Dear Faculty and Students of the Department of French,
Please join us for the annual convocation to welcome new and returning faculty and graduate students on September 1st, 2022 at 4pm in the courtyard of HQ, 320 York Street.
On Saturday, April 30, Villa Albertine will host the first US Goncourt Prize Selection at Albertine Bookstore, culminating in a ceremony featuring a conversation with the Prize’s student jurors and moderated by Honorary Chair Siri Hustvedt. The jurors are French literature students, coming from Duke, Harvard, NYU, Princeton, and Yale.
More information about the Goncourt US and how to attend the ceremony here: https://www.albertine.com/events/inaugural-us-goncourt-prize-selection-ceremony/.
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
