Presentation

Julia Lovejoy Cuniberti: The Midwesterner who Adapted Italian Culinary Traditions for American Kitchens

Grazia Menechella
126 Memorial Library, 728 State Street, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, 53706.
November 19, 2024 @ 11:00 am CST - 12:00 pm CST

On the occasion of the Week of Italian Cuisine in the World, the Italian Cultural Institute of Chicago presents an event dedicated to the tradition of the Mediterranean diet, inspired by the theme Mediterranean Diet and Heritage Cuisine: Health and Tradition. Prof. Grazia Menechella (University of Wisconsin-Madison) will discuss Julia Lovejoy Cuniberti’s Practical Italian Recipes for American Kitchens (1917) as an important and significant cookbook that promotes Italian “cucina casalinga” (home cookery) as an ideal model for the Americans in 1917.

Dante and Twentieth-Century American Politics

6191 Helen C. White
April 12, 2024 @ 2:00 pm CDT - 6:00 pm CDT
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2 pm, 6191 Helen C. White: Workshop for graduate students and faculty. Please contact Professor Jelena Todorovic (jtodorovic@wisc.edu) for the reading. 5 pm, 6191 Helen C. White: Public lecture: Cowardice is Political: The Legacy of Inferno 3 in 20th- and …

Fabienne Kanor “Imagining the Middle Passage: Slavery, Race, and the Making of the Diaspora”

206 Ingraham Hall
December 6, 2023 @ 12:00 pm CST - 1:00 pm CST

Come to a captivating talk by the award-winning French-Martinican author and filmmaker, Fabienne Kanor. Please join us for this enriching event. Imagining the Middle Passage: Slavery, Race, and the Making of the Diaspora in Contemporary …

Teach in France – TAPIF Information Session

Online via Zoom
November 20, 2023 @ 1:00 pm CST - 2:00 pm CST
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Join us for an information session to learn about the TAPIF program from alumna Shannon Reader. Ms. Reader will provide an overview of the TAPIF program, application process, and answer questions. Registration required

François-Henri Désérable: Mon Maître et mon vainqueur

French House, 633 N Frances Street, Madison, WI 53703
November 16, 2023 @ 4:00 pm CST - 5:30 pm CST
FRENCH HOUSE

François-Henri Désérable présente son livre Mon Maître et mon vainqueur Join us at the French House or on Zoom (info on the French House website).

Diaspora and the Queer Body in Contemporary Francophone Cultural Production. Ryan Schroth, Assistant Professor at Wake Forest University.

Memorial Union, Check TITU
October 11, 2023 @ 4:30 pm CDT - 6:00 pm CDT
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In this presentation, Dr. Ryan Schroth will discuss his current manuscript project, tentatively titled Queer Feelings: Affect, Migration, and the Body in Contemporary Francophone Literature. He will present three case studies from his work, each …

Jane Bennett – The Efficacy of the Slight: Zhuangzi and Lucretius in Times of Ecological Crisis

800 University Avenue, Conrad A. Elvehjem Building - Room L150, Madison, WI 53706
October 5, 2023 @ 4:00 pm CDT - 6:00 pm CDT
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Jane Bennett’s talk explores a trans-temporal resemblance between the Zhuangzi (a source-text for Daoism, China, 5th-3rd century, BCE) and the materialism of Lucretius’s De Rerum Natura (Rome, 1st century, BCE). The two orientations affirm what she calls the efficacy …

Les Conférences de la Maison Française Series

French House, 633 N Frances Street, Madison, WI 53703
September 20, 2023 @ 4:00 pm CDT - 5:30 pm CDT
FRENCH HOUSE

The French House will welcome Jean-François Di Meglio, a specialist on Franco-Chinese relations, on Wednesday, Sept. 20, from 4-5:30 pm. He will present in French on “Citoyennetés mondialisées et tensions identitaires: perspectives, défis et opportunités …