{"id":50328,"date":"2011-10-31T18:03:43","date_gmt":"2011-10-31T18:03:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/?p=50328"},"modified":"2018-09-28T13:01:43","modified_gmt":"2018-09-28T17:01:43","slug":"ottw-languages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/2011\/10\/31\/ottw-languages\/","title":{"rendered":"Open to the World: Foreign becomes familiar in Roger Williams Hall"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_50329\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2011\/10\/111027_faculty_seminar_9882.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-50329\" class=\"wp-image-50329\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2011\/10\/111027_faculty_seminar_9882.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"590\" height=\"393\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2011\/10\/111027_faculty_seminar_9882.jpg 590w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2011\/10\/111027_faculty_seminar_9882-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 590px) 100vw, 590px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-50329\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">French professor Alex Dauge-Roth gestures during the faculty conversation about global citizenship held prior to the dedication of Hedge and Roger Williams halls. Photograph by Phyllis Graber Jensen.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Bates&#8217; global reach has been a driving theme behind <em><a href=\"http:\/\/home.bates.edu\/hedge-roger-williams\/\">Open to the World: Bates Celebrates Unbounded Learning<\/a><\/em>, a celebration of new academic spaces including Roger Williams Hall, home to the college&#8217;s foreign language programs and Off Campus Study Office.<\/p>\n<p>So the foreign language faculty took an hour or so during the afternoon of Oct. 27, the day the newly renovated Bill and Hedge Hall were dedicated, to present a sampling of courses and projects in their repertoire.<\/p>\n<p>Dedicated to the idea of educating students for global citizenship, here are a few highlights from the presentation in the brand-new Language Resource Center:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Alex Dauge-Roth, associate professor of French, talked about his course &#8220;Border and Disorders in French and Francophone Literature and Films.&#8221; An apt choice for a week of Bates programming devoted to breaking down borders, the course examines representations of inclusion and exclusion &#8212; for example, two opposing political ads that use, in nearly identical ways, the symbol of a black sheep among white ones to support either openness to immigration or rejection of it. &#8220;The idea is to complexify for students how they define their borders,&#8221; Dauge-Roth said. &#8220;You cannot be at home without excluding others.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Against a backdrop of Central European images taken last year by Rachel Morrison &#8217;13, Professor of German Craig Decker offered a capsule history of Bates Fall Semester Abroad programs in Vienna and Berlin. Noting that all FSA programs, not just the German-language trips, are interdisciplinary by design, he said, &#8220;It&#8217;s interesting to see how students combine what goes on in the two courses.&#8221; It&#8217;s a kind of synthesis &#8220;that doesn&#8217;t always happen on campus.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Sarah Strong, professor of Japanese, cut to the heart of cross-cultural exchange in describing her course &#8220;The Fantastic in Modern Japan.&#8221; Looking at comics, fiction and anime film, the course encourages students to discover what&#8217;s common among cultures &#8212; but more important, to &#8220;encounter what is unfamiliar that they can learn about and bring into their sphere of understanding.&#8221; For example, how the young heroine in the manga and film <em>Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind <\/em>comes to terms with the toxic fungal forest that is consuming a post-apocalyptic world.<\/li>\n<li>A fascinating translation project undertaken by Professor of Spanish Francisca L\u00f3pez, Lecturer in French Laura Balladur and others: Students in certain foreign-language courses have translated work by the poets participating in the college&#8217;s annual <em><a href=\"http:\/\/home.bates.edu\/views\/2011\/10\/07\/translations-festival-2\/\">Translations<\/a><\/em> international poetry festival (taking place concurrently with the Open to the World events). During the festival, the student translations have been projected on a screen while the poets read them in the original language. For the second part of the course, the students translate into French and Spanish poems written by students in a poetry course taught by Senior Lecturer in English Robert Farnsworth &#8212; and all the students, translators and translated, meet to discuss the linguistic and cultural issues that are gained in translation.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bates&#8217; global reach has been a driving theme behind Open to the&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":105,"featured_media":50329,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_hide_ai_chatbot":false,"_ai_chatbot_style":"","associated_faculty":[],"_Page_Specific_Css":"","_bates_restrict_mod":false,"_table_of_contents_display":false,"_table_of_contents_location":"","_table_of_contents_disableSticky":false,"_is_featured":false,"footnotes":"","_bates_seo_meta_description":"","_bates_seo_block_robots":false,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_id":0,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_twitter_id":0,"_bates_seo_share_title":"","_bates_seo_canonical_overwrite":"","_bates_seo_twitter_template":""},"categories":[130,133,11009],"tags":[1523,121,10721,10749,11057,4123,10757,6650,7591,10761,227],"class_list":["post-50328","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-collaboration","category-creativity","category-the-college","tag-bates-unbounded","tag-chinese","tag-french","tag-german","tag-hedge-and-roger-williams-renovations","tag-hedge-hall","tag-japanese","tag-open-to-the-world","tag-roger-williams-hall","tag-russian","tag-spanish-arts-humanities-areas-academics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50328","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/105"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50328"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50328\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":118906,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50328\/revisions\/118906"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50329"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}