austrian Writer and Exile Fred Heller
Reinhard Andress, PhD (Professor of German), has spearheaded the reedition of a volume of short stories by Fred Heller, Das Leben beginnt noch einmal (Life Begins Anew)...
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"After Ellis Island? Italians at the Border in the Age of Trump"
After Ellis Island?
An editorial by Cristina Lombardi-Diop, PhD, Senior Lecturer and Director of the Rome Studies Program.
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Above and beyond
Above and beyond
History major Michelle King spent her summer interning at the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum in Washington, D.C.
Retiring Modern Languages Professor Volunteers Time to Teach Prisoners
Loyola Professor Andrew McKenna is taking his teaching to a new classroom – one in Stateville Correctional Center to be specific. The French professor in the Department of Modern Languages & Literatures will retire from Loyola after teaching at the University for over 40 years, but will continue to volunteer his time at the correctional center teaching English and literature.
An ordinary artifact, until its significance was uncovered
Dr. Reinhard Andress, professor of German and director of the German Studies Program in the Department of Modern Languages & Literatures of Loyola’s College of Arts and Sciences, discovered an important document while researching the German explorer, geographer, scientist, romantic philosopher and author of Kosmos, Alexander von Humboldt (1769–1859).
Arabic @ Loyola Give Thanks
Arabic learners at Loyola University Chicago shared their heartfelt collage of voices and images using a few learned Arabic words to express multi textual deep reflections. In selected samples here, we share feelings of gratitude to the blessings of families, friends, professors, schools, nourishment, besides hope, peace, compassion, resilience, and selfless sacrifices to help us grow. Our thanks to Chairperson Susana Cavallo and Dean Peter Schraeder for all support for the Arabic Program Minor @ Loyola.