Academic and Cultural Enrichments Events Sponsored by the Department of Modern Languages:
2005: Professor Donato Totaro, Concordia University, Montreal: “The Italian Horror Genre”
2005: Author Laura Freixas (Madrid): “Literatura y mujeres en España: historia de un falso boom”
2006: Professor María José García Vizcaino, Montclair State University: "The Art of Translation”
2006: Dr. Adrian Fielder, Northwestern University: "Modern Slavery In and Out of the Home in Contemporary France: Coline Serreau's Chaos"
2007: Jean Franco, Professor Emerita, Columbia University: “The Reproduction of Discrimination”
2007: Photographer Adriana Groissman and bandoneon player Héctor del Curto : “Tango x 2: The Music and the Visuals”
2007: Author Laura Freixas (Madrid): “Cómo me convertí en escritora gracias a mi madre, Franco, y Simone de Beauvoir”
2007: Dr. Noelle Rouxel-Cubberly, College of Staten Island, CUNY: "The Politics of Titles in Recent French Film"
2007: Author Phyllis Capello, "Italian-American Coming of Age Narrative"
2008: Journalist Paddy Woodworth (Ireland): “Dirty War, Clean Hands: Spain’s Basque Region”
2008: Professor Linda Gould Levine, Montclair State University: “Art and Entrapment in Icíar Bollaín’s Te doy mis ojos”
2009: Author Lidia Falcón (Barcelona): “Primeras reindivicaciones feministas”
2009: Authors Lorenzo Silva (Barcelona) and Carlos Castán (Madrid): Round table discussion (sponsored by the Spanish Consulate in New York City and the “America Reads Spanish” program)
2010: Authors José Ovejero (Madrid) and Fernando Royuela (Madrid) : Round table discussion (sponsored by the Spanish Consulate in New York City and the “America Reads Spanish” program)
2010: Author and Professor Gustavo Arango (SUNY Oneonta) and photographer Nereo López: “La magia en Gabriel García Márquez”
2011: Randy Fairbanks, "The Legacy of Jacques Demy in Recent French Film"
2011: Professor El Hadj Malick NDiaye, Columbia University: "La culture urbaine contemporaine au Sénégal"
2011: Professor Israel Rolon-Barada, University of Cincinnati: "Carmen Laforet: Una mujer en fuga" ("Carmen Laforet: A Woman on the Run")
2011: Professor Linda Gould Levine, Montclair State University: "Fiction Writing and Reclaiming Women's History in Spain"
2011: Film Director Inés Paris (Madrid): "Cine y compromiso"
2012: French actress Irène Jacob and musician/songwriter Francis Jacob: Musical Performance from their album "IF"
2012: Philosopher Carlos Paris and Author Lidia Falcón (Madrid): "España en la actualidad"
2013: International Poetry Night
2014: Award-winning writer José Ovejero (Madrid): "La invención del amor"
2014: International Poetry Night
2015: International Poetry Night
2016: International Poetry Night
2017: International Poetry Night
2018: International Poetry Night
2018: Patricia Pintado-Casas: "Modernista Barcelona"
2019: International Poetry Night
2019: Dr. Alejandro del Rio Herrmann: "The Spanish Civil War Through the Works of Simone Weil and George Orwell"
2020: International Poetry Night
2020: David Pires, Philadelphia Art Museum: "Dangerous Veauty: The Works of Auguste Rodin"
Poetry Spoken Word and Musical Performances at the Coffeehouse in Celebration of Hispanic Heritage Month:
2001: Nancy Mercado and Pedro Pietri
2002: Piri Thomas: Poetry, Music and Reading from Down These Mean Streets in Spiro 2
2003: Tony Medina
2004: Edwin Torres
2005: Willie Perdomo
2006: "Carmelita Tropicana" Performance by Alina Troyana
2007: Uroayán Noel: Poetry and Music
2008: Magda del Valle, Two-time Winner National Poetry Slam
2010: Art + Activism: Prints by Alejandra Delfí