Alumna Brittany Bernard Presents at PAMLA Conference
This past Saturday, Brittany Bernard spoke on a panel discussing the works of French filmmaker, Agnès Varda at the PAMLA Conference in Palm Springs, California. Her paper, entitled “’The Medium is (Her) Message’: Translating the Off-Frame in Agnès Varda’s Cléo de 5 à 7,” drew from economist Elvina Fesneau’s media study on the rise of […]
Syracuse University Colloquium
The French Department at Syracuse University and its Graduate Students are honored to announce a call for papers for our upcoming colloquium, “Theater and Cinema: Staging Challenges in the Francophone World,” to be held on April 11, 2024. This event will gather scholars to delve into the complex relationships between theater and cinema, with a […]
An Interview with Guila Clara Kessous
Guila Clara Kessous earned her PhD in French Language & Literature from the BU Romance Studies Department, graduating in 2008. She has spent her time since then as a human rights artist and academic. Kessous was nominated UNESCO Artist for Peace for her dedication to the arts and human rights, and Knight of Arts & […]
Italian Writer Dacia Maraini Presents at BU
On October 28, the Italian writer Dacia Maraini visited BU for a presentation of her autobiography, Vita mia (Rizzoli, 2023). Maraini held a public conversation with Jim Carter about her experience in a Japanese concentration camp during WWII, then she read from her book and took questions from the audience.
Gonzalez-Arias Publishes Article
Francisca Gonzalez-Arias’s article, “Translating Emilia Pardo Bazán in the United States: Women of the American Fin-de Siécle: Fanny Hale Gardiner and the ‘Isabellas,'” has just been published in Issue 93 of Observatorio Studies (Harvard University), “English-Spanish Translation in the US Context.” The article focuses on the life, social activism, and the translation process of Fanny […]
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 […]