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April 2015
Award winning journalist Marie-Monique Robin visits UF
"Our Daily Poison, From Pesticides to Packaging: How Chemicals have Contaminated the Food Chain and are Making us Sick" a talk by Marie-Monique Robin Monday April 13th, 2015 2pm, 404 Grinter Hall Marie-Monique Robin is an award-winning journalist and filmmaker. She received the 1995 Albert-Londres Prize, awarded to investigative journalists in France. She is the director and producer of more than thirty documentaries and investigative reports filmed in Latin America, Africa, Europe, and Asia. Robin is the author of…
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Imagining Climate Change: Science and Fiction in Dialogue
“Imagining Climate Change: Science and Fiction in Dialogue” brings together French and American science fiction authors, graphic novelists, scholars, physical scientists and researchers, to discuss the effects of climate change on the physical environment and the human imaginary. As we move into a warmer, drier, and more unstable global climate, climate studies will be more central to our scientific understanding of the world. The distinctive literary form of our time, science fiction bridges elite and popular cultures and engages enthusiasts…
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Month of the documentary, 16th edition, November 2015
Le son d’Elsa /Elsa’s Sound Dir. Yves Comeliau. (France 2013, 70 min.) Thursday 12 November. 4-5:45pm, U.F. Library West 212 Cendres / Ashes Dir. Idrissa Guiro & Mélanie Pavy (France-Senegal 2014, 75 min) Monday 9 November, 5:30-7pm, Hippodrome State Theatre Les Chêvres de ma mère / My Mother’s Goats Dir. Sophie Audier (France 2014, 97 min.) Monday 16 November 2015 5:30-7 pm, Hippodrome State Theatre Garcon boucher / Butcher boy Dir. Florian Geyer (2013, 49 min.) Thursday 19 November 2015: 5-7pm, U.F. Library West…
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Imagining Climate Change Spring 2016 Colloquium
Second part of the project “Imagining Climate Change: Science and Fiction in Dialogue”. For the February colloquium, participants include Yann Quero, Christian Chelebourg, Jay Famiglietti, Jeff Vandermeer and Tobias Buckell. February 17-18, 2016 The Spring colloquim begins with a Plenary Panel at the 5th Biennial Symposium of the UF Water Institute. February 17 1:30-3pm, Reitz Union Auditorium. All events are free and open to the public. For more information visit https://imagining-climate.clas.ufl.edu/
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“Français de souche, Français de papier, Français de branche” and “The World after Fukushima”, two events with Michaël Ferrier
Français de souche, Français de papier, Français de branche, a talk by Michaël Ferrier Monday, February 27, 2017 4.05pm, Dauer 215. A creative writer, researcher and professor at Chuo University, Japan, a country where he has lived for many years, Michaël Ferrier was born to a family with a very rich and diverse ancestry: Alsace, Mauritius, Madagascar, India … In his early years, he lived in several countries, Chad and Madagascar included. A graduate from the École Normale Supérieure, he…
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“1000 lettres de la Grande Guerre. Le témoignage singulier des peu-lettrés” a talk by Agnès Steuckardt (Univ. Paul Valéry, Montpellier, France)
Tuesday, March 21 , 2017 4pm, Pugh Hall, 210 Abstract: Les écrits ordinaires de la Grande Guerre ont été peu exploités par les historiens. Dans le célèbre ouvrage de Jean-Norton Cru, Témoins, les professions libérales et les intellectuels représentent la quasi-totalité des témoignages. Un rééquilibrage commence à s’esquisser dans l’ouvrage récemment dirigé par Rémy Cazals, 500 témoins ; toutefois, même lorsque les historiens s’intéressent aux les classes populaires, ce sont toujours les plus lettrés, comme le tonnelier Louis Barthas, qui…
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“L’Autographe et son double: Nineteenth-century Forgeries of Seventeenth-century Manuscripts” a talk by Volker Schröder (Princeton)
Wednesday, March 22 , 2017 3pm, Pugh Hall, 302 Volker Schröder (Associate Professor of French) studies early modern literature and culture, with a special focus on the reign of Louis XIV (1660-1715). He received his doctorate in French literature from the University of Tübingen (Germany) and has previously taught at the University of Salzburg (Austria) and Duke University. His publications include a monograph on Jean Racine’s tragedy Britannicus, an essay collection entitled Présences de Racine, a critical edition of Marie-Anne…
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“Acadian French in Contact: Connecting the Past and the Present”. A lecture by Ruth King (York University, Toronto Canada)
Wednesday, March 29 , 2017 3-4pm, Pugh Hall 210 Professor of Linguistics at York University in Toronta, Canada, Ruth King has published widely on grammatical variation and change in contemporary French varieties and on the sociolinguistic history of the language. Her research areas include language and dialect contact, minority language varieties in the media and language and identity. Abstract Acadian French refers to varieties of French spoken in Canada’s four Atlantic Provinces and in parts of eastern Québec. In this…
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“Another Rousseau. Re-imagining a Writer using his Silences”. Keynote lecture by Michael O’Dea (Université Lyon II)
Thursday, June 1, 2017 5pm, Ulster Hall Michael O’Dea is Emeritus Professor of French at the Université Lyon II (France) and is a specialist of Rousseau and music. His latest publications include the edited volumes Rousseau en 2012. Puisqu’enfin mon nom doit vivre. SVEC 2012:1; Rousseau en musique, co-edited with P. Saby and O. Bara as a special issue of Orages, littérature et culture 1760-1830 (2012) and Rousseau et les philosophes, SVEC 2010:2. On June 1 at 5pm, he will…
Find out more »February 2023
“Masquerade as Theatre in Francophonie: Africa, the Caribbean and France”: A Presentation by Dr. Ron Popenhagen
The France-Florida Institute is delighted to welcome Dr. Ron Popenhagen to the University of Florida on February 10, 2023 at 3pm in Library East (Smathers) Room 100 for a presentation “Masquerade as Theatre in Francophonie: Africa, the Caribbean and France” as a part of the 2022-2023 FFRI Theater Revival/Le renouveau théâtral project.
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Information Session with Anthoni Dominguez, Cultural Attaché, Consulate of France in Miami
Please joins us for a presentation from Anthoni Dominguez, Cultural Attaché Consulate of France in Miami and Director of Villa Albertine, Miami. Anthoni Dominguez worked for nearly eight years as an independent art critic for specialized magazines – Mouvement, L’Art Même, Fluxnews, Nouvelles de Danse, etc. – and art galleries, but also as an artist’s assistant, teacher, or even as an exhibit curator. After joining the Corps of Inspectors and Advisors of Creation, Artistic Education and Cultural Action in 2016, he worked as an advisor for plastic arts, museums and higher education at the DAC Martinique until 2020, before becoming the Attaché…
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