Foster Undergrads take 3rd Place at BYU Spanish Language Business Case Competition

A team of three Foster undergraduates placed third in the second annual Spanish Language Business Case Competition at Brigham Young University in Utah on November 13. 

Britten Ferguson, Alex Fitch and Taylor Sloane recommended strategies for Walmart’s international expansion.  The case, the presentation and the Q&A were all in Spanish, which is a second language for these students.

The students presented before panels of corporate and faculty judges in two preliminary rounds.  The top three teams, representing Indiana University, Utah State University and the UW, were selected to go to the final round. 

The students exhibited both their business knowledge and mastery of a second language. Alex Fitch, CISB President, said, “In using my Spanish language skills in this competition, I gained confidence in the prospect of doing business in Spanish in the future."

Thanks to Frances Maloy and Spanish instructor Leon Bensadon for helping with team selection.

Congratulations to the students for an impressive performance!

From Foster eNews.  Full story here.

French university brings manuscripts of Stendhal into the 21st century

Website uses cutting-edge technology to place author's barely legible manuscripts next to scrupulous modern-day transcripts

A new website launched by the Stendhal University of Grenoble and the city's public library aims to give the novelist a new lease of life by putting his often barely legible manuscripts online next to scrupulous new transcripts and annotations by literary scholars.

So far around 500 pages of Stendhal's lesser-known works are available for viewing at manuscrits-de-stendhal.org, with extracts from the author's reflections on travel, literature and philosophy as well as his personal correspondence forming the basis of the fledgling database.

Read the complete article: Guardian Online
Portrait of Stendhal by Olof Johan Sodermarck. Photograph: Stefano Bianchetti/Corbis
 

New Italian Cinema at SIFF

I'll be there tomorrow for the opening film and reception.  Will you?

CALENDAR

Tuesday, November 17
New Itailan Cinema Festival Opening Night
Fortàpasc
7:30 PM

Wednesday, November 18
Lecture 21
7:00 PM

Sea Purple
9:15 PM

Thursday, November 19
Different from Whom?
7:00 PM

The House in the Clouds
9:30 PM

Friday, November 20
Pa-ra-da
7:00 PM

Fortàpasc
9:30 PM

Saturday, November 21
The Sicilian Girl
5:30 PM

Ex
8:00 PM

[full details]

"New Italian Cinema" Festival Nov. 17-21 at SIFF Cinema is Packed with Winners ~ Seattle PostGlobe

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New books: October

UW Libraries' October acquisitions have been posted:

New Arrivals: Romance Languages & Literatures

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Online access to UW dissertations, 1997 - 2008

PDF copies of UW dissertations from 1997-2008; are now available to current students, staff, and faculty through ResearchWorks.  In addition to the 1997-2008 collection, there is sporadic coverage of dissertations prior to 1997; these are copies of dissertations made by ProQuest when someone purchased a copy of a dissertation.  The Libraries is also negotiating for copies of 2009 dissertations.  At this time, our collection does not include master's theses. 

There are currently 38 Romance Languages & Literatures dissertations in the collection.   More on finding UW and non-UW dissertations.

World and Regional Maps from the 16th -19th centuries

Explore the latest addition to the UW Libraries Digital Collections: World and Regional Maps from the 16th -19th centuries

Over 170 large-scale, color maps from the Special Collections Rare Map Collection. Coverage spans the world but emphasizes the Pacific Northwest and exploration in this region from the 17th to 18th centuries. Click on the "detailed view" in the metadata of each map to zoom in for details and to pan around the large image. View maps grouped by Cartographer, Publisher, Area Depicted and more.

For an introductory tour of the features in this collection, view a short video.

Image: Tabula Americae Specialis Geographica Regni Peru Brasiliae. UW Libraries Special Collections.