Session VA: FLARR I (Special Session)
Foreign Language Association of the Red River

8:30 - John Hall (Minnesota State University Moorhead) - "Fossilization and Some Ways to Avoid It"

John Hall will be continuing his excellent presentation/discussion series on matters pedagogical, this time focusing on the topic of fossilization.

9:00 – Tom Turner (University of Minnesota Morris) "Arturo Pérez-Reverte and the Concept of Feminine Criminality in The Queen of the South"

Tom Turner has continued his explorations of lady assassins in Spain and he is presenting a paper on Teresa Mendoza, lady drug smuggler extraordinaire of Mexico and Spain in Pérez-Reverte’s La reina del sur, soon to be an action-packed movie starring Eva Mendes. Tom focuses on the author’s concept of feminine criminality, her picaresque history, her abilities, her psychology, and her moral resolutions.

9:30 – Darima Budaeva (Concordia College - Moorhead, Minnesota) “Russian values in the global world”

It is a well-known fact that Russia is a huge country with a rich history, magnificent culture, ethnical and natural diversity, great scientific potential and also a birthplace of many famous names of past and present. As each nation, the Russians have fundamental values they live by which are of great interest. In this paper I intend to reveal these fundamental values because in the world where globalization has become a buzzword understanding cultures is the key issue. I’d like to give a good overview of my homeland and its values to people living in the USA, because for foreigners Russia has always been a mystery. I also consider it to be my moral responsibility as I’m a Fulbright grantee, a cultural ambassador of Russia, whose primary aim is to favor the merging of two majestic countries ( Russia-the USA), to consolidate this unity by means of sharing our cultures and values.