Cazenave Receives Advance Contract for Book
Assistant Professor of French Jennifer Cazenave has received an advance contract from Columbia University Press for her second book, Lessons in Seeing: Disability in the Media Archive. The book moves from the 1930s to 1980s, charting an entangled history of disability and media haunted by overlooked traumas of social exclusion and cultural erasure.
Update to Day/Time of Final Film
The final film in this year’s Albertine Cinémathèque French Film Festival, Scarlet (L’Envol, 2022), originally scheduled for October 30, has been postponed due to technical issues with the room’s sound system. We are pleased to announce that the screening has been rescheduled as follows: Date: Friday, November 8 Time: 6:45 PM Location: CAS B18 (not PHO 206)
New Directions in the Humanities
We are pleased to share with you the Call for Papers for the Twenty-third International Conference on New Directions in the Humanities, to be hosted by the University of Hawaii, Hilo, USA, 25-27 June 2025. Program Special Focus Oceanic Journeys: Multicultural Approaches in the Humanities More Information Submit Proposal Proposal deadline: November 25, 2024
Brown University Grad Student Conference – French
CALL FOR PAPERS UP NEXT | AU SUIVANT April 11-12, 2025 Brown University, Department of French and Francophone Studies | Providence, Rhode Island Keynote Speaker: Dr. Marie W. Larose Assistant Professor, Dept. of French & Italian, Dartmouth College “Quelle honte si vous échouez ! et même combien peu de gloire dans le succès !” proclaims […]
French Film Festival Hosts Author Victor Dixen
The Albertine Cinémathèque French Film Festival, organized by graduate students in French, recently welcomed acclaimed author Victor Dixen for a special event. Dixen, a two-time Grand Prix de l’Imaginaire winner known for his fantasy novels, joined Professor Jennifer Cazenave in a post-screening discussion of The Animal Kingdom (2023). Directed by Thomas Cailley, the film explores a society […]
10th International Conference on the Links between Spain and The Americas
10th International Conference on the Links between Spain and The Americas New York, April 30th – May 2nd CALL FOR PAPERS CCNY Division of Interdisciplinary Studies at the Center for Worker Education (CCNY CWE), the Instituto Franklin de la Universidad de Alcalá, and the Instituto Cervantes of New York, come together for the tenth consecutive […]
Noudou Interviewed About SDWE
Anik Noudou, a student in our French PhD program, recently travelled to Africa as the Secretary General of an NGO called SDWE (Sustainable Development & Women Empowerment), for its offiical launching ceremony. SDWE is an organization that works for the empowerment of women around the world. With its physical presence in North America and Africa […]
CAS News Profiles Catalina Rodriguez
CAS News has done a Faculty Spotlight on Catalina Rodriguez, Assistant Professor of Spanish! You can read the profile here.
Miami Modern Languages & Literatures Graduate Student Conference
This is a call for papers for the University of Miami’s Modern Languages and Literatures Spring 2025 Graduate Student Conference, “The Arm of the State, The Hand of Power: Resistance and Resilience in the Midst of Fear.” The conference is scheduled for Thursday, February 20th and Friday, February 21st, 2025. Deadline for abstracts is Dec. 6. […]
Fernández-Medina Publishes Book
Nicolás Fernández-Medina, Professor of Spanish and Iberian Studies, has published a new translation with Clemson University Press. The book is titled Morbidities and “The Concept of The New Literature”, and includes translations of two books (both originally published in Spanish) by the late Ramón Gómez de la Serna, along with an introduction by Fernández-Medina. From […]