Past Events Summaries
Spring Quarter 2019
REVOLUTIONARY PEDAGOGIES IN TRANSATLANTIC PERSPECTIVE: June Jordan Meets Danilo Dolci
Date & Time: Tuesday, May 21, 2019. 4PM
Location: Kresge 2351, 1880 Campus Drive
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WINTER QUARTER 2019
SURFACE WRITING: On the Water in New France: The French & Italian Department Lecture Series
Date & Time: Friday, February 22, 2019. 4PM
Location: Kresge 1515, 1880 Campus Drive
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Graduate Student Workshop with Katherine Ibbett
Date & Time: Friday, November 2, 2018. 12PM
Location: Crowe Hall 2-130, 1860 Campus Drive
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Fall Quarter 2018
After ’68: Art, Thought and Cinema: The Department of French & Italian Annual Fall Colloquium
Date & Time: Friday, November 9, 2018, 10AM
Location: John Evans Alumni Center, 1800 Sheridan Road
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AUTHENTIC POWER AND CARE AS REPETITION: The French & Italian Department Lecture Series
Date & Time: Friday, November 2, 2018. 4PM
Location: Kresge Hall 1515, 1880 Campus Drive
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OF OBJECTS AND GRIPS: A Graduate Student Workshop
Date & Time: Friday, November 2, 2018. 12PM
Location: Crowe Hall 2-130, 1860 Campus Drive
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Hubert Haddad: “Corps désirable et les avatars du transhumanisme”
Hubert Haddad: Conversations with the Author
Date & Time: Monday-Thursday, October 15-18, 2018.
Location: Crowe Hall 2-130, 1860 Campus Drive
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Spring Quarter 2018
Leo Bersani - Adam Phillips Conversation
Date & Time: Friday, June 1, 2018. 3PM
Location: Kresge 2351, 1880 Campus Drive
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SHAME AND ATTENTION
Date & Time: Thursday, May 31, 2018. 4PM
Location: Harris Hall-108, 1881 Sheridan Road
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“Singularité et solidarité” : L’ESPRIT DE MAI 68
Date & Time: Wednesday, May 2, 2018. 11:30AM
Location: Crowe Hall 2-130, 1860 Campus Drive
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A screening and discussion of OUTLANDISH: STRANGE FOREIGN BODIES
Date & Time: Thursday, April 26, 2018. 12PM
Location: Kresge Hall 2351, 1880 Campus Drive
A production of Northwestern Image Lab | NIL
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Transmettre la littérature: problèmes et enjeux
Date & Time: Tuesday, April 17, 2018. 4PM
Location: Crowe Hall 1-132, 1860 Campus Drive
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Food as Activism in Contemporary Public Art
Date & Time: Monday, April 16, 2018. 4PM
Location: Kresge Hall 2351, 1880 Campus Drive
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FORCE IN PROGRESS: How might we move beyond a personal, psychological notion of subjectivity toward a view of the subject as impersonal force
Date & Time: Friday, April 13, 2018. 3:30PM
Location: Harris Hall-108, 1881 Sheridan Road
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Winter Quarter 2018
THE BLOODLESS STIGMATA: Signs of Holiness in the Divine Comedy
Date & Time: Monday, March 5, 2018, 5PM
Location: Kresge Hall 2351, 1880 Campus Drive
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Close Reading of a Title: On Primo Levi’s Survival In Auschwitz, The French & Italian Undergraduate Lecture Series
Date & Time: Tuesday, February 27, 2018. 4:30PM
Location: Kresge Hall 1515, 1880 Campus Drive
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THE STOCK IMAGE: MUYBRIDGE, MAREY, AND THE BIOPOLITICS OF CAPTURE: The French & Italian Department Lecture Series
Date & Time: Friday, February 23, 2018. 4PM
Location: Kresge Hall 2351, 1880 Campus Drive
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ANATOMY OF FICTION (Cuvier, Hawthorne, Darwin): A Graduate Student Workshop
Date & Time: Friday, February 23, 2018. 12PM
Location: Crowe Hall 2-130, 1860 Campus Drive
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BURNING THE MEDITERRANEAN: Clandestine Crossings in Cinema and Literature
Date & Time: Friday, January 19, 2018. 3PM
Location: Kresge Hall 1515, 1880 Campus Drive
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Fall Quarter 2017
MAURICE BLANCHOT: THOUGHT OF ABSENCE, The Department of French & Italian Annual Fall Colloquium
Date & Time: Friday, November 3, 2017, 9:00AM
Location: John Evans Alumni Center, 1800 Sheridan Road
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The ‘Classical’ Western
Date & Time: Thursday, November 2, 2017. 4:30PM
Location: Kresge Hall 1515
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HYBRIDISM IN RENAISSANCE LOVE PHILOSOPHY FROM MARIO EQUICOLA TO CERVANTES: The French & Italian Department Lecture Series
Date & Time: Friday, October 13, 2017, 4:00PM
Location: Kresge Hall 1515
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ORTHODOXY AND HETERODOXY IN CARDANO’S AND DELLA PORTA’S DISTINCT FORMS OF RENAISSANCE NATURAL PHILOSOPHY: A Graduate Student Workshop
Date & Time: Friday, October 13, 2017, 12:00PM
Location: Crowe Hall 2-130
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Spring Quarter 2017
Resistance, Radicalisms, and Aesthetics, the Department of French & Italian Graduate Student Conference
Date & Time: Thursday-Friday June 1-2, 2017. 9:00AM
Location: John Evans Alumni Center, 1800 Sheridan Road
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The Professor with the Digital Tools: Teaching Balzac with Voyant Tools
Date & Time: Wednesday, May 31st, 10:00AM
Location: Kresge 1515
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WHAT IS AN AUTHOR? RABELAISIAN AVATARS: The French & Italian Department Lecture Series
Date & Time: Friday, May 19, 2017, 4:00PM
Location: Kresge Hall 2-415
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BECOMING A WITCH, a Graduate Student Workshop
Date & Time: Friday, May 19, 2017, 12:00PM
Location: Crowe Hall 2-130
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THÉÂTRE ET POLITIQUE
Date & Time: Tuesday, May 9, 2017, 12:30PM
Location: Crowe Hall 2-130
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THE CINEMA OF CHANTAL AKERMAN: TIME, BORDERS, POLITICS
Date & Time: Friday, April 28, 2017, 2:00PM
Location: Kresge 1515
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AND YET SHE SPEAKS: Diotima, Feminism and the Politics of Language
Date & Time: Monday, April 17, 2017, 4:30PM
Location: Harris Hall-108
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GENDER STUDIES & THE RESISTANCE OF TRANSLATION, a Graduate Student Luncheon
Date & Time: Monday, April 17, 2017, 12:00PM
Location: Crowe Hall 2-130
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ECRITURES MIGRANTES, une causerie
Date & Time: Friday, April 14, 2017, 12:00PM
Location: Crowe Hall 2-130
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L’IMMAGINE DELL,ALTRO NEL MEDIOEVO
Date & Time: Wednesday, 5 April, 2:00PM
Location: Crowe Hall 2-130
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CAMORRA / GOMORRA, A 1,000 YEAR HISTORY: The Italian Undergraduate Lecture Series
Date & Time: Tuesday, April 4, 2017, 4:00PM
Location: Kresge 1515
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Winter Quarter 2017
THE LAW OF THE NOVEL AND THE FORM OF HISTORY: The French & Italian Department Lecture Series
Date & Time: Friday, February 24, 2017, 4:00PM
Location: Kresge Hall 1515
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Erich Auerbach: Vico and Aesthetic Historism, a Graduate Student Luncheon
Date & Time: Friday, February 24, 2017, 12:00PM
Location: Crowe Hall 2-130
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GALLANTRY AND THE (IN)SIGNIFIGANCE OF LESBIAN DESIRE IN 17TH-CENTURY FRANCE: The Case of Benserade’s Iphis et Iante (1634)
Date & Time: Friday, February 3, 2017, 4:15pm
Location: Crowe Hall 2-130
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Fall Quarter 2016
THE MINORITY PARADOX: BLACKNESS IN FRANCE
Date & Time: Friday, November 11, 2016. 4:00PM
Location: John Evans Alumni Center, 1800 Sheridan Road
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WHAT ARE YOU LISTENING FOR: Music-Image Relations
Date & Time: Thursday, November 3, 2016. 4:00PM
Location: Forum Room, Deering Library
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BEYOND OCCITANIA: The Department of French & Italian Annual Fall Colloquium, Day 2
Date & Time: Friday, October 28, 2016. 9:00AM
Location: Harris Hall-108, 1881 Sheridan Road
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BEYOND OCCITANIA: The Department of French & Italian Annual Fall Colloquium, Day 1
Date & Time: Thursday, October 27, 2016. 5:30PM
Location: John Evans Alumni Center, 1800 Sheridan Road
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Found Object: A Case Study in Interdisciplinary Research in the Humanities
Date & Time: Friday, October 21, 2016. 4PM
Location: Harris Hall-108, 1881 Sheridan Road
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THE CHAPLIN FILES: A Graduate Student Workshop
Date & Time: Friday, October 21, 2016. 12PM
Location: Crowe Hall 2-130, 1860 Campus Drive
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ABDELFATTAH KILITO VISIT Oct. 3 - 7, 2016
Date & Time: Monday, October 3, 2016. 12PM
Location: Hagstrum Room, University Hall-201, Evanston, IL
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Date & Time: Tuesday, October 4, 2016. 9AM
Location: Program of African Studies Seminar Room, 620 Library Pl. Evanston, IL
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Date & Time: Friday, October 7, 2016. 4PM
Location: Kresge Hall, Rm. 1-515, Evanston, IL
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Spring Quarter 2016
ART, PHOTOGRAPHY, AND MEDIA IN THE ITALIAN 1960s
Date & Time: Monday, May 9, 2016. 4PM
Location: Harris Hall, Rm. 108, Evanston, IL 60208-2220
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POSTCOLONIAL STUDIES IN FRANCE TODAY
Date & Time: Thursday, May 5, 2016. 4:30PM
Location: McCormick Foundation Center, Rm. 3-127, 1870 Campus Drive, Evanston, IL 60208-2220
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HAND / MACHINE / WRITING / POLITICS IN 1960s ITALY
Date & Time: Friday, April 29, 2016. 4PM
Location: Harris Hall, Rm. 108, Evanston, IL 60208-2220
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TERRANES of CLIMATE CHANGE: SUBSURFACE, SURFACE, ATMOSPHERE
Date & Time: Friday, April 29, 2016. 12PM
Location: Crowe Hall, Rm. 2-130, 1860 Campus Drive, Evanston, IL 60208-2220
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LANGUES ET ÉCRITURES POSTCOLONIALES, une causerie
Date & Time: Friday, April 22, 2016. 12PM
Location: Crowe Hall, Rm. 2-130, 1860 Campus Drive, Evanston, IL 60208-2220
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LITERATURE & POLITICS IN HAITI TODAY
Date & Time: Monday, April 11, 2016. 4PM
Location: John Evans Alumni Center, 1800 Sheridan Rd., Evanston, IL 60208-2220
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Winter Quarter 2016
FAIRY TALE ANIMALS
Date & Time: Thursday, March 3, 2016. 4PM
Location: McCormick Foundation Center, Rm. 3-127, 1870 Campus Drive, Evanston, IL 60208-2220
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Departmental Lecture Series: ART IN THE JUNGLE: ENVISIONING REFUGEES IN THE CALAIS CAMP
Date & Time: Friday, February 19, 2016. 4PM
Location: Hagstrum Room, University Hall-201, Evanston, IL 60208-2220
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Fall Quarter 2015
THE SPECTACLE IS EVERYWHERE: 1968 AS A GLOBAL EVENT
Date & Time: Friday, November 6, 2015. 4PM
Location: McCormick Foundation Center, Rm. 3107, 1870 Campus Drive, Evanston, IL 60208-2220
LYON: UNE CAPITALE DU LIVRE A LA RENAISSANCE
Une causerie avec Michel Jourde, Professeur de littérature française, Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon. Le déjeuner sera servi.Date & Time: Thursday, October 29, 2015. 12:00-1:00PM
Location: Crowe Hall 2-130, 1860 Campus Drive, Evanston, IL 60208-2220
Conference Co-Sponsor: the French Interdisciplinary Group, the Buffett Institute for Global Studies, and the French Embassy in the United States
ROLAND BARTHES’S CRITICAL LEGACY
On Friday, October 23, 2015, this one day symposium focused on Roland Barthes, one of last century’s leading European essayists and critics. Whether writing on popular phenomena like soap-ads and wrestling, Honoré de Balzac’s work, or the most private of photographs, Barthes has indelibly influenced the way we think of the relationship between words, images, objects, and affects.
To mark the centenary of his birth, the Department of French and Italian presented a one-day interdisciplinary symposium, bringing together renowned European and American scholars. The symposium aimed at interrogating Barthes’ complex legacy in the fields of literary and visual studies while also questioning the notion of legacy itself: How do we critically inherit an author’s critical legacy? What kind of relationship to the future does a legacy open up for those who actively receive it?
Spring Quarter 2015
2015 GRADUATE STUDENT CONFERENCE
The May 29, 2015 Graduate Student Conference, “Radicalisms: Movements and Moments,” opened a critical dialogue about the nature, potential, and limits of “radicalism” in academia. The conference featured a keynote address by Kent State University’s Professor Kevin Floyd. In his compelling talk, entitled “Gendered Labor and Abstract Life,” Professor Floyd offered a Marxist critique of gendered forms of value-producing labor in the debt-ridden global South. The afternoon panels brought together graduate students in Art History, Comparative Literature, English, and French, including our own Matthew Brauer, Joseph Derosier, and Jessica Neuschwander.
It was organized by Rachel Grimm, Colin Jackson, Arachi Jung, and Brian McLoughlin.
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MICHELA MINESSO'S PRESENTATION
On May 21, 2015, Michela Minesso, Professor of Contemporary History at the University of Milan, gave a lecture called "An Innovative International Ruling Class: Industrial and Technical Elites in Milan Between Liberalism and Fascism," on the central role of industrial and technical élites of Milan in the Italian industrialization occurring between the end of the 19th century and the rise to power of fascism, including the environments and the institutions in which those élites operated.
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ELIZAVETA STRAKHOV'S PRESENTATION
On May 19, 2015, Elizaveta Strakhov, Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in French Medieval Literature, gave a lecture titled “The Silence of the Lambs: The French Pastourelle and Critiques of the Hundred Years War.” It was followed by lively discussion among graduate students and faculty, and a well-attended reception.
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MAKRAM ABBES' PRESENTATION
On May 11, 2015, Makram Abbes of Ecole Normale Supérieure-Lyon gave a talk titled "Maximes, poésies et récits: rhétorique et politique dans les textes arabes."
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PANNILL CAMP'S PRESENTATION
On April 27, 2015, Pannill Camp of Washington University in St. Louis gave a lecture, “Irruption and Awakening: The Masonic Plays and Revolutionary Festivals of François-Félix Nogaret” (1740-1831), which is part of his book project on the relations between theater, rituals, Freemasonry, and the French Revolution.
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MARC CREPON CAUSERIE
On April 23, 2015, Marc Crépon led a causerie entitled "Contrer la violence: réflexions après les événements du 7 au 9 janvier à Paris."
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ISABELLE ALFANDARY'S PRESENTATION
On April 20, 2015, Isabelle Alfandary of the Université de la Sorbonne-Nouvelle (Paris III) presented a talk entitled “Derrida-Lacan: In Between Psychoanalysis and Deconstruction,” through the support of the Department of French and Italian and the French Interdisciplinary Group. The talk explored new intersections between Lacanian psychoanalytic theory and Derridean thought.
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Winter Quarter 2015
CHRISTOPHER ATWOOD'S PRESENTATION
On March 3, 2015, Dr. Christopher Atwood, a visiting lecturer in Italian, presented a multi-media talk on Futurist art (1909-144) titled "Modernity, Machines and Motor Oil: Italian Futurist Art and Ideals." Topics discussed included Futurists’ representations of speed, the movement’s relationship with Fascism, and the revolutionary Futurist Cookbook (1931).
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CHRISTOPHER DAVIS' PRESENTATION
On February 9, 2015, Dr. Christopher Davis gave a lecture titled "Each in their Latin: Grammar, Poetics, and Old Occitan as a Literary Language."
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