Upcoming Events and Conferences

FALL 2013 FRENCH PLACEMENT EXAMS:

Computerized exams are available on a walk in basis in the Education Technology center (CIT) room 201 on the following dates. Please contact French_Studies@Brown.edu for additional information.
Tuesday, September 3rd 11-5PM
NOTE: 11:00-2:30 for first-year students and 2:00-5:00 for all other students
Wednesday, September 4th - Friday, September 6th 9:00-5:00

 

 


Past Events

Friday, Saturday, April 5-6, 2013:

The Department of French Studies presents/ The Julien Sevaux Conference Fund:
Impatiences du Concept- Impatient Concepts
8 AMM, Rochambeau House Music Room, 84 Prospect Street

Friday-Saturday, March 12-13, 2013:

Equinoxes, 21rst Annual Graduate Conference

Friday, March 15, 2013:

The Departments of French Studies, Comparative Literature, the Woods and Colver lectursgips and the French Cultural Service presents:
Diderot's Time: Changing the Enlightment
10 aM, Rochambeau House Music Room, 84 Prospect Street (reception to follow)

 

Providence French Film Festival Thursday, February 21 - Sunday, March 3, 2013:

poster
http://www.brown.edu/Project/French_Film_Festival/
Cable Car Cinema, 204 south main street
providence, rhode island

 

Tuesday, February 5, 2013:

The Department of French

The Department of French Studies presents:
Tracy McNulty "The New Man’s Fetish." (Lecture presented in English)
5:30PM, Rochambeau House Music Room, 84 Prospect Street (reception to follow)

Wednesday, December 12, 2012:

The Department of French Studies presents:
Jonathan Strauss "From Erotics to Ethics: Phantasmatic Remainders in Lacan, Blanchot, and Kristeva." (Lecture presented in English)
5:30PM, Rochambeau House Music Room, 84 Prospect Street (reception to follow)

Monday, November 12, 2012:

The Department of French Studies presents:
Ourida Mostefai on Monday, November 12th entitled  "Polemics and Celebrity in the Enlightenment: The Paradoxes of Rousseau's Reception." (Lecture presented in English)
5:30PM, Rochambeau House Music Room, 84 Prospect Street (reception to follow)

 

April 20-21, 2012:

The Department of French Studies presents:
EQUINOXES 2012 "Transgression (s)"
Keynote Speaker: Sylvaine Guyot (Harvard University) "Magnetic Bodies: A New Approach to French Classical Tradgedy" >>More info

The latest issue of EQUINOXES, a graduate journal of French and Francophone Studies is available. For more information on upcoming conferences, please consult the Equinoxes homepage.

April 10, 2012:

The Department of French Studies presents:
Marie Darrieussecq on Tuesday, April 10th entitled  "Marie Darrieussecq, techniques, rêves et influences dans le travail d'une écrivaine aujourd'hui en France" (Lecture presented in French)
5:30PM, Rochambeau House Music Room, 84 Prospect Street (reception to follow).

February 22 - March 4, 2012:


The 2011 French Film Festival presented by Brown University at the Cable Car Cinema >>More Info

Sponsored by Brown University’s Department of French Studies • Department of Hispanic Studies • Department of Modern Culture and Media • Malcolm S. Forbes Center for Culture and Media Studies • Sevaux Family Film and Lecture Endowment

Providence French Film Festival 2012

 

 

 

Wednesday, December 7, 2011, 5:30:

New Approaches to French Studies Our second lecture : "Michel Foucault and the Real History of Sex in the French Renaissance" Presented by D avid LaGuardia Wednesday, December 7th at 5:30PM Rochambeau House Music Room, 84 Prospect Street, Providence, Rhode Island A reception will follow. For more information please contact the Department of French Studies.

Wednesday, October 26, 2011, 5:30:

New Approaches to French Studies
Our first lecture : "Slavery in Eighteenth-Century French Culture: Reading between Disciplines and Discourses" Presented by Madeleine Dobie
Wednesday, October 26th at 5:30PM
Rochambeau House Music Room
84 Prospect Street, Providence, Rhode Island
A reception will follow.
For more information please contact the Department of French Studies.

 

Tuesday, September 6, 2011- Friday, September 9, 2011:

Placement exams in French will be offered:
Tuesday, September 6, 2011 from 12-4:00 PM
Wednesday, September 7 - Friday, September 9, 2011 from 9-4:00 PM.
No exams will be started after 4:00PM.
Computerized tests are given on a walk-in basis in the Education Technology Center (ClT) room 269. For more information please contact the Department of French Studies or the Education Technology Center

Summer 2011 Course Announcement:

FREN 0500: Writing & Speaking French I
A four-skill language course that stresses oral interaction in class. Thematic units will focus on songs, poems, a short novel (E-E Schmitt), two graphic novels (Sattouf, Larcenet), films and a detective novel by Fred Vargas. Activities include a creative project using Comic Life, and a systematic grammar review. Prerequisite: FREN 0400, FREN 0200 with written permission, or placement. Instructor permission required.
Questions should be directed to Joshua Blaylock

Friday & Saturday, April 15 - 16, 2011:

The Department of French Studies presents:
EQUINOXES 2011
Keynote Speaker: Julia Douthwaite (University of Notre Dame) "From the Wild Girl of Champagne to the French Frankenstein: The Discovery of Missing Links in European Literature, Anthropology, and Political Thought, 1731-1862" >>More Info

 

February 24 - March 6, 2010:

The 2011 French Film Festival presented by Brown University at the Cable Car Cinema >>More Info
Sponsored by Brown University’s Department of French Studies, Department of Modern Culture and Media, Department of Judaic Studies, Cogut Center for the Humanities, Malcolm S. Forbes Center for Culture and Media Studies, and the Sevaux Family Film and Lecture Endowment.

 

Tuesday, October 28, 2010, 5:30 - 7:30pm:

"Historical and Literary Approaches to the 'Final Solution': Saul Friedländer and Jonathan Littell"
305 Pembroke Hall
Dominick LaCapra, Bryce and Edith M. Bowmar Professor in Humanistic Studies from Cornell University, will offer the Colver Lecture, as part of the "Violence, Language and Ethics" Lecture Series organized by the Graduate Colloquium of Comparative Literature. Co-Sponsored by: Comparative Literature, the Cogut Center for the Humanities, International Affairs, Pembroke Center, French Studies, German Studies, History, Italian Studies and the Dean's Lectureship Fund.

Wednesday, October 20, 2010:

The Department of French Studies presents:
Catherine Cusset "Ecrire, Pourquoi" - in French.
5:30PM, Rochambeau House Music Room (reception to follow).

Tuesday, October 5, 2010:

Translating The Second Sex: A panel with Constance Borde & Sheila Malovany-Chevallier
Crystal Room, Alumnae Hall 6:00pm
Sponsored by the Departments of Comparative Literature, English, French Studies, Modern Culture & Media, the Cogut Center for the Humanities, and the Pembroke Center.

Wednesday, September 1 - Friday, September 3, 2010: Placement exams in French and Spanish will be given in CIT201, Wednesday, September 1st- Friday, September 3rd, 9AM to 5PM. No exams will be started after 5:00PM.

April 16-17, 2010:

The Department of French Studies presents:
EQUINOXES 2010
Keynote Speaker: Christopher L. Miller (Yale University) "The Revised Birth of Negritude: Communist Revolution and "the Immanent Negro" in 1935" >>More info

Wednesday, April 14 & Thursday, April 15, 2010: Placement exams in French and Spanish will be given in CIT201, Wednesday, April 14 and Thursday, April 15, 9am to 5pm. No reservations are necessary. No exams will be started after 5:00pm. 

>>More Info

March 23, 2010:

The Department of French Studies presents:
Salim Bachi "A la recherche d'Ulysse"
5:30PM, Rochambeau House Music Room (reception to follow)

February 25 - March 7, 2010:

The 2010 French Film Festival presented by Brown University at the Cable Car Cinema >>More Info
Sponsored by Brown University’s Department of French Studies, Department of Modern Culture and Media, Malcolm S. Forbes Center for Culture and Media Studies, and the Sevaux Family Film and Lecture Endowment.

February 15, 2010: 

The Department of French Studies and the Andrew Mellon Foundation Grant for Graduate Students present: Kristin Ross "Democracy for Sale" 5:30PM, Rochambeau House Music Room (reception to follow)

Monday, November 16, 2009:

The Department of French Studies and the Andrew Mellon Foundation Grant for Graduate Students present:
Marina Van Zuylen "Dissociative Disorders: Le Rouge et le noir and the resistence to empathy"
5:30PM, Rochambeau House Music Room (reception to follow)

Thursday, November 5, 2009:

Renaissance and Early Modern Studies present:
Michael Randall "The shipwreck of the Virgin: Molinet's remake of the Ghent Rebellion of 1477"
5:30PM, Rochambeau Houese Music Room

Thursday, October 15, 2009:

The Graduate Forum of the Department of French Studies Brown University De l'art de renverser un verre à celui d'étaler la tache: La maladresse chez Rousseau presented by Pauline de Tholozany, Doctoral Candidate, 5:00 p.m., Rochambeau House Library, 84 Prospect Street.
The graduate students of the Department of French Studies cordially invite interested graduate students and professors to attend this presentation and discussion of current work in our department. Refreshments will be served.

Friday, December 5th, 2008:

The Department of French Studies & The Program in Renaissance and Early Modern Studies present: Anne Vila, "Fashioning Melancholy in Late Eighteenth-Century France: The Cases of Rousseau and Staël", 5:30PM in the Rochambeau House Music Room, 84 Prospect Street, Providence, RI 02893

  • For more information on any of the planned events or have your events announced, please contact French_Studies@brown.edu