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Inaugural Convocation September 1, 2015 3:30 pm (785)864-9250 sllc.ku.edu sllc@ku.edu
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Ballroom, Kansas Union
Program Musical Guest Performance by: Tamburaški sastav Kas
Welcoming Remarks Marc L. Greenberg Director SLLC, University of Kansas
Donors We would like to sincerely thank our first donors, who have embraced the vision of the School and have begun helping us to strengthen the institution and contribute to its sustainability. We seek to use our resources to establish scholarships and awards to enrich the teaching and research mission of the School as well as, most importantly, to make its resources as accessible as possible to the widest group of meritorious students.
Jeffrey S. Vitter Provost and Executive Vice Chancellor, University of Kansas
Don Steeples Interim Dean, College of Liberal Arts & Sciences
Anna Lambertson
Christian J.C. and Katherine E. Beer John T. Bidwell Ann Cudd Dan E. Davidson
Executive Director, International Relations Council of Kansas City
Howard A. and Suzanne Greenberg Angela Jackson Founder and Director, Global Language Project
Viktoria Olskaia President, Gabriel Al-Salem Foundation
Ashlie Koehn KU senior majoring in Global & International Studies, Economics and Environmental Studies
James Sterbenz Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Kansas
Marc L. Greenberg and Marta Pirnat-Greenberg Grant H. Lundberg David C. and Cheryl K. Meredith Alisa V. Moldavanova
Jesse H. and Andreja Saich Matthew J. Senior William M. Tsutsui
Victor Jackovich, Keynote Speaker First U.S. Ambassador to Bosnia, Herzegovina, and Slovenia
Recognition Ceremony Marc L. Greenberg
C. Patrick Woods
Donations Greater Than $1,000 Gabriel Al-Salem Foundation Kansas City Power & Light Company
Closing Remarks Marc L. Greenberg
Barbara K. Nelson Rex L. and Sonoko Niswander Baha Safadi
Reception Musical performances by: Yuka Naito-Billen, harp ; and Amy Lauters, piano
Steele Compliance & Investigation Services
Silent Auction We extend special thanks to Strawberry Hill Povitica Company for their generous contributions to our silent auction. Visit them at www.povitica.com.
Affiliate Departments and Centers Santa Arias
Elizabeth MacGonagle
Center for Latin American & Caribbean Studies
Kansas African Studies Center
David Cateforis
Anna Niell
Kress Foundation Department of Art History
English
Vitaly Chernetsky
Daniel Stevenson Religious Studies
Megan Greene
European Studies Program
Lorie Vanchena Center for East Asian Studies
Tara Welch Classics
Anthropology
John Younger Allard Jongman
Maureen Cole
Amanda McCoy
Emeriti
Center for Russian, East European & Eurasian Studies
John Hoopes
Amanuenses
Linguistics
Jewish Studies Center for Global & International Studies
Clarence Lang
Sandra Zimdars-Swartz
African & African-American Studies
Humanities & Western Civilization Program
SLLC Action Committee Members
EAST ASIAN LANGUAGES GERMAN LANGUAGES & & CULTURES LITERATURES
SPANISH & PORTUGUESE
Kimiko Yamamoto
Frank Baron
Vernon Chamberlin
FRENCH & ITALIAN
Helmut Huelsbergen
Michael Doudoroff
David A. Dinneen
SLAVIC LANGUAGES & LITERATURES
Roberta Johnson
J. Theodore Johnson
Rosalea Postma-Carttar
Maria Carlson Raymond Souza
Jan Kozma Stephen J. Parker
SLLC Mission
During the 2013-14 academic year, the SLLC Action Committee developed the proposal to form the SLLC. This list below recognizes the main AC members who convened nearly a dozen additional committees. Marc L. Greenberg
Carsten Holm
Jon Perkins
Special Advisor to the Dean and Committee Chair GLL, SLL, CREES
University Advising
EGARC
Caroline Jewers
Amy Rossomondo
FRIT
Naima Boussofara
John Kennedy
AAAS
POLS, CGIS
William Comer
Laura Leonard
SLL, CREES
CLAS Advising
Megan Greene
Jorge Perez
CEAS, HIST
SPAN
E. Bruce Hayes FRIT
The SLLC serves as a gateway to understanding the diversity of the world, through learning languages, literatures, and cultures, past and present.
SPAN, LAS
Peter Ukpokodu AAAS
Lorie Vanchena GERM, EURS
Nina Vyatkina GLL
Crispin Williams EALC
Through its research and teaching, the SLLC offers students opportunities for deep engagement with a wide range of languages, literatures, and cultures that provide the knowledge and skills to interact with and understand the world.
Departments & Programs
KU 150 100 Years of Languages, Literatures
Special Thanks
Cultures
From the first day of classes at the University of Kansas, the study of languages, literatures, and cultures has played a central role in KU’s curriculum. The first Jayhawks studied Classics, English, mathematics, the sciences, philosophy, and French and German. Today's students continue that strong tradition, and can choose from over forty languages that bring the cultures of the world to the heart of campus. From the days when KU was one lone building at the top of Mount Oread, to the thriving academic community we now share, the growth of languages and cultural studies has mirrored the expansion of our institution.
Special thanks go to Dean Danny Anderson, who in 2013 charged the Action Committee to form the School, and to Associate Deans Ann Cudd and Ann Schofield, who supported the project through its early phases. Artwork for this and other SLLC events was provided by Caitlin Fitzgerald and Toni Brou, CLAS Media Services. Mark Reynolds, CLAS, and Tim Spencer, CLAS SSC, were instrumental in organizing the financial structure of the SLLC. We are grateful to our out-of-town Advisory Board members, Ambassador Victor Jackovich, Rex Niswander, Viktoria Olskaia, and special guest Angela Jackson, who have covered their travel and lodging expenses in support of this event.
Here are a few milestones from the KU SLLC Core Departments. We are just beginning to write our story – please write and add to our archive! 1866-68: KU enrolls its first students. 1887: German becomes a major at KU. 1894: Spanish is introduced. 1899: Italian is first taught through the curriculum of Arts and Architecture, and becomes part of Romance Languages in 1903. 1902: Creation of the Department of Romance Languages. Throughout the following decades the constituent departments will reorganize several times as they grow. 1917: Portuguese is taught for the first time. 1947: The first East Asian Studies course is taught by Thomas R. Smith, Associate Professor of Geography. 1959: KU establishes the Committee on East Asian Studies (CEAS), and Chinese is taught for the first time. 1961: Creation of the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures. KU Library had already amassed strong holdings of books and magazines in Russian in the late 1950's. 1962: KU's first Summer Japanese Institute. 1965: The Department of Romance Languages splits into Spanish and Portuguese, and French and Italian. 1969: KU becomes the seventh American university to offer classes in Korean. Czech classes begin. 1975: Spanish & Portuguese and French & Italian move to Wescoe. 1977: Creation of the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures. 2005: Tibetan and Uyghur are taught for the first time. 2010: Hindi is first taught. 2012: Farsi is introduced. 2015: Creation of the SLLC. Spanish launches its minor in Spanish.
SLLC Staff Sarah B. Greenwood
Cynthia Willingham
Christian Beer
Eileen Larson
Caitlin Fitzgerald
Benjamin Snook
SLLC Directors Marc L. Greenberg
Caroline Jewers
Director
Associate Director
Core Departments Maggie Childs
Liz Kowalchuk
East Asian Languages & Cultures
Germanic Languages & Literatures
Stephen M. Dickey
Jorge Pérez
Slavic Languages & Literatures
Spanish & Portuguese
Caroline Jewers
Esra Predolac
French & Italian
LCTL Coordinator