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Kurosawa Kiyoshi’s “Creepy” (Japan, 2016)

…botched hostage negotiation with a serial killer turned deadly, ex-detective Koichi (Hidetoshi Nishijima), and his wife move into a new house with a deeply strange new neighbor (Teruyuki Kagawa). His…

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Three Questions for Joe Borkowski on the transition to online instruction

…their way through, but to fully integrate new tools in the way they teach. Every lecturer has taken what they‘ve taught, and translated it to this completely new environment. It’s…

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Lecture by Carl Blyth

Compared with STEM fields, second language (L2) education has only recently begun to embrace open education and the new knowledge ecologies it produces. L2 educators may have been hesitant to…

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Felix Kronenberg

…the physical classroom has not changed all that much in over a century, even as new language teaching methods and approaches, new technologies, and new interdisciplinary insights into better ways…

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Fall 2024 Diverse Voices in Harmony

…of the Board of the Japanese Language Teachers Association of New England in July 2024, and continues to serve through the publication of this newsletter. In December 2024, she was…

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Global Studies students prepare to welcome the Year of the Dog

…work producing the traditional calligraphic scrolls that are displayed at Chinese New Year to bring in luck for the year. A new HASS-A course, “Chinese Calligraphy” offers students opportunities to…

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Portuguese Language Day 2022

…Portuguese-speaking person or nation is referred to as “Lusophone” (Lusófono). An estimated 1.3 million native Portuguese-speakers live in the United States. In New England, Portuguese is the third most widely-spoken…

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Student Profiles: Charles Huang ’11

…in the Chinese language,” says Huang. “So I was motivated by that practical belief, as well as by homesickness.” Huang grew up in Westbury, New York, with parents who spoke…

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Why Study Languages?

…and can shape your understanding of the world. The power to see and articulate the world around you with multiple lenses and languages will serve your successful interaction with new

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Information Networks and Celebrity in Enlightenment France

…presumed to be a very recent phenomenon. Antoine Lilti argues, on the contrary, that celebrity culture had its origins in the eighteenth century. In London as in Paris, the new

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2016 German Studies Excellence Award

First Prize Suma Anand ’17, Newton, MA Second Prize Dina Levy-Lambert ’17, New York, NY Lucine Gabriel ’17, Pittsburgh, PA Third Prize Christina Curlette ’16, Atlanta, GA Marianna Agudelo ’16,…

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Bad Hair / Pelo malo (2013, Venezuela)

…a beautiful boy, with big brown eyes, a delicate frame, and a head of luxurious dark curls. But Junior aches to straighten those curls, to acquire a whole new look…

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