2025

Le cercle francophone/The French-Speaking Circle

Organized by Drs. Aurore Mroz, Marcus Keller (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign) & Florence Mathieu (Yankee Ridge), French language-learning community group, October 26 & November 2, 9 & 16, 2025

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2024

Art and Design Visiting Artist Series

Dr. Gloria Groom, "Gustave Caillebotte's Pictures of Paris," October 24, 2024

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Distinguished Alumni Lecture & Department of Linguistics Seminar Series 

Dr. Priscilla Charrat-Nelson (PhD, University of Illinois, 2017), Assistant Professor of French and Arabic, Bradley University

"Strategic Success: Mastering the SLAC (Small Liberal Arts Colleges) Job Market in a Transforming Educational Landscape," April 26, 2024

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International Conference 

Organizing/Scientific Committee: Drs. Claire Bourhis-Mariotti (University of Paris 8),  Markian Dobczansky, Heather Duncan,  Mauro Nobili, & Amanda Smith (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign)

"Paradigms of Racialization: Alternative Sources," April 18-19, 2024

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2023

Distinguished Alumni Lecture & Department of Linguistics Seminar Series 

Dr. Christopher M. Stewart (PhD, University of Illinois, 2009), Google (LA) & University of Memphis

"From French Linguistics to Speech Science to Data Science to Google: Getting from Here to There," March 27, 2023

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 2022

Dr. Christine Adams, "Fashion + Politics: Élégantes and Merveilleuses under the Directory and Beyond," public lecture, October 11, 2022
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Lecture-Recital by Dr. Heidi J. Tsai

"A Transgenre Tale: Abbot François-Timoléon de Choisy and transcriptions for the harpsichord in 17th-century France"

April 19, 2022

 

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2021

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FRIT Distinguished Alumni & SLCL Professional Lecture Series Presentation 

Michael J. Mulryan (PhD, University of Illinois, 2009), Associate Professor of French, Christopher Newport University

“How to Publish Rather than Perish in the American Liberal Arts College: Making Connections, Maintaining Continuity, and Understanding University Culture,” February 9, 2021 (online)

 

 

2020

Callisto McNulty and Nicole Fernandez Ferrer, “The Disobedient Muse: Film, Video, and Feminist Activism in France, 1970-2020,” film screening and mini-conference, February 15, 2020
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Rokhaya Diallo, “Not your mama’s movement,” public lecture and screening, February 13, 2020
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2019

Brigitte Weltman-Aron, “Whales and Disaster: Hélène Cixous on the Figure of Jonah,” public lecture, December 10, 2019
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Philippe Mesnard, “Primo Levi’s Writing: Between Testimony and Fiction,” public lecture, October 24, 2019
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François Ozon, “Beyond Appearances: An Evening with François Ozon” (Marianne Midwest livestream from Chicago), October 23, 2019
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Dominique Kalifa, “Vice, Crime, and Poverty: How the Western Imagination Invented the  Underworld,” graduate student workshop, April 19, 2019
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Dominique Kalifa, “Paris, Capital of Love: On the topography of the imaginary of desire and love in Paris (1860-1960),” public lecture, April 18, 2019 

 

2018

Alison James, “Facts and Counterfactuals in Recent French Literature,” public lecture, April 26, 2018
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“Au coeur de mai 68,” photography exhibition, April 24, 25 and 26, 2018
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“Mai 68 : Un étrange printemps,” documentary film screening, April 24, 2018 
Lionel Ruffel, “Un livre dangereux,” public lecture, April 17, 2018 
Lionel Ruffel, “Archaeology of the Contemporary,” public lecture, April 16, 2018
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Geneviève Fraisse, “Consent, Sexual Harassment, And Feminism in France,” public lecture, February 1, 2018
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