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  • 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, professor emerita of linguistics at the Université de Paris VII.  Professor Kritzman is the the Pat and John Rosenwald Research Professor in the Arts and Sciences and a professor of French and comparative literature and has received the title of Commander of the Order of Academic Palms (L’Ordre des palmes Académiques) from the French government. ...

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  • Graziella Parati Speaks in Defense of the Liberal Arts

    "The humanities were dominating the curriculum in the past. Scientists were coming to science from the humanities," Professor Graziella Parati says in an interview on NPR . "The creation of knowledge is not made by studying one particular thing, but by studying, across the board, as many things as possible." The interview with Professor Parati, Director of the Leslie Center for the Humanities, Paganucci Chair of Italian Studies and Professor of Italian, Comparative Literature and Women and...

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  • Professor Kritzman - Commander of the Order of Academic Palms

    Lawrence Kritzman, the Pat and John Rosenwald Research Professor in the Arts and Sciences and a professor of French and comparative literature, has received the title of Commander of the Order of Academic Palms (L’Ordre des palmes Académiques) from the French government—the highest honor awarded to an academic in France, and one that is only rarely given to scholars who are not French nationals....

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  • Intersectionality in the Age of Populism

    The Montgomery Fellows Program at Dartmouth, in cooperation with the Department of French and Italian, presents Intersectionality in the Age of Populism.  Presenters will include Montgomery Fellows Didier Eribon and Édouard Louis, and Roth Distiniguished Visiting Scholar Nancy Fraser will present in three panels, titled respectively "The Limits of Social Movements: Class, Age and Politics", "...

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  • Lawrence D. Kritzman named Pat and John Rosenwald Research Professor

    Last June, Lawrence D. Kritzman, Professor of French and Comparative Literature, was named by the dean of faculty to the Pat and John Rosenwald Resarch Professor in the Arts and Sciences.

  • Sexagon: Muslims, France, and the Sexualization of National Culture.

    A talk by Mehammed Amadeus Mack, Assistant Professor of French Studies, Smith College

    Tuesday, February 20, 2018
    4:45 pm-6:00 pm
    Haldeman 41 (Kreindler Conference Hall)

    In contemporary France, particularly in the banlieues of Paris, the figure of the young, virile, hypermasculine Muslim looms large. So large, in fact, it often supersedes liberal secular society’s understanding of gender and sexuality altogether. Engaging the nexus of race, gender, nation, and...

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  • "TRE: Renaissance Cities," Curated by Students of Italian

    “TRE: Renaissance Cities,” an exhibit at Rauner Special Collections Library curated by students of Italian, is on display in the Class of 1965 Galleries through February 23rd, 2018. The exhibit examines a wide range of innovative modes of expression in three Italian cities of the Renaissance: Venice, Florence, and Rome. Students Tony DiPadova ’19, Camila R. Feltrin ’20, Daniela Jerez ’18, Madeline Killen ’18, Nicolle Salazar ’19, and Evan Strouss GR created the exhibit as their final project...

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  • Selfies: autobiographie, autoportrait, autofiction

    The conference "Selfies: autobiographie, autoportrait, autofiction" analyzes how the self is written, visualized and constructed in texts. It examines how autobiography, self-portraiture and autofiction take shape over time. All lectures are free and open to the public. 

    Wednesday, October 25, 2017
    Silsby 028

    3:30-6:00
    Self-portraiture and paradox in Montaigne.      Richard Scholar, Oriel College, Oxford University...

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  • “Arguing around Toussaint”: The Black Jacobin in an Age of Revolutions

    Professor Charles Forsdick, James Barrow Professor of French at the University of Liverpool, will present a public lecture on Thursday, May 11, 2017 at 4:00 pm in Carson L01.  His talk draws on Édouard Glissant’s claim—in his Caribbean Discourse—of the need to ‘argue around Toussaint,’ and deploys this idea to explore past and present representations of the Haitian revolutionary. Reflecting on his recent...

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  • Dartmouth Collaboration with Chambre de Commerce et d’Industrie de Paris (CCIP)

    Dartmouth has entered a new collaboration with the Chambre de Commerce et d'Industrie de Paris (CCIP).  Dartmouth is officially accredited by the CCIP and Dartmouth students can take the DFP (Diplôme de Français Professionnel - Français des Affaires) exam on campus after completing French 15, Business French, which is offered by the Department of French and Italian in Spring term, taught by Professor Brigitte Mosenthal.

    The Diplôme de Français Professionnel B1 certifies the...

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