February 22
Alexander Košenina, University of Hannover/Vanderbilt will give a lecture on Sex and Crime in Early Modern Europe on Friday, February 22 at 1.30 p.m. in Jones 214. A reception will follow in Jones 108. Everyone is cordially invited. 

Alexander Košenina is Professor of German at the University of Hannover and is currently guest professor at Vanderbilt. He is an internationally known expert on the Age of Enlightenment with special interest in anthropology and theatre. His publications include Anthropologie und Schauspielkunst (1995), Der gelehrte Narr. Gelehrtensatire seit der Aufklärung (2004), Karl Philipp Moritz (2006), Literarische Anthropologie (2008), Ifflands Dramen (ed. 2009), Blitzlichter der Aufklärung (2004), Kotzebues Dramen (ed. 2011), and Das Werk von Christian August Vulpius (ed. 2012). He is also Vice President of the G.E. Lessing Society.

The lecture is sponsored by the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures.

March 1
Presenter: Heather Fuller
Topic: How to use the new Vistas Supersite (including the Gradebook)
Time: 1pm
Room: Jones 220 (Language Media Center)

March 8
Presenter: Dr. Diana Ruggiero
Topic: Deep conversations in the classroom: World Café and activities for the classroom in the XXI century
Time: 1:30pm
Room: Panhellenic Bldg. Room 201

March 28
Presenter: Dr. Letizia Modena, Associate Professor of Italian, Vanderbilt University
Topic: Of Mountains and Seas: Space and Identity in Contemporary Italian Film
Time: 6:00pm
Room:  FedEx 227

April 5
Presenter: Romar Rodriguez
Topic: "Animate your classroom"
Time: 1:30pm
Presenter: Isadora Belmonte
Topic: "How to engage students using technology"
Time: 2:00pm
Room: Jones 220 (Language Media Center)

April 8
Dr. Kathy L. Gaca will give a lecture on Monday, April 8, at 2:00 p.m. in Jones Hall 218 entitled: From Sex Goddess to Naked Prostitute: Aphrodite in Early Christianity.

Kathy Gaca is Associate Professor of Classics at Vanderbilt University. Her major research interests concern Greek and Roman philosophy, biblical history and social values, socially normative ideas in the Greek biblical traditions, Philonic and patristic ethics. In her current book project she is tackling the sexual trajectory of warfare against women and girls, which is rooted in antiquity and remains a modern-day problem.

The lecture is sponsored by the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures

April 19
Presenter: Laura Fernández
Topic: "Vocabulary Strategies"
Time: 1:30pm
Presenter: Harriet Skupin
Topic: "Teaching with Patterns"
Time: 2:00pm
Room: Jones 218