Baci Rubati/Stolen Kisses Homosexual Love in Fascist Italy. A documentary
Presentation and Q&A with Italian director and historian Gabriella Romano (in person or via Zoom)
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Working at BioMérieux : How to be a game changer in the fight against antimicrobial resistance
Book Celebration for Anca Parvulescu & Manuela Boatca's "Creolizing the Modern: Transylvania Across Empires"
Please join us for a book celebration of Anca Parvulescu’s Creolizing the Modern: Transylvania Across Empires (cowritten with Manuela Boatcă), followed by a discussion.
Colloquium in Honor of Pascal Ifri: Narrative Space
French Section Colloquium in Honor of Pascal Ifri. Open to all RLL members and invited guests.
Eighteenth-Century Interdisciplinary Salon Event
Grigsby Lecture
Francophone Week
Celebrated yearly in March, the International Francophonie Day (Journée Internationale de la Francophonie) is a worldwide celebration that reunites francophones to celebrate French language and francophone cultures. This year, we reflect on the role of time in shaping the francophonie ; the French language has changed and continues to change to reflect the enormous diversity of francophone communities in all continents around the globe using the language for everything from everyday communication to writing scientific reports and groundbreaking literature.
Retirement Celebration for Prof. Joe Schraibman
Please RSVP by March 23
Francis Kéré talk via Zoom
Paul and Silvia Rava Memorial Lecture in Italian Studies: "Gendered Experiences of the Holocaust in Italy: Space, Place, and Testimonies"
Alberto Giordano, Professor in the Department of Geography at Texas State University
MEDFRAN SPEAKER SERIES with Dr. Julie Hernandez, Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine
"Can community-based service delivery mitigate failing health systems in fragile environments?
Lessons from family planning programs in the DR Congo"
Lena Blou: Performing the political
Lena Blou will share her dance practice by evoking the practical, aesthetic, historical, anthropological and philosophical dimensions of Gwoka, Techni’ka and Bigidi and discusses with our students what these concepts teach us about how to approach uncertainty, unpredictability, imbalances, in contemporary society.
Reception for Romance Languages and Literatures 2023 Graduates
By Invitation Only
Midwest Museum Talks | Monet/Mitchell: Painting the French Landscape
Midwest Museum Talks is a new program of online curatorial talks organized by the Villa Albertine Chicago in collaboration with the museums in the Midwest. In this first installment, join for a virtual discussion with Simon Kelly, Curator and Head of Department of Modern and Contemporary Art at the Saint Louis Art Museum and Marianne Mathieu, curator and art historian.
Library Instruction and Information Sessions
Library instruction and information sessions are open to all Romance Language faculty and Graduate students.
Les déterminants non-médicaux de la santé au Sénégal
"Asmarina" An Afro-Italian Community and its Post-Colonial Legacy
¿Quién soy? Y ¿Quiénes somos?: A Panel Discussion with Latine Poets
The Center for the Study of Race, Ethnicity & Equity has invited several poets to Washington University in St. Louis for a panel discussion in celebration of Latine Heritage month. Join us for a discussion about poetic craft and issues of race and identity. Moderated by Tila Neguse, Associate Director and Gicela Medina, Hispanic Studies PhD Student.
Welcome Reception with 2023 Massie Visiting Professor Dr. Roque Salas Rivera
Graduate Seminar (1 of 2)
Roundtable discussion of Tabea Alexa Linhard’s "Unexpected Routes: Refugee Writers in Mexico"
Poetry reading from the trans epic "Algarabía" (Graywolf Press, 2025)
The Department of Romance Languages and Literatures present the 2023 Massie Visiting Professor, Dr. Roque Salas Rivera
Public Lecture "Condemned to Contemporaneity: Trans Poetics in Puerto Rico"
Graduate Seminar 2 of 2
Poetry reading from the trans epic "Algarabía" (Graywolf Press, 2025) In partnership with Changeling Queer Series
Conference and round-table with author Mohamed Mbougar Sarr, Goncourt Prize 2021
Book Talk with Elizabeth Bernhardt
The Ginger Marcus Foreign Language Learning Speaker Series at Washington University presents Dr. Claudia R. Fernández
Making it happen: Achieving true communication in the target language through Task-Based Language Teaching
The Ginger Marcus Foreign Language Learning Speaker Series at Washington University presents Dr. Claudia R. Fernández
Football: Perceptions et pratiques en France et aux Etats-Unis
Vous êtes invités pour une discussion sur la culture du foot en France et aux Etats-Unis, avec un joueur et un entraîneur professionnel français, qui vit à St. Louis : Wilfried Nyamsi
Designing an Inclusive Course Syllabus
Please join us for a roundtable discussion of Svobodny’s "Nijinsky’s Feeling Mind. The Dancer Writes, The Writer Dances" (2023)
Emergency Medicine in France
Interested in emergency medicine in France? Expand your professional network!
The French Connexions Center of Excellence at Washington University invites you: EMERGENCY MEDICINE IN FRANCE
Tuesday, November 21, 2023, noon Chicago Central Time/ 12:00PM Central Times: conversation in French with Dr Julie Bacqué, MD: La médecine d'urgence en France, in conversation with Caline Mattar, MD.
"How to Write the History of the American West from a French Perspective"
Corridor Creole Research Initiative (CCRI) at Washington University in St. Louis / French Connexions Center of Excellence
Soazig Villerbu, Professor of Contemporary History at the University of Limoges.
Her research focuses on the American West (US and Canada), the village of Ste Geneviève (near St Louis) and the history of French migration to the USA in the 19th century.
Rita Kuehler's Retirement Celebration!
Join the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures as we celebrate long-time Office Manager Rita Kuehler!
Conversation with Estelle-Sarah Bulle and Sylvain Duffard
The Kwazman Vwa team will be welcoming novelist Estelle-Sarah Bulle and photographer Sylvain Duffard to discuss their haunting collaboration in "Guadeloupe, paysages intranquilles" (Éditions Long Cours, 2022).
