FALL 2015
Wednesday, September 30, 2015
Pierre Lemaître
Les "coulisses du roman": l'arrière-cuisine de l'écriture"
5:30pm
Music Room, Rochambeau House
Monday, October 19, 2015
Gary Wilder, Associate Professor of Anthropology, City University of New York
Hear/Here Now Aimé Césaire
5:30pm
Music Room, Rochambeau House
Monday, November 9, 2015
Peggy Kamuf, Professor of French and Comparative Literature, University of Southern California
"Why, on the death penalty, begin with literature?"
5:30 pm
Marcuvitz Auditorium, Sidney Frank Life Sciences Building
Tuesday, November 17, 2015
Kamel Daoud, Writer, Author of Meursault contre-enquête (The Meursault Investigation)
Readings & Discussion in French and English
5:30pm
Music Room, Rochambeau House
Thursday, December 3, 2015
Pierre Alferi, French novelist, poet and essayist
A lunchtime discussion and reading in French. ( For Faculty & Graduate Students)
12pm
Library, Rochambeau House
Thursday, December 3, 2015
Pierre Alferi, French novelist, poet and essayist
Blablabla, Rossignol Manuel
6:30 pm
Music Room, Rochambeau House
SPRING 2016
Wednesday, February 24, 2016
Prof. Katie Chenoweth, Princeton University
"French in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction"
5:30pm
Music Room, Rochambeau House
Thursday, February 25 – Thursday, March 3, 2016
2016 Providence French Film Festival
Cable Car Cinema and Café
Click here for film descriptions
Friday, March 11, 2016
Prof. Laura Odello, Collège International de philosophie
"'Lascia ch'io pianga': L'excès des larmes - du texte à l’écran"
5:30pm
Music Room, Rochambeau House
Semaine de la langue française et de la francophonie 2016
All Week:
La Grande Cueillette de citations
A scavenger hunt awaits you! Think of a quote that inspires you in some way, and place it in a public space on campus. The goal is to find the quotes others have posted, taking pictures of those which you particularly like most.
Monday, March 14, 2016
Prof. François Furstenberg, The Johns Hopkins University
"When the United States Spoke French"
5:30pm
The John Carter Brown Library
Tuesday, March 15, 2016
Concours de photographie
4pm
Music Room, Rochambeau House
Wednesday, March 16, 2016
Screening of "Le Petit Prince"
6pm
Wilson Hall 102
Thursday, March 17, 2016
Soirée Lecture
7pm
Library, Rochambeau House
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Monday, March 21, 2016
Prof. Anne-Lise François, University of California, Berkeley
"In the Cowslips Peeps I Lye: Rousseau, Clare, Climate Change, and Telling the Time of Day
5:30pm
Smith-Buonanno Hall, Room 106
Co-Sponsored by the Department of French Studies
Thursday, March 24, 2016
Prof. Christopher Semk, Yale University
"In Calypso's Grotto: Sound, Meaning, and Sacred Eloquence in Seventeenth-Century France"
6:30pm
Music Room, Rochambeau House
Friday, April 8- Saturday, April 9, 2016
Equinoxes
24th Annual Graduate Student Conference in French Studies
Intermediality / Intermédialité
Keynote Speaker: Prof. Morgane Cadieu, Yale University
Program
Tuesday, April 12, 2016
Petit Goûter
4pm
Library, Rochambeau House 
Wednesday, April 13, 2016
Prof. François Proulx, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
"Proust at the Ends of the Earth"
5:30pm
Brian Room, Maddock Alumni Center
Tuesday, April 19, 2016
Lecture théâtrale: Meursault, contre-enquête
Guy Ben-Aharon directs Nael Nacer in a staged reading of Meursault, contre-enquête by Kamel Daoud. Considered a literary and historical retelling of Albert Camus' celebrated novel, L'Étranger, Daoud's Meursault, contre-enquête gained popularity and was awarded many prizes, including the Prix Goncourt du premier roman in 2015.
5pm
Music Room, Rochambeau House
Thursday, April 28, 2016
Brown University Degree Days
4pm
Music Room, Rochambeau House
Thursday, May 12, 2016
Undergraduate Forum
4pm
Music Room, Rochambeau House
Honors Thesis:
Ross Di Spenza
Freshmen Prizes:
Clarice Brough
Iris Cronin
Gabriella Elanbeck
Yan Yee Gretal Ho
Makedah Hughes
Saanya Jain
Kevin Madoian
Anna Magavern
Kasturi Pananjady-Kamala
Andrew Robbin
Noah Ruttenberg
Davis Tantillo
Alexandra Walsh
Hallie Wolff
Sunday, May 29, 2016
Commencement 2016
Immediately following University Commencement Excerises
Rochambeau House Gardens 