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"Montaigne and Proust: Literature as Theory," a colloquium organized by Prof. Lawrence Kritzman, Pat and John Rosenwald Research Professor in the Arts and Sciences, will take place on Wednesday, October 31, 2018 in Haldeman 041. The colloquium, which is comprised of an introduction by Prof. Kritzman followed by five presentations, will begin at 3:30 p.m. and is open to the public. All presentations will be in English.
Afternoon:
3:45 Introduction - Lawrence...
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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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"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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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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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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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.
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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,” 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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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 0283:30-6:00
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Self-portraiture and paradox in Montaigne. Richard Scholar, Oriel College, Oxford University...