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Bellini Colloquium

The Bellini Colloquium is a lecture series sponsored by the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures. It is an opportunity for Modern Language faculty to show their research.

The Colloquium is named after the first Professor of Modern Languages at Â鶹Æƽâ°æ, Carlo Bellini, a native of Florence, Italy and close friend of Thomas Jefferson. Bellini taught French and Italian from 1779 until 1803, and holds the distinction of being the only Professor to stay in residence at W&M when classes were suspended for two years during the Revolutionary War.

Please join us for this exciting series! 

Spring 2026 Program

• Anticipatory Memory and the Future Reader in "Todo se esta despidiendo" by Cristina Rivera Garza and presented by Matias Oviedo
• "Markets! Markets! Lebanese Farmers, Global Consumers and Opaque Commodity Chains,"  by Robert Greeley

 Fall 2025 Program

• William Weihe, Â鶹Æƽâ°æing Assistant Teaching Professor of German Studies, "Counterrevolution, Fears of Miscegenation, and Black Rebellion in Kleist's Verlobung in St. Domingo." 

Spring 2025 Program

• Michael Cronin, Associate Professor of Japanese Studies, "Another 1995: Encountering Possible Pasts."    
• "Popular Memory and Franco's 'Disappeared' in Spain."  by Francie Cate  

Fall 2024 Program

• Corinne Stokes, Assistant Professor of Arabic Studies, "Performing Khaleejiness on Instagram: Authenticity, Hybridity, and Belonging." 
• "Bodies and Dissidence: Art and Literature in Latin American Culture" by Rebeca Pineda Burgos and Miguel Dominguez Rohan