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. A print dictionary is permitted for use, but not provided; students must supply their own.
PLEASE USE THIS QUALTRICS SURVEY TO SIGN UP FOR THE EXAM.
Contact Lauren Pinzka, Exam Proctor, for questions concerning the exam.
Please email the French Registrar, Bethany Hayes, if you have questions on how to sign up for the exam.
Lecture title: “Algeria 1962 : A people’s history”
HQ, 320 York, Rm 136
Event co-sponsored by WHC, French, and Council on Middle East Studies.
Registration link: https://yale.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_6CggaYCWR9a_rmamH32HQw
Medea: A Manifesto
Despite the propensity by philosophers and political theorists for mining Greek tragedy in search of models of effective moral action, few have explored Medea as a salutary icon of positive action. In this talk, I explore why we should be thinking about Medea and taking her as a model—if not for positive action, then perhaps for politics itself. Offering a contrast between this aging witchy mother and Antigone, a young virgin with no occult power, I will explore Medea as an icon of epistemological alterity, draw out the role of French classical tragedy in shaping her as such, and suggest some reasons why we should linger with her today, perhaps more than ever.
Juliette Cherbuliez is the Director of the Center for Premodern Studies and a professor of French at the University of Minnesota. A comparatist, she has published on the materiality and politics of women’s writing in early modern France, tragedy, violence, and visual culture. Her most recent book is In the Wake of Medea: Tragedy and the Arts of Destruction in Neoclassical France (Fordham 2020). She is currently working on a study of the narratives shaping the violence of Jacques Callot’s print practice during the Thirty Years War.
Sponsored by Whitney Humanities Center and Department of French
Come join instructors from the
French Department for a virtual lunch conversation (en français) via Zoom.
Les Tables françaises are a great place to practice your conversational French in an informal setting.
French-speakers at all levels from the Yale Community are welcome to join.
Please contact the hosts via email for Zoom information.
Virtual Tables begin the week of January 31st
Lecture Title: “How Does Enlightenment End? “
We understand that there are students who would like to change to a different section of the spring semester French course for which they have enrolled. If you are one of those students, please follow the directions below:
When the Drop/Add period begins on Wednesday, January 19 at 9 a.m., you should ”Request Instructor Permission” through Yale Course Search for the desired section. Submitting a permission request is the only way to be placed on the official waitlist for the course. Since you will not be attending the original section in which you enrolled, please remove your name from that section on your Registration Worksheet at that time, so that it may be offered to another student. You should NOT remain on the lists of two sections at the same time.
Starting on the first day of class (Tuesday, January 25), we encourage you to attend the section in which you hope to have a confirmed place. Please understand that, due to enrollment limits on the class, we cannot immediately guarantee or confirm your enrollment in that section. You should attend class for that section every day, even if you do not have confirmed enrollment.
During the first week of classes, the section instructor will let you know if and when there is, indeed, a place for you in your desired section. The instructor will then grant formal approval to those additional students who are being admitted for enrollment to the course. Once the instructor approves your Instructor Permission request on Yale Course Search, you can complete the registration by clicking “Confirm Changes” on your Registration Worksheet. The Drop/Add period ends on Monday, January 31, at 5 p.m.
Thank you for your understanding as we navigate this new enrollment process.
Lecture Title: Too plain to see: Narrative matter and the earth.
