German Club

Almost all students who take German at Queen’s are in their first year, many in their first semester, so the focus is less on speaking German, and more on experiencing elements of culture in German-speaking countries, and of having fun together.

St. Martin Celebration in Beginning Portuguese

The students of Beginning Portuguese Language and Culture celebrated St. Martin's Day with roasted chestnuts in class.

The feast of Saint Martin, celebrated on 11 November, is nowadays much more rural and gastronomic than truly religious. Although it originates from the figure of Saint Martin of Tours and the famous legend of him sharing his cloak with the poor man, what really marks this day in Portugal is the end of the harvests and the tasting of the new wine.

The Chinese Conversation Club (CCC), part of the Chinese Language Program, organized a variety of language-practice sessions and cultural activities this semester to support students learning Chinese and to deepen their understanding of Chinese culture.

Prof. Claudio Palomares-Salas presented his new book Mexican Canto Nuevo: Music, Politics, and Resistance (Oxford University Press, 2025), at Skidmore College, Cambridge University, the Autonomous University of Madrid, Queen’s University, and Saint-Paul University. 

Professor Jennifer Ruth Hosek has been selected by Kwansei Gakuin University to represent Queen’s and a consortium of Canadian universities as Visiting Professor of Canadian Studies. In fall semester 2026, Dr. Hosek will be teaching at the Center for International Education and Cooperation at the Nishinomiya campus. KGU partners yearly with Queen’s and a group of other universities including U of Toronto, Mount Allison, McGill, UBC, Simon Fraser, U.

A unique partnership in the Faculty of Arts and Science has led to a new platform for Indigenous beadworkers to display their work and network with other Indigenous artists.

After nearly 30 years as a teacher at Queen’s, first in the Department of Spanish and Italian and later in LLCU, Max Lizano is retiring this summer. His warm and enthusiastic presence has been a valuable part of the Department for both colleagues and students. We all wish him the very best in his next adventures. 

JAPN 200, “Introductory Japanese II”, conducts an interview project in the winter semester every year. At the end of February 2025, twenty students in JAPN 200 had the opportunity to interview sixteen Japanese volunteers for an hour and a half.