Marianne Midwest Series
The Cultural Services of the French Consulate in Chicago,
the Alliance Française of Chicago,
The France Chicago Center, and
the University of Chicago French Club have joined forces to create the
Marianne Midwest Series. It consists of a series of web debates on contemporary topics, meant to bring together American and French points of view, and to reach Midwest partners. The speakers discuss a contemporary global topic in Chicago, followed by a question and answer session with the audience and partner locations. The featured speaker presents in English, or in French with the assistance of an interpreter. Through this series of debates, mutual representations between the United States and France are challenged and re-evaluated.
With the addition of these online resources, we wish to extend the messages and discussions of Marianne Midwest beyond the live webcast events. Each webinar kit includes a video recording of the event, program overview and outline, information about the speaker, discussion questions, and online articles and videos to provide further context and depth to the subjects.
We hope that with these materials, organizations can host further Marianne Midwest group viewings accompanied by their own unique discussions and debates. With a large monitor or projector with speakers connected to a computer, the lectures can easily be projected to a local audience.
Through these webinars, both live and recorded, Marianne Midwest extends an invitation to everyone to remain or become a Francophile and Francophone with a contemporary mindset in the heartland of America.