The WWI Diary of Albert Huet: From Digitization to Implementation in the Classroom

with Dr. Hélène Huet, Dr. Amanda Shoaf Vincent, Dr. Lynn E. Palermo

The FFRI as part of the Confrontation and Aftermath: Remembering Wars in France series is delighted to welcome Dr. Hélène Huet, Dr. Amanda Shoaf Vincent, Dr. Lynn E. Palermo to discuss The WW1 Diary of Albert Huet: From Digitization to Implementation in the Classroom on Thursday, April 22th at 4 pm.

Please use this link to access the Zoom meeting.  You may also use the Zoom ID (968 0569 9207) and password (031435) to log on. You are invited to share this announcement with students and friends!

Speaker Bio:

Hélène Huet, PhD, is the European Studies Librarian at the University of Florida. She is the Chair of the Florida Digital Humanities Consortium (FLDH), a collective of institutions in Florida that seeks to promote an understanding of the humanities in light of digital technologies and research. She was recently elected on the Executive Council of Association internationale francophone des bibliothécaires et documentalistes (AIFBD). She has published her work on Digital Humanities in several books chapters as well as inDigital Humanities Quarterly. In addition to her project on Albert Huet, she has created another digital project called Mapping Decadence. You can find her on Twitter, @superHH.

Amanda Shoaf Vincent earned her PhD in French Civilization from Penn State University. She is currently an assistant professor of French Studies at Wake Forest University, where she teaches language, literature, and culture courses as well as Business French. Her research focus is in contemporary French cultural studies, specifically architecture, landscape architecture, and urbanism. She has published several articles on parks and public spaces in the Paris region in Contemporary French Civilization, Contemporary French and Francophone Studies, and Landscape Journal. Her book manuscript, under revision for the University of Pennsylvania Press, examines parks designed during the last decades of the twentieth century in Paris. Her current research interests include how sustainable design has become incorporated into architecture and landscape architecture, and how designed spaces communicate their “green-ness.”

Lynn E. Palermo is Assoc. Professor of French at Susquehanna University (Selinsgrove, PA).  She is the translator of the novel Humus, by Fabienne Kanor (UVA Press, 2020), and the recipient of an NEA Translation Grant and a French Voices award for her work in translation. Translations of short stories have appeared in journals such as Exchanges, Kenyon Review Online, and World Literature Today. Her academic translations include five essays on Surrealism and Romania for a special issue of Dada/Surrealism. Her research has focused on cultural debates of interwar France through literature, the decorative arts, architecture, and world’s fairs. She teaches all levels of French at the undergraduate level.