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Lecture by UBC Prof. Sima Godfrey (via Zoom)

February 10, 2022 - 4:00pm
Please REGISTER  to attend the talk. You will subsequently receive the zoom meeting coordinates.

Enlightenment Lecture by Columbia Professor Joanna Stalnaker

March 10, 2022 - 4:00pm
More information coming soon

Lecture by Brown U. Prof. Thangam Ravindranathan

March 29, 2022 - 4:00pm
More information coming soon.

"Decentering Molière" Conference - Yale & NYU

April 14, 2022 - 9:00am to April 16, 2022 - 5:00pm
The year 2022 will mark the 400th anniversary of Molière, the star actor, famous author, and icon of French and Western culture. Organized by...

Desert Futures Conference

April 28, 2022 - 9:30am to May 1, 2022 - 5:00pm
An interdisciplinary conference on the aesthetics and politics of Saharan spaces The “Desert Futures : Sahara” symposium and workshop that was...

News

Congratulations to our colleague Christophe Schuwey

January 20, 2022
Congratulations to our colleague Christophe Schuwey and his co-authors Clara Dealberto and Jules Grandin for the publication of L’Atlas Molière (Les...

Doyle Calhoun's essay: "Sembène's “Black Girl” is a Ghost Story"

November 4, 2021
This essay from Public Books—a “teaser” of recent archival discoveries related to Ousmane Sembène’s film La Noire de… (1966). A longer, academic...

Richard Riddick is Winner of 2021 Naomi Schor Prize

November 3, 2021
We are thrilled to announce that Richard Riddick won the Naomi Schor Prize for the best graduate student paper at the   46th Annual Nineteenth-...

Abigail Fields in Contemporary French & Francophone Studies

October 11, 2021
Abigail Fields has just published her article, “The Earth of the Wretched : Restoring the Vegetal Voice in Yamina Mechakra’s La Grotte éclatée”...
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