Events
Nov
30
2021

Works in Progress Series: Who’s a trans Moroccan? On the literary and mediatic (self-)figurations of Abdellah Taïa and Sofia Taloni

5:00 pm - 6:00 pm
French Library (422 Dwinelle Hall)
Tom Corbani
Nov
18
2021

Works in Progress Series: Zola's Reality Effect: Boredom in La Joie de vivre

4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Zoom - Registration Required
Dr. Margot Szarke
Nov
8
2021

Prospective Ph.D. Students: Virtual Meet and Greet

3:30pm PST - 4:30pm PST
Zoom (Registration required)
Program Faculty, Students and Staff
Nov
2
2021

Lecture by Zsuzsanna Fagyal: "Stylistic innovations in language as ‘place-making’ among the multiethnic working-class urban youth in Paris"

5:10 PM - 6:30 PM
French Department Library, 4229 Dwinelle Hall
Zsuzsanna Fagyal, University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana
Oct
14
2021

Works in Progress Series: “Qui Fait La Loi En Prison?”: Islam, Sex, and the Fears of “Radicalization” in French Prisons

4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Zoom - Registration Required
Ty Blakeney
Sep
30
2021

'Native Tales': Human-Simian Sex and Ontologies of Race and Species

5 - 6:30
Zoom (registration in event description)
Kadji Amin (Emory University)
Sep
23
2021

Sixth Annual Distinguished Alumni Lecture: Oral Narratives and Black Lives in Francophone Studies

4 PM - 6 PM
French Department Library (4229 Dwinelle)
Maya Smith (UW Seattle), Jonathon Repinecz (George Mason U)
Sep
20
2021

Literary Research: How to Do Research in Literature (and Be Awesome)

1:10 pm - 2:30 pm
Zoom -
Please register for the link. For more information, contact Stacy at sreardon@berkeley.edu
May
17
2021

French Departmental Commencement

09:00 am - 10:00 am
online/remote/zoom
Nicholas Paige, Chair
May
12
2021

Doctoral Commencement and Celebration

12 noon - 1 p.m.
Zomlandia
Apr
7
2021

Anne-Gaëlle Saliot on Jean-Luc Godard

4pm -
Online
Anne-Gaëlle Saliot
Apr
7
2021

Book Chat with Nicholas Paige on Technologies of the Novel

12pm-1pm -
Online
Nicholas Paige
Mar
26
2021

Zoom Molière

11:30 am - 1:30 pm
online/remote/zoom
Kristen Hull, Christian Burke
Mar
24
2021

Tim Hampton on Bob Dylan and Myth

-
Online
Prof. Tim Hampton
Mar
17
2021

Seminar with Prof. Zsuzsanna Fagyal (Urbana-Champaign) on "Social Meaning and Consonantal Variation in French and Romance"

12pm - 2pm
Online
Prof. Zsuzsanna Fagyal
Mar
10
2021

Berkeley Book Chat with Suzanne Guerlac and Damon Young

12pm - 1pm
Online
Suzanne Guerlac and Damon Young
Mar
9
2021

Tim Hampton on "Ratification and the Time of Tragedy"

-
Online
Prof. Tim Hampton
Mar
5
2021

Lukas Ovrom and Nick Paige on Technologies of the Novel

5 p.m. - 7 p.m.
Lukas Ovrom, Nicholas Paige
Mar
5
2021

Rex Lecture by Emmanuel Bruno Jean-François (Penn State) on "Entangled Histories and Transoceanic Empathy"

12pm - 2pm (PST)
Online
Emmanuel Bruno Jean-François
Mar
2
2021

Michael Lucey on Proust and how to do things with language

5pm GMT/9am PST -
Online
Prof. Michael Lucy
Feb
17
2021

Ann Smock in conversation about Celan at the Townsend Center

12pm - 1pm
Online
Ann Smock, Robert Kaufman, Philip Gerard
Feb
8
2021

Nicholas Paige on his new book at Stanford's CSN

1 - 2:30
Zoom
Nov
23
2020

A Commemoration/Celebration of the Life and Work of the Poet Paul Celan

6pm PST/9pm EDT -
live streamed; pre-registration required
various -- see announcement
Nov
19
2020

Qurʾanic Narratology: Literary Sensibilities in the Maghreb

4:10 pm -
The Zoomosphere
Hoda El Shakry

Hoda El Shakry

Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature

The University of Chicago
Nov
2
2020

Selling the Story: Transaction and Narrative Value in Balzac, Dostoevsky, and Zola

4:00 pm -
The Zoomosphere
Jonathan Paine

Jonathan Paine

Supernumerary Fellow at Wolfson College

Oxford University