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Unlock New Skills This Summer: Explore our 2025 Course Offerings

Gain ground and earn UMD credits through convenient 3 and 6-week summer sessions.

February 14, 2025 Language House, School of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures

Love Speaks Every Language

These SLLC students met their spouses while studying language.

February 11, 2025 School of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures

Foreign language studies are overlooked. A mandate would change that.

After spending a summer immersed in Jaipur, India, one University of Maryland student argues that language learning isn’t just a personal skill—it’s a global necessity.

January 15, 2025 School of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures

The 10 Best Books of 2024

The staff of The New York Times Book Review chooses the year’s top fiction and nonfiction, including Álvaro Enrigue's "You Dreamed of Empires".

October 29, 2024 Cinema and Media Studies, College of Arts and Humanities, French, School of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures

Exploring French Art and Film: Brendan Berger’s ‘Life-Changing’ Year Abroad

The senior French and film student took in art at renowned museums and attended the Cannes Film Festival.

October 14, 2024 English, History, Russian, School of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures

2024-2025 Maya Brin Resident Maxim Osipov

The Maya Brin Residency Program is thrilled to announce the visit of Maxim Osipov.

October 10, 2024 Communication, School of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures, Spanish and Portuguese

2024 Mark and Heather Rosenker Lecture featuring Joe Mazza

Joe Mazza presents "Enduring Words" for the 2024 Rosenker Lecture

September 17, 2024 School of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures, Spanish and Portuguese

Honoring ‘Las Muertes’

Ana Patricia Rodríguez and two of her students highlight how D.C.’s Salvadoran diaspora uses art to grapple with painful past in new documentary

June 12, 2024 School of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures, Persian

PERS 251 / HIST219: Student research reflects study in Iranian modernity

A digital exhibit of student work created for PERS251 / HIST219

June 07, 2024 Arabic

Four Arabic Flagship Students Win Prestigious 2024–25 ARHU Boren Scholarships

The students will embark on two semesters of immersive language study in Meknes, Morocco.

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Nuclear Futures in the Post-Fukushima Age

November 07, 2018 School of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures, German Studies, Japanese

Recently published in The Faculty Voice

Italian Film Series Fall 2018

October 24, 2018 Italian

Join the Itailan Program as is shows films celebrating the 50th anniversary of the 1968 protests

Chinese Program hosts successful Mid-Autumn Festival

October 16, 2018 School of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures, Center for East Asian Studies, Chinese

The Chinese Program recently celebrated its annual Mid-Autumn Festival

Spain and the Atlantic Coast of the United States

October 12, 2018 School of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures, Spanish and Portuguese

Carmen Benito-Vessels explores historical narratives of the East Coast of the United States through 16th Century Spanish texts.

Hangul Day 2018

October 08, 2018 School of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures, Korean

UMD's annual Hangul Day celebration features special performances, a lecture by Professor Bob Ramsey, and Korean Food

The Independent

Obituary: Ehsan Yarshater: Historian who Transformed the West’s Understanding of Iran’s History and Languages

October 02, 2018 Roshan Institute for Persian Studies, School of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures

Professor Emeritus Ahmad Karimi-Hakkak remembers the Persian historian and linguist.

ARHU Faculty Earn Promotion and Tenure

September 25, 2018 American Studies, Art, Classics, Communication, English, History, Joseph and Rebecca Meyerhoff Program and Center for Jewish Studies, Philosophy, School of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures, School of Music, Second Language Acquisition, Linguistics

22 faculty members from the College of Arts and Humanities have received promotion and/or tenure.

Naples and Rome on Stage

September 20, 2018 School of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures, Italian

French and Italian invite you to a celebration of Settimana Della Lingua Italiana Nel Mondo

2018-19 New Faculty Appointments

September 11, 2018 American Studies, Art History and Archaeology, College of Arts and Humanities, Communication, English, History, Japanese, Persian, Roshan Institute for Persian Studies, School of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures, School of Music

The College of Arts and Humanities welcomes the new faculty cohort to UMD.

Japanese alumna organizes Yakage fundraising effort

September 11, 2018 School of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures, Japanese

The fundraising effort is to benefit the town of Yakage in Okayama prefecture, which was greatly affected by flooding.