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In The Department

 Welcome to the new Department of French and Italian webpage! We would like to thank LAITS for all their hard work and help in making this new site possible.  We appreciate all suggestions, and any issues can be reported to: fritinfo@austin.utexas.edu. 


Information on navigating the site

The French Lyon Study Abroad Program and the Italian Rome Study Abroad Program can be found under the Undergraduate Program link in the naviagion bar, in their respective BA program links. 

INCS 2010

The French and Italian Department is co-sponsoring this year's Interdisciplinary Nineteenth-Century Studies Conference: FAMILY/RESEMBLANCE. The conference will be held at the University of Texas at Austin, March 25-27, 2010.

Congratulations to the CCIP Business French Students!

All 5 CCIP students passed their exams, making them eligible for a diploma. One student passed with honors and two of the five the received high honors. Congrats!

News

Cannes Film Festival Essay Contetst, Monday, February 8th

Monday February 8, the Department of French and Italian is pleased to present the sixth screening of the Cinéma Français Today Film Festival, the 2001 Rachid Bouchareb film Little Senegal. Presenting the film and leading a discussion afterward will be Professor Hélène Tissières from our department, Professor Helena Woodard from the Department of English, and Professor Tola Mosadomi from the Department of Middle Eastern Studies. This film will also be the subject of the Cannes Film Festival Essay Contest, an expense paid trip to the festival this May made possible by the Center for European Studies and the Consulate General of France. For more information on the essay contest, you may visit the FIGSO blog at figso.blogspot.com

Vanishing Voices Linguists work with remaining speakers of dying languages to preserve cultural memories

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Barbara E. Bullock, professor of French and Italian, studies and documents language shifts in the linguistic enclave community of Frenchville, Pa., and in Hispaniola, an island along the border between the Dominican Republic and Haiti.

TLTC Grant

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Texas Language Technology Center Wins Funding from the Department of Education to Develop Low-cost Alternative to Textbooks

Dr. Carl Blyth, director of the Texas Language Technology Center (TLTC) at the University of Texas has won a two-year award from the US Department of Education’s Fund for the Improvement of Post-Secondary Education (FIPSE).

Unprecedented Number of Female Faculty Hired

About half of the 49 professors who will be joining the College of Liberal Arts faculty in 2009-2010 are female. That includes an unprecedented five women coming in as full professors from such schools as Harvard University, the University of California at Berkeley and the University of Southern California.

Events

Thu • Feb 11

I FILM DEL CIRCOLO ITALIANO

MEZ B0.306
8:00 PM

Wed • Feb 24

Lecture: Dr. Dario Brancato Concordia...

HRH 2.118 French and Italian Lounge
4:00 PM

Thu • Feb 25

I FILM DEL CIRCOLO ITALIANO

MEZ B0.306
8:00 PM

Mon • Mar 8

Cinéma Français Today Film Festival

Dobie Theatre
7:00 PM

Thu • Mar 25

I FILM DEL CIRCOLO ITALIANO

MEZ B0.306
8:00 PM
More Upcoming Events ...

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