Events

The Francophone, Italian & Germanic Studies Department is happy to sponsor a conversation between the Kwazman Vwa collective (co-founded by Corine Labridy, FIGS Penn), and Alexis Pauline Gumbs, author of Survival Is a Promise: The Eternal Life of Audre Lorde. Register at kwazmanvwa.com.

Thinking about studying abroad in a French-speaking country, but not sure where to start? Get your questions answered at the information session!

Andrew Watts will discuss two adaptations of Balzac’s La Peau de chagrin: The Magic Skin (1915, dir. Ridgely), a silent film produced in the United States, and La Peau de chagrin (2010, dir. Berliner), a television film co-produced in France and Belgium. Watts draws on eco-translatology – a concept inspired by the Darwinian theory of natural selection and first elaborated by Hu Gengshen – to explore how artistic adaptation can be viewed as a process of evolutionary change, and to reflect on why specific texts are selected for adaptation, and what factors determine their ‘fitness’ for reinvention.

Dr Andrew Watts... Read More

The Fall 2024 Bowman Lecture will be given by the award-winning Martinican author, playwright, scenarist, and philosopher Patrick Chamoiseau. Chamoiseau received the Prix Goncourt, France’s most prestigious literary prize, in 1992 for his expansive novel Texaco. Since then, he has been an active theoretician of Francophone literatures, as well as an advocate for human rights. His most recent essays include Manifestes, written with Edouard Glissant, Baudelaire Jazz, and Faire Pays. As always, the Bowman Lecture will be given in French. All are welcome.