The Future of French and Francophone Studies

2020-2021 Virtual Speaker Series

DEPARTMENT OF FRENCH AND ITALIAN

Schedule

Talks from 3:30-5pm

The goal of this event is to bring together scholars in French and Francophone studies for productive and fruitful discussions occurring in the field.

October 16

"Putting us back in our place: #metoo, women and the literary/cultural establishment"

November 20

"L'Histoire en marche: Mémoire urbaine et sonore de Beyrouth"

December 18

"Entre fascination et profanation: représentations littéraires de la femme parturiente au 19e siècle"

*Please note that this talk will take place from 4:00 to 5:30PM

January 22

"De La Haine au désoeuvrement: contre-culture, résistance et politique du refus dans La Ferme des humains d'Onur Karaman (2013)"

February 19

"Moving Beyond the Gender Binary: Queer Masculinities in Rachilde's Fin-de-siècle Fiction"

March 19

"Des formes fantastiques: Perfectibility and Biopower in Late Eighteenth-Century French Literature"

April 23

"Race, Radio, et la République: Langues et diasporas sur les ondes françaises 1970s-1990s"

May 7

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