Month: May 2014

GAFIS Symposium: Negotiating Aesthetic Hierarchies: the Creative Tension between High and Popular Culture   WELCOME! The GAFIS Graduate Student Symposium, now in its 27th year, provides a forum for intellectual and scholarly exchange in a positive collegial atmosphere. Interdisciplinary in nature, this national event gives future colleagues the chance to meet each other and to hear …

University of Wisconsin–Madison faculty Aliko Songolo and Ritt Deitz will be named Chevaliers de l’Ordre des Palmes Académiques in a ceremony with the French Consul General, Jean-Baptiste de Boissière, at The French House.   Dating from 1808 under Napoleonic rule, the L’Ordre des Palmes Académiques was established to distinguish university dignitaries and recognize service in …

This event also includes a visit of the Consulat Général de France à Chicago.

Moroccan Poet and Activist   RachidaMadani: La Shahrazade militante   Poetry Reading: Poems read in French with English translation   Any questions, please e-mail Professor Névine El Nossery

Lecture: “Mussolini, Man of Theatre”.   Patricia Gaborik is a theatre historian and playwright based in Rome, Italy. She has published several essays on nineteenth- and twentieth- century Italian performance, some of which have appeared in the “Atlante della letteratura italiana” (Einaudi 2010-2012). She is the translator of Massimo Bontempelli’s “Watching the Moon and Other …

Daniel MaximinGeopoetics of the CaribbeanFrancophone Writers in Dialogue with their Anglophone and Hispanophone Counterparts Daniel Maximin, a writer from Guadeloupe, moved to Paris with his family at the age of thirteen. He studied at the Sorbonne and has since been an active teacher, editor, author and supporter of the arts. From 1980-1989, he was a literary …