“Classics major senior Lauren Milburn is traveling through time to the 1500s through her work translating ancient texts and studying the civilizations who created them. However, her capstone experience for her classics major is more than translating a textbook or famous novel.”

Read more from the Index article: http://www.trumanindex.com/finding-faith-in-translation-1.2680672

Sigma Delta Pi, the National Collegiate Hispanic Honor Society, is hosting Zombie Zumbathon Saturday, October 29th from 1-3pm in the SUB Activities Room! Zumba is an increasingly popular latin dance aerobics work out. This Zumbathon will be led by certified Zumba instructor Chelsea Braun of Columbia, MO and can help you burn 2000-3000 calories during the event. Feel free to dance and workout as much or as little as you like during the event. There will be a costume competition during the event as well. Cost will be $3 for students and $5 for adults. These are special Truman discounts! Ditch the workout. Join the party!

José Antonio Fábres (’88) volvió a Truman para nuestro Homecoming, y dio una presentación sobre el Camino de Santiago el viernes, 7 de octubre a las 7:00 en BH 314. Después de haber obtenido su bachillerato en español de NMSU, en 1988, José obtuvo su maestría y doctorado de la Universidad de Kentucky en Lexington. Desde entonces trabaja para las instituciones College of Saint Benedict/Saint John’s University en Minnesota. Su vida académica, aparte de haber publicado artículos en el Instituto Cervantes, ha estado dedicada casi exclusivamente al servicio. Además de haber ocupado el cargo de jefe del departamento de Hispanic Studies por 12 años ha creado programas académicos en Valladolid, Viña del Mar y el Camino de Santiago.

Sigma Delta Pi presents

 Law School:

Myth and Reality

Interested in law school?  Wondering about the application process or what law school is really like?  Would you like to find out how the knowledge of another language like Spanish can be useful in a career involving law?  If so, join us for an informal discussion with 2009 Truman State Alumni:

Elizabeth Bonanno

Political Science and Spanish major at TSU

3rd year law student at University of Colorado

 Friday, October 7^th  * Baldwin Hall 226 * 12:30-1:30 p.m.

The Classical and Modern Languages Faculty invite alumni who majored in foreign language to return to the Truman campus in Kirksville for Homecoming 2011. Please be our guests at our First Annual Classical and Modern Languages Open House! Your professors in Spanish, French, German, Russian and Classics are still here! We go back 15, 20, 25 years and more, and we’d love to see you again! Get together with old classmates, network with other alums, sample international cuisine, and re-connect with your old professors!

Saturday, October 8th, 2011, 5pm-8pm at the University Club (behind Ryle Hall).

Slam de Poesía/ Poetry Slam
Wednesday, April 13, 9:30 PM
Dukum Up
18 & Up!

Works by students’ favorite Hispanic authors and original works were performed by students and faculty. There were 3 rounds: beginning Spanish, advanced Spanish, and English.  There were also fun prizes and karaoke between rounds! Admission was free, but donations were accepted at the door on behalf of a charity.

Screening of Biutiful
Friday, April 1, 7 PM
Violette Hall 1000

Admission was free, thanks to the generous support of the Funds Allotment Council (FAC). There was a pre-movie mini presentation on Javier Bardem and illegal immigration in Spain. Refreshments followed the movie.

Professor Liudmila Pravikova

of Pyatigorsk State Linguistic University, Pyatigorsk, Russia
spoke on “The North Caucasus after the collapse of the Soviet Union: a sociolinguistic perspective”
Wednesday, January 26 at 7 p.m in Baldwin Hall 231

Truman State University was well represented at the Annual Conference of the Foreign Language Association of Missouri Annual Conference held in October 2010 at the Lodge of the Four Seasons. 

Thirteen current and former students in the Master of Arts in Education program as well as three faculty members attended the conference.  Brandi Moeller Pruente, French teacher at Truman High School in Independence, gave a presentation titled La Belgique: Sa Langue, Sa Culture et Sa Beauté.  Dr. Carol Marshall and Dr. Timothy Farley gave a presentation focused on designing thematic units based on their collaboration in the MAE program.  Farley also gave a presentation on using French radio podcasts in the classroom. Dr. Gregg Siewert lead a roundtable discussion of teaching ideas for the French classroom. Nita Shipp, Moberly, currently serves as the Region III (northeast Missouri) Representative to the FLAM executive board.

Front row:  Alexis McGeahy (MAE-Fr), Mariana Bruna (exchange student from Chile),   Theresa Giuffrida (MAE candidate, Sp), Angela Worley (MAE candidate, Fr), Rebecca Gordon (MAE-Sp), Dr. Carol Marshall, Professor Spanish, & Brian Santos (MAE-Sp)
Middle row:  Dr. Gregg Siewert, Professor of French, Jocelyn Nebel (MAE candidate, Sp), Julia Reimann (MAE-Sp) & Jennifer (Roach) Miller (MAE-Sp)
Back row:  Jennifer Lee (MAE-Fr), Rachel Uhlig (MAE-SP) Jason Sinclair (MAE candidate, Sp), Joanne Appleby, (MAE-Sp), Nita Shipp, & Dr. Timothy Farley, professor of French. 
Not present for the photo:  Brandi (Moeller) Pruente (MAE-Fr).

United Nations Language Services: yesterday, today, tomorrow

Presentation at Truman University
Igor Shpiniov
Department for General Assembly and Conference Management