Babel

Bruno Perreau had an article published this week in a special issue of the journal DeSignis on "Estudios Queer. Semióticas y políticas de la sexualidad" ("Queer Studies. Semiotics and Politics of Sexuality"). The title of the article is: "La inversión de lo universal. Una epistemología de los estudios gays y lésbicos en Francia."

The article can be read through the link below (article in French):
http://www.lacrujiaediciones.com.ar/index.php/coleccion-designis/44-semiotica/247-estudios-queer-semioticas-y-politicas-de-la-sexualidad

Additionally, on Thursday May 9th, Perreau gave a keynote titled “No Future? Gay Parenting and the Question of the Child’s Best Interest” at the Annual Conference of the Francophone Organization for Knowledge held at the University of Québec.

On Saturday April 6th, the Japanese group hosted the 13th Boston Area Speech Event in Killian Hall. Two students each from Boston College, Boston University, Brandeis, Northwestern, Harvard, MIT and Wellesley presented speeches in Japanese.

On May 7th, Nilma Dominique presented a Tau Beta Pi Da Vinci Lecture. The topic of the lecture was "Life in Brazil."

The Tau Beta Pi (the National Engineering Honor Society) Da Vinci Lectures offer presentations on a variety of topics, and engage in hearty conversation in the spirit of Leonardo da Vinci: artist, architect, engineer, scientist, and philosopher.

FL&L was well represented at the 2013 Massachusetts Association of Teachers of Speakers of Other Languages (MATSOL) conference held in Framingham on May 1-3.

On Thursday May 2nd, Katie Barker presented a workshop for other English language teachers titled: "Wham Bam! Teaching your students to write attention-grabbing introductions."

On Friday May 3rd, Yuka Akiyama presented "Task-based eTandem Language Learning: E-textbook Creation and Professional Development."