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"Fourier's Materialist Aesthetics: The Alliance of the Scientific and the Marvellous"

THE USC FRANCOPHONE RESEARCH AND RESOURCE CENTER &
THE DEPARTMENT OF FRENCH AND ITALIAN
PRESENT

"Fourier's Materialist Aesthetics:
The Alliance of the Scientific
and the Marvelous"

A lecture by Blanca Missé

FRIDAY NOV 22 | 11 A.M. - 12:30 P.M.
THH 309K
Blanca Missé is an Assistant Professor of French in the Modern Languages and Literatures Department at San Francisco State University. She has a Master in Political Philosophy from the University of Paris X Nanterre (2007), and a Ph. D. in French with a Designated Emphasis in Critical Theory from the University of California Berkeley (2014).

“The Christian Roots of d’Holbach’s Atheism”

Taper Hall (THH), 271

3501 Trousdale Parkway, Los Angeles, CA 90089

Ruggero Sciuto Hertford College and the Voltaire Foundation, University of Oxford

“The Christian Roots of d’Holbach’s Atheism”

Wednesday, January 16: 3:30 – 5 PM

Taper Hall 271 (Slavic Conference Room)
A reception will accompany the talk

Co-sponsored by the USC Francophone Research & Resource Center and the USC Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures

Libertine Botany


Libertine Botany:
French Vegetal Materialism in
Transhistorical and Transnational Contexts
November 29-30, 2018
University of Southern California, Los Angeles
Natania Meeker and Antónia Szabari, co-organizers

Location: DML 240

Lecture with Gerty Dambury

Join us for a lecture this Thursday by award-winning writer Gerty Damburyas part of the Intersexions of Gender / Intersexions du Genre / Intersexioni di Genere year-long lecture series organized by the Department of French and Italian and co-sponsored by the Francophone Research and Resource Center. 

Dambury is a theater director, novelist, and poet from Guadeloupe. In her new novel The Restless, her English-language debut, a young girl’s curiosity about her teacher’s sudden disappearance sets the stage for a resonant analysis of 1960s Pointe-à-Pître and the racial and class conflicts that led to a massacre. Her talk is entitled “Missing People, Missing History: Gender, Trauma and Uprising in Guadeloupe.”  It takes place: 

Thursday November 8th 

4:30pm, Taper Hall 309k 

The Intersexions of Gender / Intersexions du Genre / Intersexioni di Genere lecture series features artists and scholars from across Europe, Africa, and the Americas whose work opens up new territories of relation between studies of gender, languages, and literatures. Guest speakers will offer fresh and creative perspectives on dynamics of gender around the world, taking on critical issues ranging from homophobic violence and feminist solidarity, to ideas about girlhood and transgender communities.

Information Session |How to become a teacher in a French Immersion Program?


INFORMATION SESSION at UCLA Royce Hall 236
on May 8th from 6.30pm to 8pm

Get all your credentialing questions answered by experts from:
The Graduate School of Education and Information Studies at UCLA
Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD)

There will also be Testimonials by American and French teachers!

COMMENT DEVENIR ENSEIGNANT DANS UN PROGRAMME D’IMMERSION BILINGUE EN FRANÇAIS?

Réunion d'information le lundi 8 mai de 18h30 à 20h
à UCLA Royce Hall 236

Venez poser vos questions à propos du système d’accréditation de l’état de Californie (credentials) aux experts de:
The Graduate School of Education and Information Studies at UCLA
Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD)

Vous pourrez également écouter les Témoignages d’enseignants français et américains !

More info: frenchlanguage@consulfrance-losangeles.org

Parking lot 4 & 5: maps.ucla.edu/campus

DETAILED PROGRAM - FREE EVENT - RSVP HERE

Teacher Workshop | Enseigner le français avec les médias


Quand ? Samedi 1 avril de 8h30 à 16h

 ? Leavey Library - Room 13

Intitulé : Enseigner le français avec les médias : D'où vient l'info ?

Intervenant : Eric Schweitzer, formateur audiovisuel au CLEMI (Le Centre pour L'Éducation aux Médias et à l'Information)

Descriptif : Face aux flux impétueux d’information et de communication sur les réseaux, aux supports démultipliés, à la confusion des genres médiatiques et à la concentration économique croissante des médias, il est nécessaire pour tout un chacun de développer des compétences médiatiques renforcées pour comprendre les mécanismes sociaux, techniques, économiques et politiques de notre société contemporaine. Ici résident de véritables enjeux de citoyenneté et de démocratie... 

Cette formation se déroulera en deux temps :

- Dans un premier temps, nous explorerons des pistes pédagogiques destinées à aider les élèves à forger leur esprit critique pour les aider à se repérer face à la multitude des infos et des images qu’ils reçoivent (qu’elles viennent de pays francophones ou non).

- Dans un deuxième temps, nous proposerons aux stagiaires de réaliser leurs propres vidéos et de découvrir ainsi les techniques de prises de vues, de sons, de montage et de réalisation ainsi que des outils permettant la réalisation dans le cadre de la classe.

Pour participer RSVP à frc@usc.edu avant le 31 mars.

BILINGUAL DAY Dedicated to French Bilingual Programs

 

Are you interested in bilingual education? Are you a teacher, a prospective teacher, a parent or an administrator?

JOIN US for the first bilingual day dedicated to French Bilingual Programs on March 25th at USC from 8:30am to 5pm

Shared - practice discussions will address the following topics: 

Bilingual programs models
Advocacy
Opening a bilingual program
Curricula
Recruitment and credentialing 

 

DETAILED PROGRAM HERE

 
 
Become part of a growing community!

 

 

 

 

 

Talk with Daniel Laforest

 

The Departments of French & Italian, Comparative Literature, the Francophone Research & Resource Center and the Levan Institute for Humanities and Ethics are pleased to invite you to a 

Talk with Daniel Laforest

“ Health Storytelling, Cellular Narratives, and Authenticity: The Weird Things Literature Does with the Body ”

March 2, 2 – 4 pm, Taper Hall 309K

Daniel Laforest is Associate Professor of French & Cultural Studies at the University of Alberta. He works across the fields of Quebec Studies, Canadian Studies (in French and English), philosophy and critical theory, biomedicine, the medical humanities, cinema, media, and literature. Head of an inter- disciplinary research project on the biomedical body, health and storytelling in North American cities, Laforest is the author of L'âge de plastique: lire la ville contemporaine au Québec and co-editor of the bilingual collection Reading the Biomedical Body/Lire le corps biomédical

Talk & Conversation | Ben Tran & Viet Thanh Nguyen

 

The Departments of French & Italian, English, and Comparative Literature, the Transpacific Studies Research Cluster of the Department of American Studies and Ethnicity, and the USC Francophone Research & Resource Center are pleased to invite you to a 

Talk by Ben Tran, followed by a conversation with Viet Thanh Nguyen

“Negative Paradise: Rethinking Anglophone and World Literature as Literary Dubbing”

November 14, 4 – 6pm, Doheny Memorial Library 240

Teacher Workshop | La différenciation pédagogique


Quand ? Samedi 19 novembre de 8h30 à 13h

? Leavey Library - Room 16

Intitulé : La différenciation pédagogique : propositions pour  faire cours avec des niveaux hétérogènes

Intervenant : Pierre-Yves ROUX, responsable de l’unité expertise et projets au CIEP (Centre international d’études pédagogiques)

Problématique : Prendre en compte les différences de niveaux des élèves en utilisant des stratégies relevant de la différenciation pédagogique dans ses pratiques de classe.

Contenu : l’intervention se penchera successivement sur les questions suivantes :
- Pourquoi différencier ?
- A partir de quoi différencier ?
- Que peut-on différencier ?
- Comment différencier ?
- Comment gérer sa classe ?
- Quelles sont les conditions d’une différenciation efficace ?

Modalités : l’intervention privilégiera les aspects pratiques de la différenciation, et alternera les présentations en plénières et les travaux et réflexions en sous-groupes et ateliers.

Bibliographie et sitographie sélectives :
- Pédagogie différenciée ; Kahn S. - De Boeck, 2010
- Aider tous les élèves : guide pratique de différenciation : école maternelle et élémentaire ; Burger O. - Chronique sociale, 2010
- Miser sur les différences : êtres gagnants ; Hoeben S. / Leroy P-M. / Reuter P. - Labor, 2010
- Comment pratiquer la pédagogie différenciée avec de jeunes adolescents ? : la réussite scolaire pour tous ; Hume K. - De Boeck Université, 2009
Différenciation
- La pédagogie différenciée : historique, problématique, cadre conceptuel et méthodologie de mise en œuvre
- La pédagogie différenciée

Pour être plus complet

Pour participer RSVP à frc@usc.edu avant le 10 novembre.

Conference | Early Modern French Diplomacy and Theater


This two-day symposium on October 20th and 21st, 2016 at the University of Southern California invites scholars to explore the links between diplomacy and theater in early modern France.

Early modern diplomacy was a secret affair conducted through negotiations and documents to which very few were privy. Early modern theater, from the sixteenth century on, abounds in what Timothy Hampton has aptly termed “fictions embassy” featuring ambassadors, spies, envoys, and other mediators.

The aim of the symposium is to forge links between these two realms, the private or secret realm of diplomacy and the public (or, presented to a public) one of theater. 

This conference will be ponctuate with several panels: 

Antónia Szabari, University of Southern California: Friendship with the Enemy: The Rhetoric of Prolonging Diplomacy in the Ottoman Empire

Toby Wikström, Tulane University: Performing Diplomacy on the Margins: Cross-Cultural Negotiations in Early Modern French Theater 

Katherine Ibbett, University College of London: The Ambassador in Translation 

Timothy Hampton, University of California, Berkeley: Diplomatic Plots:  The Time of Delay 

Caroline Trotot, Université Paris, Marne La Vallée: Médiations diplomatiques, médiations littéraires et construction de l'identité dans l'ambassade en Flandres de Marguerite de Valois

Anna Rosensweig, University of Rochester: Affect, Mediation, and Popular Sovereignty in Sixteenth-Century Resistance Theory

Ellen McClure, University of Illinois, Chicago: Diplomacy and the Donkey in La Fontaine’s, Le pouvoir des fables 

Ellen R. Welch, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill: Unmasking Diplomacy: Theater and Theatricality in L’histoire amoureuse et badine du Congrès d’Utrecht (1714)

Isabelle Nathan, Archives nationales: Les Archives diplomatiques, entre forteresse du secret d’Etat et recherche historique

Indravati Félicité, Université Paris-Diderot: Le cérémonial diplomatique aux XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles : un théâtre politique subversif ?

Nathan Perl-Rosenthal, University of Southern California: How to Do Things With Paper: Materiality, Performance and Genre in French Revolutionary Correspondence, ca. 1789-1794

 

Film Screening | La promesse


The USC Department of French and Italian cordially invites you to the screening of the acclaimed movie La Promesse by Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne. "La Promesse" was voted the Best Foreign Language Film of 1997 by America's National Society of Film Critics !


The screening will be followed by a Q&A with French Department Faculty (discussion of issues raised in the film such as illegal immigration).

Reception to follow with French desserts!

More about La promesse

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