[A-106] Join the Italian Club in A-106 from 1:00p.m.-2:00 p.m. on every other Thursday to learn the Italian language and culture. Pizza will be served. For information, please email rmontem1@ramapo.edu  

[ASB-123]Would you like to practice your German language skill? The Roukema Center for International Education offers German Language Happy Hour every Wednesday from 1-2pm in ASB-123. All levels are welcome. Come join us!For more information, please email goabroad@ramapo.edu or call ext. 7533.  

[Library -Current Periodicals Reading Lounge]

Book: Cafe Europa: Life After Communism

Author: Slavenka Drakulic

 

Join the Potter Library in reading Cafe Europa: Life After Communism, a series of essays that explore life in various Eastern European countries since the fall of communism.  Contact Sam Wittenberg (switten1@ramapo.edu) and Katie Cohen (kcohen1@ramapo.edu) to join and for additional information.

 

Discussion Dates, Locations and Section Selections:
        – Mon., 2/26; 1:10pm – 2:00pm: Current Periodicals Reading Lounge (Library)
        – Mon., 3/26; 1:10pm – 2:00pm: Current Periodicals Reading Lounge (Library)
        – Mon., 4/23; 1:10pm – 2:00pm: Current Periodicals Reading Lounge (Library)

Hosted by the George T. Potter Library

Co-sponsored by Center for Student Involvement & the Roukema Center for International Education  

Spanish Language Week

[ASB-135] 6:00PM
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 21Il Conformista (The Conformist), 1970Directed by Bernardo BertolucciThrough a series of flashbacks, Marcello findshimself ordered to assassinate his old acquaintanceand teacher, Professor Quadri, an outspoken antiFascistintellectual now living in exile in France.Using his marriage as a convenient cover, he takeshis wife on their honeymoon to Paris where he cancarry out the mission.The film is a case study in the psychology of conformism and fascism:Marcello Clerici is a bureaucrat, cultivated and intellectual but largelydehumanized by an intense need to be ‘normal’ and to belong towhatever is the current dominant socio-political group.

[ASB-123]
Would you like to practice your French language skill? The Roukema Center for International Education offers French Language Happy Hour every other Monday from 1:15pm-2pm in ASB-123. All levels are welcome. Come join us! For more information, please email goabroad@ramapo.edu or call ext. 7533.  

[A-106] 
Join the Italian Club and Italian professors in a casual environment to learn a little Italian. Pizza, coffee, pastries and other goodies will be provided. For more details, please contact the Italian Club President, Rosa Montemarano at rmontem1@ramapo.edu.

[Pavilion 3]] View the film Mine Vaganti (Loose Cannons). Film description: Tommaso is the youngest son of the Cantones, a large, traditional southern Italian family operating a pasta-making business since the 1960s. On a trip home from Rome, where he studies literature and lives with his boyfriend, Tommaso decides to tell his parents the truth about himself. But when he is finally ready to come out in front of the entire family, his older brother Antonio ruins his plans.
Sponsored by the Italian Club. For more details, please contact Rosa Montemarano (rmontem1@ramapo.edu). 

[ASB135] Join professor Rosetta D’Angelo for a viewing and lively discussion on the Italian film – Seduced and Abandoned (1963) by Pietro Germi.