Recent News

  • October 2018 Transcontinental Crossroads Confererence Video Production Announced
    3/25/19
    The Humanities Institute and the Melodia E. Jones Chair have completed the video production of the speeches by the participants in the recent Conference “Buffalo: Transatlantic Crossroads of a Critical  Insurrection / Carrefour transatlantique d’une insurrection critique”. Thank you to many of our graduate students who have contributed their time, skills and intellectual interests to this video production: Benoit Ngolo, Amelia Gayle, Maria Diaz, Valentina Ospina, under the supervision of Ashley Byczkowski, who also participated in the production of all the videos by preparing the titling of all the films. Thank you also to all the UB faculty members and administrators from the College of Arts and Sciences and the Departments of Romance Languages and Literatures, Visual Studies, English and Comparative Literature who chaired panels and introduced speakers. All produced films are now available on the web at:  https://vimeo.com/album/5785586.
  • Clinical Assistant Professor of Spanish Sharonah Fredrick Joins in UB's Annual Life Raft Debate
    2/15/19
    Arguing that "We cannot choose who survives; the human struggle is for all or for none,” Sharonah Fredrick surprised the audience by ceding her seat on an imaginary spacecraft traveling to a new world during an enthusiastic debate at the eighth annual Life Raft Debate, held Tuesday February 12, 2019 in Capen Hall. Read the UB Now article.
  • 6th Annual Big Buffalo Quebec Film Festival Announced
    2/15/19
    The Department of Romance Literatures and Languages and the Melodia E. Jones Endowed Chair for Quebec Studies are proud to announce that the 6th Annual Big Buffalo Quebec Film Festival will be held this spring, April 10, 11, and 12, 2019.
  • RLL PhD candidate Dijana Savija travels to Texas with UB Law Clinic Team
    3/4/19
    Dijana Savija spent part of Winter Break 2019 serving as one of two interpreters with a team of UB Law School students and faculty member Nicole Hallett, as they provide volunteer legal services to women and children detained at the South Texas Family Residential Center, Dilley, Texas.  We congratulate Dijana on this assignment!   
  • Sue Walker celebrates 20 years of service to UB
    9/17/18
    RLL faculty, staff and students helped Sue Walker celebrate this milestone year with a surprise party on September 14, 2018.  We congratulate Sue on her accomplishment, and sincerely thank her for her hard work and loyalty to the department.  We look forward to many more years of working together!  Thank you, Sue!
  • UB Community Mourns the Passing of Professor Jeannette Ludwig
    8/3/18
    The University at Buffalo community mourns the loss of associate professor of French Emerita Jeannette Ludwig, who left us on Sunday July 29, 2018, after a long struggle with cancer. She won the SUNY Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Teaching, coordinated a special visit to UB by the Dalai Lama, archived her travel photography in a digital collection at UB, and taught adult education at Chautauqua Institute until two days before her death. Condolences to her husband, SUNY Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus Claude Welch, and the rest of her family. Read more