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Fall 2020 Courses

FALL 2020 COURSES **All classes (except independent studies) are taught REMOTELY with synchronous components.**
Italian Cafe is BACK FOR THE SUMMER!

Join us every other Thursday starting 7/16 for Italian conversation! Please contact the department for the Zoom information.
Dr. Damiano Benvegnù Awarded CompX Grant by Neukom Institute for Computation Science!

Dr. Benvegnù's project focuses on Smith Pond Shaker Forest.
*This Summer* French 10.19 and French 40.04

Looking for an upper level French class? Check out our offerings this summer!
*This Summer* ITAL 37.09: Italian Ecologies (in English!)

Taught in English, this course focuses on the question: What can Italy teach us about our relationships with the nonhuman world in the current socio-environmental crisis?
SUMMER 2020 CLASSES

Check out our Summer 2020 offerings in French & Italian!
When Not in Rome: What we learned so far about learning remotely

On February 24, my Rome LSA+ students and I gathered at my house for dinner
When (not) in Rome: How students will continue to learn and speak Italian on the Rome LSA+

Students on the Winter Rome LSA+ were informed last Wednesday that they should leave Rome earlier as the program would be terminated "out of an abundance of caution" in the face of the coronavirus outbreak in Italy.
Speed Stories with Professor Beasley

Please join us for the last Speed Stories of the term with Professor Faith Beasley of the French department!
Panel Discussion: The Rise of Neofacism 1/29

Please join us for this panel discussion with respondents from France, Austria, and Italy.

Recent Publications

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The Green and the Black: Ecological Awareness and the Darkness of Noir

Lucas Hollister

PMLA
Versailles Meets the Taj Mahal: François Bernier, Marguerite de la Sablière, and Enlightening Conversations in 17th-Century Fra

Faith E. Beasley

University of Toronto Press
Pacifist Invasions

yasser elhariry / ياسر الحريري

Liverpool University Press
Poetry, Politics, and the Body in Rimbaud: Lyrical Material

Robert St. Clair

Oxford University Press

Events

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Sep 01

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Sep 14

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Nov 25

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Fall Term 2020
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