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November 2013
Workshop: French in Contact/Le Français en Contact, Day 1
"Pathways to integration: gender-split and variable phonology in multi-ethnic youth vernaculars in Paris" Zsuzsanna Fagyal-Le Mentec University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign This presentation is part of the FFRI French in Contact/Le Français en Contact Workshop.
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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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