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)
