The France-Florida Research Institute has hosted a wide variety of events across a multitude of disciplines.
Écocritique de la Seine
April 5 @ 3:00 pm - 5:00 pm“I never had a language of my own”: Jack Kerouac and the making of a “Big American Writer”, Guest Lecture by Dr. Jean-Christophe Cloutier, University of Pennsylvania
March 7 @ 2:00 pm - 3:00 pmListening to islands and peninsulas | À l’écoute des îles et des presqu’îles
February 29 @ 7:00 pm - 10:00 pmUF French and Francophone Studies Dept: Poetry Contest
February 22Getting to Know You: Vinciane Despret’s Study of Interspecies Knowledge Practices
February 15 @ 5:30 pmAn Alternative Digital Humanities: Modeling and Simulation in the VESPACE Project, Guest lecture by Jeffrey Leichman (Louisiana State University)
February 1 @ 4:00 pm - 5:00 pmConcert “Sous le ciel de Paris”
November 14, 2023 @ 6:30 pm - 8:00 pmInformation Session with Anthoni Dominguez, Cultural Attaché, Consulate of France in Miami
October 26, 2023 @ 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm“Portrait d’une femme en exil ou l’art de dérouter les lieux communs”: Lecture by Dr. Agnes Schaffauser
October 20, 2023 @ 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm“La guerre des théâtres à Paris au siècle des Lumières”: Lecture by Dr. Françoise Rubellin
April 7, 2023 @ 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm“Serious Play: Role-Playing Games in the College Classroom”: Talk by Dr. David Eick
March 22, 2023 @ 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm“Masquerade as Theatre in Francophonie: Africa, the Caribbean and France”: A Presentation by Dr. Ron Popenhagen
February 10, 2023 @ 3:00 pmFrench Impressionism in Music & Mindfulness: A Concert
December 8, 2022 @ 5:30 pm“Au nom de tous les tiens”: A Discussion with Aya Cissoko
November 29, 2022 @ 3:00 pmA Short History Of Contraception And Abortion In France And The United States
November 1, 2022 @ 5:00 pmChallenging the myth of ‘good’ and ‘bad’ French: Norm(s) and socio-stylistic variation in Quebec
October 17, 2022 @ 4:00 pmMarilyn in French : Biopics on Stage
April 11, 2022 @ 1:55 pm - 3:00 pmReading and Discussion of Matrix: A Novel by Author Lauren Groff
April 4, 2022 @ 5:00 pmPerec : Je me souviens/ Je me souviens de Perec
March 31, 2022 @ 3:00 pm - 6:00 pmThe Lives of French Theater Artists: A Conversation with Actors François Kergourlay, Jessica Vedel and Cécile Fontaine
February 18, 2022 @ 10:00 am - 11:30 amMasking and Transformation in the 2018-2020 Production, La Conférence des oiseaux
February 16, 2022 @ 1:55 pm - 2:40 pmFrancophone Artists, Bandes Dessinées and Diasporic Graphics
November 19, 2021 @ 1:55 pm - 3:00 pmThe WWI Diary of Albert Huet: From Digitization to Implementation in the Classroom
April 22, 2021 @ 4:00 pm - 5:00 pmThe Middle Voice of EcoComix: Reading Philippe Sqarzoni’s SAISON BRUNE
March 25, 2021 @ 4:00 pm - 5:00 pmPolitical Dimensions of Écriture Inclusive in Parisian Universities
March 18, 2021 @ 1:55 pm - 2:55 pmSino-French Bandes Dessinées: from the Blue Lotus and Shenzhen to Made in Taiwan
March 11, 2021 @ 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm“Madame le Professeur” : Gender Inclusivity in the Linguistic Landscape of Universities in France and Quebec
March 5, 2021 @ 3:00 pm - 4:00 pmRace-ing in Cheng Yu-Chieh’s Yang Yang: the Métissage of Sino-French Cinema
February 11, 2021 @ 4:00 pm - 5:00 pmFrench Comic Books & Translations for Publication
January 29, 2021 @ 11:00 am - 1:00 pmVoyages Across Borders – A Virtual Film Festival
January 22, 2021 - January 24, 2021Orleans & Montreal in Real Time: 40 Years of Variation in Spoken French
February 26, 2020 @ 5:00 pm - 7:00 pmVodou Inscriptions of the Self in Zora Neale Hurston’s Haitian Ethnography
November 18, 2019 @ 3:00 pm - 4:00 pmLes Belles au bois dormant with Dr. Trinquet du Lys and Dr. Bloom
November 13, 2019 @ 3:00 pm - 4:00 pmBlackness in French
October 28, 2019 @ 4:00 pm - 4:30 pmInscribing the Self on the Small Screen: How Marguerite Duras Put Literature on TV
October 21, 2019 @ 4:00 pmFrench For Health Professional Training Session
May 20, 2019 - May 24, 2019Lecture of “Vice, Crime, and Poverty: How the Western Imagination Invented the Underworld” by Dominique Kalifa
April 15, 2019 @ 4:00 pm - 5:00 pmLecture of “Vice, Crime, and Poverty: How the Western Imagination Invented the Underworld” by Dominique Kalifa
April 15, 2019 @ 4:00 pm - 5:00 pmExplore UF and Rennes 2 connection !
March 27, 2019 @ 4:00 pm - 5:00 pmScreening of Shoah: Four Sisters at Gainesville Jewish Film Festival
March 24, 2019 @ 11:00 am - 5:00 pmA Conversation with Fanny GLISSANT on the Documentary “Slavery Routes”
February 25, 2019 @ 4:00 pm - 5:00 pmThe Postcolonial Turn of MuZEE, A European/Belgian Museum
February 21, 2019 @ 8:00 am - 5:00 pmCall for Proposals: Thomas Jefferson Fund
January 29, 2019 @ 8:00 am - March 5, 2019 @ 5:00 pmCYRANO DE BERGERAC
January 23, 2019 - January 24, 2019“Another Rousseau. Re-imagining a Writer using his Silences”. Keynote lecture by Michael O’Dea (Université Lyon II)
June 1, 2017 @ 5:00 pm - 6:30 pm“Acadian French in Contact: Connecting the Past and the Present”. A lecture by Ruth King (York University, Toronto Canada)
March 29, 2017 @ 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm“L’Autographe et son double: Nineteenth-century Forgeries of Seventeenth-century Manuscripts” a talk by Volker Schröder (Princeton)
March 22, 2017 @ 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm“1000 lettres de la Grande Guerre. Le témoignage singulier des peu-lettrés” a talk by Agnès Steuckardt (Univ. Paul Valéry, Montpellier, France)
March 21, 2017 @ 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm“Français de souche, Français de papier, Français de branche” and “The World after Fukushima”, two events with Michaël Ferrier
February 27, 2017 @ 4:00 pm - February 28, 2017 @ 6:00 pmRetour sur image: Patrick Modiano et la Mémoire; la Mémoire de Patrick Modiano
November 16, 2016 @ 4:00 am - 5:00 pmYacine Balah to visit UF
November 1, 2016 @ 10:45 am - 12:00 pmFrench Canadian Tourists, Immigrants and Snowbirds in Florida, 1850-2015
March 30, 2016 @ 3:00 pm - 4:00 pmWanuri Kahiu visits UF
March 15, 2016 @ 5:00 pm - 6:00 pm“French language and its region on the big screen, from Bienvenue chez les Chtis to Les Neiges du Kilimandjaro”
March 14, 2016 @ 4:00 am - 5:00 pmLa France et l’état d’urgence
March 11, 2016 @ 2:00 pm - 2:50 pmChristian Chelebourg visits UF
February 18, 2016 @ 2:00 pm - 5:00 pmImagining Climate Change Spring 2016 Colloquium
February 17, 2016 @ 8:00 am - February 18, 2016 @ 5:00 pmMonth of the documentary, 16th edition, November 2015
November 9, 2015 @ 4:00 am - November 19, 2015 @ 5:00 pmImagining Climate Change: Science and Fiction in Dialogue
October 9, 2015 @ 3:00 pm - October 10, 2015 @ 9:00 pmAward winning journalist Marie-Monique Robin visits UF
April 13, 2015 @ 2:00 pm - 3:00 pmTournées French Film Festival
February 5, 2015 - February 25, 2015Poétique et primitivisme
November 17, 2014 @ 4:00 pm - 5:30 pmDecolonizing the French Republic
November 10, 2014 @ 4:00 am - 5:30 pmA propos d’un été / About a summer
November 7, 2014 @ 5:10 pm - 7:15 pmDemography and the Challenge of Social Change in the African Sahel
September 20, 2014 @ 8:00 am - 4:00 pmPhilippe Létrilliart, Consul General of France in Miami, to visit UF
September 3, 2014International Symposium: French Music, Literature & Concert
March 11, 2014 - March 12, 2014Images qui s’entrechoquent : promenades de Sammy Baloji entre les mémoires locales et l’imaginaire global
February 24, 2014 @ 3:30 pm - 5:00 pmTeaching Assistant Program in France
January 15, 2014Workshop: French in Contact/Le Français en Contact, Day 2
November 16, 2013Workshop: French in Contact/Le Français en Contact, Day 1
November 15, 2013 @ 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm