Please join Profs. Adrienne Angelo, Dawn Cornelio, Guedeyi Hayatou, and Eilene Hoft-March for our roundtable on contemporary French and Francophone women writers. On Friday, March 12th, they will each provide five minute presentations, followed by a discussion and Q&A with the audience.

You may register here: https://bit.ly/2NHR99g

See attached flyer for more information: Flyer- Quel après.pdf

The (virtual) 20th & 21st Century French and Francophone Studies International Colloquium warmly invites you to join the conversation around Fatoumata Ngom's Le silence du totem on Friday, March 12, from 1:00-2:15pm EST.

This panel will be in an interactive "reading group" format with discussants Jennifer Boum Make, Johanna Montlouis-Gabriel, and Abigail Celis leading the conversation and inviting questions and responses from audience members as well. The conversation will be primarily in French and you do not need to have read the novel to join in.

Register here to receive the Zoom login information.

See attached flyer : 20st-21st FFsc.pdf

Professor Carole Edwards is pleased to announce the upcoming publication of Laurent Gaudé Conteur, dramaturge, écrivain-monde.

This essay studies in-depth a selection of works by Laurent Gaudé through precise and varied theoretical approaches (postcolonial, novel, mythological and ecocritical) that apprehend Gaudean poetics in an imaginary redefined in the 21st century.

Attached are the publicity and the table of contents.

CesMS01_publicite.pdf

CesMS01_tabmat.pdf

"Resistance & Resilience: Envisioning the Future,"

Virtual colloquium organized by the graduate student committee from the University of Maryland's School of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures.

To be held on March 5-6, 2021 via Zoom. 

Dr. Nicole Seymour, Associate Professor at California State University, Fullerton and author of Bad Environmentalism: Irony and Irreverence in the Ecological Age (University of Minnesota Press, 2018) will provide the keynote address, titled "Queer Food Literacies."

The conference is free and open to all, though you must register to receive the Zoom link (see below). A flyer with additional details is attached here, and the complete program may be found on our website: https://resistance-and-resilience-umdsllc.weebly.com/ 

Conference registration: https://umd.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJcrc-yuqjwpE9CzzU5WEf-mcvf_di6tG4yi

Suzanne Césaire. Archéologie littéraire et artistique d'une mémoire empêchéecame out on December 17, 2020.

Available at Karthala and in various bookstores in Paris.

Fabula's literary theory workshop is publishing an article devoted to feminist collages, an object through which its author shows the extent of the changes underway in the conditions of literary production and the production of literary frontiers: 

https://www.fabula.org/atelier.php?Collages_feministes

CollageFeministe_Saint-Amand2021.pdf

You are invited to discover the Annie Ernaux online museum.

This hybrid project is part of a somewhat particular curation and photo-textual practice. 

Enjoy your visit! 

https://www.annie-ernaux-emuseum.com/

Hanétha Vété-Congolo. Nous sommes Martiniquaises. Pawòl en bouches de femmes châtaignes (Une pensée existentialiste noire sur la question des femmes)  

L’Harmattan, coll. Genres, écoles et sociétés, 372p. ISBN : 978-2-343-20970-8 

https://www.editions-harmattan.fr/index.asp?navig=catalogue&obj=livre&no=67574  

This is a call for films to the 4th African Movie Festival in Manitoba
scheduled for May 14 to 16, 2021.

You can submit your film at https://www.am-fm.ca/submit-film/. The
deadline for submission is April 16, 2021.

The following is an invitation to attend a talk Michèle Schaal will be giving for the “France and the World” seminar at Harvard’s Mahindra Humanities Center on February 22, 5 pm ET. This talk is part of a series being organized this spring by Louis-Thomas Leguerrier, a FRQSC (Fonds de Recherche du Québec – Société et Culture) postdoc, on radical utopian subjectivities, and we are very happy that Michèle will be kicking things off with a talk on Virginie Despentes’

Teen Spirit.

 

For more info and to register, please visit https://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/event/punk-will-destroy-heteropatriarchal-fatherhood.