"Apollinaire, Amour and Armistice, 1918-2018."

Keynote speaker is Lionel Cuillé Jane and Bruce Robert Chair of French and Francophone Studies and Director of the Centre francophone, Webster University

The Department of Romance Languages and Literatures invites you to a colloquium and library exhibit commemorating the hundredth anniversary of the death of pioneering poet and art critic Guillaume Apollinaire (1880-1918). The centerpiece of the exhibit is a set of letters to Apollinaire written by Louise de Coligny-Châtillon, the dedicatee of Apollinaire’s Poèmes à Lou, and held in Washington University Libraries’ Special Collections. The accompanying colloquium will contextualize these letters within a broader discussion of poetic form, the Great War, and Apollinaire’s lasting artistic legacy.

3:00-4:15

Graduate Roundtable “Apollinaire's Legacies: Modernist Poetics and Avant-Gardes” featuring Keenan Burton (French), Olivia Lott (Spanish), Matthew Thompson (English), and Kyle Young (French)

4:15-4:45

Reception and viewing of exhibit “Apollinaire, Amour and Armistice, 1918-2018”

4:45-5:45

Keynote Address: “Apollinaire and the ‘Wonder of War’ (1913-1916): Love and the Gun of 75,” Lionel Cuillé, Jane and Bruce Robert Chair in French and Francophone Studies and Director of the Centre francophone, Webster University