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Master a language. Live in that language and its culture and learn to think differently. Study complex global social and ethical issues through literature and film. This is what the faculty of LLC offers you in Arabic, Chinese, French, German, Italian, Japanese, and Russian.

Language of Covid Symposium

For two years now, the global pandemic of Covid-19 has been lived as a global phenomenon that has drawn in not only international institutions such as WHO, the UN, the EU, but also has necessitated the application of both general and local interventions. This conference explores the debates and discussions on the ways the Covid-19 pandemic was lived, dealt with, and mitigated by various cultures and languages.

The Language of Covid Symposium will consist of addresses, expert panels, and artistic screenings and a performance.

LEARN MORE ABOUT THE SYMPOSIUM SCHEDULE, PANELISTS, AND PRESENTATIONS. 

All events are free-of-charge and offered in-person or remote.

Celebrating Our 2020 Graduates!

African Film Weekend

The African Film Weekend screens new and original African films each fall to celebrate African culture on the continent and the Diaspora through cinema. The 2019 African Film Weekend, presented September 20-22, will be themed "Where is Home After Migrating?" Visit the event's website for a listing of films and accompanying lectures.

Feature Stories

University of Richmond French and Italian Studies Professor Awarded Fellowship to Study Italian Transnational Literature
Associate professor of French and Italian studies Lidia Radi has been awarded a Virginia Foundation for Independent Colleges Mednick Fellowship for her research on transnational literature.
Student research results in online exhibition featuring ancient coins
For the past semester, Laposata has examined coins from the eastern Mediterranean which stemmed from research for his honors history thesis.
A&S hosts Contested Spaces event about walls and borders around the world
On February 28th in the Richmond Room, the departments of history, sociology & anthropology, and languages, literatures, and cultures hosted a scholarly conference entitled “Walls, Borders, and Partitions in Global Perspective.” The conference was held as part of this year’s Contested Spaces in which the 2019-20 focal point is “This Ground.”
Colby College history professor to give talk on Russian engineering
On November 14th, Paul Josephson, a history professor at Colby College, will give a talk entitled “Putin’s Nostalgia for the Soviet Union.” A specialist in the history of technology and environmental history, Josephson has written several books including Red Atom: Soviet Nuclear Policy from Stalin until Today (2000); An Environmental History of Russia (2013); The Conquest of the Arctic (2014), and, most recently, “Putin’s Projects: The Russian Empire, Resources and Technology in the 21stCentury” (forthcoming).
University of Richmond to Spotlight South African Culture During International Week 2018
South African films and photos, as well as a Bok Walk and Illuminated Tree Walk will be featured during The University of Richmond’s campus-wide celebration of International Education Week November 12-16.
3 Students receive prized State Dept. language scholarshipsThree Spiders are heading overseas with U.S. Department of State Critical Language Scholarships. Learn more in Spider Pride
Richmonder and recent University of Richmond graduate awarded Fulbright to teach English in Malaysia
Tim Gruber of Richmond has received a Fulbright English Teaching Assistantship, which he will complete in Malaysia January through November 2019.
University of Richmond student Rylin McGee awarded international Gilman scholarship for study abroad in Russia
University of Richmond junior Rylin McGee, of Rochester, New York, has received a Gilman scholarship.
Illustration by Katie McBride
Rays of LifeAn except from Dr. Yvonne Howell's recently edited collection of Russian and Soviet science fiction, Red Star Tales. Read More
Matt DiCintio, '00When Matt DiCintio, ’00, began researching early American tavern performances, he expected to find advertisements for short plays. Instead, he found a strongwoman. And then a lion. Similar characters and animals kept appearing. That’s when DiCintio, a history buff with “a taste for the bizarre and offbeat,” knew he’d found the subject of his doctoral dissertation. Read More
Recent University of Richmond graduate awarded Fulbright grant to teach English in Ukraine
Taylor Johnson, a history and Russian studies double major who graduated from the University of Richmond earlier this month, has received a Fulbright English Teaching Assistant grant.
2017 A&S Student Symposium
At the A&S Student Symposium, student researchers share the results of their self-directed projects in the arts, humanities, sciences, and social sciences.
Senior awarded Fulbright grant to teach English in Germany
University of Richmond senior Ryan McEvoy of Brooklyn, N.Y., has received a Fulbright English Teaching Assistant grant.
Ryan McEvoy, '17
Ryan McEvoy, '17, explores different cultures and religions through his classes, research, and study abroad.
French Film Festival 25th Anniversary
The founders of the French Film Festival reflect on how the Festival has grown.

Faculty Highlights

  • Gao Published
    Gao Published

    Gengsong Gao, associate professor of Chinese studies, published the article, "Chinese Centrist Liberal Critics of Trump: A Reconsideration of Contemporary Chinese Liberalism" in the Journal of Current Chinese Affairs.
  • Ravaux-Kirkpatrick Awarded International Honor for Contributions to the Arts
    Ravaux-Kirkpatrick Awarded International Honor for Contributions to the Arts

    Françoise Ravaux-Kirkpatrick, professor of French and film studies, has been awarded the rank of Officer of the Order of Arts and Letters by the French Minister of Culture for her contributions in the artistic and literary field. Learn more.
  • Gao Published
    Gao Published

    Gengsong Gao, associate professor of Chinese studies, published the book A Novel Approach to China What China Debaters Can Learn from Contemporary Chinese Novelists.
  • Gao Published
    Gao Published

    Gengsong Gao, associate professor of Chinese studies, published "Post-Tiananmen Chinese Liberal Intellectuals' Political Uses of Confucian Tradition and Chinese History" in the Journal of Contemporary China.
  • Gao Published
    Gao Published

    Gengsong Gao, assistant professor of Chinese studies, and Dan Chen, assistant professor of political science, published an article titled "The transgressive rhetoric of standup comedy in China" in Critical Discourse Studies.
  • Weist Awarded
    Weist Awarded

    Caroline Weist, Assistant Professor of German Studies, was named one of four ASTR Research Fellowship winners this year for her book project, "Refiguring Volkskörper: Disability and Critical Corporeality on the Twentieth-Century German Stage."
  • Jessica Chan Publishes First Book
    Jessica Chan Publishes First Book

    Dr. Jessica Chan has published Chinese Revolutionary Cinema: Propaganda, Aesthetics, and Internationalism, 1949–1966 (London: I.B.Tauris, 2019) and has a forthcoming article “Literature of the Oppressed: Lu Xun and Nikolai Gogol,” in Frontiers of Literary Studies in China.

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  • Bohon Trains Teachers
    Bohon Trains Teachers Leslie Bohon, the Interim Director of ESL, was one of only two U.S. professors to be asked to train Ukrainian English teachers and administrators in language teaching methods and school leadership at a national forum that was sponsored by the U.S. State Department and Peace Corps.
  • Radi Article
    Radi Article

    French and Italian studies professor Lidia Radi published "Scrittori senza frontiere: Il caso di Elvira Dones," in Critical Multilingualism Studies.
  • Bonfiglio Podcast
    Bonfiglio Podcast

    Dr. Tom Bonfiglio recently appeared on Podcasts@Boatwright, discussing his new book, The Psychopathology of American Capitalism.

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Carole Weinstein International Center
211 Richmond Way
University of Richmond, VA 23173

Phone: (804) 289-8096
Fax: (804) 287-6446

Department Chair: Dr. Kasongo Kapanga
Academic Administrative Coordinator: June Wise

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