"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 …
“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 …
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 …
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 …
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, …
Tuesday, March 21 , 2017 4pm, Pugh Hall, 210 Abstract: Les écrits ordinaires de la Grande Guerre ont été peu exploités par les historiens. Dans le célèbre ouvrage de Jean-Norton Cru, Témoins, les professions libérales et les intellectuels représentent la quasi-totalité des témoignages. Un rééquilibrage commence à s’esquisser dans l’ouvrage récemment dirigé par Rémy Cazals, …
Wednesday, March 22 , 2017 3pm, Pugh Hall, 302 Volker Schröder (Associate Professor of French) studies early modern literature and culture, with a special focus on the reign of Louis XIV (1660-1715). He received his doctorate in French literature from the University of Tübingen (Germany) and has previously taught at the University of Salzburg (Austria) …
Wednesday, March 29 , 2017 3-4pm, Pugh Hall 210 Professor of Linguistics at York University in Toronta, Canada, Ruth King has published widely on grammatical variation and change in contemporary French varieties and on the sociolinguistic history of the language. Her research areas include language and dialect contact, minority language varieties in the media and …
Thursday, June 1, 2017 5pm, Ulster Hall Michael O’Dea is Emeritus Professor of French at the Université Lyon II (France) and is a specialist of Rousseau and music. His latest publications include the edited volumes Rousseau en 2012. Puisqu’enfin mon nom doit vivre. SVEC 2012:1; Rousseau en musique, co-edited with P. Saby and O. Bara …
May 20 - 24, 2019 Pugh Hall, University of Florida The Cultural Services of the Embassy of France in the U.S., in cooperation with the Paris International Chamber of Commerce and the France Florida Research Institute and Department of Languages, Literatures and Cultures of the University of Florida is organizing a 5-day professional training session in …
The France-Florida Institute is delighted to welcome Dr. Ron Popenhagen to the University of Florida on February 10, 2023 at 3pm in Library East (Smathers) Room 100 for a presentation “Masquerade as Theatre in Francophonie: Africa, the Caribbean and France” as a part of the 2022-2023 FFRI Theater Revival/Le renouveau théâtral project.
Please joins us for a presentation from Anthoni Dominguez, Cultural Attaché Consulate of France in Miami and Director of Villa Albertine, Miami. Anthoni Dominguez worked for nearly eight years as an independent art critic for specialized magazines – Mouvement, L’Art Même, Fluxnews, Nouvelles de Danse, etc. – and art galleries, but also as an artist’s assistant, teacher, or even as an exhibit curator. After joining the Corps of Inspectors …
