History and Culture

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• Africana Studies Department
  Encourages appreciation of diversity and emphasizes the ways people of African descent have constructed and interpreted their lives and cultures.
• Archaeological Field School
  An eight-week program designed to teach students the basics of archaeological field work, laboratory processing, and artifact analysis.
• Archaeological Projects in Cyprus
  UAlbany faculty members have visited, researched, and written scholarly works on Cyprus since 1970. 
• Archaeological Research in Albany and Viminacium, Yugoslavia
  Classics professor Michael Werner is Albany's official archaeologist and he periodically leads a team of researchers and student archaeologists in Yugoslavia.
• Classic Film Series
  Screenings of U.S. and international films of distinction
• Department of Latin American, Carribean and U.S. Latino Studies (LACS)
  Special opportunities are available for students pursuing Latin American, Caribbean and US Latino Studies.
• Francophone Day
  An LLC-University in the High School collaborative event that hosts high school students interested in all things French at UAlbany
• Institute for Mesoamerican Studies (IMS)
  A non-profit educational research institute dedicated to the study and dissemination of knowledge concerning the peoples and cultures of Mesoamerica.
• Institute of Cypriot Studies
  UAlbany and Cyprus have a mutually beneficial friendship marked by the exchange of scholars, archaeological research, and education opportunities.
• International Film Festival
  A wide selection of foreign language films are shown free and open to the public throughout the academic year
• Languages, Literatures, and Cultures Department
  LLC faculty regularly engage in a variety of community activities including presentation to the community, teach outs, and translation/interpretation services
• New York State Writers Institute
  The New York State Writers Institute promotes literature and writing through diverse programs for students and the general public.
• New York State Writers Institute Archives
  Audio/video recordings of Writers Institute events
  
• Olympiada of Spoken Russian
  UAlbany hosts an annual competition for over 100 high school students on spoken Russian and Russian culture and literature.
• Performances for High School Student Groups
  Each season, the Performing Arts Center hosts professional touring artists who perform weekday matinees for high school student groups.
• Researching New York: Perspectives on Empire State History
  Participants, including archivists, local historians, and public historians from the Capital District and other locations, take part in this annual conference.
• Talking History Radio Program
  UAlbany history professors host and produce a weekly one-hour radio program, "Talking History," broadcast locally on WRPI.
• Theme Semesters
  UAlbany holds theme semesters for the campus and public on topics ranging from the Hudson River to China to Shakespeare.
• UAlbany Offers Semester-Long Community Commemoration for Hudson 400
  Test short description.
• University Art Museum Collections
  Highlighting 3,000 works of late-Modern and contemporary art with emphasis on works on paper.
  
• University Art Museum Publications
  Illustrated brochures and exhibition catalogs are broadly distributed to other museums, artists, curators, critics in the field and on the museum website.
  
• Visiting Writers Series
  Free and public presentations by 40-50 world renowned and emerging writers each year
  
• Writers Institute Publications and Social Media
  The Writers Institute's electronic magazine of interviews, transcriptions, and feature articles on visiting writers