Drew Paul in ‘The Conversation’: “A Palestinian-Israeli film is an Oscars favorite − so why is it so hard to see?”

For many low-budget, independent films, an Oscar nomination is a golden ticket.

The publicity can translate into theatrical releases or rereleases, along with more on-demand rentals and sales.

However, for “No Other Land,” a Palestinian-Israeli film nominated for best documentary at the 2025 Academy Awards, this exposure is unlikely to translate into commercial success in the U.S. That’s because the film has been unable to find a company to distribute it in America.

We Were Here Film and Talk

Acclaimed Afro-Italian filmmaker Fred Kudjo Kuwornu will present his documentary We Were Here: The Untold History of Black Africans in Renaissance Europe at 5:30 p.m. Thursday, March 6, and engage in a question-and-answer session afterward in the Lindsay Young Auditorium of Hodges Library. The event provides an opportunity to engage with a significant yet underexplored aspect of history and visual culture.

UT Faculty Authors Share Insight at Second Annual Book Party

The College of Arts and Sciences community gathered for the second annual Fall Book Party this month, celebrating 17 book-length works published in 2023 and 2024 by faculty members in the Division of Arts and Humanities and by colleagues in the Department of Anthropology and the Department of Geography and Sustainability.

A Nazi magazine regularly published manipulated photos and misinformation, long before the age of AI

Magilow Published in The Conversation – Explore how a Nazi magazine used manipulated photos and misinformation long before the digital age. This article examines the historical roots of media manipulation and its implications for modern information warfare.

Rethinking Language and Race: Clemons Investigates a New Linguistic Approach

Wednesday, July 10, 2024

An award from the Spencer Foundation supports Assistant Professor Aris Clemons in a project exploring a hemispheric Black language pedagogy for teaching Spanish and other languages.

Faculty Honored for Excellence in Teaching at College Convocation

Wednesday, March 27, 2024

THE CONVERSATION: “Cherry blossoms – celebrated in Japan for centuries and gifted to Americans – are an appreciation of impermanence and spring”

“Cherry blossoms – celebrated in Japan for centuries and gifted to Americans – are an appreciation of impermanence and spring” an article by Małgorzata (Gosia) Citko-DuPlantis, PhD, in The Conversation.

Memorial Service for Natalia Pervukhina

February 9, 2024

The University of Tennessee, Knoxville’s Department of World Languages and Cultures and The Russian Program and the Family of Natalia Pervukhina announce a Memorial gathering on Zoom to celebrate Natasha’s life Sunday, February 11th, 2024.

Live Music Duo Jazzes Up Vintage Italian Drama

February 7, 2024

The visuals will be vintage but the music will be in real time during a showing of the Italian-made silent film Tigre Reale (1916) at 8 p.m. Thursday, February 29, at the Cox Auditorium in the Alumni Memorial Building. It is a unique opportunity to see a restored work of art from more than 100 years ago and hear a live film score performed by a duo of internationally renowned musicians.

Fifth Annual Vernacular Symposium

October 13, 2023

FIFTH ANNUAL VERNACULAR SYMPOSIUM
March 21-23, 2024
University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Theme: “Lost and Found in Translation: Literature and Language in a Multicultural World”

Vernacular Call for Papers

August 30, 2023

Vernacular: New Connections in Language, Literature & Culture is a peer-reviewed journal organized by graduate students in the Department of World Languages and Cultures (WLC) at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville (UTK).
The journal accepts high-quality submissions of scholarly essays, book reviews, interviews, and translations, as well as short stories and poetry. We welcome entries written in English, French, German, or Spanish. Deadline for upcoming submissions: December 15, 2023.

GaboFest: A Celebration of Gabriel García Márquez

February 14, 2022

GaboFest: A Celebration of Gabriel García Márquez, a virtual event to be held on March 22-23, 2022.

Open House

October 19, 2022

Are you curious about: Other languages and cultures? Studying abroad? How a foreign language major or minor can work with your college and career plans?

Italian Theater Students Performance

May 23, 2022

On May 11th, Annachiara Mariani’s Italian Theatre students performed excerpts from Commedia dell’arte, Machiavelli’s La Mandragola, Goldoni’s La Locandiera and Mozart-Da Ponte’s Don Giovanni.