FIGS News
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Congratulations! Deion Dresser's Successful Dissertation Defense
Italian
We are delighted to share that Deion Dresser successfully defended his dissertation, titled "Rebirth of Maternal Ethics: Italian Feminist Thought from Sexual Difference to Affirmative Biopolitics," on Wednesday, April 16. Congratulations, Deion!
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Congratulations! Massimiliano Lorenzon's Successful Dissertation Defense
We are delighted to share that Massimiliano Lorenzon successfully defended his dissertation, titled "Teaching and Learning the Italian Vernacular in Sixteenth-Century Western Europe: Pedagogy, Texts, and Practices," on Thursday, April 17. Congratulations, Massimili
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Congratulations! Marie Bellec's Successful Dissertation Defense
Francophone
We are delighted to share that Marie Bellec successfully defended her dissertation, titled “"Le désert progresse" : mirages postmodernes de l'Ouest américain dans les fictions françaises et québécoises,” on Friday, April 11. Congratulations, Marie!
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Anne Bolt, Phi Beta Kappa!
Italian
Congratulations to Anne Bolt, a Penn Italian Studies Major, for being inducted into Phi Beta Kappa in 2025! The Phi Beta Kappa Society honors exceptional scholarly achievement in the liberal arts and sciences.
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Professor Liliane Weissberg to Serve as IZEA Halle's First Mercator Fellow
Germanic
This Spring, IZEA Halle, the International Center for the Research on the Enlightenment at the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, will inaugurate a new (and very timely) program for post-graduates, "Politics of Enlightenment" (Politik der Aufklärung).
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Doron Rabinovici & Liliane Weissberg: 50 Jahre »Außenseiter«
Germanic
On May 8 and 9, the German Department at Leibniz University is hosting the conference "50 Years of Hans Mayer: Outsiders:inside" at the Literaturhaus Hannover. Hans, uh, who ...? Yes, you have to know him here.
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Congratulations to Deion Dresser, finalist in the 2025 Penn Grad Talks
Italian
FIGS Italian Studies PhD student Deion Dresser is a finalist for the annual Penn Grad Talks! Please support his work by attending the TED Talk-style presentations on Friday, February 24 at Widener Lecture Hall, Penn Museum.
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Congratulations! Mimi Hacking's Successful Dissertation Defense
Germanic
We are delighted to share that Mimi Hacking successfully defended her dissertation, titled "CAT/KIN: The Rhetoric of Racialized Ecology in Franz Kafka," on Friday, January 17. Professor Vance Byrd supervised the dissertation and Professor Karen Redrobe, Professor Ia
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Braden Ross’ Publication on the Implementation of Warm-Ups in the German Language Classroom
Germanic
In her recent article publication in Die Unterrichtspraxis, PhD student Braden Ross provides an evidence-based discussion of “Effective warm-ups in the German language classroom: Form and function” and argues that warm-ups ought to adhere to certain guidelines to be effective.
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