We are pleased to invite you to the launch of the book 

This December, Professor Donato Santeramo has been honored with an invitation to the Centro Nazionale Studi Pirandelliani in Agrigento, Sicily. He will deliver a talk titled "Pirandello Artistic Director of the Teatro d'Arte in Rome" as part of the 100th-anniversary celebrations of Luigi Pirandello's tenure at the Teatro d'Arte (1924-2024).

LLCU Professor Donato Santeramo has been named the Artistic Director of the Matera Film Festival.

The Matera Film Festival is set to take place from November 3 to 10, offering an exciting lineup of films and cultural events. This year, the festival proudly announces internationally renowned and award-winning Canadian artists Arsinée Khanjian, a celebrated performer, and Atom Egoyan, an acclaimed director, as its guests of honour and jury presidents.

Antonio Nicaso has started studying the involvement of organized crime on social media and the dark web. It's an exciting challenge because it requires updating old conceptual categories when cybercrime and Mafia-like criminal organizations were considered entirely separate. Now, the external resources of the mafias include not only lawyers, accountants, entrepreneurs, consultants, politicians, and police officers but also drug designers and hackers.

This past summer, Jessica Sanderson, a Mechanical Engineering graduate at Queen's University and currently pursuing a dual degree in World Languages (BA) focusing on Spanish and German, had a memorable encounter while traveling through Europe. Jessica met her e-tandem partner, Vincent, after connecting with him through the LinguaeLive e-tandem program.

This summer the Indigenous Knowledges and Perspectives program welcomed two new Queen’s National Scholars, as part of a cluster hire of Indigenous scholars across the university. 

Over the summer months of 2024 the long-awaited window replacement took place in Kingston Hall. The need for this project was identified several years ago—for years we had the stop gap of “Caution: Pinch Hazard” signs mounted near all the windows, as they could not be trusted to stay open on their own!

António Macedo was named one of the 2024 Champions for Mental Health in the Faculty of Arts and Science. The Champions for Mental Health program recognizes and celebrates instructors and staff members who create supportive environments where student mental health is valued and supported. Congratulations, António!

In May this year, Dr. Bronwyn Bjorkman delivered an invited colloquium talk in the Department of Linguistics at UCLA. The title of her talk was "A morphological approach to (apparently) phonologically motivated empty morphs”, and it addressed a cross linguistic pattern in which some languages seem to insert apparently meaningless word pieces under certain conditions. Such patterns pose a puzzle for some current theories of morphology in linguistics.

The summer is usually a quiet time for our department, as far as on-campus events go, but after the graduation ceremony on June 20 we held a small reception for the new graduates from the various plans in LLCU, and their families. We hope this will become a tradition in the department!