GAFIS Symposium

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 …

Palmes Académiques Ceremony

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 …

Conference: Geopoetics of the Caribbean

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 …