College of Letters & Science
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 Philosophy and Art History (Paris VIII-Vincennes-Saint Denis). She has been a Max Planck Research Group director since November 2010.
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 entitled “Libertinismo e letteratura: forme di une rlazion” He will visit Professor Buccini’s IT741 on Sept 23rd and 25th from …
French & Italian Department Picnic and FRIT cup Soccor Challenge Location: Garner Park Shelter Upper Level and Soccer Field, 333 S. Rosa Road. (on Mineral Point Rd, with the entrance to parking from Rosa Rd) Please bring a dish to pass and your own beverage. Plates, cups, siverware, napkins are provided. Guests are welcome
June 19th @ 11am: Columbia vs. Ivory Coast (in French). June 20th @ 11am: Italy vs. Costa Rica (in Italian). June 20th @ 2pm: Switzerland vs. France (in French). June 24th @ 11am: Italy vs. Uruguay (in Italian). June 25th @ 3pm: Ecuador vs. France (in French).
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 collegial atmosphere. Interdisciplinary in nature, this national event gives future colleagues the chance to meet each other and to hear …
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 from 1808 under Napoleonic rule, the L’Ordre des Palmes Académiques was established to distinguish university dignitaries and recognize service in …
This event also includes a visit of the Consulat Général de France à Chicago.
Moroccan Poet and Activist RachidaMadani: La Shahrazade militante Poetry Reading: Poems read in French with English translation Any questions, please e-mail Professor Névine El Nossery
Lecture: “Mussolini, Man of Theatre”. Patricia Gaborik is a theatre historian and playwright based in Rome, Italy. She has published several essays on nineteenth- and twentieth- century Italian performance, some of which have appeared in the “Atlante della letteratura italiana” (Einaudi 2010-2012). She is the translator of Massimo Bontempelli’s “Watching the Moon and Other …
Daniel Maximin Geopoetics of the Caribbean Francophone 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 and has since been an active teacher, editor, author and supporter of the arts. From 1980-1989, he was …