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a message from the department chair
Welcome to the Department of French and Italian at the University of Southern California. Our faculty members are collectively committed to working across disciplinary and national boundaries—and indeed to rethinking disciplinarity itself in innovative ways. As a department, we emphasize the global resonance of French and Italian Studies in addition to the impact of literature and film on cultural, political, social, and environmental contexts. The interests of our faculty range across contemporary literary theory and philosophy, Francophone cinema and culture, Italian and French modernity, Renaissance intellectual and cultural life, and early modern thought and narrative. We work in close collaboration with the Francophone Research and Resource Center, part of a national network of pluridisciplinary centers, which sustains physical and intellectual spaces for the critical exchange of ideas and facilitates the visit of Francophone and French writers, critics, scholars, artists, and filmmakers to USC. Through support from the Center, and through faculty initiatives sponsored by programs including the College Commons, Visions and Voices, the USC-Huntington Early Modern Studies Institute and the Shoah Foundation Institute, we regularly reach out to students and colleagues throughout the university, and to the wider Southern Californian community as a whole. MORE
department news
The Department of French and Italian invites you to a talk by:
Nicholas Harrison
Professor of French and Postcolonial Studies
King's College London
"Yesterday's Mujahiddin: Sources of Islamic Inspiration in Pontecorvo's _Battle of Algiers_"
Thursday, December 1
4:30-6 PM
Taper Hall 170
All are welcome. Refreshments will be served. Please direct any questions to
Natania Meeker at nmeeker@usc.edu.
Octobre 61 a 50 ans
The Paris Massacre:
Then and Now
University of Southern California
October 27, 2011
Octobre 61 a 50 ans
The Paris Massacre:
Then and Now
8-10:45 AM October 17 in Historical Perspective
in
ACB 238
Videoconference hosted by the Centre de Recherche en Anthropologie
Sociale et Culturelle (CRASC): Ali Haroun, Hassan Remaoun,
Anissa
Bouayed, Amar Mohand-Amer.
Moderated by Laurie Brand.
For a link to a video of this presentation, click here
1-2:45 PM October 17 in the Arts
in the Leavey Auditorium
Mohamed Rouabhi
Rachel Shapiro
Moderated by Olivia Harrison.
3-5 PM Film screening:
Nuit noire 17 octobre 1961
in the
Leavey Auditorium
Presented by Panivong Norindr.
En collaboration avec
le Department of French & Italian
le Department of Comparative literature
et le Francophone Research Center
Alain Borer
vous invite à rencontrer
é
Jean-Pierre Siméon
poète et dramaturge
MARDI 25 OCTOBRE 12h-14h
salle de conversation française,
à la pause-café du mardi de midi à 14h
Jean-Pierre Siméon, professeur agrégé de Lettres Modernes, a enseigné à l'IUFM de Clermont-Ferrand, puis fondé le festival Les Langagières à la Comédie de Reims. Auteur associé au Théâtre National Populaire de Villeurbanne il co-dirige la collection Grand Fonds à Cheyne Éditeur. Directeur artistique du Printemps des poètes, notre poète visiteur est également l’auteur d’une vingtaine de livres qui lui ont valu le prix Théophile Briant en 1978, le prix Maurice Scève en 1981, le prix Antonin Artaud en 1984 pour Fuite de l'immobile et le prix Guillaume Apollinaire en 1994 pour Le sentiment du monde.
UPC (University Park Campus) USC, THH 170
(Taper Hall of Humanities 170)
(Interactive campus maps and driving direction: http://web-app.usc.edu/maps/)
The Veronica Franco Project, sponsored by CLAS Office of the Provost, is an interdisciplinary database created by Professor Rosenthal and her USC undergraduate students to honor the life and work of Veronica Franco. The releases of Margaret F. Rosenthal’s The Honest Courtesan (1992) and the Warner Brother’s film, Dangerous Beauty (1998), adapted from her book, led to an exciting growth in global interest on Franco. We hope this will help foster intellectual discussions among academic and non-academic audiences.
FALL 2011 SELECTED COURSE OFFERINGS IN FRENCH AND ITALIAN
SPRING 2012 SELECTED COURSE OFFERINGS IN FRENCH AND ITALIAN
events
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History and Tradition 
October 4 - May 11 Black-and-white images culled from the USC Archives and the USC Digital Library celebrate the iconic architecture and traditions that have helped shape the university’s identity. |
| Early Modern British History: Barbara Donagan
February 11 |
| American Origins: Public History Program
February 11 |
program announcements:
PAUSE CAFÉ TUESDAYS 12 NOON-1PM (French Table)
TAVOLA ITALIANA WEDNESDAYS 12 NOON-1PM (Italian Table)
ARE HELD EACH WEEK AT
UPC (University Park Campus) USC, THH 170
(Taper Hall of Humanities 170)
(Interactive campus maps and driving direction: http://web-app.usc.edu/maps/)