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French Ciné-Club - Screening of Laurent Micheli’s "Lola vers la mer" (Lola and the Sea)

November 20, 2024 - 6:30pm

Do you love cinema, the French language, or perhaps both? Or are you still mourning the loss of downtown’s last movie theatre and longing to watch a...

Lecture by UPenn Prof Sophie Rosenfeld

March 25, 2025 - 4:00pm

Lecture Title: “Dancing Together in the Age of Choice.” Sophia Rosenfeld is Walter H. Annenberg Professor of History and Chair of the Department of...

Naomi Schor Memorial Lecture by Chantal Thomas

April 9, 2025 - 12:45pm

Chantal Thomas’s lecture title TBA The University has established the Naomi Schor Lecture Fund to honor and perpetuate the memory of Professor Schor...

Enlightenment Lecture by EHESS Professor Antoine Lilti

April 29, 2025 - 4:00pm

More details bout the Lecture by Antoine Lilti TBA

News

Tom Connolly's new book: A Poetic Genealogy of North African Literature

October 18, 2024

We are delighted to announce the upcoming release of Tom Connolly’s A Poetic Genealogy of North African Literature, published by Northwestern...

Yale French Major, Ethan Levinbook Awarded Prestigious Hart Lyman Prize

October 10, 2024

We are thrilled to announce that Ethan Levinbook, YC ‘25, has been awarded the prestigious Hart Lyman Prize. The Hart Lyman Prize is a prize awarded...

Graduate Student Pierre Forfert Wins the Naomi Schor Memorial Award

September 27, 2024

We are thrilled to announce that Pierre Forfert won the Naomi Schor Memorial award for best graduate student essay presented at the annual Nineteenth...