Resumption of all classes after Semana Santa break

deadline for current students to guarantee (through payment) Summer I and/or Summer II University housing 

10:00 pm · SLU-Madrid Soccer Billikens vs. Padel Session · Green Canal >>

2:00 pm · First Faculty Forum on New Building · Library, Small Reading Room


WEDNESDAY 27^th

10:00 am · Second Faculty Forum on New Building · Library, Small Reading Room

Noon - 2:00 pm · SGA-Madrid Faculty Appreciation Day

1:50 pm · Catholic Mass · Chapel, PRH first floor

2.00 pm · Faculty & Student Life Brown bag lunch · PAH patio

7:00 pm · presentation on “Comments that Count: Effective, Efficient Responses to Student Writing” by Sue Mendelsohn (Writing Center Director and Associate Director of the Undergraduate Writing Program / Columbia University) · PAH 25

8:45 pm · watch Madrid Real vs. Barcelona on campus / cafeteria will be open for “the game,” as well as for light food and drinks


THURSDAY 28^th

Deadline for submissions to this year’s (English & Spanish) Ungraduate Writing Contest

1:50 pm · Misa Católica en español · Capilla, PRH, primera planta

2:30-3:45 pm · "Making Sense of the Internet for Social Movements and Global Activism," a presentation by Andrew Calabrese (Associate Dean, College of Journalism and Mass Communication, University of Colorado) · PRH 3

6:30 pm · Madrid Campus Arts Performance (“Around the World in 80 Minutes”) / free entrance · Colegio Mayor Elías Alhuja >>


FRIDAY 29^th
MA in English Graduate Student Conference

1:00-2:30 pm · MA in English Graduate Student Conference presentation by Linda Kinnahan (Professor of English, Duquesne University) entitled, “The Economics of Urban Spaces: Photography and Mina Loy’s Late Bowery Poems” · Main Reading Room, Library

2:00 pm · 2011-2012 Campus Ambassador Training Session II · Student Lounge Friday, 29 April


SATURDAY 30^th

MA in English Graduate Student Conference

deadline for submitting application for summer work-grant position

2:00-6:00 pm · SGA-Madrid World Cup & World Cup Picnic / check SGA-Madrid bulletin board for sign-up sheet


SUNDAY 1^st

6:00 pm · On-Campus Sunday Mass · Chapel, PRH 1st floor

Monday, May 2 · Del Trabajo Holiday (all Campus facilities closed, except Library which will be open from 9:00 am to 9:00 pm)

Tuesday, May 3 · final day Spring 2011 classes

Tuesday, May 3 · Student Life photography contest deadline

Wednesday-Friday, May 4-6 · first three days of Spring 2011 Final Exams

Need help with your final papers?  The English Writing Center will be offering extended hours this week: Monday (25th) 11am-3pm, 5-7pm; Tuesday (26th) 10am-2pm; Wednesday (27th) 11am-3pm; Thursday (28th) 10am-2pm.

If you are currently in University housing and are planning to come back in Fall 2011 with either the same or a different Host Family, you must e-mail Ms. Margarita Casado at housing-madrid@slu.edu before this Wednesday, April 27.  Without this notice, your spot will be made available to other Fall 2011 students who are applying for University housing.

Work Grant: The Financial Aid department is now accepting Administrative Support Scholarship applications for the upcoming summer sessions as well as for the next academic year (Fall 2011/Spring 2012) >>

The Division of Language and Literature´s 9th annual English Graduate Student Conference, "Forming Identity, Transforming Space," will take place on the 29th and 30th of April in the Madrid Campus Library and Padre Rubio Hall. The conference will include a keynote address by Linda A. Kinnahan, Professor of English at Duquesne University, on Friday at 1:00 pm in the Main Reading Room of the library, as well as paper presentations by our MA in English students and by graduate students from universities around the world. The conference schedule and updates are located on the MA in English conferences webpage. For inquiries and further information, please contact Maura Tarnoff (mtarnoff@slu.edu).

Expanded Exam-time Library Hours begin May 2nd >>

"Making Sense of the Internet for Social Movements and Global Activism," a presentation by Andrew Calabrese (Associate Dean in the College of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of Colorado) · Thursday, April 28, 2:30-3:45 pm · PRH 3 >>

The Spring 2011 Madrid Campus Arts Performance, “Around the World in 80 Minutes,” takes place this Thursday, April 28 (6:30 pm) at the Colegio Mayor Elías Alhuja [C/ Rector Royo Villanova, 4 / Metro: Metropolitano (L6)]. Enjoy Latin Dance, Spanish Dance, Theatre, Voice, Music, Painting, Drawing and Design. Free Entrance.

Win a gift certificate with your writing!  (submission deadlines: April 28 & 29) >>

Or/And, win a prize for your photography! (submission deadline: May 3) >>

Special workshop invitation to Madrid Campus faculty, staff and graduate students: via video conference, join colleagues on the St. Louis Campus on Tuesday, May 10 (3:30-5:00 pm) for the keynote address of a workshop entitled, “Preparing for the Future: Communicating Inclusivity” / As part of the University’s ongoing dialogue about diversity and inclusion, this event will highlight recent accomplishments, consider ongoing challenges, and explore future directions. >>