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Events

March 24, 2026 - 4:00pm
Andrew Curran, the William Armstrong Professor of the Humanities at Wesleyan University, is a scholar of eighteenth-century France and a non-fiction...
March 31, 2026 - 4:00pm
Professor Sullivan will give the 2026 annual Naomi Schor Memorial Lecture (title TBA). She  is the author of Eleanor of Aquitaine, As It Was Said:...
April 14, 2026 - 4:00pm
Professor Pichichero will give the 2026 Annual Enlightenment Lecture (TBD). She is an Associate Professor at George Mason University specializing in...

News

October 14, 2025
Marlene Daut, Professor of French and of Black Studies, has been named one of three finalists for the 2025 Cundill History Prize. Please find below...
September 8, 2025
We are delighted to announce that Graduate Student Tiffany Premand won the Best Postgraduate Paper 2025 at the Women In French (WIF) UK and Ireland...
August 21, 2025
Translating Critical Thought: A Four Day Workshop at Yale, Apply by October 31st Conference Dates: January 5 to 8, 2026 Why “Translating...
July 9, 2025
Mohamed Bouabdallah, Cultural Counselor and Director of Villa Albertine,  French Embassy in the United States, shared news of a major new initiative...