La storia del soldato [The Soldier’s Tale], Igor Stravinsky's musical theater piece with a libretto by Charles Ramuz, is a new production of the Figli d’Arte Cuticchio

Scholars across literary and music studies have found the French Enlightenment to be a formative moment for thinking about the production, meanings and powers of voice and sound.

Go behind the scenes of the Sicilian puppetry company's work in this eclectic docu-film. A live Q&A with the artists follows. 22/23 HOP FILM EVENT Based on Dante's Inferno

Scholars across literary and music studies have found the French Enlightenment to be a formative moment for thinking about the production, meanings and powers of voice and sound.

Scholars across literary and music studies have found the French Enlightenment to be a formative moment for thinking about the production, meanings and powers of voice and sound.

The Department of French & Italian Presents Acclaimed Moroccan-French Author, Critic & Sociologist Kaoutar Harchi / كوثر حرشي AS WE EXIST: A POSTCOLONIAL AUTOBIOGRAPHY

Two scholars, Françoise Rubellin (Université de Nantes) and Jeffrey Leichman (LSU), who created a VR theater game: https://vespace.univ-nantes.fr/ will present a play by Marivaux.

Ever wanted to travel back in time to the eighteenth century? Curious about how video games can contribute to research in French studies? Come experience a VR immersion in a restituted eighteenth-century Fair theatre!

The characters of contemporary French author Marie NDiaye are often described in botanical terms, and the heroine of her novel Ladivine refers to herself as an “obscure flower.” What exactly is an obscure flower? Withdrawal into a kind of vegetal or mineral obscurity (if not oblivion) is the modus operandi of NDiaye’s characters, who exist in a state of deep disadequation with their unpredictable, unhospitable, and Kafkaesque social worlds. However, this disappearing act is not the end of the story. Behind the blankness they display to their fellow humans, the strange behaviors they adopt bring them into a rare intimacy with the nonhuman—animal, vegetal, mineral—world.

You are all invited to a candlelight night stroll full of love, chocolate, and stars. Bring friends and significant others whether you're a hopeless romantic or not! Students who will bring 3 or more friends will get an instant prize. Everyone else will participate in a lottery. Come and get some love!