Inaugural Convocation September 1, 2015

3:30 pm

Ballroom, Kansas Union

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Thank you to our event sponsors!

Program Donors

Musical Guest Performance by: Tamburaški sastav Kas

Welcoming Remarks

Marc L. Greenberg Director SLLC, University of Kansas

Jeffrey S. Vitter Provost and Executive Vice Chancellor, University of Kansas

Don Steeples Interim Dean, College of Liberal Arts & Sciences

Anna Lambertson Executive Director, International Relations Council of Kansas City

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

Victor Jackovich, Keynote Speaker First U.S. Ambassador to Bosnia, Herzegovina, and Slovenia

Closing Remarks

Marc L. Greenberg

Recognition Ceremony

Marc L. Greenberg

Reception

Musical performances by: Yuka Naito-Billen, harp ; and Amy Lauters, piano

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.

Christian J.C. and Katherine E. Beer

John T. Bidwell

Ann Cudd

Dan E. Davidson

Howard A. and Suzanne Greenberg

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

C. Patrick Woods

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.

Donations Greater Than $1,000

Gabriel Al-Salem Foundation

Kansas City Power & Light Company

Barbara K. Nelson

Rex L. and Sonoko Niswander

Baha Safadi

Steele Compliance & Investigation Services

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.

Santa Arias Center for Latin American & Caribbean Studies

David Cateforis Kress Foundation Department of Art History

Vitaly Chernetsky Center for Russian, East European & Eurasian

Studies

Megan Greene Center for East Asian Studies

John Hoopes Anthropology

Allard Jongman Linguistics

Clarence Lang African & African-American Studies

Elizabeth MacGonagle Kansas African Studies Center

Anna Niell English

Daniel Stevenson Religious Studies

Lorie Vanchena European Studies Program

Tara Welch Classics

John Younger Jewish Studies

Center for Global & International Studies

Sandra Zimdars-Swartz Humanities & Western Civilization Program

SLLC Action Committee Members

Affiliate Departments and Centers

Marc L. Greenberg Special Advisor to the Dean and

Committee Chair

GLL, SLL, CREES

Naima Boussofara AAAS

William Comer SLL, CREES

Megan Greene CEAS, HIST

E. Bruce Hayes FRIT

Carsten Holm University Advising

Caroline Jewers FRIT

John Kennedy POLS, CGIS

Laura Leonard CLAS Advising

Jorge Perez SPAN

Amanuenses

Emeriti

Maureen Cole

Amanda McCoy

EAST ASIAN LANGUAGES

& CULTURES

Kimiko Yamamoto

FRENCH & ITALIAN

David A. Dinneen

J. Theodore Johnson

Jan Kozma

GERMAN LANGUAGES &

LITERATURES

Frank Baron

Helmut Huelsbergen

SLAVIC LANGUAGES &

LITERATURES

Maria Carlson

Stephen J. Parker

SPANISH &

PORTUGUESE

Vernon Chamberlin

Michael Doudoroff

Roberta Johnson

Rosalea Postma-Carttar

Raymond Souza

Jon Perkins EGARC

Amy Rossomondo SPAN, LAS

Peter Ukpokodu AAAS

Lorie Vanchena GERM, EURS

Nina Vyatkina GLL

Crispin Williams EALC

The SLLC serves as a gateway to understanding the diversity of the

world, through learning languages, literatures, and cultures, past and

present.

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.

SLLC Mission

KU 150

100 Years of Languages, Literatures Cultures Special Thanks

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.

Departments & Programs

SLLC Staff

Maggie Childs East Asian Languages & Cultures

Stephen M. Dickey Slavic Languages & Literatures

Caroline Jewers French & Italian

Liz Kowalchuk Germanic Languages & Literatures

Jorge Pérez Spanish & Portuguese

Esra Predolac LCTL Coordinator

Marc L. Greenberg Director

Caroline Jewers Associate Director

SLLC Directors

Core Departments

Sarah B. Greenwood

Christian Beer

Caitlin Fitzgerald

Cynthia Willingham

Eileen Larson

Benjamin Snook

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.

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 follow-

ing 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.