2020-2021 Events

FALL 2020

Tuesday, September 29
French & Francophone Forum: Thangam Ravindrathan
12pm
Zoom
Open to French Studies faculty, affiliated faculty, and graduate students only

Tuesday, November 10
French & Francophone Forum: Sophie Brunau-Zaragoza
12pm
Zoom
Open to French Studies faculty, affiliated faculty, and graduate students only

Tuesday, November 10
"Animaux et humains dans la belle histoire de Leuk-le-lièvre"
Lewis Seifert
3pm
Zoom
Event coordinated by the French Studies DUG

 

 

 

 

 

Friday, November 20
Professionalization Workshop Series: "Getting Started Getting Published"
Sonja Stojanović & Brigitte Stepanov
3pm
Zoom
Open to French Studies faculty and graduate students only

Tuesday, December 1
French & Francophone Forum: Marie Larose
12pm
Zoom
Open to French Studies faculty, affiliated faculty, and graduate students only

Tuesday, December 8
Frédéric Neyrat, Mellon-Morgridge Professor of Planetary Humanities, University of Wisconsin-Madison
"Soleil amnésique"
Lecture
5:30pm

 

 

 

 

 

SPRING 2021

Wednesday, February 24
"Montaigne Stumbles into the Anthropocene"
Philip Usher, New York University
5:30pm
Zoom (REGISTER HERE)

 

 

 

 

Friday, February 26
Professional Development Workshop Series: "The Full Argument"
David Wills
1:30pm
Zoom
Open to French Studies faculty and graduate students only


Thursday, March 4
"Louise Labé, invention d'auteur"
Mireille Huchon-Riey, Sorbonne Université
12:00pm
Zoom

 

 

 

 

 

 

Friday, March 19
"Black is the Journey, Africana the Name'"
A reading by Dr. Maboula Soumahoro
5:30pm
Zoom

 

 

 

 

 

 

Friday, March 26 - Saturday, March 27
EQUINOXES
Annual Graduate Student Conference
Zoom
Click here to register for day 1
Click here to register for day 2











Monday, March 29 

"France/Algérie: Responses to the Stora Report" 
Roundtable Discussion
5:30pm
Zoom








Tuesday, March 30

"'Sheep of Human Descent': Sovereignty and Population in Late Medieval France"
Daisy Delogu, University of Chicago
5:30pm
Zoom

 

 

 

 

 


Friday, April 2
Professional Development Workshop Series: "From Term Paper to Journal Article"
David Wills
1:30pm
Zoom
Open to French Studies faculty and graduate students only

Wednesday, April 7
"Un monde par-delà les toxiques: De l'usage du chlordécone et d'autres pesticides dans les Antilles françaises"
Lecture
Malcom Ferdinand, CNRS/Paris Dauphine
5:30pm
Zoom

 

 

 

 

Wednesday, April 14
“Entre hypervisibilité et effacement”
Dr. Mame-Fatou Niang (Carnegie Mellon University), Assa Traoré (BLM France), and Fania Noël (PhD Candidate, The New School)
5:30pm
Zoom 

 

 

 

 

 

Wednesday, April 28, 2021
Celebration for Graduating Concentrators
12pm
Zoom

Thursday, June 24
Venez Célébrer la Saint-Jean-Baptiste Fête Nationale du Québec!
12pm
Zoom
Chanelle Dupuis, PhD Candidate, French Studies (Brown University)