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North African Poetry in French, One-Day Online Colloquium

November 5, 2021 - 9:30am to 5:00pm
This event will mark the Publication of Yale French Studies 137-138 (2020), “North African Poetry in French.”  It will take place via Zoom. Speakers...

"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

Pierre Saint-Amand publishes "Suite libertine. Vies du XVIIIe siècle" (Classiques Garnier)

September 16, 2021
Turning to the libertine novels of the 18th century, this study provides an alternative history of French libertinage: spirited courtesans, noisy...

Jill Jarvis publishes "Decolonizing Memory Algeria and the Politics of Testimony" (Duke U. Press)

September 16, 2021
The magnitude of the legal violence exercised by the French to colonize and occupy Algeria (1830–1962) is such that only aesthetic works have been...

YFS 139: Photography and the Body in Nineteenth-Century France

September 16, 2021
Edited by French Department alumnae Anne E. Linton and Raisa Rexer, it is the first Yale French Studies issue on photography, examining French...

Doyle Calhoun's review of David Diop’s novel "At Night All Blood Is Black" in Public Books

September 10, 2021
How War—and Racism—Makes Monsters out of Men Doyle Calhoun
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