The University of Wisconsin - Madison's Center for the Humanities held its first annual "Languages of the Humanities: The Yvonne Ozzello Memorial Evening" at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, March 7, in the Alumni Lounge of the Pyle Center, 702 Langdon St., Madison. The event was free and open to the public.
The evening featured 17 UW - Madison humanities faculty offering readings and musical presentations in 13 different languages as a tribute to Yvonne Ozzello, a professor of French and Italian and Associate Dean of the Humanities who died in 1999 from cancer.
"The evening is intended to highlight the humanities, in particular foreign languages and literature, championed so passionately by Yvonne," says Magdalena Hauner, professor of African Languages and Literature. "It's meant to be a window on the variety of languages we offer on campus, and an invitation to the students and the public to come and study them here."
