Join us at la Peña, the Spanish conversation hour hosted by the Department of Humanities and the Modern Languages Program. We come together several times during the academic year to speak Spanish in an informal social gathering. Come relax, meet Spanish speakers of all levels, and have a light snack and refreshment. Friends welcome!
La Peña is held from 5-6 p.m in Walker 120A. Join us on the following Tuesdays for Fall 2018:
Please join us in a celebration of spring with a french, german, and spanish sing along Wednesday, April 11th, 5-6 pm in Walker 134!
Featuring Maple Sugar Folk and guest performers Andy Fiss and Abraham Romney.
Refreshments will be served. For more information please contact Karin Schlenker, German Lecturer, kbschlen@mtu.edu.
Conversation Hour for Spanish this semester will meet the following Tuesdays, 5-6pm, at HDMZ 120A:
February 13th
February 27th
March 20th
March 27th
April 10th
Café Français activities will resume this week. As usual, we will meet from 5 p.m. to 6 p.m. every Thursday in Walker 120C. Join us for an hour of laid-back conversation in a francophone setting. Snacks and light refreshments will be provided. Any levels welcome.
Join Modern Languages faculty and students from 5:30 to 6:30 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 28 in Walker 134 for a unique celebration of French, German and Spanish Holiday traditions. Appearing live will be the French Canadian group Maple Sugar Folk as well as guest performer Andy Fiss.
Learn songs in each language for the sing-along and listen to traditional holiday music. Play Holiday Bingo and enjoy a variety of treats from different cultures. No prior language experience required. Families are welcome.
For more information, contact Karin Schlenker.
Rozsa Lecture “Survivor: A Conversation with a Holocaust Survivor from the Survivors Speakers Bureau of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum”
The Museum’s Office of Survivor Affairs is proud to offer schools, civic groups, military bases, and other institutions nationwide the opportunity to hear a Holocaust survivor share his or her experiences. Every year, our survivor speakers reach hundreds of different audiences, providing thousands of people across the country and abroad with the moving and memorable experience of listening to them recount their stories of suffering, loss, and survival.
The speaker will be Peter Gorog, born Péter Grünwald in Budapest, the capital of Hungary, on March 10, 1941. Peter’s father, Árpád Grünwald, worked as an office manager at the Franklin Publishing House and his mother, Olga Schönfeld, was a hat-maker. Hear his story, and learn how his experience can inform society today.
https://www.ushmm.org/remember/office-of-survivor-affairs/speakers-bureau
Wednesday, September 13 at 7:30 pm
Rozsa Center for the Performing Arts
1400 Townsend Drive, Houghton, MI 49931
You can purchase the tickets by either visiting our events page or through this link directly to ticketing services, tickets will be available for the event beginning September 1st.
Modern Languages hosts a language celebration of French, Spanish, and German.
The French-Canadian group, Maple Sugar Folk, will perform and help teach songs in French, German and Spanish. There will also be guest performers.
There may be some games played if time allows. Refreshments will be served.
Contact Karin Schlenker, kbschlen@mtu.edu, with questions.
Tuesday, April 11th
Walker 134
5-6pm
The Humanities Department is screening their second movie in this year’s Spring Film Series at 7 p.m. today (March 23) in Walker 134.
The film is “C.R.A.Z.Y.” by Québécois director Jean-Marc Vallée. There will be English subtitles, so bring your friends and family.
Join us at 5 p.m. today (March 23) in Walker 120C (inside the HDMZ). Come relax, chat in an informal Francophile setting and play a variety of fun games. Refreshments, coffee/tea and French snacks will be served.
We hope you can come for the whole hour, but you can join and leave at any time. Pass the information along, and bring someone as well.
Why would someone put acceptance to a prestigious law school on hold to spend a year in Germany? That’s just what Russell Lawson did, and he doesn’t regret a minute of it.
Lawson, who earned his Bachelor of Science in Mathematics with a minor in economics at Michigan Technological University in 2016, has been accepted into the University of Michigan Law School, but he chose to spend this year participating in the Congress Bundestag Youth Exchange program. In Germany, he’s going to school, working a job, immersing himself in the culture.
Lawson calls the competitive program, known as the ‘’Parlamentarisches Patenschafts-Programm’’ in German, a “cultural exchange program aimed at promoting understanding and cooperation between the two countries.” It includes 75 participants chosen from all over the US, representing a majority of states and multiple fields of study. “We have engineers, bio chem majors, those who study music, politics, international relations, two welders and four chefs/bakers, really a diverse group,” Lawson explains.
Read the full story.
In the News: The Monroe News (Minnesota) published a feature article about Russell Lawson, a Michigan Tech student who is spending a year on a fellowship in Germany.
by Mary LeDoux, student writing intern