The MSU Translation Center and the Department of Romance and Classical Studies are proud to announce the launch of the first ever MSU Translation Competition. Open to Spanish and French…
In April, the Italian Film Festival USA --now in its 20th year-- made MSU's East Lansing campus one of the successful stops in its nationwide tour. The Festival USA (link:…
On Feb. 22, PhD students Hannah Olsen and Vanessa Weller presented at the 20th and 21st Century French and Francophone Studies International Colloquium in Philadelphia, PA. The theme of the…
The College of Arts & Letters at Michigan State University is mourning the passing of Virginia Ruifernández-Conde, an Assistant Professor of Spanish in the Department of Romance and Classical Studies.…
On Feb. 3, Scott Boehm presented a major public humanities project in a virtual colloquium organized by ALCESXXI. Boehm, among four other scholars from separate institutions, were invited to present…
On Feb. 12, students from our department’s Italian program ventured to Detroit for a series of events by Afro-Italian rapper Amir Issaa to celebrate Black History Month. The morning of,…
Grace Krajewski is a third-year student majoring in Human Biology in Lyman Briggs College and minoring in Dance and Spanish, both in the College of Arts & Letters. The Rochester Hills, Michigan, native writes about how her love of the arts has had an impact on her studies in a STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math) field.
On Mar. 13th, the RCAH Center for Poetry is partnering with MSU's Arts Living-Learning Community (ALLC) to present an evening of untranslated poetry for the first time since 2020. The…
The MSU Latinx Film Festival (LxFF) is returning this year after a four-year pandemic-induced hiatus. Scheduled for Feb. 15-18 at several different venues across the Michigan State University campus and in the Lansing and East Lansing communities, the 2024 festival will continue its tradition of screening ground-breaking independent cinema from Latin America, Spain, and the United States while shining a cinematic light on various social issues.
On Tuesday, December 5th, GSA-TROPOS welcomed Dr. Ndiaye to speak about her book, Scripts of Blackness: Early Modern Performance Culture and the Making of Race. Her academic work examines how…