Ana Rossetti, one of Spain’s most accomplished and celebrated authors, gave a poetry reading on April 9, 2012. She has published more than 30 books of poetry, narrative, and children’s literature.

The French Club is happy to report that the RSO and Dean of Students Office have granted our request and awarded the French Club $1,905 to bring French singer-songwriter Eric Vincent to ISU’s campus for a concert in October.
The concert is planned for October 1

Andrew Weeks

Dr. Andrew Weeks, Professor of German in the Department of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures, delivered the spring College of Arts and Sciences Lecture on Thursday, March 29 at 7:30 p.m. in the Prairie Room in the Bone Student Center. His lecture, titled “German Anticlerical Culture in the Age of Faith,” was attended by a large crowd.  A reception followed.

A generalist by training, Weeks has taught courses in many areas of German language, literature, and cultural history, as well as European literature in translation. Since 1985, his main research activity has been concerned with neglected early modern German literature which developed on the margins of the German reformation. Its authors, who are described variously as dissenters, mystics, or philosophers, do not conform to modern categories. They responded to a crisis of authority in which medieval assumptions about religion, cosmology, and hierarchy came under challenge. In his lecture, Weeks will discuss the anti-authoritarianism of this literature, its hostility to the doctrines and institutions of the professional clergy, and its elaboration of non-hierarchical concepts of the world by means of paradoxes or “illuminated” visions.