News and Events
2024
- Palestinian Chronicles: Journeying through History, Struggle, and Hope - APR 16
- Is Anti-Zionism Antisemitic? Rethinking the Question, APR 15
- Invitation, Lessons from the 1976 US Bicentennial, Apr. 18
- Inaugural TIEC Summit on April 11th
- Translating Wisdom: Classical Traditions from Around the World, APR 1
- Book Talk w/ Drs. Melody Li & Vanessa Patrick, MARCH 19, 930-1030am
- La Crème de la Crème Presents / French Short Film Festival, MAR 21, 5-8pm
- The Relevance of Thirukkural in the Present World, MAR 11
- Hope and Despair in Israel/Palestine, MAR 27
- Merchants of Virtue: Hindus, Muslims, and Untouchables in Early Modern South Asia, APR 3
- Co-Curricular Programs Fair! (FEB 28)
- FEB 28: 2024 AAEF Ajouz Distinguished Lecture "Narrating Humanity: Life Writing and Movement Politics from Palestine to Mauna Kea"
- Shahzia Sikander (American, b. Pakistan 1969) << Artist event FEB 28
2022
2021
2020
- Round Table — Comparative Literature, World Literature, and Translation in Multilingual Contexts | March 18
- Lecture — Confucius Reinterpreted: Teaching Ethics Through Japanese Animation | February 21, 2020
- Lecture — REVOLUTIONARY BODIES: Chinese Dance and the Socialist Legacy | January 24, 2020
2019
- Film Screening — "Putin's Witnesses" | November 7, 2019
- Discussion — Off-White: Yellowface and Chinglish by Angloamerican Culture | Oct. 18, 2019
- Talk — Off-White: Yellowface and Chinglish by Angloamerican Culture | Oct. 17, 2019
- Lecture — The Vigilante Returns: Extralegal Justice and the Common Man in New Bollywood Cinema | Oct. 9, 2019
- Workshop — Reading India Now | Oct. 9, 2019
- Dr. Alessandro Carrera was presented with the Flaiano Prize on July 6, 2019, in Pescara, Italy
- Pranav Rao is the recipient of Boren Scholarship for Hindi in 2019.
- “Temporal Vertigo and the Power of the Remake: Hitchcock, Marker, Gilliam.” featuring professor Gabriel Rockhill
- Bibi aur Tawaif (Wife and Courtesan) - Talk by Dr. Anuradha Needham
- Twenty-Fith Annual Awards Ceremony
- Faculty and Students Invited to Celebrate the publication of two new books by MCL Professors
- “Unraveling the Weaver’s Tale: Like-mindedness and Multivocalism in Atwood’s Penolopiad” - Lecture by Lorina Quartarone
- Lot’s Wife in poetry, politics, and popular culture
- Sugar Land History and the Lost 95 African Americans
- Capturing a Bull in Motion
- MCL Invites you to join us to celebrate Dr. Dué's new book Achilles Unbound
2018
- Look Who's Talking: 101 Things No One Ever Told You About the Magic of Italian Dubbing
- Film Screening: " Pussy Riot the Movement"
- MCL welcomes new faculty
- French class visit to the Culinary Institute Lenôtre
- Bianca Salinas, French BA, Fulbright Fellowship Recipient
- UH Students Receive Nationally Competitive Critical Language Scholarships
- Dr. Harry Hill Walsh (1939 - 2018)
- Global Cinema Series: After the Storm