Ciné club: Chez nous (Lucas Belvaux)

Event time: 
Friday, October 4, 2024 - 6:00pm
Location: 
53 Wall Street Auditorium See map
Event description: 

Dear Faculty, Staff, Students and Friends of the French Department,

Please join Us for the First Screening of the French Cine Club – Chez Nous (This is our land) by Lucas Belvaux - Friday, Oct. 4th @ 6:30 pm @ 53 Wall St Aud.

The Yale French Department Ciné Club, organized by Apolline Cuchet and Saly Touré, invites you to explore timeless classics and award-winning contemporary films that shape French cinema.

From animated films, and political dramas, to comedies and heartfelt coming-of-age stories, there will be something for everyone! Screenings are open to everyone in the Yale community. Films will be screened in French with English subtitles.

We’re excited to kick off our fall-semester screening cycle, entitled “La Discorde” (Discord), this Friday (Oct. 4th @ 6:30 pm @ 53 Wall St Aud) with a showing of Lucas Belvaux’s gripping film Chez Nous (This Is Our Land).

Chez Nous follows Pauline, a dedicated nurse in a small village in northern France, as she becomes entangled in a far-right political campaign. Pauline’s unexpected activism stirs turmoil in the community, testing loyalties and igniting tensions.

The film weaves together personal and political dynamics, revealing how far-right ideologies seep into communities. With the U.S. election approaching, the film is particularly relevant to the current political climate.

The film is screened for educational purposes within the French Department; it will be preceded by an introduction and followed by a discussion.

We hope to see you there for an engaging evening of cinema and conversation!  Bring your friends and roommates!  All are welcome.

With best wishes, and excitement ahead of Friday,

Apolline Cuchet & Saly Touré, ENS French lectors

Fredric Jameson Tribute

September 30, 2024

Today we remember Fredric Jameson: teacher, colleague, and friend. Jameson received his PhD from the French Department at Yale in 1959. Yale French Studies was founded by a pair of enterprising graduate students just a decade earlier, in 1948, under the guidance of department chair Henri Peyre. Jameson soon joined their ranks as an editorial assistant for the journal in its early, enterprising years.

YFS celebrated 75 years

YFS celebrated 75 years

The French Department hosted a celebration to mark the 75th anniversary of Yale French Studies, the country’s oldest English-language journal devoted to French and Francophone literature, language, and culture on November 2, 2023.

Fall 2024 - French Translation Exam

Event time: 
Friday, November 15, 2024 - 5:30pm
Location: 
HQ Room #133 See map
320 York Street
New Haven, CT 06511
Event description: 

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.  Exams are held once per semester.

Fall 2024 

3:00 - 5:00pm, Friday November 15, 2024 HQ #133

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.

 

 
Open to: 
Graduate and Professional

Job Opening: Assistant Professor, Early Modern French Theater and Performance (1500-1800)

September 13, 2024

Assistant Professor, Early Modern French Theater and Performance (1500-1800)

The Yale University Department of French intends to appoint a tenure-track assistant professor in Early Modern  French Theater and Performance (1500-1800) to begin on July 1, 2025. Applicants will be affiliated with the Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies (TDPS) Program, although the position would be fully in the French Department.

Fall French Tables Begin Week of Sept 16 *Thursday Update*

Event time: 
Thursday, October 10, 2024 - 12:30pm to Monday, December 9, 2024 - 12:30pm
Event description: 

Fall 2024 Tables Français Begin Week of Sept 16

PLEASE NOTE:  Thursday’s Table will now be at Pierson College Dining Hall

 Graduate and Professional Students are welcome at the French Tables. 

*PLEASE NOTE: Each student must use their own meal swipes and a swipe must be used to access the Yale Dining Halls.The French Department will not be providing the swipes for you.

FOR QUESTIONS CONTACT:

Candace SkorupaFrench Language Program Director: candace.skorupa@yale.edu

Bethany Hayes, Registrar: bethany.hayes@yale.edu

Open to: 
Yale Community Only

Lecture by Martine Reid (Lille University)

Event time: 
Thursday, October 31, 2024 - 4:00pm
Location: 
HQ 136, 320 York Street See map
Event description: 

Le sexe de la littérature ou le « cas » Delphine de Girardin

A l’occasion de sa réédition en « Folio classique » d’un roman de Delphine de Girardin (1804-1855), La Canne de M. de Balzac, Martine Reid, professeure émérite à l’université de Lille et spécialiste des femmes auteurs, dressera le portrait d’une écrivaine étonnante, contemporaine de George Sand, et du roman singulier qu’elle publie en 1836. Elle évoquera Balzac, sa notoriété, son rapport aux écrivaines, ainsi que le récit, drôle, qu’imagine une femme extrêmement talentueuse, poète, dramaturge, romancière et journaliste. Résolument « genré », le propos permettra de revenir sur quelques points essentiels concernant les écrivaines et les écrivaines à l’époque romantique.

Spécialiste de littérature du XIXe siècle français et des écrivaines, Martine Reid est l’auteure de plusieurs ouvrages critiques dont le dernier, Colette avant Colette. Trouver sa place, se faire un nom, a été publié chez Gallimard en 2023. Elle a dirigé de nombreux ouvrages collectifs parmi lesquels Femmes et littérature. Une histoire culturelle (Gallimard, « Folio essais », 2020, 2 vol.) et édité plus d’une quarantaine de textes classiques, principalement écrits par des femmes : outre le roman de Delphine de Girardin, elle a réédité en 2024, en « Folio classique », Monsieur Vénus et Madame Adonis de Rachilde. Cinéphile, elle a également publié un essai biographique, Etre Cary Grant, paru chez Gallimard en 2021.

The Yale Mediterranean Series with Alice Kaplan

Event time: 
Tuesday, October 29, 2024 - 6:00pm
Location: 
HQ276, 320 York Street See map
Event description: 

The Yale Mediterranean Series with Alice Kaplan

Alice Kaplan will be in conversation with Amara Lakhous about her upcoming book: Seeing Baya: Portrait of an Algerian Artist in Paris, Chicago University Press, 2024 (October).
 

Location: HQ 276, 320 York Street

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