For the 2019-2020 academic year, Lauren Surovi (PhD candidate in Italian) has been named one of five Mellon Public Humanities Fellows at the UW-Madison Center for the Humanities. The Mellon Public Humanities Fellows are part of Engaging …
Josh Armstrong’s new book “Maps and Territories, Global Positioning in the Contemporary French Novel””
Joshua Armstrong places recent French fiction into dialogue with some of today’s most influential theorists. ‘This book importantly addresses questions that are at the very heart of contemporary debates about our relationship to space and …
Special issue of Arts et Savoirs
Florence Vatan and Anne Vila have co-edited a special issue of Arts et Savoirs entitled “Entre savoir et fantasme: le corps et ses énigmes,” now available on-line: https://journals.openedition.org/aes/
Vlad Dima’s new book
Vlad Dima’s new book, The Beautiful Skin: Fantasy, Football, and Cinematic Bodies in Africa, is forthcoming in fall 2020, with the Michigan State University Press. Professor Dima will present his book at the “Africa at …
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NEW FRENCH COURSE CONNECTS LITERATURE AND MEDICINE
This 3 credit course, taught in French, will examine “Les maux et let mots: La médecine et la culture de Molière à Mesmer” / “Woes and Words: Medicine and Culture from Molière to Mesmer.” Using the …
COURSE ON MACHIAVELLI REACHES ACROSS DEPARTMENTS & PROGRAMS
ITALIAN 365: Machiavelli and His World is a three credit course that introduces students to the major works of Machiavelli through the close reading of his writings in cultural and historical contexts. Offered jointly with Political …
ITALIAN STUDENTS EMBODY THE WISCONSIN IDEA
Undergraduate and graduate students in this semester’s ITALIAN 450 class took on an interesting project: translate Carlo Goldoni’s comedic play La familia dell’antiquario, or The Antiquarian’s Family, into English. Inspired by an article about the UW-Madison professor who founded …
FRENCH ALUMNI PUBLISH TEXTBOOK FOR LANGUAGE & LIT CLASSES
Elizabeth Berglund Hall, Anne Theobald, and Mark Hall, all UW-Madison French Ph.D. alumni, are co-authors (with James Pfrehm, German) of TEXTURES, a new textbook for the transition from language to literature and culture-centered courses. The …
2018 HILLDALE LECTURE ON ‘HUMANITIES AS ARTS OF ATTENTION’ AVAILABLE ONLINE
In April 2018, the Department of French and Italian hosted Professor Yves Citton who presented the 2018 Hilldale Lecture in the Arts & Humanities entitled “The Humanities as Arts of Attention in the Age of Computational …