Starting 10am Ecrire l’urgence, réinventer le romanesque haïtien Yolaine, Parisot Université de Rennes 2 Migration et pratiques théâtrales à Bamako Alioune Sow University of Florida Rap and Islam in France: Arabic Religious Language Contact with French Benjamin Hebblethwaite University of Florida Dakar’s Centenaire Pidgin: an emergent trade language in a West African Chinese …
A French Embassy program offering young Americans the opportunity to live and work in France.
Join us for a talk Given by Profession Bogumil Jewsiewicki on the artist, Sammy Baloji. February 24, 2014
Join us on March 11 & 12 for the 18th International Festival of Women Composers, followed by a day of panel presentations on French music and literature.
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.
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 …
À PROPOS D’UN ÉTÉ / ABOUT A SUMMER France | 2012 | 127 minutes | vf un film de / directed by : Hernán Rivera Mejia (Pérou) FLG 230 –Friday 7 November, 5:10-7:15pm For more information please contact Dr. Sylvie Blum-Reid (Languages Literatures and Cultures) sylblum@ufl.edu « Jean Rouch : Autrement dit, nous avons voulu …
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 …
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 …
Hippodrome Theatre, 25 SE 2nd Place, Gainesville La Grande Illusion / Grand Illusion (Jean Renoir) Feb. 5, 8pm Set during World War I, this masterwork by Jean Renoir, once hailed by Orson Welles as the “greatest of all directors,” was shot just three years before the beginning of World War II. Renoir, who himself …
"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 …
“Imagining Climate Change: Science and Fiction in Dialogue” brings together French and American science fiction authors, graphic novelists, scholars, physical scientists and researchers, to discuss the effects of climate change on the physical environment and the human imaginary. As we move into a warmer, drier, and more unstable global climate, climate studies will be more …
