Events

LLC Events

 

Language Tables, Clubs and Events
Tables

Informal opportunities to practice your language skills (Note: tables do not meet over breaks).
 

Arabic

The Arabic Conversation Table | تحدث باللغة العربية.  For those interested in practicing Arabic with native speakers or asking questions about the Arabic language.  Not meeting Spring 2024.  Contact: [email protected]

French

La Pause Café. Informal conversation in French for the campus community. Spend an hour getting to know others on campus who share your interest in French. All levels are welcome: Venez nombreux !  Meetings are in HU290 on Th 2/1 4-5pm, W 2/14 3-4pm, Th 2/29 4-5pm, W 3/13 3-4pm, Th 3/28 4-5pm, W 4/17 3-4pm.    Contact: [email protected]

Italian

Italian Table. Come join us to share your interest in Italian language and culture outside the classroom. Meeting in HU131 every Friday 2:45-3:45pm from 1/26 to 4/26, except 3/22.    Contact: [email protected]

Portuguese

Cafezinho Online. Join us for fun and relaxing 30-minute online chats in Portuguese!  All levels are welcome!  Chats are at 2:45pm on 2/26, 3,25 and 4/18.  Contact: [email protected] for information and access.

Spanish

Mesa de Español. Come practice your Spanish language skills with others!  Join us for fun, relaxing conversations in Spanish.  All levels are welcome!  Meeting in HU290 Wednesdays 4-5pm on 2/7, 2/21, 3/6, 3/27, 4/10 and 4/24.  Contact: [email protected]

Clubs

Please note: Clubs do not meet over breaks, with the possible exception of the Tango Club (contact the club for more information).
 

Le Cercle français

Join the French Club!  Music, food, language, people, movies, outings, travel and more.  Open to all--French learners, francophone native speakers and anyone interested in French language and culture. Contact: [email protected]
 

La Dolce Vita!

Not meeting Spring 2024.  Contact: mg[email protected]

Spanish Club

Open to undergraduate and graduate students, the club provides opportunities to practice Spanish and partake in cultural activities from all over the Spanish-speaking world. All are welcome!  Contact: [email protected]

Tango Club

Lessons, prácticas, and social dances.  For more information check Instagram @ualbanytangoclub. Contact: [email protected] or [email protected] This is not an LLC Dept club.

Events

See information about our LLC seminars and language clubs and tables at links in left nav under LLC Events.

Join us at our LLC Seminars, see https://www.albany.edu/llc/events/seminar-series for details.

Visit LLC Clubs and Language Tables as they start a new semester of activities (see https://www.albany.edu/llc/events). 

Spanish Day (3/8/24) and Francophone Day (3/27/24) return again this spring engaging UAlbany in the High School (UHS) students in a world of language and cultural immersion experiences.  

Students, come celebrate Mother Language Day with LLC Thursday 2/22/24 in HU354!  Enjoy an afternoon and evening of fun cultural and language exchange--take mini language classes, learn about international desserts, stump the professor with international slang, join trivia and essay/poetry contests. Flier with details.

Participate in our 6th annual Living in Languages Conference 2/20-21/24 (in Zoom)!  FREE & OPEN TO THE PUBLIC!  Focused on issues of “translation” in a literal but also an expanded sense, from questions of reading and ideology to translation understood as exile, displacement geographical and linguistic, and translation in our era of Twitter/X consciousness, warring media bubbles, and the screen as public space.  This year's keynote speaker is Corine Tachtiris, Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature, UMass Amherst, a translator and scholar who has written on Haitian immigrant literature, Francophone Caribbean women writers, Czech literature, and activist translation. Her talk "Intent vs. Impact:  Translating Race and Racism" will be 2/20 at noon. Register herehttps://forms.gle/3Tv9iwQFzPqDuSAUA (Zoom link will be sent to those registered closer to the event date)

Browse our open access, peer-refereed Living in Languages Journal online (https://scholarsarchive.library.albany.edu/liljournal/), crafted by grad students and recent graduates to provide colloquium participants a space to publish their work. 

Phi Beta Kappa guest speaker Shawkat Toorawa, Yale Professor or Arabic Literature and Comparative Literature, joins us Thursday 2/8/22 with talks in our Arabic Culture Class and a Public Lecture on "Writerly Culture in 9th C Baghdad."  Public lecture meets in Lecture Center 04, 4:30-5:30pm.  

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SUNY's Hispanic Learning Institute's Voces Transcending: Latino Literary Expression
Now will be 10/12/23 3pm.  Spanish student signups to participate  are at https://forms.gle/tjKsUHSTK18pXFG78).  Contact: [email protected]

French is offering a new series of informal conversation opportunities, Un cafe avec... starting 9/18/23 1:15pm in HU290 with a French radio journalist (contact: [email protected]).  Stay tuned for more!  

All are invited to the UAlbany Art Museum exhibit Libros/Arte: Handmade Books from Latin American and & Caribbean August 7-December 4, 2023 (Artists' Reception 8/25/23 5-7pm), a lovingly curated collaboration across LLC, LACS and the UAlbany Library of 80+ handmade books by small presses pushing the boundaries of traditional printing techniques while addressing a range of political, social and cultural subjects.  Special thanks to Professors Ilka Kressner and Alejandra Bronfman, Jesús Alonso-Regalado, UAlbany Subject Librarian, and the UAlbany library and museum staff for all their work!  Free admission.  For more information/museum hours visit  www.albany.edu/museum

Join LLC this fall for 5 webinars with bookmakers in Latin America, Fridays 4-5pm Eastern time on 9/29/23, 10/13/23, 10/20/23, 10/27/23, 11/10/23 (most in Spanish, the last in English).  More details to come!

LLC faculty and students will be publishing a cartonera book in the context of the exhibit above.  More soon!

LLC faculty are working on an online database of pedagogical materials for the Spanish classroom related to the Libros/Arte exhibit above.  Stay tuned for more information!

The UAlbany in the High School (UHS) LLC Language Workshop will be 11/3/23. 

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All are invited to the 5th annual Living in Languages Colloquium March 22-23, 2023 focused on issues of “translation” broadly understood, in a literal but also expanded sense that can address not only questions of reading and ideology, nor only core theorists whose focus on this topic remains vital, but also translation understood as exile, displacement geographical and linguistic, computer-assisted translation, translation and violence, and the teaching of translation.  Keynote: 3/22 12–1pm in HU354: “Living Translation: Considerations for Teaching, Research, Creative Activity, and Service.” Regina Galasso, Associate Prof. Spanish & Portuguese Studies and Director of Translation Center, UMass Amherst.  Special Session: 3/23 12:45–1:30pm in HU290: “The Architecture of Language” Benjamin Miller, ENG BA alum now teaching at Emory University, speaking on language and computational methods. This is a collaborative LLC and English Dept event.  Visit our Living in Languages Journal-online, open access, peer-reviewed (https://scholarsarchive.library.albany.edu/liljournal/).

The LLC-UHS annual Spanish Day will be 3/24/23 in the Campus Center.  High school students in schools across NY State participating in the UAlbany in the High Schools program gather on campus for a full day of immersion events, including a treasure hunt, tango, and opportunities to engage in conversation with and learn from a variety of international native Spanish speakers.  

The LLC-UHS annual Francophone Day will be 3/29/23 in the Campus Center. High school students across NY State who participate in the UAlbany in the High Schools program gather on campus for a full day of immersion events, including a treasure hunt, Quebecois music and dancing, and opportunities to engage in conversation with and learn from a variety of international native French speakers.  

LLC's Awards Ceremony and Honor Society inductions will be 5/3/23 5pm n the Campus Center Assembly Hall.  More information to follow!   

LLC is a testing site for the Paris Chamber of Commerce and Industry's internationally recognized DFP A2 (Diplôme de français professionnel-niveau A2) exam certifying competence in Business French.  The exam is offered annually in the Humanities Buidling here at UAlbany each May.  More information to come!  Contact:  Professor Véronique Martin ([email protected]).