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Item Minutes of Literature Faculty Meeting Regarding the Separation between Language and Literature.(Bennington College, 1948) Burkhardt, Frederick, 1913-2007; Kunitz, Stanley, 1905-2006; Foster, Kit; Burke, Kenneth, 1897-1993; Belitt, Ben, 1911-2003The date 1950-51 written in pencil at the top of the document is most likely incorrect due to the reference in the document of the next semester being Spring 1949, therefore the document is most likely from the fall of 1948.Item Minutes of the Meeting of the Literature Faculty(1948-11-24) Golffing, Francis C.Item Meeting of Literature Faculty (Minutes)(Bennington College, 1948-12-01) Foster, Kit; Belitt, Ben, 1911-2003; Golffing, Mr; Kunitz, Stanley, 1905-2006; Jackson, Mr; Lewis, Mr; Burke, Kenneth, 1897-1993; Nemerov, Howard, 1920-1991Item Minutes of the Meeting of the Literature Faculty(1948-12-01) Foster, Catherine OsgoodItem Minutes of the Meeting of the Literature faculty(Bennington College, 1949-03-24) Foster, C. O.Item Total Language Enrollments(1951)Number of students enrolled in language classes "excluding enrollments in foreign literature courses" between 1946-1951. Languages offered were French, Italian, German, Spanish, Russian, Greek, and Latin.Item Memorandum to Faculty Educational Policies Committee (FEPC) from Secretary, Languages and Literature Division(Bennington College, 1951-11-02)Item Literature Division Proposed Curriculum 1953-54(1953)"Six sections of Language and Literature will be conducted...These classes will be taught by Mrs. Foster and Messers. Belitt, Hyman, Kaplan, Wilcox, Nemerov, and Golffing. Mr. Fowlie will teach his Introduction to French Literature. The same numbersof courses in Spanish French, German and Russian will be taught by Miss Hasenclever and Mrs. Montesinos."Item Asylum to Chilean Students and Foreign Political Refugees(1983-09-18) Cheuse, Alan; Gonzalez, Eduardo"Thousands of Chilean and foreign students have been arrested by the military junta which last week overthrew the Allende government. The governments of Argentina, Mexico, and Peru have let it be known to friends of the Chilean democracy that if American sentiment is strong they will open their doors to political refugees from among the student group."Item Suggested Office Assignment-Fall '85 (Memorandum)(Bennington College, 1985-07-23)Item Events of the Literature & Languages Division - Spring 1986(Bennington College, 1986)Item Listing of Literature & Language Faculty Fall 1983-Fall 1986(Bennington College, 1986)Item Homage to Neruda: Late and Posthumous Poems: 1968-1974 (Poster)(Bennington College, 1989-05-09) Belitt, Ben, 1911-2003; Córdova, JoséItem The Aesthetic of Chinese Art, Music, and Culture (Poster)(Bennington College, 2010-04-21)Item The Demonstration of Ikebana by Yuji Ueno (Poster)(2014-10-02)Yuji Ueno is an independent floral artist who has developed his own unique philosophy and artistic sensibility—by turns outrageously passionate and exceptionally tranquil. Formerly trained in traditional Japanese floral arrangement, Sogestu Ikebana, Ueno later sought greater freedom to chart his own course and to develop his own flower concept that he calls Hanaike. His aim is to draw out the essence of the natural world and convey the true meaning of beauty in fine ‘flower arrangements’. At Bennington College he will give a demonstration of his floral art, seeking inspiration from the place to forge an artistic piece within the local context.Item Dancing with Brush Marks with Yeachin Tsai (Poster)(2014-10-09)An evening of Sumi ink and brush strokes - an introduction to Traditional Chinese Calligraphy and Brush Painting by Yeachin Tsai. Tsai will demonstrate the principles of these ancient disciplines and discuss how the practice can bring us vividly into the present moment. The evening will include a demonstration and contemporary artwork presentation.Item The Fall 2015 Foreign Language Series (Poster)(2015) Stanton, Domna (CUNY); Siniawer, Eiko Maruko (Williams College); Validivieso, Christina '16; Yeachin, Tsai; Harnett-Marshall, Patrick '16; Lombardi, Giancarlo (CUNY); Village School of North BenningtonDate, time and place of events : September 10, 2015, 7:00 pm, CAPA Symposium, Professor Domna Stanton (CUNY) (French) Enslaved to Chocolate: Empire and Religion, Commerce, and Gender in Louis XIV’s France (Lecture) -- September 24, 2015, 7:00 pm, EAC 1, Professor Eiko Maruko Siniawer (Williams College) (Japanese) Remembering World War II in Japan (Lecture) -- October 6, 2015, 7:00 pm, EAC 1, Cristina Valdivieso ’16 (Spanish) Exclusion and Architecture: The Myth of Old Guayaquil (Advanced Work Presentation) -- October 22, 2015, 7:00 pm, EAC 1, Yeachin Tsai (Chinese) Meditation in Daily Life (Workshop) -- November 3, 2015, 7:00 pm, EAC 1, Patrick Harnett-Marshall ’16 (Spanish) Sor Juana after Calderón (Advanced Work Presentation) -- November 19, 2015 | 7:00 pm, EAC 1, Student teachers at Village School of North Bennington, Language Teaching Insights (Presentation by Bennington students) -- December 3, 2015, 7:00 pm, EAC 1, Professor Giancarlo Lombardi (CUNY) (Italian) Screening Terror: Cinematic Representations of Italian Political Terrorism (Lecture)Item Chinese Night (Poster) : When 9 to 5 becomes 6 to 10 : My experiences with contemporary education in Western China(2015-03-10) Ward, Kelly (Class of 2012)Poster of a program held at the East Academic Center at Bennington College on March 5, 2015. “Wanted: Adventurous teacher to work with 100 amazing students in the most beautiful place in the world.” This was the job advertisement that drew KELLY WARD ’12, to begin teaching English to underserved teenagers from remote nomadic areas in Western China. In her presentation, she will introduce the Tibetan community she lives and works in as a microcosm through which to explore the ever-changing landscape of education in China and the challenges f acing Chinese and Tibetan teens today. Kelly is currently Head Teacher and Curriculum Developer at a small high school intensive English program on the Qinghai Tibetan Plateau. Her book, Fading Memories, Faded Lives: Mongghul Photographs from Qinghai, China, which she co-authored with Limushiden, Jugui, and Dr. Kevin Stuart, was published in December 2014.Item Miguel Gallardo : Cartooning Workshop with Prominent Spanish Cartoonist and Illustrator(2015-03-12) Gallardo, MiguelPoster of cartooning workshop with Miguel Gallardo at the East Academic Center 1 at Bennington College on March 12, 2015. Students with interests in autism spectrum disorder, drawing, Spanish, or special education should not miss it.Item Don't Shovel (Poster) : The Use of Farming and Culinary Tools as Resistance in Julie Otsuka's "The Emperor Was Divine"(2015-03-26) Izumi, Katsuya; East Academic CenterJulie Otsuka’s When the Emperor Was Divine (2002) discusses the traumatic experiences of a Japanese American family who, along with more than 110,000 Japanese and Japanese Americans, was sent to internment camps during the aftermath of the Pearl Harbor attack. With its unusual use of farming and culinary tools, this novel can be read as a resistance statement both in its historical context and in Asian American literary traditions. Dr. Katsuya Izumi’s research focuses on food and identity in Asian American literature. He has taught American literature, English writing, and Japanese.