The Deparment of French in the News...

"Victor Hugo on Things That Matter"

http://www.virginia.edu/uvatoday/newsRelease.php?id=10333

"Coffee break à la français"

http://www.cavalierdaily.com/2009/11/09/coffee-break-a-la-francais/

"Caribbean Theater Group Brings Traditions, History and Techniques to Grounds"

http://www.virginia.edu/uvatoday/newsRelease.php?id=10161

"French composition site launched":

http://shanti.virginia.edu/wordpress/?page_id=400

"University of Virginia Honors Great Teaching":

http://www.virginia.edu/uvatoday/newsRelease.php?id=8316

Comme deux frères

At Live Arts, October 17-21 at 7:30pm

Recent and Upcoming Lectures

Fall 2009

September

Prof. Sharon Kinoshita - U. of California - "How to do Things in the Medieval Mediterranean", Thursday, September 10 / 4:30PM / Maury 209.  Co-sponsored by Departments of English and Comparative Literature.

Prof. Philiipe Roger - U. of Virginia - "Germaine de Staël: Grandeur et Misère des « Femmes Supérieures », Thursday, September 17 / 4:30PM / CAB 215.

Prof. William Labov- U. of Pennsylvania - "The politics of linguistic change in America", September 22-24 / 4:00-5:30PM / Harrison Auditorium

October

Prof. Philippe Roger - U. of Virginia - Friday, October 9 / 3:00PM / CAB 132.

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Spring 2009

February

Prof. Jeremy Popkin - History, U. of Kentucky - "You Are All Free" The First French Slave Emancipation Decree in Saint-Domingue, Monday, February 16 / 3:30PM / Cabell 122.  Reception to follow.  Co-sponsored by the Departments of French and History.

March

Zsuzsanna Fagyal-Le Mentec - French, U. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, "Alternance stylistique et cohésion intra-groupe dans une banlieue multiethnique de Paris: le rôle de l'intonation", Thursday, March 19 / 11 AM / Kaleidoscope Room, Newcomb Hall Lecture open to the public.

Sally Price - Professor of Anthropology, College of William and Mary, "Silences in the Museum: Reflections on the Musée du Quai Branly", Thursday, March 27 / 4:00pm / Newcomb Hall, Kaleidoscope Room (Co-sponsored by the Department of French).

April

Award-winning Québécois filmmaker Philippe Falardeau will screen his new film C'est pas moi, je le jure on the afternoon of Friday, April 3 / Wilson 402 .  Discussion with the director to follow. Film in French, with English subtitles.  For a preview, see http://www.cestpasmoijelejure.com/.

2009 Müller Colloquium: April 17-18, 2009

Prof. Lawrence Kritzman - Dartmouth - "Intellectuals Without Borders", Friday, April 24 / Time and Place TBA.

Prof. Yarimar Bonilla - Anthropology, University of Virginia, "Guadeloupe en Grève: Popular Revolt and Political Transformation in the French Antilles", Tuesday, April 21 / 5 PM / Cabell 311. Sponsored by the Department of French.

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