Events | French

May

22

2025

Works in Progress Talk: Bella Williams

5 pm - 7 pm

Library of French Thought (4229 Dwinelle)

Bella Williams

"Bodies, Borders, and Infrared Surveillance Technologies"

Nov

19

2024

Marie-José Hamel (Ottawa) “Language Learners as Digital Citizens: Promoting a Socio-Interactional Approach to Language Learning Online Through ‘Real-World Tasks”

12 pm - 1 pm

online: https://berkeley.zoom.us/j/8587762424?pwd=ZFZMdzVvWFBxRVdwNEp3ejhXU1I1dz09 Meeting ID: 933 7636 8100 Passcode: FiTTalk!

Nov

19

2024

Vincent Michelot (former director of Sciences Po Lyon), "Beyond the 2024 Elections: American Politics seen from France"

3pm - 4pm

Library of French Thought

Vincent Michelot

Nov

14

2024

Professor Soumaya Mestiri (Université de Tunis): A Reading and Discussion

12 pm - 1 pm

4229 Dwinelle (Library of French Thought)

Nov

13

2024

Professor Soumaya Mestiri: "On Avoiding Both Misunderstandings and Traps: Feminism and Decolonisation in North Africa"

2 pm - 3:30 pm

820 Social Sciences Building

Nov

6

2024

Professor Mairi McLaughlin book launch event

9am - 11am

Mairi McLaughlin

Oct

30

2024

Jakob Vogel (Sciences Po Paris) "Forming an Elite for the French Empire. Colonial Sciences at the Ecole Libre de Sciences Politiques in Paris (1880-1960)"

3 pm - 4 pm

Library of French Thought (4229 Dwinelle)

Oct

23

2024

Caroline Moine (Univ. of Saclay) "A History of European Film Schools in the 20th Century: Artistic Circulations, Political Sociability and Professional Networks in the 20th Century"

3 pm - 4 pm

Library of French Thought (4229 Dwinelle)

Oct

17

2024

Johnny Laforêt (Princeton U.) "The place of Haitian Creole and French in the Linguistic Landscape of Haiti: A Case Study of Haitians Interacting Online"

12 pm - 1 pm

Online

Johnny Laforêt (Princeton U.)

Oct

7

2024

Je Suis Noires “Becoming a Black Woman” with filmmaker Rachel M’Bon

3 pm - 4:30 pm

142 Dwinelle Hall

Oct

1

2024

WIP: Tom Corbani, "Saving an Aesthete: Marguerite Yourcenar’s Constantine Cavafy"

5 pm - 6 pm

Library of French Thought (4229 Dwinelle)

Tom Corbani

Sep

24

2024

Distinguished Alumn.ae.i Lecture: Professor Hélène Bilis (Wellesley College) "On Refusing Retirement: Age, Ageism, and the Legacy of ‘Old Corneille’"

5 pm - 6: 30 pm

4229 Dwinelle (Library of French Thought)

Hélène Billis (Wellesley College)

Sep

19

2024

Screening, Reading, & Discussion ALIENATION AND DESIRE IN DIASPORA: Jean-Baptiste Phou's 'L'anarchiste' & 'Coming Out of My Skin' Jean-Baptiste Phou in conversation with Karl Britto and Penny Edwards

5 -

370 Dwinelle Hall

Sep

17

2024

Lynne Huffer (Emory University) lecture: "Inhuman Time: Foucault, Wynter, Extinction"

5 pm - 7 pm

4229 Dwinelle (Library of French Thought)

Lynne Huffer (Emory University)

Sep

13

2024

Conference on Jean-Luc Nancy: Antiquity and Beyond

10-1 Friday Sept 13 - 3-6 pm Saturday Sept 14

Dwinelle 3335

Sep

10

2024

Works in Progress: Caroline Godard "Abortion as collective creation in Annie Ernaux's L'événement (2000) and Céline Sciamma's Portrait de la jeune fille en feu (2019)"

5 pm - 6 pm

4229 Dwinelle (Library of French Thought)

Caroline Godard

May

14

2024

French 147 student presentation on Le français comme langue mondiale

11 am - 1 pm

Library of French Thought (4229 Dwinelle)

Apr

24

2024

Olivia Goldring WiP: "Action as 'second birth': Reading Arendt through the lens of allegory"

5 pm - 6 pm

French Department Library

Apr

23

2024

Marcel Burger (U of Lausanne) Lecture: "Newsroom Ethnography : a Multilingual and Multicultural Approach to the Swiss Public Service Media Discourse"

5 pm - 6:30 pm

French Department Library (4229 Dwinelle)

Marcel Burger

Apr

17

2024

Constance Debré: Author visit

5 pm - 6 pm

French Department Library

Constance Debré

A reading and Q & A (in English) with Constance Debré

Apr

9

2024

Works in Progress Talk: Finn Turner "Writing Social Anxiety"

5 pm - 6 pm

French Department Library

Finn Turner

Apr

3

2024

Rex Lecture: Professor Therese Banks (Middlebury), “Scintillating Whiteness: Stories of Saint Louis Across the Centuries”

5pm - 6:30pm

French Department Library (4229 Dwinelle)

Therese Banks

Mar

18

2024

Ben Beitler Work in Progress talk: "When the environment becomes a problem for speech"

1 pm - 2 pm

French Department Library (4229 Dwinelle)

Ben Beitler

Mar

9

2024

Panel discussion/Q&A with Ann Jefferson and Michael Holland: "A Q&A on biography and authors who resist."

12 - 1 pm

French Department Library (4229 Dwinelle)

Mar

7

2024

Lecture by Michael Holland "'Je n'ai pas d'archives...' Making sense of the Maurice Blanchot Papers"

5 pm - 6:30 pm

French Department Library (4229 Dwinelle)

Mar

5

2024

Lecture by Ann Jefferson "’Quel siècle à mains!’ Hands under the spotlight in 19th-century France."

5 pm - 6:30 pm

French Department Library (4229 Dwinelle)

Feb

28

2024

A conversation with Line Papin, author of Les os des filles

5 pm - 6:30 pm

Wheeler 315 (Maude Fife Room)

Feb

27

2024

Lina Scally Work In Progress Talk: "Traumatic imprisonment through memory: Subjectivation of the past in the present in Le Scaphandre et le Papillon by Julian Schnabel and in Hiroshima Mon Amour by Alain Resnais

5 pm - 6 pm

Library of French Thought (4229 Dwinelle)

Lina Scally

Jan

31

2024

Office Hours with Professor Robert Schwartzwald

1:30 pm - 4 pm

4221 Dwinelle Hall

Jan

30

2024

Lecture: Robert Schwartzwald (Université de Montréal) "Negotiating the 'Double-Minded Vocabulaire': Montreal's Jewish Communities and Contemporary Quebec"

12:30 - 1:30

223 Philosophy Hall

Professor Robert Schwartzwald

Jan

23

2024

Lecture, Amélie Ekassi (University of Yaoundé): "Literature as Socio-political Contestation in the Francophone Black African Novel"

5 pm - 6:30 pm

French Department Library

Amélie Ekassi, University of Yaoundé

Jan

18

2024

Lecture, Yohann Ripert (Stetson University): "Droughts of Governance: Turning Damaged Landscapes into Sustainable Mindscapes."

5 pm - 6:30 pm

French Department Library, 4229 Dwinelle

Yohann Ripert, Stetson University

Jan

16

2024

Lecture, Amber Bal (Cornell University): "The not-so-simple nomination des choses: Pastoral, Place, and Paratexts in Senghorian poetry."

5 pm - 6:30 pm

French Department Library, 4229 Dwinelle

Amber Bal, Cornell University

Nov

27

2023

Les Français et leur gastronomie: aux sources d'une obsession nationale -- Eric Birlouez

12pm - 1pm

Zoom

Eric Birlouez

Une discussion avec l'ingénieur agronome, Eric Birlouez.

Nov 27, 12-1pm

Zoom only.

RSVP with Claire Tourmen (tourmen@berkeley.edu)

Nov

16

2023

Olivier Lugon, University of Lausanne, "From 'Books of Light' to the 'Total Image': Publishing Industry, Slide Projection, and the Rise of 'Immersive Exhibitions' in 1960s-70s France"

5 - 7 pm

142 Dwinelle Hall

Olivier Lugon

Nov

13

2023

Pourquoi la France est-elle est si difficile à reformer ? -- Jonah Levy

4pm - 5pm

Jonah Levy

Une discussion avec Jonah Levy -- UC Berkeley, Department of Political Science

Followed by light refreshments

Nov 13, 4-5pm, Hybrid Option. Zoom & Dwinelle 3335.

RSVP with Claire Tourmen (tourmen@berkeley.edu)

Nov

9

2023

Works in Progress Talk: Rachel Weiher, Teaching Elementary French from a Sociolinguistic Perspective: A Conversation About Best Practices

5 pm - 6 pm

French Department Library (4229 Dwinelle)

Rachel Weiher

Nov

2

2023

Goncourt Prize Winner Mohamed Mbougar Sarr: The Most Secret Memory of Men

5 pm - 6:30 pm

French Department Library (4229 Dwinelle)

Mohamed Mbougar Sarr

Nov

1

2023

Literalism, Lateralism, Letteralism: Concepts and Techologies of Translation

2 pm - 5 pm

Townsend Center, Geballe Room, 220 Stephens Hall

Nov

1

2023

Pourquoi l'économie de marché est-elle mal aimée en France? --David Spector

12pm - 1pm

Zoom

David Spector

Une discussion avec David Spector (École d'Économie de Paris)

Zoom only

Oct 30, 12-1.

RSVP with Claire Tourmen (tourmen@berkeley.edu)

Oct

20

2023

Demos Anxiety: Great Replacement Theory and Democracy Symposium

10 am - 6 pm

Maude Fife Room - Wheeler 315

Dorian Bell, Sarah Bracke, Eric Fassin, Christy Wampole, Patricia Williams, Cécile Alduy, Donna Jones, Lawrence Rosenthal, Aarti Sethi

Oct

17

2023

A morning with Cameroonian author Hemley Boum

9:30 am - 11 am

4229 Dwinelle

Hemley Boum

Oct

12

2023

Works In Progress Talk: Lea Huotari Sourcing and quoting in the press: the use of foreign sources in covering the French 2022 presidential elections

5 pm - 6 pm

French Department Library (4229 Dwinelle Hall)

Oct

6

2023

Être journaliste de terrain entre la Californie et la France -- Corinne Lesnes

12pm - 1pm

Library of French Thought 4229 Dwinelle

Corinne Lesnes

Une discussion avec Corinne Lesnes (correspondant du journal Le Monde à San Francisco.

Light reception to follow

RSVP with Claire Tourmen (tourmen@berkeley.edu)

Oct 6, 12-1 4229 Dwinelle

Oct

3

2023

Pajus Distinguished Visitor Wes Williams lecture: "The imagination on trial: the strange case of Magdeleine d’Auvermont"

5 - 6:30 pm

Berkeley Language Center, Room B-4 Dwinelle

Wes Williams, Oxford University

Sep

29

2023

Wes Williams Seminar: ‘Vivre sa vie’: Essays in voluntary servitude

12 - 1:30 pm

French Department Library (4229 Dwinelle)

Professor Wes Williams, Oxford University

Sep

28

2023

Pajus Distinguished Visitor Wes Williams lecture: "Des conditions qui s’entrecherchent/ conditions that enter-seeke one another’ (Montaigne/Florio): humanities researchers and/as public goods"

5 - 6:30 pm

French Department Library (4229 Dwinelle)

Wes Williams, Oxford University

Sep

22

2023

Distinguished Alumn.ae.i Lecture: Ann Delehanty, Literature as Skeptical Inquiry: the Case of the Early Modern Novel

5 pm - 6:30 pm

French Department Library (4229 Dwinelle)

Ann Delehanty, Reed College

Jun

27

2023

Monique Wittig: Twenty Years Later / Vingt ans après (part 2)

-

Geneva or Simulcast on Zoom

May

15

2023

Romance Languages & Literatures Roundtable

11 am - 1:30 pm

370 Dwinelle

Apr

27

2023

Shifty translation, or how do poets and artists write through translation?

12:00 PM - 2:00 PM

4229 Dwinelle Hall

Vincent Broqua

Apr

20

2023

French for Professions Roundtable & Talk on Climate Change in France

3:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.

Library of French Thought

Apr

19

2023

Olivia Walsh Seminar: Defending the French language: from ‘attacks’ on Canadian French in the 19th century to Twitter spats in the 21st

12 pm - 1:30 pm

French Department Library (4229 Dwinelle)

Professor Olivia Walsh

Apr

18

2023

Professor Olivia Walsh (University of Nottingham) "The Making of Standard French: Attitudes towards regional variation in an eighteenth-century metalinguistic text"

4 pm - 5:30 pm

French Department Library (4229 Dwinelle)

Professor Olivia Walsh

Apr

10

2023

Rex Lecture: Professor Joëlle Papillon (McMaster University) "Indigenous Texts as Teachers."

5 pm - 6:30 pm

French Department Library (4229 Dwinelle)

Professor Joëlle Papillon

Apr

6

2023

Danís Chadeuil, "Making Minority Worlds"

10 am - 11 am

Zoom

Danís Chadeuil

Mar

20

2023

Work in Progress Presentation: Celebration: Reflections on teaching Blackness where Black doesn’t exist

1pm - 2pm

French Library of Thought (4229 Dwinelle Hall)

Amber Sweat

Mar

17

2023

Monique Wittig: Twenty Years Later / Vingt ans après

-

Please see program.

Mar

15

2023

Pajus Distinguished Visitor Anne Garréta "Proust’s Private Eyes"

5 pm - 6:30 pm

B-4 Dwinelle

Professor Anne Garréta (Duke University)

Mar

13

2023

Brown Bag Lunch Seminar with Professor Anne Garréta "What was an author?"

12 pm - 1:30 pm

French Department Library (4229 Dwinelle)

Professor Anne Garréta (Duke University)

Mar

10

2023

Borders and Crossings: Contemporary Arts and Techniques of Migration (March 10-11, 2023)

10 am Friday March 10 - 6 pm Saturday March 11

Arts and Research Center, Hearst Field Annex D23

Mar

8

2023

Pajus Distinguished Visitor Anne Garréta “Gambling on Form: from Lucretius to Perec to Chat GPT”

5 pm - 6:30 pm

French Department Library (4229 Dwinelle)

Professor Anne Garréta (Duke University)

Mar

3

2023

Who Makes the Earth Habitable? From a Metaphysics of Production to a Metaphysics of Alliance

1:00pm -

3335 Dwinelle Hall

Baptiste Morizot

Feb

28

2023

Work in Progress Presentation: Reprendre la ville: L'homme qui enjamba la mer

4pm - 5pm

French Library of Thought (4229 Dwinelle Hall)

Patrick Lyons

Feb

22

2023

Kadji Amin: “Training Bourgeois Selves: Magnus Hirschfeld and the Subsumption of Pederasty”

12:30 pm - 2:00 pm

820 Social Sciences Building

Kadji Amin

Feb

22

2023

"A Conversation with Kadji Amin on his recent work"

5 pm - 6:30 pm

French Department Library (4229 Dwinelle)

Kadji Amin

Feb

16

2023

Victoria Baena lecture: "Cartographies of Combray"

5 pm - 6:30 pm

French Department Library (4229 Dwinelle)

Victoria Baena (U. of Cambridge)

Feb

9

2023

Liesl Yamaguchi lecture: "The Proper Tone: On the Colors of Vowels"

5 pm - 6:30 pm

French Department Library (4229 Dwinelle)

Liesl Yamaguchi (Boston College)

Feb

2

2023

Laurence Sylvain lecture: Contours of the Will: Jean Wahl and Pierre Klossowski, interpreters of Nietzsche

5:00 pm - 6:30 pm

French Dept LIbrary (4229 Dwinelle Hall)

Laurence Sylvain (University of Ottawa Press)

Jan

26

2023

Lecture: Zakir Paul "Disarming Intelligence: Proust, Valéry, Bergson"

5 pm - 6:30 pm

French Dept Library, 4229 Dwinelle Hall

Zakir Paul (NYU)

Dec

7

2022

Pluri-Grammars for Pluri-Genders: Competing Gender Systems in the Nominal Morphology of Non-Binary French

1pm - 2pm

French Dept Library (4229 Dwinelle)

Jennifer Kaplan

Dec

2

2022

Black Studies Conference with French 141 Postponed

1 - 4

4229 Dwinelle (French Library)

Students from humanities, sciences, and social sciences, will be presenting their research on what it means to be a Black in the French-speaking world.

Nov

14

2022

Prospective Ph.D. Students: Virtual Meet and Greet

4:00pm PST - 5:00pm PST

Zoom (Registration required)

Program Faculty, Students and Staff

Oct

28

2022

Abdellali Hajjat: The Wretched of France: The 1983 March for Equality and Against Racism

4 pm - 5:30 pm

4229 Dwinelle Hall

Abdellali Hajjat

Oct

19

2022

Work in Progress Presentation: Who are We? Reconceiving the French Nation Through Everyday Spaces in Alice Diop's "Nous" (2021)

4pm - 5pm

French Library of Thought (4229 Dwinelle Hall)

May Sidhu

Oct

11

2022

Prospective Ph.D. Students: Virtual Meet and Greet

9:00am PST - 10:00m PST

Zoom (Registration required)

Program Faculty, Students and Staff

Oct

6

2022

Distinguished Alumn.ae.i Lecture, Louisa Mackenzie "Pedagogy Matters: The Non-binary Turn and Inclusive Language Teaching"

4 pm - 5:30 pm

French Department Library (4229 Dwinelle)

Louisa Mackenzie, University of Washington

Sep

29

2022

Jill Jarvis (Yale University) "Radiant Matter : The Long Shadow of French Nuclear Imperialism in the Living Sahara"

4 pm - 5:30 pm

French Department Library (4229 Dwinelle Hall)

Jill Jarvis (Yale University)

Sep

21

2022

Work in Progress Presentation: "Educating" the Banlieue: Gendered Power Dynamics, Spatiality, and Forms of Resistance in French Banlieue Cinema Schools

4pm - 5pm

French Library of Thought (4229 Dwinelle Hall)

Kévin Drif

May

16

2022

French/Languages Commencement

09:00 am - 12:00 pm

Zellerbach Playhouse/Ishi Courtyard

Anne Nesbet of Slavic Languages and Literatures

May

4

2022

Ben Beitler: "When the Environment Becomes a Problem of Speech"

4:00pm - 5:00pm

Library of French Thought (4229 Dwinelle Hall)

Ben Beitler

May

2

2022

A Celebration in Honor of David Hult

2:30 pm - 6:00 pm

French Department Library (4229 Dwinelle Hall)

Apr

26

2022

Leo Bersani Memorial

5 pm - 7 pm

Stebbins Lounge of the Women's Faculty Club

Apr

25

2022

New Date/Time: Permanent Revolution. A reading and conversation with Gail Scott

5 PM - 6 PM

French Department Library (4229 Dwinelle)

Gail Scott

Apr

24

2022

Viewing the final results of the French presidential election

10 am - 12 pm

in front of Valley Life Sciences Building

Apr

20

2022

Book Talk with Tim Hampton - "Cheerfulness: A Literary and Cultural History"

12:00pm - 1:00pm

YouTube (livestream)

Tim Hampton

Apr

13

2022

Multilinguisme, langue minorée et insécurité linguistique dans "La retraite sans fanfare" de Chahan Chahnour (Շահան Շահնուրի Նահանջը առանց Երգի)

4:00pm - 5:00pm

Library of French Thought (4229 Dwinelle Hall)

Hannah Cox

Apr

12

2022

Roland Greene -Romance Languages & Literatures, 5pm French Library

5pm -

4229 Dwinelle (French Library)

Roland Greene

Apr

11

2022

Tim Hampton "Cheerfulness and the Fate of Reading"

4 pm - 5 pm

Chevron Auditorium at International House, 2299 Piedmont Ave.

Tim Hampton

Apr

10

2022

French Election Results

10 - 12

Library of French Thought 4226 Dwinelle

Come Celebrate the announcement of the result of the French Election.

Sunday, April 10, from 10-12. 4229 Dwinelle

Please note: You must arrive between 10 and 10:30 to enter the building for this event. The entrance is located at North side of the building.

Apr

6

2022

Michael Lucey "What Proust Heard: Novels and the Ethnography of Talk" Townsend Center

12 pm - 1 pm

online at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uemd3I7W-_M

Michael Lucey

Mar

31

2022

Rex Lecture: Professor Katie Chenoweth "Mes tablettes: Montaigne’s Erasable Essais"

5 PM - 6:30 PM

French Department Library (4229 Dwinelle)

Professor Katie Chenoweth

Mar

28

2022

Karima Lazali French Colonialism and Psycholanalysis

5pm - 7pm

French Dept Library (Library of French Thought) 4229 Dwinelle

Karima Lazali

Mar

10

2022

Heritage Languages on YouTube - Occitan with Gabrièu Pelisson

11am (on the hour, not Berkeley time) - 12pm

Zoom

Gabrièu Pelisson

Originally from Nice and a heritage speaker of Occitan, Gabrièu Pelisson has followed in the footsteps of his predecessors and has challenged the French status quo: he has provided a space for speaking, developing, and teaching his language.

Mar

8

2022

Pajus Distinguished Visitor Sarah Kay "From the Outer Spheres to the Inner Senses: Breath, Voice and Spectacle in Medieval Song"

5 PM - 6:30 PM

B-4 Dwinelle

Sarah Kay and Concordian Dawn

Mar

3

2022

Pajus Distinguished Visitor Sarah Kay "Voicing Writing"

4 PM - 5 PM

French Dept Library (4229 Dwinelle)

Sarah Kay

Feb

4

2022

The Pursuit of Happiness: Childhood and Slavery in the Age of Revolution

4:00pm PST - 5:00pm PST

Zoom (registration required)

Dr. Annette K. Joseph-Gabriel

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

10

2021

Townsend Center/Berkeley Book Chat with Mairi McLaughlin

12pm - 1pm

Remote/online

Mairi McLaughlin, Professor of French

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

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

12pm - 2pm (PST)

Online

Emmanuel Bruno Jean-François

Mar

5

2021

Lukas Ovrom and Nick Paige on Technologies of the Novel

5 p.m. - 7 p.m.

Lukas Ovrom, Nicholas Paige

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

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

Supernumerary Fellow at Wolfson College

Oxford University