Year: 2015
Student Organizers & Presenters at the 2014 GAFIS Symposium
Prof. Douglas Hofstadter (Indiana) delivering the Keynote Speech at the 2015 GAFIS Symposium
Faculty and Students with Keynote Speaker Douglas Hofstadter at the 2015 GAFIS Symposium
Cajun Music event at the French House on Oct. 7 2015 (photo Sarah Morton)
CEMS Symposium- Happiness in the Early Modern Period
“Happiness in the Early Modern Period”, March 10-11, 2016. The conference will focus on a transnational and expanded notion of happiness that will encompass history, philosophy, art and literature. We are happy to welcome …
Department Research Seminar
Presenters: Jelena Todorovic, Heather Willis-Allen and Lauren Goodspeed, Redouane Khamar Link to our box account where individuals have posted materials for their respective seminar presentations.
Department Research Seminar
Presenters: Ryan Schroth, Nevine El Nosséry, Paola Villa Nation, Narration, Belonging: (Re)Writing the Queer Past in the Work of Rachid O. Ryan Schroth This talk examines the queer (re)writing of the past that exists …
New Ventures in Francophone Studies
Dr. Vlas Dima (UW Madison), Moderator Dr. Mary Anne Lewis (Ohio Wesleyan) “The Moroccan Years of Lead Go Abroad: Globalizing the Narrator in Malika Oufkir and Michèle Fitoussi’s La Prisonnière and Tahar Ben Jelloun’s Cette …
JENNIFER GIPSON WINS LARRY SCHEHR MEMORIAL AWARD
November 27, 2015 Assistant Professor Jennifer Gipson won the Nineteenth-Century French Studies’ Larry Schehr memorial award for the best junior faculty essay on November 7, 2015. Her essay is entitled “The Newspaper vs. the Storyteller: Phantasms …