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Archived Events

2006-2007:

  • Our Department co-sponsored the series of events, Torture and the Future: Perspectives from the Humanities. Please visit the website for the project.
  • Our Tournées Festival of movies included La Femme de Gilles, La Petite Jerusalem, L'Enfant, Les Temps qui changent, Ils se marièrent et eurent beaucoup d'enfants.
  • Our distinguished lecturers in Winter 2007 and Spring 2007 included:
    • Monica Green: January 26
    • Roger Chartier: February 8-9
    • Simon Levis-Sullam: February 15-16
    • Deborah McGrady: February 20
    • Maurizio Ferraris: February 21
    • Jean-Marie Apostolidès: March 7
    • Jean-Paul Sermain: April 17
    • Claudie Bernard: May 7
    • Peter Wortsman: May 8
    • Frank Lestringant: May 17-18
  • Our annual Pi Delta Phi Reception was hold on on May 17, 2007:
    • Initiation of the new members of our Pi Delta Phi chapter
    • Annual Pi Delta Phi Lecture with guest speaker Frank Lestringant
  • Our Annual Honors' Reception was held on on May 30, 2007, in recognition of our:
    • Outstanding Lower-Division Students in French
    • Outstanding French and Italian majors
      The Hermione Chevalier Prize for French and Francophone Studies was awarded to Jonathan Kroll
      Honors Prizes for Senior Honors in Italian studies, funded by the Italian Heritage Foundation, were awarded to:

2005-2006:

  • Our fall multi-media event, the Centennial Celebration of Jean-Paul Sartre, went very well!
    Consult our archives:     Sartre Centennial Celebration, November 29-December 4, 2005
    Download a pdf version of our poster & a pdf version of our program
    Check our two pictures: Michel Sicard & Cathy Nesci; the whole colloqium team!
  • Spring 2006 Lectures Series. Our list of visiting scholars included:
    Margaret Cohen
    Christine Détrez
    Béatrice Didier
    Geneviève Fraisse
    Manfred Hinz
    Bernard-Henri Lévy
    Léon-François Hoffman
    Carrie Noland
    Jacques Neefs.
  • The 7th Annual UC Santa Barbara-UCI Graduate Conference in French and Francophone Studies: May 12-14, 2006:
    Keynotes speaker: Prof. Margaret Cohen, Stanford University
    Video Presentation and Panel: Frenchness and the African Diaspora, with Charles Tshimanga-Kashama, Didier Gondola an Peter Bloom.
    Check our pictures, thanks to Ben Rosengart & Mary Kordzikowski.

Previous years:
Scholarly Lectures| Hommage à Jacques Derrida | 2003-2004 Events

Scholarly Lectures, 2004-2005:

  • Professor Françoise Lionnet, October 14, 2004
  • The Third Undergraduate Student Colloquium October 23, 2004
  • Professor Richard Terdiman, November 8, 2004
  • Professor Jean Schultz, November 30, 2004
  • Professor Pierre Pachet, February 24-25, 2005
  • On February 28, we co-sponsored the talk by Jocelyn Wogan-Browne (Fordham University, NY) on "Economies of Grace: Counting Female Piety in Medieval Britain"
  • Professor John Campbell, March 2,2005
  • On March 8, the Department co-sponsored a talk by Jean-Louis Boissier (Professeur en esthétique et arts plastiques à l'Université Paris 8, codirecteur du Ciren) introduced his latest book on La relation comme forme.
  • Mr. Alain Belais, Attaché Culturel, Consulat de France, Los Angeles: "La Diplomatie culturelle", March 10, 2005
  • R. Howard Bloch (Augustus R. Street Professor of French, Yale University): the Bayeux Tapestry for The Fourth Annual UCSB Medieval Studies Graduate Student Conference, April 16, 2005
  • Professor Marina Van Zuylen: "The Monomaniacal Imperative: How Literature Puts Obsession To Good (and Bad) Use". April 18, 2005.
  • April 20, Eric Prieto's seminar at the Interdisciplinary Humanities Center: "Derrida, Artaud and Theatre"
  • Robert Doran (Ph.D.): "Society and Spectacle in the Age of Reason." May 9, 2005.

Hommage Hommage à Jacques Derrida
On April 11, 2005, UCLA organized a tribute to the late philosopher Jacques Derrida. This event is co-sponsored by our Department of French and Italian, and the Department of French and Italian at the University of Southern California. Click here for the Program.

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