Undergraduate French Major and Certificate Welcome Reception Fall 2016
Our French Major and Certificate students kicked off the new 2016-17 academic year in fashion at the French House!
College of Letters & Science
Our French Major and Certificate students kicked off the new 2016-17 academic year in fashion at the French House!
Description: Director Jean-Pierre Bekolo visits UW–Madison UW–Madison hosted Mr. Jean-Pierre Bekolo in the final week of March : please find below a brief bio and a list of events. Jean-Pierre Bekolo (1966, Yaounde) is an avant-garde filmmaker and socio-cultural activist whose imaginative work overturns stereotypes of Africa and African cinema. His entertaining films operate …
This year’s symposium, “Hazardous Materials”, was held in Union South at the University of Madison-Wisconsin on Saturday, April 9th, 2016. Here is a selection of photos from the event!
February 8-12th, 2016, Professor Dennis Looney (University of Pittsburgh) was invited to the department of French & Italian at UW–Madison to present his findings (over the course of several days in meetings with a variety of groups within the department) on the changing world of the humanities within institutions of higher education. At the end …
This photo album is an archive of all previous and current slideshow images displayed on the front page of the website.
Would Molière be the great playwrite we know today had he not met Madeleine de Béjart, the beautiful, intelligent, and gifted acress who was his collaborator, mistress, and sister-in-law–or perhaps mother-in-law? Richard Goodkin’s well-documented novel adopts the form of a historical fiction. When details are missing from the historical record, the author fills in the …
The GAFIS Graduate Student Symposium, in its 28th 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 about current issues in upcoming research. Excellence and pertinence are assured through an anonymous and …
At this round table on January 30, 2015, the January 7 attack on Charlie Hebdo in Paris was discussed in its past, present, and future context and implications. Panelists: Frédéric Neyrat, Sage Goellner, Sandrine Pell, Jean-René Gehan, Radical Islam in France, Tejumola Olaniyan, Nevine El Nossery, Laird Boswell