Department News
Events
Spring 2012
The France-Florida Research Institute presents its 7th annual French Film Festival at the Hyppodrome State Theatre, 25 SE 2nd Place, Gainesville.
- Monday, January 16, 2012 - 7:00PM: Bled Number One by Rabah Ameur-Zaimeche.
- Tuesday, Januray 24, 2012 - 7:00PM: "Les Bureaux de Dieu" by Claire Simon.
- Tuesday, February 14, 2012 - 7:00PM: "La France" by Serge Bozon.
This event is free and open to the public. The festival was sponsored by the France-Florida Research Institute (UF) with the assistance of the French Cultural Services in New York and Miami. It is organized by Dr. Sylvie Blum-Reid, Associate Professor of French and Film in Languages, Literatures, and Cultures Department and Adam Jalali, program assistant.
To download the French Film poster, click here. (JPEG)
Fall 2011
Thursday, November 17, 2011
4:30 pm, 212 Library West
"Defiance for Christ's Sake: The Holy Fool in Religious and Secular Society"
Talk by Sergey A. Ivanov is a Senior Research Associate of the Institute of Slavic Studies (Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow)
For more information, click here. (PDF)
Monday, November 14, 2011
4:00 - 5:00pm, 302 Pugh Hall
Information Session for Master of Arts Program in French & Francophonie Studies
Topics include: application procedures & requirements, program structure, teaching & research opportunities
For more information, click here (PDF)
Monday, October 31, 2011
12:00 pm, Walker Hall 201D
"Prophecies of Paradise"
In this talk, Professor Watt will examine Christopher Columbus’s absorption and adaptation of the prevailing cosmology of the fifteenth century in creating a world model that bears a striking resemblance to that proposed in Dante’s Divina Commedia. Professor Watt will consider why Columbus preferred a literary model to that of the “hard scientists” of his time, and suggest that Columbus, like Dante, saw the world as having both literal and allegorical significance. In support of this argument she will examine Columbus’s own Book of Prophecies, (El Libro de las Profecias) together with Columbus’s extant letters, margin notes in his own books and his diaries and conclude that the explorer not only saw his journey as the fulfillment of medieval apocalyptic prophecy but also that he believed that what he had “discovered” was indeed Earthly Paradise perched, like Dante’s Earthly Paradise, atop the western antipodal landmass.
The Humanities Brown Bag Series features informal talks by the Center for the Humanities and the Public Sphere’s (CHPS) Rothman Summer Fellows. Faculty fellows will speak for 20-30 minutes in length about their summer work, leaving ample time for questions and discussion. Please feel free to bring your own lunch, and the CHPS will provide coffee and dessert.
For more information on becoming a Rothman Summer Fellow, see the Call for Proposals.
Tuesday, October 25, 2011
6:00 pm, The Harn Museum
"The First Sail: J. Hillis Miller," a film by Dragan Kujundzic, followed by a discussion with the director and J. Hillis Miller, and a reception.
Dragan Kujundzic is a Professor in the Center for Jewish Studies, UF.
The screening is made possible by The Alexander Grass Endowment, Department of English, France Florida Research Institute, Department of Languages, Literatures and Cultures, and the Center for the Humanities and the Public Sphere.
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