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September 2014
Demography and the Challenge of Social Change in the African Sahel
The Sahel Research Group and the France-Florida Research Institute are hosting a one-day Symposium titled "Demography and the Challenge of Social Change in the Sahel". Career Resource Center Library Reitz Union, first floor Speakers come from different disciplines including demography, public health, geography and anthropology. 8:00-8:30 Coffee 8:30-8:45 Welcome and Introduction 8:45-10:15 Panel 1: Population Growth and Climate Change Malcolm Potts, UC Berkeley, OASIS Initiative Alisha Graves, OASIS Initiative 10:45-12:15 Panel 2: The Livelihood Challenge: Farmers and Pastoralists Matt Turner,…
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A propos d’un été / About a summer
À PROPOS D’UN ÉTÉ / ABOUT A SUMMER France | 2012 | 127 minutes | vf un film de / directed by : Hernán Rivera Mejia (Pérou) FLG 230 –Friday 7 November, 5:10-7:15pm For more information please contact Dr. Sylvie Blum-Reid (Languages Literatures and Cultures) sylblum@ufl.edu « Jean Rouch : Autrement dit, nous avons voulu faire un film d’amour et on aboutit à un film d’indifférence, en tout cas dans lequel… non, pas d’indifférence… Edgar Morin : non, les gens…
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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 »Poétique et primitivisme
Rodney Saint-Éloi in conversation with Sébastien Doubinsky Monday November 17th 2014 4pm 215 Dauer Hall Rodney Saint-Éloi is a Haitian poet and novelist living in Montréal. He is the founder of Editions Mémoire in Haiti and Mémoire d’encrier, a publishing house based in Montréal. He is the author of J’avais une ville d’eau, de terre et d’arc-en-ciel heureux, J’ai un arbre dans ma pirogue, Haïti Kenbe la!, Récitatif au pays des ombres, Jacques Roche, je t’écris cette lettre Sébastien…
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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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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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French Canadian Tourists, Immigrants and Snowbirds in Florida, 1850-2015
a talk by Serge Dupuis, Postdoctoral Fellow, CEFAN, Université Laval (Québec City, Canada) Wednesday 30 March 2016, 3 p.m., (Dauer 215) This conference will summarize the sociology of North American Francophone communities in order to better understand the position of French Canadians, as well as other Francophones in Florida, on the community-language axis. Whereas settlers, immigrants and descendents tended to integrate rapidly into Floridian society, tourists were seldom affected by their sojorn, other than through the acquisition of certain traits…
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Yacine Balah to visit UF
a conversation with Yacine Balah Tuesday November 1st, 2016 10.45am, Dauer Hall, 215 Frères ennemis features two completely opposite characters: one is a member of the FLN and the other is a soldier in the French army. Given the circumstances, the film raises an important question: how would any human being react toward the situation in the context of the Algerian war? Even though the film does not have a purpose of providing a solution, it sheds light on the…
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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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