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 …
Some of the most well-known intellectuals of 20th-century France have warned of the dangers of television to thought, to society and to the book. However, Marguerite Duras, a prominent writer and public intellectual, made use of the television as an extension of her literary project. As both an interviewer on state funded television shows during …
Mame Fatou Niang is Associate Professor of French and Francophone Studies at Carnegie Mellon University. Her research focuses on contemporary France, Sub-Saharan Africa, Postcolonial and Transnational Studies, Media, and Urban Planning. She is the author of Identités Françaises (Brill 2019) which examines the development of Afro-French identities and the works of second- and third-generation female …
Dialogue around “Les Belles au bois dormant” with Dr. Charlotte Trinquet du Lys (University of Central Florida) and Dr. Rori Bloom (University of Florida) Dialogue in French with discussion in French and/or English Taking inspiration from Charles Perrault’s late seventeenth-century fairy tale, “La Belle au Bois dormant,” Drs. Trinquet and Bloom will explore several versions …
Zora Neale Hurston’s 1938 book, Tell My Horse: Voodoo and Life in Haiti and Jamaica, recounts her two years of fieldwork research on African-derived religions and other cultural practices in the Caribbean. Though it has received plenty of attention since being republished in 1990, Tell My Horse is still Hurston’s most complicated, least understood book. …
Join us for a round table discussion in French of Montréal and Orléans over the decades. This event will be hosted at the Scott Nygren Studio located in Library West. It is free and open to the public. SPEAKERS Lotfi Abouda, Université d’Orléans Katja Ploog,Université d’Orléans Mireille Tremblay, Université de Montréal
Dr. Anna Giaufret (University of Genoa, Italy) will present her new book Montréal dans les bulles Dr. Giaufret is Associate Professor in the Department of Modern Languages and Cultures at the University of Genoa. After her Ph.D. in Francophone Studies at the University of Bologna, she taught at the Universities of Ferrara and Verona in …
Dr. Anne-José Villeneuve (University of Alberta, Canada) will present her sociolinguistic research on language variation in Québec French.
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.
Jeffrey M. Leichman is William Boizelle Associate Professor in the Department of French Studies at Louisiana State University, and Director of the LSU Center for French and Francophone Studies, a member of the Centers of Excellence Network designated by the cultural services of the French Embassy. Professor Leichman is a scholar of theatre and …
