On Wed., Nov. 5, French author Philippe Vasset will give a brown bag talk in 1418 Van Hise Hall. He will talk about his current book project and his writing process.

Roundtable at the French House with Professor Simon Gaunt, King’s College, London. With additional participants: Professor Névine ElNossery, Professor Ullrich Langer, Professor Jennifer Gipson, Professor Vlad Dima. Moderator: Professor Marion Vuagnoux Location: French House, 633 N. Frances Street Time: 4:30pm, reception to follow

Traditional literary histories tend to be centrifugal, tracing trajectories that move outwards from a strong and identifiable center towards peripheral zones. This lecture suggests an alternative history of medieval literature in French, one that is centripetal rather than centrifugal. Focusing initially on three key places and epochs in the development of literature in French outside …

Sin is Female: Francesca Da Rimini and the Seduction of the Reader (Divine Comedy, Inferno V). Brittingham Scholar Lecture delivered by Massimo Ciavolella (UCLA Department of Italian).

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 …