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Events

September 28, 2023 - 9:00am
A one-day international symposium marking the recent bicentenary of the great poet’s birth, “Baudelaire’s Worlds,” will explore the...
October 9, 2023 - 4:00pm
Lecture  Title: “Sapho on the Small Screen, Becoming Lesbian in Modern France” Event co-sponsored by YRIHS and the Modern European Colloquium. see...
October 12, 2023 - 4:00pm
Roger Cohen, currently the Paris bureau chief, has worked for The New York Times for 33 years: as a foreign correspondent, foreign editor, and an...
October 17, 2023 - 4:00pm
Information regarding  Marie N’Diaye’s lecture (in French)  TBA soon. Time of event is to be confirmed.
October 31, 2023 - 4:00pm
Lecture Title: Madness and Colonialism in Frantz Fanon’s thought. Frantz Fanon (1925-1961) is principally known as a theoretician of race relations...
November 2, 2023 - 4:00pm
Join us to celebrate the 75th anniversary of Yale French Studies as well as the publication of our most recent volume 142, edited by Annabel L. Kim...
November 28, 2023 - 4:00pm
More information about Professor van Zuylen’s lecture coming soon.

News

August 3, 2023
Jessica DeVos’s essay examining Madeleine de l’Aubespine’s translation of Heroides 2 was published on August 3 in the OUP volume Ovid in French:...
July 28, 2023
Atomic Frankenstein ‘Oppenheimer’ and the anguish of creative destruction   in The American Prospect    
June 7, 2023
“Anthologie de la pensee noire: Etats Unis et Haiti (XVIII et XIX siècles)”, published on 04/21/2023,  is a co-edited collection of texts from the...
June 2, 2023
Making ghosts perceptible: Literature and post-colonial memory in Algeria   Jill Jarvis discusses the role of literature in “decolonizing” memory in...