Past Events
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Grigsby Lecture: "Paris Past and Present"
Portuguese Open House
Olá! Have you ever wanted to learn Portuguese? Consider stopping by our virtual open house this coming Monday, March 8th!
Francophone Week Le Forum de l’Emploi Francophone / a Francophone online job fair
Francophone Week Graduate lightning talks
Moderated by Prof. Julie Singer, Washington University in St. Louis
Francophone Week 2021- Film screening of Atlantique
Join us for a film viewing party of Atlantique followed by Q&A with Professor Imane Tehrmina, Cornell University.
Hiding in Plain Sight: Black Women the Law and the Making of a White Argentine Republic
Professor Erika Denise Edwards, University of North Carolina-Charlotte
Francophone Week 2021 Poetry reading with Baba Badji
Baba Badji is a Senegalese-American poet, translator, researcher, a Chancellor's Fellow, and PhD candidate in Comparative Literature and a Graduate Certificate in Translation Studies at Washington University in St. Louis.
Work-in-Progress: Graduate Student Colloquium
Three RLL graduate students present their work in progress.
Mother Goose and the Chinese General: A Qing Diplomat at the French Society of Popular Traditions in Fin-de-Siècle Paris
Ke Ren (任可) is Assistant Professor of History at the College of the Holy Cross. He specializes in the cultural and intellectual history of modern China, focusing on Sino-Western exchanges and transnational movements.
Families of words: Good translations are all alike; every bad translation is bad in its own way
Antony Shugaar is an author and translator. He is the recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship for the translation of Sandokan, by Nanni Balestrini,and a second for Francesco Piccolo's 2014 Strega Prize winning novel.
The Frontlines of Peace, a conversation with Séverine Autesserre
"Reconceiving the American Revolution" Eighteenth-Century Interdisciplinary Salon
Janet Polasky, Presidential Professor of History at the University of New Hampshire and author of Revolutions Without Borders: The Call to Liberty in the Atlantic World (Yale, 2015), and Alan Taylor, Thomas Jefferson Foundation Chair of History at the University of Virginia and author of American Revolutions: A Continental History, 1750-1804 (Norton, 2016) will discuss how their reconceptions of the Revolution might provide a vantage from which to interpret more recent historical events.
The videogames ecosystem in Quebec
A discussion on the video game industry in Quebec (programs, internships, scholarships...) and the video game culture/ Esport on campus in St. Louis sponsored by French ConneXions.
Teaching French for Health and Humanitarian Affairs Workshop
Register for Teaching French for Health and Humanitarian Services
An Introduction to the Non-Academic Job Search
Michelle DeLair, a specialist in Graduate and Postdoctoral Professional Development at the Career Center, is holding a workshop for RLL Graduate Students: An Introduction to the Non-Academic Job Search.
RLL Fall Semester Meetings, 8/26-8/27
RLL Fall Semester Meetings/Language Coordinator Sessions for Fall 2021
Understanding Islamophobia with Amer F. Ahmed
Sponsored by the Center for Diversity and Inclusion and the Academy for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion
Supporting graduate students seeking diverse careers
Workshop for RLL graduate faculty on "Supporting graduate students seeking diverse careers"
Foreign Language Learning Colloquium Speaker Series: Kim Potowski, Professor of Hispanic Linguistics from the University of Illinois at Chicago.
Foreign Language Learning Colloquium Speaker Series: Kim Potowski, Professor of Hispanic Linguistics from the University of Illinois at Chicago. Lecture on Thursday, Oct. 21st at 4pm at Wash U and Workshop at SLU on Friday, Oct. 22nd.