3/5/13
UWG Daily Report
Headlines
• Department of Foreign Languages & Literatures Invited Lecture
• Dine West This Week
• Free Skin Cancer Screening
• UWG is Going Google
• Opera at UWG
Announcements:
• As part of its new invited lecturer series, on Wednesday, March 6, at 5:30 pm, The Department of Foreign Languages & Literatures will welcome Dr. Hazel Gold of Emory University, who will give an invited lecture titled “Framing the Post: Galdós and Letter Fiction, between Mail and Female.” The talk will look specifically at Tristana, but will be ranging over supporting texts about letters, letter manuals, the postal system, etc. The location will be the TLC, Rm 1200.
Hazel Gold received her B.A. in Spanish summa cum laude from Mount Holyoke College and her M.A. and Ph.D. in Romance Languages from the University of Pennsylvania. Prior to Emory, she taught at Columbia University and Northwestern University. In addition to her appointment in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at Emory University she is a core faculty member of the Tam Institute for Jewish Studies and an associated faculty member of the Department of Middle Eastern and South Asian Studies (MESAS).
Her research and teaching interests center on 19th-21st century Spanish peninsular literature and culture; narrative theory; the urban imaginary in literature and film; Ladino language and Sephardic and Latin American Jewish studies. In addition to numerous articles in peer-reviewed journals and edited collections, she is the author of The Reframing of Realism: Galdós and the Discourses of the Nineteenth-Century Spanish Novel (Duke UP) and a soon to be completed manuscript on the poetics and politics of modern Spanish epistolary discourse. At Emory she has served multiple terms as Chair and DGS of Spanish as well as interim Chair and DUS of Jewish Studies. She has held numerous elected offices in the profession, including: President, Asociación Internacional de Galdosistas; MLA Division on 18th- and 19th-Century Spanish Literature; and currently Vice President, Sociedad de Literatura Española del Siglo XIX. She has also served on the PMLA Advisory Committee and is a past recipient of an American Council of Learned Societies Fellowship.
• Special Dinner this Thursday, March 7, at your Z-6-Bobby's Surf & Turf. Treat the family to a night out and leave the cooking to us!
For something different at lunch, Topio's serves a variety of pastas from Chicken Alfredo to Mac n' Cheese. Try it in the UCC Wolves Den.
Remember to take the Dining Survey to help us improve your dining experience on campus.
• There will be a free skin cancer screening on Friday, March 8 from 11:30 am-1 pm, in the TLC Atrium with Dr. David Schoenfeld, MD, board certified dermatologist with Dermatology Specialists of West Georgia.
This kickoff event for Health & Safety Week is raising awareness for Spring Break sun safety. Faculty, staff and students are welcome to take advantage of this special opportunity!
• UWG is transitioning its email and personal calendar services over to Google Apps beginning in April 2013 for faculty and staff. These town hall meetings will give a brief overview of the transition to Google, outline what you can expect during the transition, and allow for an open question and answer time. You can learn more about our transition by visiting here.
Your four opportunities to attend one of our town hall meetings are:
March 19 at 9:30 am, 1.5 hours max. Campus Center Ballroom 108.3. Register online.
March 19 at 2 pm, 1.5 hours max. Campus Center Ballroom 108.3. Register online.
March 27 at 9:30 am, 1.5 hours max. Campus Center Ballroom 108.3. Register online.
March 27 at 2 pm, 1.5 hours max. Campus Center Ballroom 108.3. Register online.
Events:
• Opera is something to talk about at the University of West Georgia! Join us for a double bill of one-act operas: Talk Opera by Milton Granger and The Chatterboxes by Jacques Offenbach. These two comedies will be presented at the Townsend Center for the Performing Arts on Thursday, March 7, at 8:15 pm and Saturday, March 9, at 7:30 pm. Tickets are $10 for adults, $7 for seniors, $5 for non-UWG students, and free for UWG students with student ID.
In Talk Opera, Cookie, a most popular talk show host, has some unique guests on her show. Gilda, Rigoletto, and the Duke are characters straight from Verdi's famous opera, Rigoletto! Granger's clever setting pokes fun at both opera conventions and our own fascination with reality TV and need to fix other peoples' dramatic lives. In The Chatterboxes, Roland, a penniless young man, is trying to escape from his various creditors. He finds himself outside Sarmiento’s house, the uncle of his sweetheart, Inez. Sarmiento is wearied by his talkative wife Beatrix, and when Sarmiento runs into Roland, he entices Roland to help him get Beatrix to stop her chattering ways by out talking her. Of course, Roland has his own plans to win Inez and get her aunt and uncle’s approval. Come see what all the talk and chatter is about with UWG Opera!