Previous Events in French & Italian
Weds Oct 28, 2009 - Le quattro giornate di Napoli dalla sceneggiatura allo schermo (pdf) - a lecture by Enrico Bernard, Italian playwright, essayist, film director, and translator, 7:00 pm in the College Arts & Humanities Institute, 1211 E. Atwater Avenue (Corner of Atwater & Ballantine Rd.)
Tues Oct 27, 2009 - Il romanzo e il dramma sono la stessa cosa? (pdf) - a lecture by Enrico Bernard, Italian playwright, essayist, film director, and translator, 6:00 pm in the College Arts & Humanities Institute, 1211 E. Atwater Avenue (Corner of Atwater & Ballantine Rd.)
Fri Oct 23, 2009 - The Revised Birth of Negritude: Communist Revolution and "the Immanent Negro" in 1935 (pdf) - a lecture by Professor Christopher Miller, Yale University, 3:30 pm in the College Arts & Humanities Institute, 1211 E. Atwater Avenue (Corner of Atwater & Ballantine Rd.)
Sept 24, 2009 - "Race" and the Republic (pdf), a lecture by Professor Alec Hargreaves, Florida State University. 5:30 pm in the Walnut Room, Indiana Memorial Union. Lecture in English. Followed by refreshments.
Apr 24, 2009 - Some Paradoxes of the Haitian Revolution: The Case of Pompée Valentin, "Baron" de Vastey (1781-1820) - a lecture by Doris Garraway, Northwestern University, at 3:30 in the Maple Room, Indiana Memorial Union.
Apr 18-19, 2009 - La Marcolfa (pdf) - the "Illustrissimi" Italian Players of the M435 Italian Theater Workshop present a one-act farce by Dario Fo. Both performances will be at 6:00 pm and will take place in Wilkie Hall Auditorium at 150 N. Rose Street (just north of 3rd Street). Admission is free.
Apr 15, 2009 - Neo-neorealismo? I fantasmi dei padri e il nuovo cinema italiano(pdf) - a lecture by Vito Zagarrio, Italian film director and professor at the University of Rome 3, at 7:00 pm, College Arts & Humanities Institute, 1211 E. Atwater Avenue
Apr 13, 2009 - Corpo di Stato: Il delitto Moro. Una generazione divisa. (Body of State: The Moro Killing, a Nation Torn Apart.) (pdf) – a presentation by Italian actor Marco Baliani at 6:30 in Alumni Hall, Indiana Memorial Union.
Apr 13, 2009 - Francophonie: Trash or Recycle? (pdf) – a Horizons of Knolwedge Lecture by Lydie Moudileno, University of Pennsylvania at 5:00 pm, College Arts & Humanities Institute, 1211 E. Atwater Ave.
Apr 10, 2009 - Os homini sublime dedit: Anthropology, Cosmology, and Misanthropy in Giordano Bruno and Michel de Montaigne - Eric MacPhail presents a talk in the Student-Faculty Forum Series at 2:30 in Ballantine Hall 144.
Apr 3, 2009 - Symposium on Teofilo Folengo (pdf) A Horizons of Knowledge symposium that will take place at the College Arts and Humanities Institute. CAHI is located at 1211 E. Atwater Avenue (corner of Ballantine and Atwater). Click on link for full schedule.
Apr 2, 2009 The Apocryphal Apostle Saint Martial of Limoges and the Uses and Abuses of Authority (pdf) - a Horizons of Knowledge Lecture by Molly Lynde-Recchia, Western Michigan University, at 5:30 in the Walnut Room, Indiana Memorial Union.
Mar 31, 2009 - Mi manda Picone - Circolo's last film showing of the semester.
Mar 27-28, 2009 - French & Italian Graduate Student Symposium (pdf), Click on link for full details.
Mar 26, 2009 - Pourquoi un dictionnaire décrivant le français en usage au Québec? (pdf) - a lecture by Pierre Martel, Université de Sherbrooke, Québec, at 5:30 in Ballantine Hall 244.
Mar 9, 2009 - The Roman de la Rose and the Myth of Orpheus (pdf) - a Horizons of Knowledge lecture by Sylvia Huot, Cambridge University, at 5:30 in the Maple Room, Indiana Memorial Union.
Mar 6, 2009 - Condorcet and the Birth of Social Choice Theory (pdf) - a lecture by Guillaume Ansart at 2:30 in Ballantine Hall 144. Part of the Department of French and Italian's Student-Faculty Forum Series.
Feb 25, 2009 - On Revenge (pdf) - a lecture by Éric Méchoulan at 5:30 in the Oak Room, Indiana Memorial Union. Part of the Gertrude Force Weathers lecture series.
Feb 23-26, 2009 - La Shoah. L'orrore da non dimenticare (pdf) - a film series to commemorate the Holocaust in Italy. Schedule is on the above pdf file.
Feb 20, 2009 - Language Contact and the Prosody-Syntax Interface in Frenchville French (pdf ) - a lecture by Barbara Bullock, Penn State University, at 4:00 in Ballantine Hall 304.
Feb 19, 2009 - Paolo Cherchi presents his book Verso la chiusura. Saggio sul "Canzoniere" di Petrarca (pdf) - at 6:15 at the College Arts & Humanities Institute, 1211 E. Atwater Ave.
Feb 9, 2009 - Aesthetics and Temporality At Port-Royal (pdf) - a lecture by Corinne Bayerl, University of Chicago, at 5:30 in the Maple Room, Indiana Memorial Union
Feb 6, 2009 - Stones and Bones: The Archeological Imaginary of Modern French Crime Fiction (pdf) - a lecture by Andrea Goulet, University of Pennsylvania, at 3:30 at the College of Arts & Humanities Institute, 1211 E. Atwater Ave.
Feb 4, 2009 - “Vous m’avez fait voir des choses que j’ai ressenties” : The King, His Painter and the Public Display of Royal Emotions (pdf) - a lecture by Hall Bjornstad, Princeton University, at 5:30 at the College of Arts & Humanities Institute, 1211 E. Atwater Ave.
Feb 2, 2009 - Salome and the Sphinx: the Emergence of Symbolism in the Naturalist Novel (pdf) - a lecture by Nicholas Valazza, Johns Hopkins University, at 5:30 in the Maple Room, Indiana Memorial Union
Jan 30, 2009 - Maeterlinck's L'Oiseau bleu, Hollywood and Textual Instability (pdf) - a lecture by Andrea Thomas, The Catholic University of America, at 3:30 in the Maple Room, Indiana Memorial Union.
Jan 23, 2009 - “Une Vive Image de l'Enfer” : Torture, Conversion and Ethnography in the Jesuit Relations from New France (pdf) - a lecture by Micah True, Duke University, at 3:30 in the Maple Room, Indiana Memorial Union.
Jan 20, 2009 - The Goncourts’ Hommes de lettres (1860): Portraying and Slaying the Press during the Second Empire (pdf) - a lecture by Peter Vantine, Macalester College, at 6:00 in the Maple Room, Indiana Memorial Union.
Dec 9, 2008 - Circolo Italiano's Holiday Party and Talent Show - from 7-9:00 in Ballantine Hall 008.
Dec 3, 2008 - Camus's Self-Undoing - A Gertrude Force Weathers lecture by Colin J. Davis at 5:30 in the State Room West of the Indiana Memorial Union. Colin J. Davis is Professor of French at the School of Modern Languages, Literatures, and Cultures, Royal Holloway, University of London, U.K. He's currently Visiting Professor in the Department of French & Italian.
Nov 24, 2008 - Transfer, superficial morphology and parometers in advanced L2 French DP - A Gertrude Force Weathers lecture by Julia Herschensohn at 5:30 in the Maple Room, Indiana Memorial Union. Julia Herschensohn is Professor of Linguistics at the University of Washington.
Nov 21, 2008 - Crime, Punishment, and the Old French Fabliaux - A lecture by Travis Hinkle from 2:30-3:30 in Ballantine Hall 305. Part of the Student-Faculty Forum Series.
Nov 19, 2008 - French Club's Soirée Québécoise - from 7:00-9:00pm in Ballantine Hall 004. Learn more about the rich culture of Quebec!
Nov 17, 2008 - "Chance Images" in Early Modern Art and Literature - A lecture by Marco Arnaudo from 2:30-3:30 in Ballantine Hall 244. Part of the Student-Faculty Forum Series
Nov 12, 2008 - In Praise of Overreading - A lecture by Colin J. Davis at 4:00pm in the University Club, Indiana Memorial Union. Colin J. Davis is Professor of French at the School of Modern Languages, Literatures, and Cultures, Royal Holloway, University of London, U.K. He's currently Visiting Professor in the Department of French & Italian. This is a Branigin Lecture presented by the Indiana University Institute for Advanced Study.
Sept 19, 2008 - Annual Departmental Party at 5:30-7:30 at the home of Sonya Stephens.
Sept 19, 2008 - The Dictionary of Louisiana French: A Portrait of the Cajun Lexicon - A lecture by Albert Valdman and Kevin Rottet at 2:30-3:30pm in Ballantine Hall 244. First of the Student-Faculty Forum Series.
Sept 17, 2008 - Ladri di biciclelle (The Bicycle Thief) - Ciroclo Italiano's first film presentation of the Fall 2008 film series entitled Through a Child's Gaze.
Sept 16, 2008 - French Table - Our first French Club of the Fall 2008 semester is at 5:00-6:30 in Wright Quad Cafeteria. All residents of the Bloomington community are invited to meet in the relaxed setting to speak French. Look for the little French flag on the table.
Sept 9, 2008 - Circolo Italiano - Our first meeting of the Fall 2008 semester is at 7:00-8:30 in Ballantine Hall 004.
Aug 28, 2008 - HeadStart in French or Italian for Freshman
Aug 20-30, 2008 - Orientation Workshop for Associate Instructors in French (pdf)
Aug 20-29, 2008 - Orientation Workshop for Associate Instructors in Italian (pdf)
Apr 18, 2008 - Three Days of Anarchy a film directed by Visiting Professor Vito Zagarrio– 6:00 pm, Wylie Hall 015. Prof. Zagarrio will introduce the film. The film is in Italian with English subtitles.
Apr 18, 2008 - Departmental Awards Ceremony – 3:00 pm., University Club (lower level), Indiana Memorial Union
Apr 17, 2008 - Self-Directed Learning of Unwritten Languages a lecture by William Henning (Emeritus, William Jewell College) – 5:30 pm, Maple Room, IMU.
Apr 15, 2008 - On the Unfolding of Nonnative Language in Children and Adults - a lecture by Bonnie Schwartz (University of Hawaii) – 5:30pm, Ballantine Hall 103.
Apr 14, 2008 - Forme et responsabilité. Rhétorique et éthique de l’engagement littéraire contemporain. A lecture on Thomas Bernhard and Imre Kertész a lecture by Emanuel Bouju (Université de Rennes 2) – 4:00 pm, College Arts & Humanities Institute, 1211 E. Atwater Ave (corner of Ballantine & Atwater).
Apr 11, 2008 - Semblances et muances de Merlin a lecture by Anne Berthelot (University of Connecticut) – 3:30 pm, Maple Room, IMU.
Apr 10, 2008 - The Return of Merlin a lecture by Anne Berthelot (University of Connecticut) – 4:00 pm, Federal Room, IMU. Co-sponsored by Medieval Studies.
Mar 24, 2008 - Failure and Change: Rereading Enlightenment? a lecture by Christie McDonald (Harvard University) – 3:30 pm, College Arts & Humanities Institute, 1211 E. Atwater Ave.
Mar 21, 2008 - Verso la chiusura. Saggio sul Canzoniere di Petrarca a lecture by Prof. Paolo Cherchi (University of Chicago and University of Ferrara) – 3:30 pm, College Arts & Humanities Institute, 1211 E. Atwater Ave (corner of Ballantine & Atwater). CANCELLED 3-21-08
Mar 20, 2008 - Learning French Late: An on-line look at the factors that affect learning a lecture by Cheryl Frenck Mestre (Centre national de recherche scientifique, France) – 5:30 pm, Maple Room, IMU. Refreshments before the talk at 5:00.
Mar 4, 2008 -The Actor's Art of the Mask: Commedia dell'arte a presentation by Mace Perlman (professional actor) – 6:00 pm, Grand Hall, Neal-Marshall Black Culture Center, 275 N. Jordan Ave.
Feb 29, 2008 - L'avventura del cavaliere rinascimentale a lecture by Sergio Zatti (University of Pisa) – 3:30 pm, College Arts & Humanities Institute, 1211 E. Atwater Ave (corner of Ballantine & Atwater).
Feb 25, 2008 - Images of Julie: from classic to romantic a lecture by Philip Stewart (Duke University) – 3:30 pm, Oak Room, IMU.
Feb 21, 2008 - On the variable nature of syllabification a lecture by Marie-Helèle Côté (University of Ottawa) – 5:30 pm, Maple Room, IMU. Refreshments before the talk at 5:00.
Feb 15, 2008 - Naming the Comic Hero: Examples in Italian Renaissance Literature a lecture by Massimo Scalabrini from 2:30- 3:30 in Ballantine 004. Part of the Department of French and Italian's Student-Faculty Forum Series. Talk to be followed by discussion and refreshments.
Feb 12, 2008 - Setting Plato Straight: The Hermeneutics of Homosexuality in Bruni, Erasmus, and Rabelais a lecture by Todd Reeser (University of Pittsburgh) – 5:30 pm, College Arts & Humanities Institute, 1211 E. Atwater Ave (corner of Ballantine and Atwater).
Feb 1, 2008 - Toxic Imagination in Nineteeth-Century France: The Role of Desire in the Rise of Medical Science a lecture by Jonathan Strauss (Miami University of Ohio) – 3:30 pm, College Arts & Humanities Institute, 1211 E. Atwater Ave (corner of Ballantine and Atwater).
Jan 31, 2008 - The Total Artwork and the Aesthetics of Chance: Mallarmé, Artaud, Cage a lecture by Danielle Follett (Johns Hopkins University) -- 4:00 pm, Walnut Room, Indiana Memorial Union.
Dec 5, 2007 - Circolo Italiano Holiday Party with student talent show and Italian Christmas Carols, cakes and more...., 7-8:30 pm in Ballantine 008.
Nov 30, 2007 - A Theory of Creole Genesis. A Horizons of Knowledge lecture by Claire Lefebvre at 3:00 pm, in the Oak Room, Indiana Memorial Union.
Nov 30, 2007 - Studying Early Fellini in Indiana: A multifaceted case at the Lilly Library of Rare Books. A lecture by Federico Pacchioni from 2:00 to 3:00 pm in Ballantine Hall 144. Part of the Department of French and Italian's Student-Faculty Forum Series. Talk to be followed by discussion and refreshments.
Nov 16, 2007 - Perception et étude de la manifestation visuelle et sonore dans les textes de Georges Perec. A lecture by Olga Amarie from 2:30 to 3:30 pm in Ballantine Hall 144. Part of the Department of French and Italian's Student-Faculty Forum Series. Talk to be followed by discussion and refreshments.
Nov 14, 2007 - From Neorealism to Americanization: Cultural Transformation and Socio-political Changes Seen through Cinematic Lenses. A lecture by Antonio Vitti at 5:00 pm in the Persimmon Room, Indiana Memorial Union. Lecture to be followed by discussion and refreshments.
Oct 29, 2007 - Vadetecum: A Manifesto of Inter-media Re-creatio" A lecture by Carlo Testa at 5:00 pm in the Walnut Room, Indiana Memorial Union. Lecture to be followed by discussion and refreshments.
Oct 26, 2007 - Charting Utopia in Sand’s Nanon A lecture by Prof. Patrick Bray from 2:30 to 3:30 pm in Ballantine Hall 144. Part of the Department of French and Italian's Student-Faculty Forum Series. Talk to be followed by discussion and refreshments.
Oct 25, 2007 - Un confine discusso: Alto Adige/ Südtirol A lecture by Arnaldo Di Benedetto at the College of Arts and Humanities Institute (1211 Atwater Ave, corner of Ballantine and Atwater). The presentation will be in Italian and is at 5:00 pm.
Oct 19, 2007 - Pour une littérature-monde en langue française A lecture by the writer Alain Mabanckou at the College of Arts and Humanities Institute beginning at 3:30 pm. The lecture will be in French with questions and answers in English. This event was made possible through a New Perspective Grant.
Oct 18, 2007 - Alain Mabanckou will meet with students and scholars for a discussion on the topic "L'écrivain d'Afrique noire francophone et la langue Française: soumission ou rébellion?" (in French with English translation) between 1:00 and 3:00 pm, in the Maple Room, Indiana Memorial Union. The writer received the Prix Renaudot in 2006 and will be the guest of the workshop "Politics and Poetics of the French Language" in the Department of French and Italian. This event was made possible through a New Perspective Grant.
Sep 28, 2007 - Near-native discourse competence: Evidence from French left-dislocations Lecture by Bryan Donaldson at 2:30 pm in Ballantine Hall 144. Department of French & Italian Student-Faculty Forum Series.
Sep 26, 2007 - This semester, the Circolo Italiano pays tribute to Michelangelo Antonioni, the great Italian director. Our first film of the Fall Film Series will be Cronaca di un amore (1950) and will run 98 minutes. The films will be shown at 7:00 pm in Ballantine Hall 228. The film is in Italian with English subtitles and is free and open to the public. Sponsored by the Department of French & Italian.
Sep 25, 2007 - The French Club of the Department of French & Italian begins our Fall film series. Our first film will be Monsieur Ibrahim et les fleurs du Coran (2003) and will be shown in Chemistry 001 at 7:00 pm. The film is in French with English subtitles and is free and open to the public.
Aug 25, 2008 - Associate Instructor's Picnic at Kelly Sax's at 5:00pm
Aug 25, 2007 - Workshop for Returning French Associate Instructors, 12-2:00 pm in Ballantine Hall 139. All returning French AIs are required to attend.
Aug 24, 2007 - Workshop for all Italian Associate Instructors, 1:30-2:30 pm in Ballantine Hall 142. All returning Italian AIs are required to attend.
Aug 22, 23, & 24, 2007 - Head Start Program for incoming students enrolled in F100, F150 or M100. All of our Head Start classes are full.
- Aug 15-25, 2007 - Associate Instructor Orientation Workshops
Apr 20, 2007 - Annual French & Italian Awards Ceremony - 3:30-5:00 pm in the Frangipani Room of the Indiana Memorial Union. Academic awards for graduate and undergraduate students, teaching awards for AIs and faculty, and refreshments and fun for all! Come join us!
Apr 13-15, 2007 - 16th Annual GSO Colloquium "(R)evolutions: Inheriting and Breaking with the Past." Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana. Keynote Speakers: Armando Maggi, University of Chicago; Françoise Gadet, Université de Paris X; and Larry Riggs, Butler University.
Apr 13, 2007 - Poetry reading by Nicolas Pesquès. 2:00 pm in the Persimmon Room, Indiana Memorial Union.
Apr 12, 2007 - "Youth Language" in Parisian Suburbs. Lecture by Françoise Gadet (Université de Paris X), at 5:30 pm in the Oak Room, Indiana Memorial Union. A Horizons of Knowledge Lecture.
Apr 5, 2007 - What's French Good For Anyway? Issues in French Language Program Management. Lecture by Kelly Sax at 4:00 pm in Ballantine Hall 229. Department of French & Italian Student-Faculty Forum Series.
Mar 26, 2007 - The Role of a Thematic Dictionary in Contemporary Criticism. A lecture by Remo Ceserani, Professor of Theory of Literature and Comparative Literature at the University of Bologna, at 6:00 pm, College of Arts & Humanities Institute (1211 E. Atwater Avenue).
Mar 7, 2007 - L’œil du maître et le troisième œil du Poète: Louis XIV et La Fontaine devant les jardins de Versailles. Lecture by Madeleine Bertaud, Professor Emerita of French, Université de Nancy II (France) at 5:30 pm, College Arts and Humanities Institute (1211 E. Atwater Avenue).
Mar 6, 2007 - Écrire la Chine en français: François Cheng, Le Dit de Tianyi. Lecture by Madeleine Bertaud, Professor Emerita of French, Université de Nancy II (France) at 6:30 pm, College Arts and Humanities Institute (1211 E. Atwater Avenue).
Mar 2, 2007 - Hauntological Mater and Sartre's Family Romance. Lecture by Lawrence Kritzman, Professor of French, Dartmouth College at 3:30 pm, College Arts and Humanities Institute (1211 E. Atwater Avenue).
Feb 28, 2007- Art as a Problem. A lecture by Gérard Dessons, Professor of French, Université Paris VIII, February 28, 5:30 pm, College Arts & Humanities Institute, 1211 E. Atwater Ave.
Feb 21, 2007 - "O courbes, méandre...": Montaigne and Epicurus. Lecture by John O’Brien, Professor of French, University of London-Royal Hollaway at 5:30 pm, IMU Dogwood Room.
Feb 16, 2007 - The Crocodiles of Caen and the Mollusks of the Museum: Rhetoric, Science, and Power in Nineteenth-Century France. Lecture by Rosemary Lloyd, Rudy Professor of French, Indiana University at 2:30 pm in Ballantine Hall 217. Department of French & Italian Student-Faculty Forum Series.
Feb 2, 2007 - De fil en aiguille: Savoir-faire et savoirs dans les ouvrages d’instruction pour filles. Lecture by Bénédicte Monicat, Associate Professor of French, Penn State University at 2:30 pm in IMU Persimmon Room
Jan 29, 2007- Call for papers deadline. (R)evolutions: Inheriting and Breaking with the Past. The 16th Annual GSO Colloquium seeks to bring together graduate students in French and/or Italian studies in fields such as literature, applied and theoretical linguistics, literary theory, comparative literature, film studies, art, cultural studies, gender studies, etc. Keynote speakers (not yet confirmed) include Françoise Gadet and Armando Maggi; please see our colloquium website for further details.
Jan 22, 2007 - Muscular Visions: Charles Atlas, Macisto, and National Identity in Interwar Media Culture. Lecture by Jacqueline Reich, Associate Professor of Italian, Stony Brook University at 5:30 pm in the Walnut Room, Indiana University Union
Dec 1, 2006 - From alterity to hybridity: the theatricality of feminity in contemporary francophone novels - Lecture by Michèle Schaal in the Walnut Room, IMU, at 2:30-3:30 pm. Part of the Student-Faculty Forum Series presented by the Department of French & Italian.
Nov 17, 2006 - Le sacré à l’épreuve du rire: l’exemple du statut du corps dans quelques textes pieux et laïcs du Moyen Âge - Lecture by Jacques Merceron in Ballantine Hall 217 at 2:30-3:30 pm. Part of the Student-Faculty Forum Series presented by the Department of French & Italian.
Nov 3, 2006 - Les fins de la prose - Lecture by Oana Panäité in Ballantine Hall 217 at 2:30-3:30 pm. Part of the Student-Faculty Forum Series presented by the Department of French & Italian.
Nov 2, 2006 - Manzoni e Pietro Verri: Storia della colonna infame. Lecture by Silvia Contarini, University of Udine, at the College Arts and Humanities Institute (1211 E. Atwater Avenue), at 5:30 pm.
Oct 30, 2006 - Around Galileo: Describing Science in the 17th Century. Lecture by Giovanni Baffetti, University of Bologna, at the College Arts and Humanities Institute (1211 E. Atwater Avenue), at 5:30 pm.
Oct 19-21, 2006 - 32nd Annual Nineteenth-Century French Studies Colloquium Discoveries, Inventions and Rediscoveries, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana. On Friday night, the IU School of Music will be performing Massenet's Manon (in French). Tickets will be available to those attending the conference.
Sep 29, 2006 - Une Surprise-Présentation Poétique: Mylène Catel et Rosemary LLoyd. College of Arts and Humanities Institute (1121 E. Atwater Avenue) at 6:00 pm.
Sep 29, 2006 - The Would-Be Commoner: Comic Certainty and Judicial Doubt in France ca. 1700 - Lecture by Jeffrey Ravel at the College Arts and Humanities Institute (1211 E. Atwater Avenue), at 3:30 pm.
Sep 12, 2006 - The Circolo Italiano (Italian Club) will have its first meeting of the semester at 7:00 pm in Ballantine Hall 004. Everyone interested in speaking in Italian (at any level) is welcome. Snacks will be provided.
Sep 8, 2006 - Workshop for Returning French AIs, 3:15-5:15 pm in Ballantine Hall 117. This workshop will focus on using OnCourseCL and FRITMAT. All returning French AIs are required to attend.
Aug 23, 24, & 25, 2006 - Head Start Program for incoming students enrolled in F100, F150 or M100.
- Aug 16-26, 2006 - Associate Instructor Orientation Workshops
Apr 27, 2006 - Machiavelli and Leonardo: How a Failed Cooperation Shaped the Origins of Modernity - Lecture by Roger Masters in the Sassafras Room, Indiana Memorial Union, at 4:00 pm. Co-presented with the Renaissance Studies Program.
Apr 21, 2006 - Annual Departmental Awards Ceremony - Please join us in State Room East in the Indiana Memorial Union for academic awards for undergraduate and graduate students and teaching awards for faculty and AIs. Award presentations begin promptly at 3:30 pm. Refreshments and fun for all will follow the ceremony.
Apr 20, 2006 - Cantando Dietro i Paraventi - A film directed by Ermanno Olmi and a public round-table discussion will be held in Chemistry 001 at 7:00 pm.
Apr 14, 2006 - On métissage and its forms: representations in contempory literature in French - Lecture by Caroline Beschea-Fache in Ballantine Hall 147 at 2:30-3:30 pm. Part of the Student-Faculty Forum Series presented by the Department of French & Italian.
Apr 12, 2006 - Animal-Human Hybrids: Early-Modern Medical Experimentation and the Literary Fairy Tale - by Holly Tucker at the College Arts & Humanities Institute, 1211 E. Atwatter Ave, at 5:00 pm.
Apr 6-9, 2006 - 15th Annual GSO Colloquium "Politics and Persuasion," Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana.
Apr 5, 2006 - Beyond Jacobinism: Hegemony and Universalism in the Haitian Revolution - by Nick Nesbitt at the College Arts & Humanities Institute, 1211 E. Atwater Ave, at 4:00 pm. Part of the Gertrude Force Weathers Lecture Series.
Mar 31, 2006 - Stairways to Nowhere: The Arsenical Dream of Mr. Frank Capra - Lecture by Fabio Benincasa in Ballantine Hall 147 at 2:30-3:30 pm. Part of the Student-Faculty Forum Series presented by the Department of French & Italian.
Mar 28, 2006 - Cultivating Mere Gardens? Comparative Francophonies and Disciplinary Proximities - a lecture by Françoise Lionnet in the Walnut Room, IMU, at 4:00 pm. This event is made possible through a New Perspective Grant from the New Frontiers in Humanities Program funded by the Lilly Foundation.
Mar 24, 2006 - Il rapporto Petrarca-Boccaccio: nodo fondamentale della tradizione letteraria italiana - a lecture by Giuseppe Velli at the College Arts & Humanities Institute, 1211 E. Atwater Ave, at 3:30 pm.
Mar 22, 2006 - Fellini and Fantasy - A Distinguished Faculty Research Lecture by Professor Peter Bondanella, in Whittenberger Auditorium, Indiana Memorial Union, at 3:00 pm.
Mar 20, 2006 - Diderot: the (w)hole of history - a lecture by Marian Hobson-Jeanneret, Persimmon Room, Indiana Memorial Union, at 5:30 pm.
Mar 7, 2006 - Representation as performance, or the narrative of process in 19th-Century France - Lecture by Sonya Stephens in Maple Room, Indiana Memorial Union, at 4:00 pm.
Feb 24, 2006 - Umberto Eco, the Middle Ages, and the Historical Novel - Lecture by Theresa Coletti in Ballantine Hall 109 at 1:30 pm. A Horizons of Knowledge Lecture presented by the Department of French & Italian. Sponsored by the Mary-Margaret Barr Koon Fund, the Medieval Studies Institute, West European Studies, Comparative Literature and the Dean of the Faculties.
Feb 10, 2006 - Saul and Saül : A comparison between Alfieri and Nadal - Lecture by Beatrice Arduini in Ballantine Hall 148 at 3:30-4:30 pm. Part of the Student-Faculty Forum Series presented by the Department of French & Italian.
Feb 3, 2006 - The Novel Self: Text, Image, and Subjectivity in Stendhal’s Vie de Henry Brulard. Lecture by Patrick Bray at 3:30 pm in the Walnut Room, Indiana Memorial Union.
Jan 31, 2006 - The Circolo Italiano Film Series will begin with a showing of L'Ora di Religione (Il sorriso di mia madre) at 7:00 pm in Ballantine Hall 103. The film is free to the public.
Jan 31, 2006 - The Total Artwork and the Aesthetics of Chance: Mallarmé, Artaud, Cage. Lecture by Danielle Follette at 4:00 pm in the Walnut Room, Indiana Memorial Union.
Jan 27, 2006 - The View from the Bridge: Emile Zola's l'Oeuvre and the Legacy of French Art. Lecture by Sara Pappas at 3:30 pm in the Dogwood Room, Indiana Memorial Union.
Jan 25, 2006 - The French Film Series will begin with a showing of Indochine at 7:00 pm in Jordan Hall A100. These films are subtitled in English and are free to the public.
Jan 24, 2006 - The first meeting of Circolo Italiano of the semester will take place at 7:00 pm in Ballantine Hall 004. All those interested in conversing in Italian are invited to the meetings of Circolo.
Jan 24, 2006 - The Reform of the Myth and the Myth of Reform: Orpheus and Theater in the 17th and 18th Centuries. Lecture by Sergio Ferrarese at 4:00 pm in the Sassafras Room, Indiana Memorial Union.
Jan 20, 2006 - The Great Fragments of Antiquity: Vico's Enigmas of History and the Discourses of Reason. Lecture by Sabrina Ferri at 3:30 pm in the Sassafras Room, Indiana Memorial Union.
Jan 17, 2006 - The first meeting of French Club of the semester will take place from 5:30-6:30 pm in the Wright Quad Cafeteria. All residents of the Bloomington community are invited to meet in this relaxed setting to speak French.
Jan 13, 2006 - Paradoxes of Knowledge: The Representation of Books and Libraries in Italian Baroque Literaturee. Lecture by Marco Arnaudo at 3:00 pm in the Sassafras Room, Indiana Memorial Union.
Dec 2, 2005 - Symposium on 18th-Century French Theater - Keynote speaker will be Downing Thomas (University of Iowa).
Nov 18, 2005 - Truthtelling and Satire in the Trial of Renard - Lecture by Emanuel J. Mickel in Ballantine Hall 147, 2:30-3:30 pm. Part of the Student-Faculty Forum Series presented by the Department of French & Italian.
Nov 11, 2005 - Images of Memory and Mystical Experience: Jacopone da Todi and his 17th-Century Publisher - lecture by Lina Bolzoni in the Persimmon Room, Indiana Memorial Union, 3:30-5:00 pm. A Horizons of Knowledge Lecture sponsored by the Mary-Margaret Barr Koon Fund of the Department of French & Italian, International Programs, the College of Arts & Sciences, the Office of the Bloomington Chancellor, Dean of Faculties, West European Studies, and the Department of Comparative Literature.
Nov 3, 2005 - Créole et françaix aux Antilles (françaises) - Lecture by Marie-Christine Hazael-Massieux in Ballantine Hall 004, 5:15 pm. A Gertrude Force Weather Lecture presented by the Department of French & Italian.
Oct 28, 2005 - Le "Scintille" di Tommaseo: un manifesto letterario e civile nel 1841 - by Francesco Bruni in the Oak Room, Indiana Memorial Union, 3:30-5:00 pm. A Mary-Margaret Barr Koon Lecture presented by the Department of French & Italian, the Department of Comparative Literature and West European Studies.
Oct 28, 2005 - Une étude comparative de la nasalisation des occlusives en français québécois et en picard du Vimeu - by Anne-José Villeneuvein in Ballantine Hall 147 at 2:30-3:30 pm. Part of the Student-Faculty Forum Series presented by the Department of French & Italian.
Oct 7, 2005 - La struttura consequenziale dei sogni danteschi - by Valerio Cappozzo in Ballantine Hall 147 at 2:30-3:30 pm. Part of the Student-Faculty Forum Series presented by the Department of French & Italian.
Sept 9, 2005 - Proust, Ruskin and La Bible d'Amiens: Translation as Transformation - by Emily Eells from the Université de Paris X, Nanterre. A Gertrude Force Weathers lecture at 3:30 pm in the Maple Room, Indiana Memorial Union.
Aug 24-26, 2005 - Head Start Program
- Aug 17-26, 2005 - Associate Instructor Orientation Workshops
Apr 25, 2005 - The Commitment of the African Writer Today - by Boubacar Boris Diop, Senegalese novelist and screenwriter, Ballantine Hall 004, 5:30-7:00 pm.
Apr 22, 2005 - Annual Departmental Awards Ceremony, Dogwood Room, Indiana Memorial Union, 3:30-5:00 pm.
Apr 15, 2005 - Garibaldi and Lincoln: A Missed Opportunity - by Edoardo Lèbano, Ballantine 149, 2:30-4:00 pm. Student-Faculty Forum Series.
Apr 14-16, 2005 - 16th International Conference on Pragmatics and Language Learning
Apr 12, 2005 - European Multilingualism - by Bernard Cerquiglini, Oak Room, Indiana Memorial Union, 4:00 pm.
Apr 8-10, 2005 - In Other Wor(l)ds: Crossing Borders - 14th Annual GSO Conference.
Mar 25, 2005 - Foreign/Second Language Teaching Shair Fair, Wylie Hall 015, 4-6:00 pm.
Mar 25, 2005 - The Maternal Mechanism: Cartesianism and Control of One's Body - by Christopher Semk, Ballantine 149, 2:30 pm. Student-Faculty Forum Series.
Mar 24, 2005 - Un libro medievale fra letture e riscritture: morfologie testuali e tipologie manoscritte nella tradizione del Devisement du monde - lecture by Alvaro Barbieri, Hoagy Carmichael Room, Morrison Hall, 4:00 pm. Co-sponsored by the Medieval Studies Institute and the Mary-Margaret Barr Koon Fund.
Mar 22, 2005 - Le motif de la décapitation dans les romans arthuriens en vers des XIIe et XIIe siecles - lecture by Alvaro Barbieri, Lilly Library, 4:00 pm. Co-sponsored by the Medieval Studies Institute and the Mary-Margaret Barr Koon Fund.
Mar 22, 2005 - Littérature et exil - lecture by Tierno Monénembo, Ballantine 141, 11:00 am. Co-sponsored by the African Studies Program, the Office of International Programs, and the Mary-Margaret Barr Koon Fund.
Mar 4, 2005 - Sand and the Politics of the Thesis Novel: Mademoiselle la Quintinie's Evil Empires - by Gilbert Chaitin, Ballantine Hall 149, 2:30 pm. Student-Faculty Forum Series .
Mar 2, 2005 - Presentation by Rosemary Lloyd on her book Shimmering in a Transformed Light: Writing the Still Life. College Arts & Humanities Institute, 1211 East Atwater Avenue, 5:00 pm.
Feb 14, 2005 - Violence against Actresses in 18th-century Paris - by Prof Jan Clarke, Maple Room, Indiana Memorial Union, 5:00 pm
Feb 4, 2005 - Dark Rooms/Camerae Obscurae: A Voyage around Hotel Rooms - by Fabio Benincasa, Ballantine Hall 304, 2:30 pm. Student Faculty Forum Series
Dec 3 , 2004 - Miserabilis insania ou les plaisirs de la tragédie - by Jérôme Brillaud, Ballantine Hall 144, 2:30 pm. Student Faculty Forum Series
Nov 30, 2004 - Calculated Sincerity: What Montaigne learned from Acting at School - by George Hoffmann, Ballantine Hall 004, 5:30 pm
Nov 29, 2004 - Breaking into Print in Montaigne's France - by George Hoffmann, History of the Book Seminar, Lilly Library Lounge, 4:00 pm
Nov 18, 2004 - Between the Danube and the Sea: The Itinerary of a Writer - by Claudio Magris, Hoagy Charmichael Room, Morrison Hall, 5:00 pm.
Nov 12, 2004 - Fra impicci e pasticci. Lessico e forma-romanzo in Manzoni e Gadda - by Marco Pacioni and Stefano Gulizia, Ballantine Hall 147, 3:30 pm. Student Faculty Forum Series.
Nov 5, 2004 - Transitions: From Graduate Student to Faculty Member - A special session by Jérôme Brillaud and Oana Panaïté, Ballantine 144, 2:30 pm. Student Faculty Forum Series.
Oct 29, 2004 - Manzoni, l'anonimo, la storia - by Francesco Bruni, Persimmon Room, IMU at 3:30 pm
Oct 8, 2004 - The Role of Letter in Biographies of Michelangelo - by Deborah Parker, Persimmon Room, IMU at 2:00 pm
Aug 28, 2004 - Associate Instructor's Picnic
Aug 18-28, 2004 - Associate Instructor Orientation Workshops
Aug 25-27, 2004 - Head Start Program in French & Italian
Apr 23, 2004 - Annual Departmental Awards Ceremony, 3:30 pm, Dogwood Room, Indiana Memorial Union.
Apr 16-18, 2004 - GASLA 7 in Bloomington - The 7th Generative Approaches to Second Language Acquisition Meeting
Apr 16-17, 2004 - 13th Annual Graduate Student Conference, Ballantine Hall. Keynote Speaker: Professor Michael Papio, College of the Holy Cross "Ideas on Distractions from Study in Dante and Boccaccio." Friday, April 16, 4:00 pm, Ballantine Hall 310
Apr 7, 2004 - Gay Pride and the Mo(u)rning of September 11th - by Lawrence Shehr, 5:00 pm, Woodburn Hall 121, Horizons of Knowledge Lecture
Mar 26, 2004 - The Signs of Disillusionment: Marie de l'Incarnation in Colonial Quebec - by Rebecca Wilkin, 2:30 pm, Ballantine Hall 148, Student-Faculty Forum Lecture
Jan 16, 2004 - Rêver l'espace de la littérature: Patrick Chamoiseau de projet créole à la poétique de Créolisation - by Oana Panaite, 3:00 pm, Persimmon Room, IMU.
Nov 14, 2003 - Reinventing Pegasus: Bicycles and the Fin-de-siècle Imagination - by Rosemary Lloyd. Student-Faculty Forum Series.
Nov 14, 2003 - Manthia Diawara - The Department of African American & African Diaspora Studies presents the author of We Won’t Budge: An African Exile in the World and Director of the Institute of African-American Affairs at New York University.
Sep 26, 2003 - A la découverte de la Louisiane par la parole - a presentation by Albert Valdman, Kevin Rottet, and Deborah Piston-Hatlen as part of the Student-Faculty Forum series.
Apr 24-27, 2003 - The 33rd Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages
Apr 22-24, 2003 - Colloquium on French in the United States
Apr 18, 2003 - Annual Departmental Awards Ceremony - 3:30 pm, State Room East, Indiana Memorial Union.
Apr 12, 2003 - Reflessioni sulla identita linguistica et letteraria italiana, et I suoi contatti con l'esterno - by Massimo Zaggia, 3:30 pm in Wylie Hall 015
Apr 12, 2003 - Confronting the North-African Other in French Literary Orientalism - by Catherine Perry, 10:45 am, Wylie Hall 015
Apr 11, 2003 - Francesco Bracciolini as a Reader of Ariosto and Tasso in La croce racquistata - by David Quint, 5:30 pm, Wylie Hall 015
Feb 21, 2003 - Like a Rock at Sea: Language Change and HIstorical Thought in the Renaissance - by Eric MacPhail, 2:30pm, Ballantine 148
Feb 4, 2003 - Saints and spectators: The politics of the unextraordinary in 17th-century France - by Katherine Ibbett, 6:00 pm, Oak Room, Indiana Memorial Union
Jan 31, 2003 - Qui t'après dire? Inanimate interrogatives and dialect contact in Louisiana - by Kevin Rottet, 3:00 pm, Sassafras Room, Indiana Memorial Union
Jan 27, 2003 - The Role of Input in L2 Acquisition of Grammatical Aspect: Toward Testing the Distributional Bias Hypothesis in the Instructed Environment - Lucile Duperron, 4:30 pm, Sassafras Room, Indiana Memorial Union
Nov 15, 2002 - Dal Principe alla Dissimulazione onesta - Symposium
Nov 13, 2002 - The World's Simplest Grammars are Creole Grammars - by John McWhorter
Nov 1, 2002 - Life after Death: The Figures in Posthumous Editions of Descartes's De L'Homme - by Rebecca Wilkin
Oct 18, 2002 - Gadda e l'arcipelago malinconia - by Remo Ceserani, 4:00 pm, State Room West, IMU
Oct 17, 2002 - The Use of Video in Second Language Instruction - by Guy Capelle, 7:30 pm, Ballantine 103
Oct 11, 2002 - Stolen Limelight: Display, Excess and the Feminine in Modern French and Francophone Narrative - by Margaret Gray, Student-Faculty Forum Series
Sept 20, 2002 - Reflexions dans un miroir: representations du Moi dans quelques romans du dix-huitième siècle - by Guillaume Ansart, Student-Faculty Forum Series
