Month: September 2014
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French Author Philippe Vasset
On Wed., Nov. 5, French author Philippe Vasset will give a brown bag talk in 1418 Van Hise Hall. He will talk about his current book project and his writing process.
Department Colloquium: French Outside France
Roundtable at the French House with Professor Simon Gaunt, King’s College, London. With additional participants: Professor Névine ElNossery, Professor Ullrich Langer, Professor Jennifer Gipson, Professor Vlad Dima. Moderator: Professor Marion Vuagnoux Location: French House, 633 …
Lecture: Germaine Bree Lecture by Prof. Simon Gaunt (King’s College London)
Traditional literary histories tend to be centrifugal, tracing trajectories that move outwards from a strong and identifiable center towards peripheral zones. This lecture suggests an alternative history of medieval literature in French, one that is …
Brittingham Scholar Lecture: Massimo Ciavolella
Sin is Female: Francesca Da Rimini and the Seduction of the Reader (Divine Comedy, Inferno V). Brittingham Scholar Lecture delivered by Massimo Ciavolella (UCLA Department of Italian).
Destinies of a Metaphor: Figuring the Undefinable in French Modern Medicine (1575-1820)
Sabine Arnaud has a U.S. doctorate in Comparative Literature (City University of New York) in cotutelle with a French thesis in History and Civilizations (École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales) and graduate theses in …
Davide Conrieri: “Libertinismo e letteratura: forme di une rlazion”
Davide Conrieri (Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa) will be here from Sept. 22-29. His area of specialty is the seventeenth-century Italian novel. On Sept. 26 at 4pm at the French House, he will deliver a lecture …
Italian 951: Seminar – The Concept of Madre Patria: from Risorgimento to the Aftermath of World War II.
The course will explore the birth and development of the notion of “madre patria” in nineteenth- and twentieth-century Italian literature. Besides relying on political and historical documents of the period, the course will discuss the …
Italian 817: Romance Philology
This course is meant to be a forum for discussion of issues in Communicative Language Teaching, as well as a workshop where students will be able to evaluate and develop materials and activities for the …