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February 2014
Images qui s’entrechoquent : promenades de Sammy Baloji entre les mémoires locales et l’imaginaire global
Join us for a talk Given by Profession Bogumil Jewsiewicki on the artist, Sammy Baloji. February 24, 2014
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Philippe Létrilliart, Consul General of France in Miami, to visit UF
Philippe Létrilliart, Consul General of France in Miami will give a talk titled "France and Florida : A Long Standing Relationship" in Smathers Library Room 100. The event is free and open to the public.
Find out more »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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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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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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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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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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“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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“1000 lettres de la Grande Guerre. Le témoignage singulier des peu-lettrés” a talk by Agnès Steuckardt (Univ. Paul Valéry, Montpellier, France)
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, 500 témoins ; toutefois, même lorsque les historiens s’intéressent aux les classes populaires, ce sont toujours les plus lettrés, comme le tonnelier Louis Barthas, qui…
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“L’Autographe et son double: Nineteenth-century Forgeries of Seventeenth-century Manuscripts” a talk by Volker Schröder (Princeton)
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) and Duke University. His publications include a monograph on Jean Racine’s tragedy Britannicus, an essay collection entitled Présences de Racine, a critical edition of Marie-Anne…
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