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Title: This is Russian Literature Week in New York City
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RUSSIAN LITERATURE WEEK 2017 will take place May 1-6 in literary venues across New York City including Book Culture, the Strand Bookstore, New York University, Columbia University, the Grolier Club, and the Russian Samovar restaurant – and, as always, online. The event presents a series of panels, screenings, and in-person conversations featuring some of Russia’s most acclaimed new authors, famed translators of Russian fiction, and several of the world’s leading Russian literature scholars and literary critics.
For full details go to http://readrussia.org/journal/russian-literature-week-2017-a-festival-of-translation
Source: Read.Russia
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Title: Icelanders Seek to Keep Their Language Alive and Out of ‘the Latin Bin’
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From https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/22/world/europe/iceland-icelandic-language-linguistics.html?_r=0
Icelanders Seek to Keep Their Language Alive and Out of ‘the Latin Bin’
April 22, 2017
The people of Iceland, a rugged North Atlantic island settled by Norsemen about 1,100 years ago, have a unique dialect of Old Norse that has adapted to life at the edge of the Arctic.
Hundslappadrifa, for example, means “heavy snowfall with large flakes occurring in calm wind.”
But the revered Icelandic language, seen by many as a source of identity and pride, is being undermined by the widespread use of English, both in the tourism industry and in the voice-controlled artificial intelligence devices coming into vogue.
Linguistics experts, studying the future of a language spoken by fewer than 400,000 people in an increasingly globalized world, wonder if this is the beginning of the end for the Icelandic tongue.
Read the full article at https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/22/world/europe/iceland-icelandic-language-linguistics.html?_r=0
Source: New York Times
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Title: German Career Fair in Washington, DC: German4Success
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From https://www.goethe.de/ins/us/en/sta/wsh/ver.cfm?fuseaction=events.detail&event_id=20933556
The Goethe-Institut Washington once again invites interested German students and teachers, as well as representatives of German businesses and experts in the field of studying and working in Germany to their Career Day on May 12, 2017, at the Goethe-Institut in Washington, DC.
Starting at 10:30am, high school students will have the opportunity to attend various presentations on the advantages of and the opportunities with German. In addition, students can stop by the info-booths of our partners to receive more information and have their questions answered.
Starting at 2:00 pm, the German Embassy together with the Goethe-Institut will open the afternoon program by introducing the panel discussion “How German(y) Made My Career”. The following afternoon presentations will be geared mostly towards college students and graduates by providing insight about the career opportunities that open up with German language proficiency. The Networking event at 5:00pm will conclude the evening program of the Career Day.
Learn more about this event at https://www.goethe.de/ins/us/en/sta/wsh/ver.cfm?fuseaction=events.detail&event_id=20933556
Source: Goethe-Institut
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Title: German Learning Materials on Deutsched
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Deutsched is a free German education website brought to you by Amr Boghdady, a German learner. The site includes lessons in pronunciation, vocabulary, grammar, and verb conjugation.
Explore this resource at http://www.deutsched.com/
Source: Deutsched
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Title: Virtual Conference: Teaching Leaders and Leadership Through the Classics
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From https://teachingleadershipthruclassics.wordpress.com/
Teaching Leaders and Leadership Through Classics
A Virtual Conference | May 8-22 2017
This conference explores how the study of classical antiquity has been, can be, and should be used as a platform for leadership education in the 21st century.
The fifteen pre-recorded talks that make up this conference are divided into panels of 3-5 presentations, organized around these four questions:
• What are the most effective ways to teach leadership and leaders in a physical classroom or online space?
• How can Classics be used to teach leaders outside of the classroom, in arenas such as business and politics?
• What can we do to get the most out of the study (and therefore the teaching) of ancient leadership?
• What are the best (and worst) ways to draw parallels between ancient and modern leaders?
In addition to the pre-recorded talks, each panel will have an interactive Q&A forum, open only to registered conference participants, where they can connect with each other and delve deeper into the issues raised by the talks. There will also be a separate general conference forum, allowing participants to discuss ideas that don’t neatly fit into one of the four panels. The Q&A forums will be open and live May 8-22, 2017, and, along with the talks and other supplementary materials, will be archived for future site visitors after the conference has closed.
Learn more about this conference and register at https://teachingleadershipthruclassics.wordpress.com/
Source: Teaching Leaders and Leadership Through the Classics
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Title: Maine Junior Classical League
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The Maine Junior Classical League will be holding its Spring Convention at Camp Mechuwana on May 16-17, 2017. Learn more at http://maineclassics.org/2017/04/25/maine-jcl-spring-convention-2017/
Some scholarships are available; the deadline to apply is today! http://maineclassics.org/2017/04/26/mejcl-spring-convention-scholarship-2017/
Source: Maine Classics
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Title: Literacy in the Language Classroom: Summarizing and Note-taking
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From http://www.throwawayyourtextbook.com
Our May InterCom theme is literacy in the language classroom. In this recent blog post, the author of the Throw Away Your Textbook! blog describes scaffolding students’ skills summarizing information and take notes in a meaningful way. Read the blog post at http://www.throwawayyourtextbook.com/blog/marzano-strategy-2-summarizing-note-taking
Source: Throw Away Your Textbook!
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Title: "Oda al mar" de Pablo Neruda: An Interactive Launchpad
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From https://edsitement.neh.gov
Learn some background about Pablo Neruda and access resources for studying his poem “Oda al mar” at https://edsitement.neh.gov/oda-al-mar-de-pablo-neruda-interactive-launchpad
Source: National Endowment for the Humanities
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Title: Voc/zes: El podcast de la Universidad de Minnesota
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From https://cla.umn.edu/spanish-portuguese/news-events/story/voczes-minneapolis
Voc/zes is a weekly podcast in which Spanish instructors Stephanie Hernandez and Liz Lake interview one or more people from the Spanish or Portuguese communities in the Twin Cities to capture and share their stories. New episodes come out every Thursday of the academic school year.
The Podcast is hosted on Soundcloud at https://soundcloud.com/user-749661530. Download directly to your favorite podcast app on your phone using this RSS feed: http://feeds.soundcloud.com/users/soundcloud:users:236454397/sounds.rss
You can also find the project on Facebook at Voc/zes (https://www.facebook.com/umnvoces/?fref=ts), and on Twitter @umnvoces.
Learn more about Voc/zes at https://cla.umn.edu/spanish-portuguese/news-events/story/voczes-minneapolis.
Read a review of this resource at http://borderlandslanguage.weebly.com/reviews/spanish-podcast-voczes
Source: University of Minnesota
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Title: Cinco de Mayo Resources
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This Friday will be Cinco de Mayo, a holiday that is celebrated more in the United States than in Mexico where the actual Battle of Puebla was fought. Larry Ferlazzo has put together a selection of resources so that you and your students can learn more about the celebration and its origins: http://larryferlazzo.edublogs.org/2009/04/10/the-best-sites-for-teaching-learning-about-cinco-de-mayo/
Source: Larry Ferlazzo’s Websites of the Day…
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