Past Events
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Oct 11Diaspora and the Queer Body in Contemporary Francophone Cultural Production. Ryan Schroth, Assistant Professor at Wake Forest University.
Memorial Union, Check TITU Location Information
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 drawing upon the work of one queer author with ties to Francophone North Africa: Nina Bouraoui, Rachid O., and Abdellah …
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Oct 10Italian Club Meeting
Van Hise, Room 215
COME SPEAK ITALIAN! Tuesday, October 10th from 5 pm to 6 pm Room 215 VAN HISE HALL.
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Oct 9French Club Meeting
Van Hise, Room 394 Instagram - French Club @ UW Madison
Join us for our bi-weekly French Club Meeting! All levels are welcome and we hope to see you there!
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Oct 5Jane 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 Location Map
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 of the slight — the salience of the most spare of shifts in the flavor of the real. The operative presumption …
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Oct 5Fill the Hill
Fill the Hill, now in its 11th year, serves as campus’s annual fall fundraising campaign and as an opportunity to celebrate one of campus’s most famous pranks. For each gift UW receives during the campaign, a pink lawn flamingo is added to Bascom Hill. Why We Need Your Support The Department of French and Italian is a …
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Oct 4La Cineteca Italiana – Film Series
Education L196
Join us for the Fall 2023 Italian Film Series! Entry is free to the public and all Italian films have English subtitles. SCHEDULE OF FILMS
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Oct 3Conférence de la Maison française: Yannick Tagand, Consul Général de France
French House, 633 N Frances Street, Madison, WI 53703
In French, at the French House (633 N. Frances) and on Zoom Discussion and reception to follow the talk. Register here!
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Sep 30The Second Annual Harvest Festival at the Allen Centennial Garden: Celebrating Cultures around the World — including Italy
Allen Centennial Garden Event Information
Free and open to the public The Harvest Festival celebrates the role of food and plants in sustaining vibrant cultures from around the world. This year the focus is on the importance of seeds. There will be live music, dancing, and storytelling alongside opportunities to learn about different harvest traditions from Dejope (Madison) and around …
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Sep 27La Cineteca Italiana – Film Series
Education L196
Join us for the Fall 2023 Italian Film Series! Entry is free to the public and all Italian films have English subtitles. SCHEDULE OF FILMS
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Sep 27What to Do with Synthetic Language Models in French and Italian?
Van Hise Hall, Room 286
Description: Designed for teachers and scholars in French and Italian studies at every phase of their careers, this professional-development event is designed to help us share our individual responses to available synthetic language models (i.e. ChatGPT) in our work, especially as teachers. Panelists: Loren Eadie (Italian), Ritt Deitz (French), and Jan Miernowski (French) will propose very brief remarks, …