FALL 2016
Tuesday, September 13, 2016
Gérard Araud, Ambassador of France to the United States
French Foreign Policy in an Unstable World
10:30 am, Joukowsky Forum, Watson Institute, 111 Thayer St.
*Sponsored by the Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs
Monday, September 19, 2016
Seloua Luste Boulbina, author
L'Afrique et ses fantômes
5:30 pm, Music Room at Rochambeau House 
Monday, September 26, 2016
The Study Abroad Fair
11 am - 2 pm, Alumnae Hall, Pembroke Campus
*Sponsored by the Office of International Programs
Thursday, October 27 - Saturday, October 29, 2016
Nineteenth Century French Studies Conference
La Terre
Biltmore Hotel, Providence, RI
Wednesday, November 2, 2016
Allan Stoekl, Pennsylvania State University
History and the Futures of Sustainability: Kojève, Blanchot, and the Brundtland Comission
5:30 pm, Music Room at Rochambeau House
Tuesday, November 8, 2016
Nicolas Pesquès, poet
1pm, Library at Rochambeau House
(For Faculty and Graduate Students only)
Sponsored by Creative Arts Council, Literary Arts, and Dept. of French Studies
Nicolas Pesquès & Michael Donhauser
7pm, McCormack Family Theater, 70 Brown St. 
Tuesday, November 8, 2016
Le Petit Goûter
4 pm, Library at Rochambeau House
Monday, November 14, 2016
Derek Schilling, Johns Hopkins University
Elusive Happiness: Screening the Paris Suburbs in the 1970s
5:30 pm, Music Room at Rochambeau House 
Wednesday, November 30, 2016
Jennifer Cazenave, University of South Florida
A Geology of Mourning: Excavating the Cambodian Catastophe in the Cinema of Rithy Panh
5:30 pm, Music Room at Rochambeau House
SPRING 2017
Tuesday, December 13, 2016
Le Petit Goûter
4pm - 6pm
Music Room at Rochambeau House
Venez fêter avec nous la parution du deuxième numéro de Mot pour Mot, la revue littéraire des étudiants francophones de Brown! 
Friday, February 24, 2017
Inaugural Conference of the Centre d'Excellence
Islam and the French: Religion and Laïcité in the Public Sphere
Cogut Center for the Humanities
Post-Conference reception 6pm - 7:30pm
Rochambeau House
February 25 - March 4
2017 French Film Festival
Cable Car Cinema
204 South Main Street
*Brown Shuttle service will be available immediately after the last showing each night.
French Film Festival Website
Cable Car Cinema Website
March 18 - 26, 2017
La Semaine de la langue française et de la francophonie
Friday, March 17
6:30pm
6:30pm
Tuesday, March 21
7pm
Wednesday, March 22
6:30pm
Thursday, March 23
4pm - 6pm
Toute la semaine:
créez un poème, une histoire, un jeu de mots, une devinette, une chanson...un film, un dessin... un spectacle... mettant en jeu un ou plusieurs des 10 mots de l'année (choisis par l'Organisation internationale de la francophonie)
April 3, 2017
Mladen Kozul, University of Montana
Mini seminar
Details TBA
5:30pm
Library at Rochambeau House
This event was made possible thanks to the generosity of Pierre and Mary Ann Sorel '92
Wednesday, April 5, 2017
Mladen Kozul, Univesity of Montana
Mini Seminar
5:30pm
Library at Rochambeau House
This event was made possible thanks to the generosity of Pierre and Mary Ann Sorel '92
Monday, April 10, 2017
Abdellah Taïa
Queer/Moroccan/Muslim/Child
Moroccan novelist and filmmaker
Anchored by MCM; Co-sponsored by French Studies
Please note this event will be in French
12:00 noon, Library at Rochambeau House
Open to French Studies and MCM faculty and grad students only
Tuesday, April 11, 2017
Mladen Kozul, University of Montana
Mini Seminar
5:30pm
Library at Rochambeau House
This event was made possible thanks to the generosity of Pierre and Mary Ann Sorel '92
Wednesday, April 12, 2017
Mladen Kozul, University of Montana
"Modernity, Authority, and Media Manipulation in the French Enlightenment"
5:30pm
Music Room at Rochambeau House
This event was made possible thanks to the generosity of Pierre and Mary Ann Sorel '92
Friday, April 21 - Saturday, April 22
Equinoxes Graduate Student Conference
Keynote Speakers: Evelyne Trouillot & Odile Cazenave
Rochambeau House
Friday, May 5, 2017
Early Modern France, Today
Tuesday, May 9, 2017
French & Francophone Studies Undergraduate Forum
4pm
Music Room, Rochambeau House