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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

Imagining Climate Change Spring 2016 Colloquium

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

Christian Chelebourg visits UF

Participates in the second part of the project “Imagining Climate Change: Science and Fiction in Dialogue” with Yann Quero, Jeff Vandermeer and Tobias Buckell. February 18 2:00-5pm, Smathers Library 100 For more information visit https://imagining-climate.clas.ufl.edu/

La France et l’état d’urgence

a conversation with Justice Canivet Friday March 11, 2016 2pm, Dauer Hall Justice Guy Canivet, Member of the French Constitutional Council and honorary first president of the Cour de cassation, that is, former Chief Justice of the Supreme Court for civil and criminal matters, is the highest ranked French judge. He recently wrote the Preface

“French language and its region on the big screen, from Bienvenue chez les Chtis to Les Neiges du Kilimandjaro”

a talk by Kevin Elstob Monday March 14th, 2016 4.05pm Room TBA Kevin Elstob is a professor of French at Sacramento State University. Since working on the theatre of French playwright Michel Vinaver for his PhD, Professor Elstob has continued to examine ways in which the visual arts, particularly theatre and film, represent French and

Wanuri Kahiu visits UF

Tuesday March 15, 2016, Ustler Hall Atrium a screening of Pumzi and conversation with director Wanuri Kahiu Event is free and open to the public. For more information visit https://imagining-climate.clas.ufl.edu/

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,

Yacine Balah to visit UF

a conversation with Yacine Balah Tuesday November 1st, 2016 10.45am, Dauer Hall, 215 Frères ennemis features two completely opposite characters: one is a member of the FLN and the other is a soldier in the French army. Given the circumstances, the film raises an important question: how would any human being react toward the situation

Retour sur image: Patrick Modiano et la Mémoire; la Mémoire de Patrick Modiano

Wednesday November 16, 2016 4pm, Dauer Hall, 215 Martine Guyot-Bender is the Margaret Bundy Scott Professor and Chair in the Department of French at Hamilton College. She is the author of Poétique et politique de l'ambiguité chez Patrick Modiano (Paris, Lettres Modernes, 1999) and co-editor of Paradigms of Memory: The Occupation and Other Hi/stories in

“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,

“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,

“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)