The 2019 Call for Proposals of the Thomas Jefferson Fund is now open until March 5, 2019 | 12:00pm (midday) EST. This program, launched by the Embassy of France in the United States and the FACE Foundation, aims to encourage and support cooperation among the most promising young French and American researchers, and foster forward-looking …
To Be Determined Dauer 215 Phillip Van den Bossche studied art history in Ghent, and attended the Curatorial Training Programme of De Appel in Amsterdam. He worked from 2001 as a curator at the Van Abbemuseum in Eindhoven and has been director of Mu.ZEE in Ostend since 2007. In recent years he curated exhibitions …
Monday, February 25, 2019 at 4pm Scott Nygren Scholars Studio (Library West) Fanny Glissant Flyer For the official kick-off event of the second edition of the TOUT-MONDE FESTIVAL, the Caribbean Contemporary Arts Festival in Miami (March 13-17, 2019) “Echo-Natures," and on the occasion of BLACK HISTORY MONTH, The Cultural Services of the French Embassy & the France …
In the context of the project “Confrontations and Aftermath,” the FFRI is supporting a free screening of the Film “Shoah: Four Sisters” March 24 at 11am at the Gainesville Jewish Film Festival, directed by Claude Lanzmann. Ninth Annual Gainesville Jewish Film Festival Sunday, March 17 through Saturday, March 30 Hippodrome Cinema ~ Gainesville, Florida The Jewish …
Wednesday, March 27, 2019 Pugh Hall, 210, at 4pm In the context of the Francophone Month, discover the experience of UF and French students who benefited from the Reciprocal Exchange Agreement between the UF and Université Rennes 2. Learn about the exchange and the application process. Experience a typical “goûter Breton” (Breton snack). The University …
Monday, April 15, 2019 Library East, 100, at 4 pm Dominique Kalifa is a historian and professor at the University of Paris 1, where he heads the Center of 19th Century History. His work focuses on the history of crime, social control, and mass culture in 19th- and early 20th-century France and Europe. He wrote the …
Monday, April 15, 2019 George E. Smathers Libraries (Library East), Room 100, at 4-5 pm Dominique Kalifa is a historian and professor at the University of Paris 1, where he heads the Center of 19th Century History. His work focuses on the history of crime, social control, and mass culture in 19th- and early 20th-century France …
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. …
