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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.

“What’s up?” Arabic @ CIEE Amman

"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.

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.

Above and beyond

History major Michelle King spent her summer interning at the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum in Washington, D.C.

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.

Symposium of the North American Society for Exile Studies: Loyola University Chicago

Loyola University Chicago Modern Languages and Literatures

Symposium of the North American Society for Exile Studies

Ernst Barlach, Man Reading in the Wind (1922)

Symposium of the North American Society for Exile Studies

Early Stages of Exile:

Somewhere Between Home and Arrival

On May 18-19, 2018, the Dept. of Modern Languages and Literatures and the College of Arts and Sciences is hosting a meeting of theNorth American Society for Exile Studies (NASES) on the Lake Shore 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.

Whereas exile is usually defined as the time when an individual is forced to live abroad, unwillingly separated from home and often banned from it, it can also be understood more broadly as a process that already starts in the homeland, in transit and/or before arriving in the country of exile. These are the early stages of exile: desillusionment and alienation for political, racist, religious or linguistic reasons, also for reasons of sexual orientation; censorship; the complicated inner debate for or against the path into exile; networks of resistence and abandoning them; the bureaucratic hurdles of leaving; border crossings and the often adventurous trip itself; stops in other countries on the way into exile; learning a new language. All of these stages already incorporate exile to varying degrees, the psychological confrontation with it and the practical preparation for it. In view of the stubborn historical persistence of exile, these early stages of exile are not limited to the time of Nationalsocialism, but also encompass other time periods up to the current movements of migration to the German-speaking world.

Scholars from Chicago, the US, Europe and Asia are looking forward to the NASES meeting. The symposium in being held in honor of Egon Schwarz (1922-2017), himself an exile from Austria who contributed in countless ways to exile studies during his long academic career. The drawing by Ernst Barlach, Man Reading in the Wind (1922), serves as the motif for the conference, capturing the early stages of exile in an artistically condensed form. The symposium is also connected with a traveling exhibition sponsored by the German National Library with the title of “Exile: Experience and Testimony.” After the symposium, it will be on display on the main floor of Cudahy Library until June 1st.

For more details about the symposium, please contact Dr. Reinhard Andress, Director of German Studies at randress@luc.edu.