Category: Event

Discussion Panel with Yves Citton, Sara Guyer, Frédéric Neyrat and Ullrich Langer.  This is a panel discussion the day after the Hilldale lecture targeting especially the graduate students. The tentative title of the panel discussion “The Future of the Humanities in Posthuman Times.   Yves Cittonis professor of French Literature at the Université Paris 8 …

Abstract: The Humanities in general, and among them literary studies, art studies, media theory and media archeology in particular, can be seen as calling us to pay attention to what conditions our attention. By doing so, they help us take distance towards the lures of “communication”, and reframe issues of “information” at the conjunction between …

The Department of French and Italian invites you to join us on Monday, May 8th, from 4PM-5:30PM in Union South for a panel discussion on the second round of the French elections.  Speakers will include: •  Laird Boswell (Department of History) •  Gilles Bousquet (Department of French and Italian) •  Dominique Brossard (Department of Life Sciences Communication) •  Jean-René Gehan (Former Ambassador of France) •  Nils Ringe (Department of …

The Department of French and Italian invites you to join us on Tuesday, April 25th from 4PM-5:30PM in Union South for a panel discussion on the first round of the French elections.   Speakers will include: Léa Berthon (Sciences Po, Aix-en-Provence) Laird Boswell (Department of History) Gilles Bousquet, welcoming remarks (Department of French and Italian) Dominique Brossard (Department of Life …

Joins us on May 5th at 6pm for the Gala de Printemps! We’ll be celebrating “Les Saveurs du Maroc,” the end of the school year, and the beginning of spring! Reservations can be made through the French House website. 

Help FRIT collect like-new school supplies, art supplies, and children’s books for the Boys & Girls Club of Dane County. Items can be dropped off in 618 Van Hise beginning Monday, April 17 thru Friday, April 28. 

Saturday, April 1st Registration and Breaksfast Landmark at Union South, 8:00-8:30 am   Opening Remarks Prof. Vlad Dima 8:30-8:45 am   Panel A: Space & Identity Industry, 9:00-10:15 am Giordana Poggiolo-Kaftan (Marquette University): Emigrants’ “Doubling” in Crialese’s Golden Door Sophia Kidd (Sichuan University): Turning Point in China’s Aesthetic of Empire: Spatial Production in Eastern Jin …