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Student-Faculty Forum Series

To see all of our activities for the current academic year, please refer to our Upcoming Events.

2008-2009

Apr 10 - Eric MacPhail: Os homini sublime dedit: Anthropology, Cosmology, and Misanthropy in Giordano Bruno and Michel de Montaigne
Mar 6 - Guillaume Ansart: Condorcet and the Birth of Social Choice
Nov 21 - Travis Hinkle: Crime, Punishment, and the Old French Fabliaux
Nov 17 - Marco Arnaudo: "Chance Images" in Early Modern Art
Sept 19 - Albert Valdman & Kevin Rottet: The Dictionary of Louisiana French: A Portrait of Cajun Lexicon

2007-2008

Feb 15 - Massimo Scalabrini: Naming the Comic Hero: Examples in Italian Renaissance Literature
Nov 30 - Federico Pacchioni: Studying Early Fellini in Indiana: A multifaceted case at the Lilly Library of Rare Books
Nov 16 - Olga Amarie: Perception et étude de la manifestation visuelle et sonore dans les textes de Georges Perec
Oct 26- Patrick Bray: Charting Utopia in Sand’s Nanon
Sep 28 - Bryan Donaldson: Near-native discourse competence: Evidence from French left-dislocations

2006-2007

Apr 5 - Kelly Sax: What's French Good for Anyway? Issues in French Language Program Management
Feb 16 - Rosemary Lloyd: The Crocodiles of Caen and the Mollusks of the Museum: Rhetoric, Scientce, and Power in Nineteenth-Century France
Dec 1 - Michèle Schaal: From Alterity to Hybridity: the Theatricality of Feminity in Contempory Francophone Novels
Nov 17 - Jacques Merceron: Le sacré à l’épreuve du rire: l’exemple du statut du corps dans quelques textes pieux et laïcs du Moyen Âge
Nov 3 - Oana Panäité: Les fins de la prose

2005-2006

Apr 14 - Caroline Beschea-Fache: On Métissage and Its Forms: Representation in Contemporary Literature in French
Mar 31 - Fabio Benincasa: Stairways to Nowhere: The Arsenical Dream of Mr. Frank Capra
Feb 10 - Beatrice Arduini: Saul and Saül: A comparison between Alfieri and Nadal
Nov 18 - Emanuel Mickel: Truthtelling and Satire in the Trial of Renard
Oct 28 - Anne-Jose Villeneuve: Une étude comparative de la nasalizsation des occlusives en français québécois et en picard du Vimeu
Oct 7 - Valerio Cappozzo: La struttura consequenziale dei sogni danteschi

2004-2005

Apr 15 - Edoardo Lèbano: Garibaldi and Lincoln: A Missed Opportunity
Mar 25 - Christopher Semk: The Maternal Mechanism: Cartesianism and Control of One's Body
Mar 4 - Gilbert Chaitin: Sand and the Politics of the Thesis Novel: Mademoiselle la Quintinie's Evil Empires
Feb 4 - Fabio Benincasa: Dark Rooms/Camerae Obscurae: A Voyage around Hotel Rooms
Dec 3 - Jérôme Brillaud: Miserabilis insania ou les plaisirs de la tragédie (pdf)
Nov 12 - Marco Pacioni & Stefano Gulizia: Fra impicci e pasticci. Lessico e forma-romanzo in Manzoni e Gadda (pdf)
Nov 5 - Jérôme Brillaud & Oana Panäité: Transitions: From graduate student to faculty member (pdf)

2003-2004

Mar 26 - Rebecca Wilkin: The Signs of Disillusionment: Marie de l'Incarnation in Colonial Quebec (pdf)
Nov 13 - Rosemary Lloyd: Reinventing Pegasus: Bicycles and the Fin-de-siècle Imagination
Oct 24 - Giovanni Spani: IDIOMA: Dialect coming from where there is no writing (work of poet Andrea Zanzotto)
Sept 26 - Albert Valdman, Kevin Rottet, Deborah Piston-Hatlen: À la découverte de la Louisiane par la parole

2002-2003

Mar 28 - Stefano Gulizia: Leon Battista Alberti's Apologi: Problems and Interpretations of a Humanist Text
Feb 21 - Eric MacPhail: Like a rock at sea: Language change and historical thought in the Renaissance
Dec 6 - Désirée Pries: Amélie Nothomb: Exploring the “Feminine Condition”
Nov 22 - Patrick Westhoff: Medieval Travel Literature: Texts and Contexts
Nov 8 - Kim Swanson: Acquisition versus suppression of phonological processes in the second language acquisition of French and English
Nov 1 - Rebecca Wilkin: Life after Death: The Figures in Posthumous Editions of Descartes' De l'homme
Oct 11 - Margaret Gray: Stolen Limelight: Display, Excess and the Feminine in Modern French and Francophone Narrative
Sept 20 - Guillaume Ansart: Reflexions dans un miroir: representations du Moi dans quelques romans du dix-huitième siècle (pdf)

Dept of French and Italian, Ballantine Hall 642, 1020 E Kirkwood Ave, Bloomington, IN 47405-7103
telephone: (812) 855-1952; fax: (812) 855-8877; email: Department of French & Italian

Last updated: 29-Oct-2009 Comments: Nancy Stoute