Congratulations to Samuel Kim, a student in JPNS 2001 with Sasaki-sensei, received 3rd place in the final round of this year's competitive J.LIVE Talk Japanese speech contest.

The Comparative Literature Department is now offering elementary Chinese in spring 2019. If you missed the class in the fall, now is your chance to sign up. For detailed information please contact Mr. Zhiwen Hu at zh47446@uga.edu.

The Comparative Literature Department introduces a new course titled Playing with Robots for spring 2019.

CMLT 3080 (CRN 48058) invites students of all academic interests and political persuasions to join "the most important conversation of our time" (Max Tegmark).

Dr. Dainess Maganda is the recipient of the Franklin College Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching Award 2018. She was nominated by her students based on her enthusiasm, dedication and quality of instruction. Dr.

Dr. Peter O'Neill has earned an Honorable Mention for his 2017 book, Famine Irish and the American Racial State in the Donald Murphy Prize for Distinguished First Books competition organized by the American Conference for Irish Studies.

Date:  April 18, 2018

Time:  10:00 am to 1:00 pm

Place:  Tate Student Center, Reception Hall

Haiku Awards in English

1st Award Aron White (JPNS 1002) The dew drop will fall Small ripples upon the lake An upside-down world

International Symposium

Intercultural Studies for a Global Age: Principles, Methodology, Practice

April 12-14, 2018, University of Georgia, at Athens

Russell Special Collections Building, Room 285

300 S. Hull Street, Athens

Forgetting and Othering: Representing the War of Resistance

Xiaojue Wang

Rutgers University

Dr. Luiz Fernando Valente

Professor of Portuguese and Brazilian Studies and Comparative Literature, Brown University

Body, Law, and Desire in Guimarães Rosa's Corpo de Baile