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March 2014
International Symposium: French Music, Literature & Concert
Join us on March 11 & 12 for the 18th International Festival of Women Composers, followed by a day of panel presentations on French music and literature.
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Decolonizing the French Republic
a talk by Françoise Vergès Monday November 10th, 2014 4pm, Dauer Hall 219 Françoise Vergès teaches at the Center for Cultural Studies, Goldsmiths College, University of London. She has written on memory, slavery, postcolonial theory, the economy of predation, creolization, museography, migration, Frantz Fanon and Césaire. She was the president of the Committee for the memory of slavery (Comité pour la Mémoire et l’Histoire de l’Esclavage) in Paris from 2009 to 2012 and has contributed to events such as Documenta 11 in…
Find out more »February 2015
Tournées French Film Festival
Hippodrome Theatre, 25 SE 2nd Place, Gainesville La Grande Illusion / Grand Illusion (Jean Renoir) Feb. 5, 8pm Set during World War I, this masterwork by Jean Renoir, once hailed by Orson Welles as the “greatest of all directors,” was shot just three years before the beginning of World War II. Renoir, who himself had flown reconnaissance missions during WWI, examines the relationships that form among a group of French officers held in a German prisoner-of-war camp. Within this…
Find out more »December 2022
French Impressionism in Music & Mindfulness: A Concert
Free and open to all, this program will feature flutist Christine Alicot and pianist Carlos Beltran playing pieces by Francis Poulenc, Albert Roussel and Claude Debussy. This event is sponsored by the France Florida Research Institute, in the Department of Languages, Literatures and Cultures in partnership with the UF-Mindfulness program.
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