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November 7, 2024 - 5:30pm
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...
November 8, 2024 - 6:00pm
Friday, November 8, 2024 at Humanities Quadrangle (HQ) L02, 320 York Street Reception: 5 pm Screening: 6 pm (in French with English Subtitles)...
November 12, 2024 - 4:30pm
The Rebel’s Clinic: The Revolutionary Lives of Frantz Fanon   Adam Shatz editor and author Tuesday, November 12, 2024 | 4:30 pm...
November 15, 2024 - 5:30pm
This exam is for graduate students who need to fulfill a language requirement.  Exams consist of two passages to be translated from French to English...
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...
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...
April 29, 2025 - 4:00pm
More details bout the Lecture by Antoine Lilti TBA

News

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...
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...
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...
September 27, 2024
Please see YFS Managing Editor Nichole Gleisner’s tribute. Quoting from his NYT obituary (by Clay Risen), “Fredric Jameson graduated with a...