Department of French

Lecture by EHESS Prof Judith Lyon Caen

Event time:

Tuesday, September 17, 2024 - 4:00pm

Location:

HQ 136, 320 York Street See map

Event description:

Prof Judith Lyon Caen’s Lecture Title: “Balzac, années noires : (1940-1950)”

Convocation

Event time:

Wednesday, August 28, 2024 - 4:00pm

Location:

HQ 134, 320 York Street See map

Event description:

“Meet and Greet” to welcome new and returning Faculty, Graduate Students and French Majors.

Bulldog Days + Academic Fair Info

Here are the handouts found at Bulldog Days and Academic Fair

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Commencement Reception

Event time:

Monday, May 20, 2024 - 2:00pm to 4:00pm

Event description:

Dear French Department Community and Family,

You are cordially invited to the Yale French Department Graduation Reception, Monday May 20^th at 2pmET.

We will be congratulating the Yale Class of 2024 French Majors graduating from Yale College, as well as honor the recipients of the Montaigne Prize, and Henry W. Scott Prize.

Yale French Department 2024 Graduation Reception

Date: Monday, May Twentieth, Two thousand Twenty-four

Time: Two O’clock in the Afternoon

Location: Humanities Quadrangle, 320 York Street, Room no. 131

Open to:

Yale Community Only

Reception in honor of Françoise Schneider's Retirement

Event time:

Wednesday, May 1, 2024 - 4:00pm

Event description:

Les Tables Françaises - Iftar pendant le Ramadan Starting April 2nd

Event time:

Tuesday, April 2, 2024 - 7:15pm to Tuesday, April 9, 2024 - 8:00pm

Location:

Ezra Stiles College See map

Event description:

The Department of French will be hosting Iftar tables en français during these last two weeks of Ramadan. All are welcome to join in and speak French!

Les Tables Françaises - Iftar pendant le Ramadan

Stiles Dining Hall

7:15-8:00 p.m.

le mardi 2 avril -Hosted by Ali Touilila

le jeudi 4 avril - Hosted by Mourad Boumlik

le lundi 8 avril - Hosted by Mourad Boumlik

*PLEASE NOTE: Graduate and Professional Students are welcome at the French Tables. 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.

Open to:

Yale Community Only

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L'Amuse Bouche - Parution de "Mémoire"

Event time:

Thursday, April 18, 2024 - 4:00pm

Location:

HQ 131 See map

320 York Street

Event description:

L’Amuse-Bouche va bientôt sortir son nouveau numéro : Mémoire, une collaboration d’étudiants de Yale et d’intellectuels français et francophones. Venez fêter sa parution avec nous le jeudi 18 avril à 16h à HQ 131 !

Lecture by Barnard/Columbia Professor Anne Higonnet

Event time:

Tuesday, April 30, 2024 - 4:00pm

Location:

HQ 133 See map

Event description:

Professor Anne Higonnet will present her new book

Liberty Equality Fashion
The Women Who Styled the French Revolution

During 1789’s other French Revolution, fashion underwent the most sudden, total, and brief change in history. This clothing revolution was led by three women: Joséphine Bonaparte, future Empress of France, Terézia Tallien, reputed the most beautiful woman in Europe, and Juliette Récamier, iconic muse of intellectuals and equal rights advocates. What has writing a history organized around such personalities, for a trade press, entailed? What are the purposes and challenges of telling a story that reaches the pages of Vogue or Town & Country? At a time when the Humanities are said to be in crisis, what tactics might we experiment with?