Are you interested in Japanese culture, anime, manga? You are in luck - the Comparative Literatue Department JUST added Japanese 1001 CRN 47011 with Instructor Rebecca Sexton for Spring 2018. It will be offered Mondays and Fridays at 9:05 am and Tuesdays and Thursdays at 9:30 am. 

CMLT graduate students presented at SAMLA 89:  HIgh Art/Low Art: Borders and Boundaries in Popular Culture November 2017 in Atlanta, Georgia. 

Victor Pisano visited classes and met with CMLT students at the end of October for several days. Mr. Pisano met indivdually with students who were interested in exploring a career in screenplay writing and the motion picture industry in general.

For more information about Victor Pisano, please click on the following link: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0685415/

An The Sweet, Saltiness of Life 

Directed by Kawase Naomi, one of the leading film makers of today's Japan

The film adaptation of the identically titled Dorian Sukegawa novel by previous Cannes Film Festival award recipient, Kawase Naomi. Kiki Kirin exudes a compelling presence as a coarse sweet red bean paste arisan. Sentaro (Nagase Masatoshi), the manager of a shop selling dorayaki has entrusted the making of the coarse red mean paste to Tokue (Kiki Kirin), who asnwered a help wanted advertisement. The incrediblly delicious flavor boosts the store's business, but an unkind rumor causes Tokue to go away. 

Hosted by the Japanese Language Program, Comparative Literature Department

Open to everyone, the Japanese Language Club provides students a space for conversation practice and cultural events related to the study of Japanese at UGA. For more information, contact Ryutaro Urakawa (ru17068@uga.edu).

To apply or to get more information on the program, which is open to students, professors, and K-12 teachers across the state, click here to visit the Tanzania Study Abroad page or contact Dr. Maganda at magandad@uga.edu.

On March 23, Vanderbilt Professor of Spanish, Portuguese, and Comparative Literature Earl Fitz spoke as part of the Willson Research Seminar "Identity in the Americas." Dr. Fitz is a pioneer both of and in the field of Inter-American Studies. He was hosted by Dr. Frans Weiser from Comparative Literature, and the talk was made possible by support from Comparative Literature and the Latin American and Caribbean Studies Institute.

This 2-day conference brings together scholars working in the field of multiculturalism, especially the immigrant narratives of Italian-, Jewish-, and Indian American literatures. For the conference program and information on the invited speakers, click on the following link: Multicultural Fictions Conference Program.

The State of the Art Conference is sponsored by the Office of the Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs and the Provost. The grant is given for interaction between national and international scholars to work with UGA faculty and students. The conference is additionally run with the generous support of Comparative Literature, German and Slavic Literature, English, Romance Languages, the Willson Center, the Graduate School, OVPR, Franklin College Dean's Office, the Office of International Education, and the Center for Italian-American Studies of the University of Macerate (Italy).

For more information, contact Dr. Dorothy Figueira at figueira@uga.edu.