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Co-sponsored Large Events
- 1991 ICLS Conference (International Courtly Literature Society/co-hosted with UMASS)
- 1998 International Colloquium on Contemporary French and Francophone Studies (with Five Colleges)
Individual Speakers from 1987 to Present
- Victor Brombert, "The Prison Symbol in Stnedhal, Dickens and Dostoevsky"
- Ora Avni, "Silence et vérité chez Louis René Des Forets"
- Martine Reid, "Stendhal en peinture"
- Josué Harari, "In the beginning...A reading of Balzac's Unknown Masterpiece"
- Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe, "Heidegger, Art and Politics"
- Louis Marin, "Frames and Framing: From the Trecento to Frank Stella"
- Theodore Norton, "Habermas's Notion of Public Life" (class lecture)
- Daniel Poirion, "Rhetoric and Reality in the late Middle Ages: Jehan de Saintré, François Villon, Charles d'Orléans"
- Jacqueline Cerquiligni, "La Cour amoureuse: Rite du désir et amour des signes"
- Lucien Dällenbach, "Claude Simon: Mirorirs, récit, histoire"
- Sydney Lévy, "Francis Ponge et les mathématiques"
- Thomas Kavanagh, "Enlightenment and the Shadows of Chance"
- Judith P. Butler, "Sex/Gender and the Shape of Politics"
- Sandy Petrey, "Speech Acts and Literary Theory: Austin vs Derrida"
- Pierre Saint-Amand, "Ethique de la Parure: Maupassant, La Parure"
- Avital Ronell, "Opera and Technology: Finitude's Score"
- Peter Brooks, "Invasions of Privacy: The Body in the Novel"
- Elspeth Kennedy, "The Scribe as Editor"
- Claude Thomasset, "Medicine in the Middle Ages"
- Thomas Kavanagh, "Probability Theory and Chance in the Enlightenment"
- Linda Orr, "Post-Revolutionary Syndrome: Stael, Michelet, Tocqueville"
- Michael Zink, "The Perceval by Chrétien de Troyes"
- Lynn Higgins, "Seeing vs Believing: Cinema, Collaboration and Self-Representation in the 80's"
- Howard Bloch, "New Philologies in Medieval Studies"
- Wilda Anderson, "Constructing a Terrorist Discourse"
- C. Jon Delogu, "Todorov on the Fantastic and de Man on Lyric Poetry: Twin Reefs"
- Daniel Poirion, "La Théâtralité du Roman Médiéval"
- Kevin Brownlee, "Literary Genealogy and the Problem of the Father: Christine de Pizan and Dante"
- Georgiana Colville, "Magic Mirrors: The Self-Portraits of Frida Kahlo"
- Avital Ronell, "The Telephone Book"
- Milad Doueihi, "The Politics of Simplicity"
- Giulia Sissa, "Tetaphysics under the Microscope: Experiments on Spontaneous Generation"
- Suzanne Guerlac, "The Myth of Prose: Reading Writing in Sartre's What is Literature?"
- Chantal Thomas, "Marie-Antoinette, la dernière reine: Eléments d'une mythologie"
- François Roustang, "Michaux L'Anonyme"
- Ann Smock, "Sylvan Voices: Louis-René Des Forêts"
- Leo Bersani, "Sadism and Film: Freud and Resnais"
- Jerry Flieger, "Someone to Watch Over Me: The Politics of Post-Modernism, Paranoia and the Hypervisible"
- Lionel Gossman, "The Sulking Corner of Europe: Anti-Modernism in 19th- Century Basel"
- Maryse Condé, "The Journey Home: Itinerary of a Guadeloupean Writer"
- Mitchell Greenberg, "Psychoanalytic Dimensions of the Baroque"
- Ross Chambers, "Autobiography and Illness"
- Michel Zink, "Froissart et le Temps"
- Naomi Shor, "The Crisis of French Universalism" (in conjunction with the 20th-Century French Studies Conference)
- Jacques Renard, "Blanche et Marie"
- Jeffrey Stanley, "For Honor Alone: History into Drama"
- Douglas Kelly, "Apo Koinou, Aging, and Private Reading of the Romance of the Rose"
- Carlyn Saltman, "Kofi chez les Français"
- J. Michael Dash, "Resiting Resistance: Francophone Caribbean Literature and the Fin de Siecle"
- Marcus Cruse, "Medieval manuscript Culture"
- David Hult, "Alain Chartier's Belle Dame sans mercy"
- Michel Zink, "Le poète et le prophète dans la littérature médiévale"
- Jean-Michel Maulpoix, "What About Poetry"
- Jean-Marie Goulemot, "Voltaire et la laïcité"
- Richard Stamelman, "The Mystery of Perfume in French Culture"
- Johann Sadock, "Au-delà due regard: rencontres multiethniques"
- Kevin Newmark, "Why Poetry Matters: Baudelaire's Future Perfect"
- Richard J. Golsan, "The Literary Vichy Syndrome: Repetitions, Provocations, Innovations"
- Maurice Olender, "The Passion for Origins: From Language to Nation"
- Jean-Marie Teno, Le Mariage d' Alex and Vacances au pays.
- Peter Brooks, "The Derealization of Self: Rousseau, Freud, Proust"
- Jean-Philippe Mathy, "The Debate on Affirmative Action in France"
- Zineb Ali Benali, "Les femmes d'Algérie et les transformations de la société entre Code de la famille et patriarcat"
- Keith Busby, "Tales from the Edge: French Arthurian Romance and the Celt Belt"
- Sarah Kay, " The Nightingales' Way. French Poetry in Jean Renart's Guillaume de Dole"
- Sara Kippur, "The Denial of Self Translation"
- Katherine Kolb, "Balzac's Fifth Symphony"
- Norris Lacy, "Arthurian Romance and the Parallax Effect"
- Pierre Frantz, "Rousseau: Haine du théâtre?"
- Martine Guyot-Bender, "Art and Reality in Social Film Documentary: Who is Filming? Who is Talking? Who is Watching?"
- Janet Beizer, "Talking About Food"
- Richard J. Golsan, "Memories Divided and Reconciled? Reflections on Summer 2014: Remembering WWI and WWII in France Today"
- Lynn A. Higgins, "Getting from page to Screen: 39 Fragments for a Theory of Adaptation"
- Deborah T. Long, "Participation Not Invention: The Medieval Model of Writing and Its Purpose Presented by Chrétien de Troyes in Le Conte du Graal"
- Lisa Haber-Thomson, "Les prisons pour femmes en France au dix-neuvième siècle"
- Ann Smock, "Loin des bureaux de poste"
- Thomas Kavanagh, "Une liberté des plaisirs?"
- Youna Kwak and Raphaël Sigal with Anne Brancky, Yasser Elhariry, Katherine Hornstein, Annabel Kim, Khary Polk, Robert St. Clair, "How Did I Get Here? Humanities in the First Person"
- Zahia Rahmani, "De l'Algérie à la France: Parcours d'une femme écrivain"
- Bruno Duarte, "Henri Michaux: Drawing Away from Words"
- Colette Fellous, "Fabrication de Pièces détachées"
- Ivan Jablonka, "A History of the Grandparents I Never Had"
- Pierre Saint-Amand, "Inside the French boudoir: Architecture and Desire in the Eighteenth Century"
- Susan R. Kramer, "Confession, Consent and Illicit Love: Theology and the Twelfth-Century Self"
- Heidi Brevik-Zender, "Courtesans and Curtains: Photographs of the Countess de Castiglione (1837 - 1899)"
- Laure Murat, "My Way: Crossing the U.S., from Venice to Babylon"
- Elizabeth Emery, "Of Monsters and Women: Collecting Japanese Art in Nineteenth-Century Paris"
- Andrea Frisch, "The Histoire mémorable between News and History: Framing Accounts of Current Events in the French Wars of Religion"
- Andrew Curran and Lydie Moudileno, "Perspectives on Race and Blackness in the Francophone World"
- Aqiil Gopee '20, "Les Marrons by Louis-Timagène Houat: Translating the First Novel from La Réunion"
The French Department contributed to the following events:
- Lecture given by Sada Niang @ Mt. Holyoke College
- Lecture given by Lynn Hunt @ Hampshire College, "The Many Bodies of Marie Antoinette"
- Lecture given by Robert Aulotte @ Smith College, "La pensée religieuse de Montaigne"
- Lecture given by Michèle Perret @ UMASS
- Lecture given by André Jamme @ Smith College
- Lecture given by Michael Marrus @ Amherst College, "Scholom Schwartzbard and the Assassin's Quest for Justice: Historical and Practical Dilemmas
- Lecture given by Maryse Condé and Richard Philcox @ Smith College, "Intimate Enemies: A conversation Between and Author and Her Translator"
- Lecture given by Richard Beban @ Amherst College
- Lecture given by Lola Lafon @ Smith College
- Lecture given by Gina Hermann @ Amherst College, "Spanish Women in the Antifascist Resistance in France, 1936-1956"
- Lecture given by Pap Ndiaye @ Smith College, "The Minority Paradox: Blackness in France"
- Conference - “Muslim Women Reclaim their Identities: Being a Muslim Woman in France & the U.S.” @ Amherst College