Event Category: Conference

Gender and Sexuality in/and the Romance Languages – An International Conference University of Chicago | February 21-22, 2025 Please visit this link to access the program’s details. What does it mean to think or write critically about gender and sexuality in languages that are themselves grammatically gendered? What ambiguities, instabilities, or possibilities can arise from […]

Transat’. Poetry, Translation, and Transatlantic Exchanges ​ Transat’ is a journal of poetry and poetics focused on a Franco-Anglophone conversation. For the launch of its second issue, editor-in-chief Léon Pradeau and guest editor Clara Nizard are hosting an afternoon symposium on poetry and translation, with poets and critics, starting at 3 pm. The symposium will […]

No Chains No Masters (Ni Chaines Ni Maitres). Directed by Simon Moutaïrou. 2024, France, 98 min – Drama, Historical Following a public screening, director Simon Moutaïrou will be present for a Q&A at 4:30 pm in SSRB #201. The roundtable will be moderated by Nikhita Obeegadoo, Neubauer Family Assistant Professor of French and Francophone Studies. […]

This interdisciplinary, international conference will explore how the works of French scholar Pierre Bayard can inspire ways of creative reading as applied to numerous fields of study: literature, cinema, musicology, art history, theology, psychology, classics, and teaching, among others. Through approaches such as interventionist criticism, in which the reader/viewer intervenes in a work by changing […]

Abstract: The Belgian art historian Pierre Ryckmans, better known under his pseudonym of Simon Leys, intervened in French political debates at the time of May ’68 and the waning Cultural Revolution from a position that was rare at the time—one of sustained and intimate engagement with Chinese culture. His polemics sparked intense controversy at the […]