“Our very own Shiamin Kwa will be featured at Philadelphia’s Big Blue Marble Bookstore in an event with Leta Hong Fichner who has been a visiting speaker at Bryn Mawr. Come learn more about this interesting and important topic on November 30!”
Headline Archive for Karla Alfaro-Urias
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2023-2024 Bi-Co Course Roster
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This online archive will showcase the lived experiences of different people within the Bi-Co community through artifacts that amplify and document their stories. When we engage in conversations about diversity and inclusion, we often focus on monolithic categories of identity. In doing so, we not only lose sight of the different experiences within categories such as race, gender, socioeconomic status, but also how these various identity markers intersect and create unique perspectives and struggles. Through artifacts such as written or video testimonials, poems, and photographs, we aim to capture and amplify intersectional narratives that resist static monolithic labels of those within the Bi-Co community.
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This course immerses students in an array of common Japanese media forms that subtly reinforce powerful, widely held, and often unquestioned historical, cultural, and political preconceptions underlying popular ideas about Japanese identity. Analysis of the media enables students to hone advanced understanding Japanese language, language variation, and associated underlying Japanese cultural values. Ultimately, however, the course is designed to develop students’ critical analytical skills in discerning and decoding the subtexts of the media, and, by extension, to deepen their awareness of how information in media inherently embodies preconceived values and notions of social hierarchy–in any linguistic or cultural setting.
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2021 2022 Academic Year Bi-Co Course Schedules
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Robbie Spratt '21 had an essay included in the Columbia Journal of Literary Criticism’s 2021 issue, Intimacy, released in June 2021. This article, somewhat adapted from their French thesis, focuses on what Guillaume Dustan and Dans ma chambre can teach us about queer intimacy and the new COVID-19 lifestyle to which we have all adapted.
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Robbie Spratt is completing his BA in French at Haverford this Spring '21
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Jacob Coleman is completing his BA in French at Haverford this Spring '21
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Recently accepted as a Global Writing and Speaking Fellow at New York University Shanghai, French and Francophone Studies major Robbie Spratt ’21 will be moving to China this summer.
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Click on the link above to see elective courses for the academic year
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Students in the 360° course cluster 'Borderlands' this semester have been studying the experiences, interactions, and life in borderlands. They have focused on culture, power, ethnicity, human-environmental interactions, and (trans)nationalism. The cluster consists of three courses in Anthropology, East Asian Languages and Cultures, and Environmental Studies.
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For his thesis, Kevin Medansky performed the American premiere of Yves Reynaud’s monologue, Apnée ou le Dernier des militants.
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The ASIANetwork Exchange recently published a special issue titled Digital Asia which expands upon the pedagogical research presented at the 25th Annual ASIANetwork Conference, “Digital and Beyond: Ways of Knowing Asia.” Co-edited by Prof.
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While the winter skies may be gray outside, the walls of VCAM showcase bright blue textiles in an end-of-semester exhibition The Power of Words, an exploration in traditional Japanese indigo dyeing by the students in the “Advanced Japanese” course.
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As one of three newly appointed Visual, Cultural, Arts, and Media faculty fellows, Assistant Professor of East Asian Languages and Cultures Erin Schoneveld will help promote the many opportunities VCAM has to offer.