College of Letters & Science
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 the Humanities, a multi-year project generously supported by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation that creates opportunities for UW–Madison graduate students and …
Please join us for the opening events of this wonderful, ongoing exhibition. To open the event, Alberta Lai, the Director of the Italian Cultural Institute in Chicago, will be providing welcoming remarks. Following this, Professor Grazia Menechella of the Department of French and Italian will present her talk, “Italian Food Writing Across the Ocean: The …
Azouz Begag, a writer, former minister, and a researcher at CNRS will be speaking at the French House (633 N. Frances Street, Madison WI) on Wednesday, March 13 2019 from 4:30 PM-5:30 PM. Monsieur Begag’s talk is entitled “Peurs, replis, et haines en France et en Europe. Au secours Martin Luther King!” The talk will be …
Italian Ph.D. graduate student, Hilary Emerson, was recently interviewed about the Cineteca Italiana film series on WORT. The UW Cineteca Italiana is a graduate student initiative that showcases a variety of classic & contemporary Italian films for students and the community. Movies are shown weekly throughout the Fall and Spring semesters. More information can be found …
On October 19, Professor Andrew Irving was awarded a distinct honor at the French House Centennial Gala. In recognition of his outstanding service and dedication to French language education, Professor Irving received L’Orde des Palmes Académiques from the French Consul to Chicago, Monsieur Guillaume Lacroix (right in picture). This is an honor given on behalf …
Applications for the CIAO Scholarship are now open! CIAO (Cultural Italian American Organization), a social group made up of those with Italian heritage living in the Madison area, will provide $1000 to a student of Italian spending at least one semester abroad in Italy in spring 2019. Last year’s recipient, Peter Nielsen (pictured in the …
Are you interested in Moroccan culture? Would you like to be immersed in a unique mixture of European and Arabic cultures? Have you ever wanted to learn French in North Africa? Study abroad in the beautiful city of Rabat, Morocco in a 4-week summer program led by UW Associate Professor of French Nevine El-Nossery! There are two program …
On October 12-13, 2018, the University of Wisconsin–Madison hosted a number of world-renowned scholars, who traveled from all over the country to convene on campus in honor of the 500th anniversary of Niccolò Machiavelli’s 16th century comedy, The Mandrake. The Symposium was organized by Professor of Italian and Art History, Dr. Kristin Phillips-Court, whose own …
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 Mediarchy.” In his lecture, Yves Citton analyzes how digital and computational technologies reconfigure our collective attentions. He presents the …
Have you heard? The French House is turning 100! With more than 2000 undergraduate residents over the years, scores of conferences and lectures hosted, and who knows how many baguettes and boeuf bourguignons enjoyed, what was once just the clever idea of a few forward-thinking professors has blossomed into a Madison landmark. Celebrations began in …