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 …
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 …
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/
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, …
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 …
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, 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 …
CYRANO DE BERGERAC is coming to America. Experience the beloved and iconic French romantic comedy, presented by the most prestigious Parisian stage, for a special one-night event, nationwide only in cinema – January 23, 7 pm. Book now: http://bit.ly/CyranoTickets
