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Open House Thursday, Sept 12 @ 4pm

The French & Italian Department is welcoming undergraduate students for an open house on Thursday, September 12 at 4pm in Dartmouth Hall 212 &a
Upcoming Book Release: Revisioning French Culture

Revisioning French Culture is a collection of essays honoring Lawrence D. Kritzman, whose writing and editorial work in French studies inspired the wide-ranging themes examined in the book.
Institute of French Cultural Studies 2019 Summer Institute June 24-July 23

Summer 2019 Institute Opening Lecture on June 24 at 8:15pm: "L’émotion, interrogations historiques et culturelles."
Learning Italian by Making Movies and Mapping Landmarks

Tania Convertini’s students find new ways to document their study abroad.
Prof. Graziella Parati presented "Stories of Migration and Citizenship in Rome"

Prof. Graziella Parati stimulated interest and discussion among Italian students who attended her October 25 lecture, "Stories of Migration and Citizenship in Rome." After the engaging talk and the many insightful follow-up questions, the conversation will continue in the classrooms.
Montaigne and Proust: Literature as Theory

"Montaigne and Proust: Literature as Theory," a colloquium organized by Prof. Lawrence Kritzman, will take place on Wednesday, October 31, 2018 in Haldeman 041. The colloquium begins at 3:30 p.m., is open to the public, and all presentations will be in English.
Julia Kristeva essays edited by Professor Lawrence Kritzman

Professor Lawrence Kritzman has edited Passions of Our Time, a new collection of essays by the major French intellectual Julia Kristeva.
Graziella Parati Speaks in Defense of the Liberal Arts

"The creation of knowledge is not made by studying one particular thing, but by studying, across the board, as many things as possible," says Professor Graziella Parati in an interview that aired on NPR on August 14.
Professor Kritzman - Commander of the Order of Academic Palms

Professor Lawrence Kritzman has received the title of Commander of the Order of Academic Palms (L’Ordre des palmes Académiques) from the French government.
Intersectionality in the Age of Populism

Intersectionality in the Age of Populism, a symposium in three panels on Friday, April 20, presenting Montgomery Fellow Didier Eribon, Roth Distinguished Visiting Scholar Nancy Fraser, and Montgomery Fellow Édouard Louis.

Recent Publications

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“Réseaux mondains et création littéraire”

Faith E. Beasley

Lendemains: Etudes comparées sur la France, volume titled “Du genre de la littérature”
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

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Oct 10

10:00AM
Symposium on the Paris Commune.
Hopkins Faculty Lounge and Carpenter 013

A one-day, pluridisciplinary symposium on the Paris Commune on Thursday, October 10, 2019. Open to campus and the public.
Nov 05

4:30PM
Off-Campus Programs Fair
Grand Ballroom, Hanover Inn Dartmouth

Come explore your off-campus study options for academic credit.
Nov 27

12:00AM
Fall Term 2019
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Jan 06

12:00AM
Winter Term 2020
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Mar 13

12:00AM
Winter Term 2020
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Open House Thursday, Sept 12 @ 4pm

Upcoming Book Release: Revisioning French Culture

Institute of French Cultural Studies 2019 Summer Institute June 24-July 23

Learning Italian by Making Movies and Mapping Landmarks

Prof. Graziella Parati presented "Stories of Migration and Citizenship in Rome"

Montaigne and Proust: Literature as Theory

Julia Kristeva essays edited by Professor Lawrence Kritzman

Graziella Parati Speaks in Defense of the Liberal Arts

Professor Kritzman - Commander of the Order of Academic Palms

Intersectionality in the Age of Populism

Recent Publications

“Réseaux mondains et création littéraire”

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

Pacifist Invasions

Poetry, Politics, and the Body in Rimbaud: Lyrical Material

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