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November 2014
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…
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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…
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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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