Past events

• 2014

• November 22  Utiliser les médias français en cours de français   Elsa Santamaria

• May 10    Free Workshop: 1914-2014 History and Cinema in the French Classroom, the example of Joyeux Noël   Anne-Christine Rice

• April 10    Rachida Madani: Femme je suis

• April 5    Free Workshop: Cultural and Linguistic Immersion in the Beginning French Classroom, Julia Chamberlin

• March 11    Francophonie Day at USC

• March 8    Business French: Another Approach to Language and Culture

• February 27    Symposium - Portraits and Fictions of the Self: Representations of Women’s Knowledge in the 16th-18th Centuries

• 2013

• December 7    Workshop : Action-oriented Methodology: Students' Tasks and Video Resources

• October 17      Roundtable : Translating North African Literature, Pierre Joris

• October 15      Pierre Joris : Reading and Author Talk

• May 4         Using Multimedia & Authentic Materials in the French Classroom

• March 23   Multimedia tools to teach Contemporary French Literature

• March 12    Journée de la Francophonie

• Feb 8th         Politics in Art Forms

• 2012

• Dec 8th       Advancing Oral Skills by Anneli Mclachlan

• Nov 13th       Mediterraneans/Méditerranéennes by Dr. Kenneth Brown      

• Nov 6th         Michel Le Bris: When California was French    

• Oct 11th        Reading from A Tunisian Tale by Hassouna Mosbahi

• Oct 4th        The American Poem by Yves di Manno

• Sept 24        Reading and Author Talk : Fabien Vehlmann

• Apr 28         Teaching French with Global Simulation, Pascal K Douglas

• Apr 18          Barthes et les enjeux sexuels de la pratique musicale, Francois Noudelmann

• Apr 5           Literature as a space of contagion, Catherine Mavrikakis

• Mar 24         58th Annual Society for French Historical Studies conference

• Mar 31          Teaching French culture in class, Bernard Gruas

• Mar 27        Celebrating Francophonie and the Francophone World

• Mar 3           Making an audiovisual production in French class, Gerard Colavecchio

• Jan 30         Café des Sciences, Laetitia Dablanc

• 2011

• Dec 3          AP French Language and Culture: Strategizing for Success, Brian Kennelly

• Oct 27         Octobre 61 a 50 ans:, The Paris Massacre: Then and Now

• Oct 25         Jean-Pierre Siméon

• Oct 12         Café des Sciences, Cecile Favre

• Apr 11         Between philosophy and poetics today: the question of the didactic poem, Philippe Beck

• Apr 2         Teaching French using the media, Bernard Patel

• Mar 21        Café des Sciences, Ludovic Righetti

• Mar 8         USA-France: Encounters for sciences and humanities

• Mar 5        Ecrire pour faire écrireTechnique d'écriture créative en classe de Français et FLE, Gerard Greverand

• 2010

• Nov 13             Real French for the classroom: using authentic material to improve listening skills, Lidwien van Dixhoorn

• Nov 5                 The Future of French studies in California

• Oct 29                    Le Café des Sciences

• Oct 25                    Disciplining post-colonial studies: language, empire and the academy, David Murphy

• Oct 7                    Watching the West from afar:A French Perspective

• Sep 27            Gilles deleuze et le cinéma, François Dosse

• Sep 13            The Colonial Comedy: Imperialism amd Race in French Realist Fiction, Jennifer Yee

• Apr 18          International reading festival

• Apr 8           Deterritorializing French and Francophone Studies Winifred Woodhull

• Feb 20         The Art of Teaching French, Bring French to life in the French classroom through movement and theater   

• Jan 28        Lire le délire: archives, politique et déraison Laure Murat

• 2009

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  Nov 7                    Teaching Francophonie in the French classroom-Nathalie Burle

• Oct 22                   Making race: medicine, slavery and the rising of the French nation Elsa Dorlin,

• May 2                   Teaching with TV5 Monde - Madeleine Flanagan

• April 28                 International Reading Festival

• March 28              Teaching with Radio - Mathilde Landier

• March 6                Project Banlieue Colloquium

• Feb 21                 Teachers Workshop: Teaching/Learning Strategies to Understand Related Languages: French and Spanish in the Framework of Intercomprehension between Romance Languages

• Feb 20                 Project Banlieue - Laurent Dubreuil: " Notes Towards a Poetics of Banlieue"

• Feb 14                 Project Banlieue - Valérie Amiraux & Olivier Roy

• Jan 30                Project Banlieue - Mustafa Dikeç: Riots as Unarticulated Justice Movements

• 2008

• Nov 22                 Teachers Workshop: Teaching French with the Communicative Approach

• Nov 14            Project Banlieue - Marc Hatzfeld: "The 2005 Riots in France: Story of an Announced Disaster"

• Oct 21              A lecture/discussion with French poet Jacques Darras

• Oct 17              Project Banlieue-Daniel Sabbagh: "The Controversy over 'Ethnic Statistics' and The French Affirmative Action Model"

• Oct 16             Jean-Michel Espitallier: Caisses à outils, un panorama de la poésie française aujourd'hui

• April 19         Teacher's training:Teaching French with film, an integrated approach

• Mar 8             Beyond the iconic, contemporary photographs of Paris, guided tour by Jean-Christophe Ballot

• Mar 4              Anne-Marie Thiesse : les romans-feuilletons et leurs lectrices a la Belle-Époque

• 2007

• Dec 17                 The USC Francophone Resource Center received the French ambassador to the United States, Pierre Vimont

• Dec 5                     Gisèle Seginger : Flaubert, une écriture de l'histoire

• Oct 9                    André Velter et Zéno Bianu

• Oct 5, 6             Soundeye poetry between languages

•  Sept 5              Anna Moï : écrire en français dans le Vietnam d'aujourd'hui

• April 20           Rachid Boudjedra : Faulkner et la littérature maghrébine

• April 17           Hélène Sanguinetti et Ann Cefola : Hence this cradle

• April 14           Teachers' training : Teaching French with music with Charles Chemery & Rémi Dapère

• February 8      Dr Béatrice Mousli Bennett, the director of the Francophone Resource Center, was honored for her career and her contribution to French culture and language with the "Chevalier dans l'ordre des Palmes Académiques" award.

• 2006

• Nov 9             David Lepoutre : Family memory and the relation to the past in working class immigrant families

• Nov 3             Jean-Pierre Jeunet : Delicatessen followed by Q&A

• Oct 26           Faïza Guène : Kiffe Kiffe Demain

• Oct 24           Bruce Bégout : La découverte du quotidien, esquisse d'une philosophie de la vie quotidien et The Mezzonians : Django Night : Live Gypsy Jazz

• Oct 18           Grégoire Bouillier : "Ecriture de la réalité et réalité de l'écriture"

• Oct 12           Laurent Thévenot : "How are moral exectations real? Researching troubles in the coordination of action."

• Jun 15-17      Los Angeles : A Different look at a different city

• Apr 20           Thierry Breton, French Minister for the Economy, Finance and Industry

• Apr 14           2nd French-American week of contemporary poetry

• Apr 3             His Excellency Jean-David Levitte, French ambassador to the U.S

• April/May/June               Photography workshop with Olivier Culmann

• Mar 24 - Apr 24        Conference : Women in the public sphere:
  French and American perspective

• Mar 11          Teachers' Training: Teaching French with photography

• 2005

• Nov 12       Teachers' Training : Teaching French with comic strip

• Oct 24        David Prochaska : All in the family

• Oct 20          Christophe Fiat : Class visit

• Oct 10          Valérie Mréjen : reading

• May 2         Teachers' Training: Understanding and using French media in the classroom

• Apr 28          Géraldine Muhlmann : Journalism and democracy, a view from Paris

• Apr 26          Four Poets from Quebec : Writing in French in North America

• Apr 22          Elisabeth Boyi : Inversion and subversion, African and colonial novels

• Apr 14,15   Trinh T. Minh-ha

• Mar 30        Fahrad Khosrokhavar, New perspectives on Islam (4), Allah's new martyrs

• Mar 23        Business French: New approaches on teaching and thinking the discipline

• Mar 11        Debarati Sanyal : Bodies in motion, Baudelaire's women and the forms of modernity

• Mar 2           Robert Boyer : Evolution and diversity in contemporary capitalism

• Feb 22       Jean-Pierre Azéma : Historiography of Vichy France

• Feb 18       Dominic Thomas : The mediation of global blackness, Ousmane Sembène and Richard Wright

• Feb 17        Edgar Pisani : Economy, society-nature, politics

• 2004

• Nov 16, 17, 18   Perfume workshop with Valérie Lajeanne

• Nov 11         Georges Corm: New perspectives on Islam (3), the determinants of sustainable development and governance in the Arab world

• Oct 26           Jean-Michel  Espitallier

• Oct 25           Jean Bauberot : New perspectives on Islam (2), France and the United States, two models of separation between Church and State

• Oct 2              Teachers' Training: Teaching French with TV5

• Sept 22          Claude Imbert : The French exception

• Sept 16          Francois Burgat : New perspectives on Islam (1), face to face with political Islam

• Sept 9              Christian Delage and Vincent Guigueno : The historian and film, writing history with and through film

• Apr 16              His Excellency Jean-David Levitte, French ambassador to the U.S

• Feb 18            The role of NGOs in public debate and international relations

• 2003

• Dec 5                 Blandine Kriegel : French and American republics, two philosophies of international relationships ?

• Nov 12             Pierre Mumbere-Mujomba : Life as a writer in the Democratic Republic of Congo