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  • Io Sono Li
  • Illusions perdues
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  • Julie FR 543 Spring 2023
  • Io Sono Li
    Italian Movie Night: "Io Sono Li" (Segre, 2021)
    Wed. February 8, 6 pm, Lucy Ellis Lounge, FLB
  • Illusions perdues
    Cinéclub: "Les Illusions Perdues" (2021)
    Thu. Febr. 16, 6 pm, Lucy Ellis Lounge (FLB)
  • Québec Literature and Cinema
    Spring 2023: FR 319 Québec Literature and Cinema
    T, R 12:30-1:50pm
  • Exploring Paris
    Spring 2023: FR 156 Exploring Paris
    T, R 11 am -12:20 pm
  • Advanced Grammar
    Spring 2023 ITAL 310: Advanced Grammar
    M, W 3-4:20 pm
  • Julie FR 543 Spring 2023
    Spring 2023: FR 543 'We? - Pronominal politics, hegemony, alterity"
    W 3-4:50 pm
  • ITAL 413 Dante
    Spring 2023: ITAL 413 Dante
    T, R 11 am -12:20 pm
  • Spring 2023: FR 313
    Spring 2023: FR 313 Worldwide Spoken French
    T, R 2-3:20 pm
  • Reading with Roland Barthes
    Spring 2023: FR 579 Reading with Roland Barthes
    T, 3 -4:50pm
  • FR/ITAL 418
    Spring 2023: FR/ITAL 418 Language and Minorities in Europe
    T, R 5-6:20 pm
  • coffee hour

    Caffettino and Pause Café are back!

    This semester's Italian and French Conversation Tables are back and open to students, staff, and faculty. Each event is held in Espresso Royal Café, located on the corner of Goodwin Avenue and Oregon Street in Urbana. The weekly Caffettino! events are organized every Monday from 5-6 pm by PhD candidate in Italian Studies: Soraya Chipolla (sorayac2@...
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  • Tricia award

    Emma Birkmaier Award for Doctoral Dissertation Received by SLATE Alumna: Dr. Tricia Thrasher

    The graduate programs of French and SLATE are proud to announce that Dr. Tricia Thrasher (PhD 2022, French SLATE) has been awarded the 2022 ACTFL-NFMLTA/MLJ Emma Birkmaier Award for Doctoral Dissertation Research in World Language Education. She is the first UIUC student ever to have received this prestigious award from the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (...
    Read full story Emma Birkmaier Award for Doctoral Dissertation Received by SLATE Alumna: Dr. Tricia Thrasher
  • season's greetings

    Season's Greetings!

    Wishing you and your family peace, health, happiness, and prosperity in this holiday season and the coming New Year. We will return to campus on or shortly before Monday, January 9, 2023. E n j o y   y o u r  w i n t e r   b r e a k !  
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More Department News

  • French Embassy and FACE Foundation grant awarded to UG program
    Congratulations to Professor Daniel Nabil Maroun who obtained a highly competitive grant awarded by the French Embassy and the FACE Foundation to initiate much-needed revisions in the French Undergraduate Curriculum. Professor Maroun’s proposal, entitled “Professionalizing French in Illinois:...
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  • Faculty awards for Inclusive Pedagogy Certificate
    Congratulations to Professors Julie Gaillard and Aurore Mroz on the selection of their projects for the LAS-OVCDEI Inclusive Pedagogy Certificate Spring 2023 program!  This highly competitive award will provide the 16 selected faculty participants, including Professors Gaillard and Mroz, with...
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  • French and Italian on display in affiliate faculty’s debut novel
    FRIT Affiliate Professor Brett Kaplan’s novel "Rare Stuff" (2022) is a captivating story of a daughter’s quest for answers about her mother’s disappearance through...
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  • Paris vor Triumphbogen
    FR 322

    Movements and Perspectives

    "Les Années noires (1940-44) and their aftermath" Les Années noires (1940-1944) and their aftermath in film, literature, memoirs and documents such as photography. The Vichy regime ; Everyday life in Paris during the Nazi Occupation ; Collaboration and Resistance ; the Holocaust...
    Course Description for FR 322
  • FR 336 French Cultural History 1789-1968
    FR 336

    French Cultural History, 1789-1968

    Survey of French cultural history from the French Revolution to 1968. Taught in French.       {"preview_thumbnail":"/sites/default/files/styles/video_embed_wysiwyg_preview/public/video_thumbnails/7YNR61ndKH0.jpg?itok=tUlL4gsE","video_url":"https://youtu.be/7YNR61ndKH0","settings":{"responsive":...
    Course Description for FR 336
  • FR 324 Literature and the Other Arts
    FR 324

    Literature and the Other Arts

    "Images of Reality, Reality of Images."
    Course Description for FR 324
  • ITAL 420 Founding Mothers: Female Genealogies in Medieval and Renaissance Italian Literature
    ITAL 420

    Founding Mothers: Female Genealogies in Medieval and Renaissance Italian Literature

    ITAL 420 Founding Mothers: Female Genealogies in Medieval and Renaissance Italian Literature
    Course Description for ITAL 420
  • ITAL 240 Middle Ages and Renaissance: The Foul and the Fragrant
    ITAL 240

    Middle Ages and Renaissance: The Foul and the Fragrant

    FA19  ITAL 240 Middle Ages and Renaissance: The Foul and the Fragrant
    Course Description for ITAL 240
  • Sociophonetics of French and Gallo-Romance course
    FR 529

    Sociophonetics of French and Gallo-Romance

    FR 529 Sociophonetics of French and Gallo-Romance course
    Course Description for FR 529
  • FR 212
    FR 212

    Introduction to Cultural Analysis - French Identities

    Introduction to concepts of and debates on French national identity. Materials are drawn from a multiplicity of media and from many spheres of modern life in France: political, artistic, the everyday, etc. Identification of major resources for the study of culture and analysis of diverse cultural...
    Course Description for FR 212

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