October 2018
The Medieval Model: Boccacio’s “Decameron” Between History and Actuality
Speaker: Professor Marco Veglia, University of Bologna Abstract: In a world where all is "liquidity" and contingency, we should learn a new approach to reality from the literary perspective of Boccaccio. He was, as Dante…
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September 2019
Noëlle Benhamou, “Maupassant, l’homme qui aimait les femmes?”
Noëlle Benhamou, Associate Professor, University of Picardie Jules Verne Co-sponsored by the Center for German and European Studies. This event is made possible with generous support from Jason Yackee, the University of Wisconsin Law School,…
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Samuele Pardini, Elon University
Samuele Pardini, Associate Professor of Italian, Elon University Samuele F. S. Pardini holds a Laurea degree in Letters and Philosophy from the Universita' degli Studi di Pisa, Italy, and an M.A. and a Ph.D in…
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19th-Century French Poetry with Catherine Witt and Nicolas Valazza
Co-sponsored by the Center for German and European Studies, the Department of French and Italian, the Department of Comparative Literature and Folklore, and the Anonymous Fund of the College of Letters and Sciences. Catherine Witt,…
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Tristan Vigliano, “How to Study Humanism and the Representation of Islam? A Dispatch from the Fronts of Today’s French ‘Culture Wars'”
Sponsored by the Jay C. and Ruth Halls Visiting Scholar Fund, the Department of French and Italian, the Center for Early Modern Studies, the Religious Studies Program, the Middle East Studies Program, the Early Modern…
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“The French 2022 Elections and the Transformations of French Politics,” Presentation by Sylvie Daviet, Introduced by French Consul General Yannick Tagand
Co-sponsored by the Center for European Studies, the Jean Monnet European Union Center of Excellence for Comparative Populism and the Center for Interdisciplinary French Studies. Sylvie Daviet is a full Professor of Geography at…
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“Geopoetics at the crossroads of literature, geography and botany,” Rachel Bouvet
Co-sponsored by European Studies, the Department of French and Italian, the Anonymous Fund, and the French House About the talk: Geopoetics opens a transdisciplinary field at the intersection of literature, arts, earth sciences and human…
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“What is Zeitgeist Literature?,” Christy Wampole
Co-sponsored by the Center for European Studies, the Department of French and Italian, and the French House. Christy Wampole is a professor of French at Princeton University. Her specific areas of focus are nineteenth-, twentieth-, and twenty-first-century French,…
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