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French Studies Advisory Board

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About us

The French Advisory Board was started four years ago to create more public awareness and financial support for French Studies at the University of Washington. With these goals in mind, we have raised over $150,000 to support graduate student and junior faculty in their research endeavors. As part of our cultural mission, we have sponsored speakers, heard presentations by faculty and graduate students, and have had receptions to cultivate interest and attract new Board members.

Under the leadership of Prof. Albert Sbragia, the new Chairman of FIS, our Board is made up academics, professional people, and native French speakers as well as Americans associated with the French community. We would like to be as inclusive as possible in our diversity and are always looking for people who care about France and the health of French Studies at the UW. We conduct book discussion groups, and support film viewings and academic conferences on campus. We also plan to host a ‘summit’ on campus to bring together the various French associations of the Puget Sound area.

In the coming year, we will continue our expansion of financial support for French Studies as well as enrich the cultural experience of our Board and the greater community of Francophiles.

Joan Cremin, Chair

Members

Maggy Bailly - Chair

Kathleen Brunner

Stephan Coonrod

Jack Cowan

Joan Cremin

Denyse Delcourt

Monica Howell

Françoise Martin -
Chair Elect

Albert Sbragia

Geoffrey Turnovsky

Hubert Vesselle

Geir Watland

Events

Sunday, July 13, 2008

Bastille Day Celebration at Seattle Center

To celebrate Bastille Day, the French dept advisory board will be present
from 10am to 6pm in Fisher Pavilion at Seattle Center, in association with the Seattle French Consulate and the French Chamber of Commerce.

On our menu for the day will be "des nourritures terrestres et spirituelles,"
delicious pastries, and an occasion to meet with our Resident Writer, Denyse Delcourt, author of Gabrielle au bois dormant (trans. as Gabrielle and the Long Sleep into Mourning).

We invite you to come and support French Studies.

Profile of Denyse Delcourt
Denyse Delcourt is a writer and a medievalist. She is the author of two books, L'Ethique du changement dans le roman français du Moyen Age (Geneva: Droz, 1990) and Gabrielle au bois dormant (Montréal: Trois, 2001), a novel. She is currently working on her second novel. She has published articles on French medieval romances in Le Moyen Français, The Romanic Review, Medieavalia & Humanistica, Medieovo Romanzo, and MLN, among others. She has been teaching at the University of Washington since 1990. Other teaching experiences include Queens (Canada), Emory, Northwestern and Duke universities. Her teaching interests are Old French language and literature, contemporary Québécois literature and French fairy tales.

May 10-23, 2008

FAFFF at the U.W. French and Francophone Film Festival (pdf format)

The French Graduate Association is proud to present the 1st annual French and Francophone film festival here at the University of Washington. This film series has been structured to explore several key issues surrounding ethnicity, multiculturalism and identity in the postcolonial francophone world. The diegesis of the films selected work through issues of generational and cultural divide (Le Grand Voyage), national identity (10th District Court), immigration and immigration policy in Europe (Hop), suburban culture and the use of language in identity constructs (L'esquive), ethnic and religious tolerance (La Petite Jerusalem) and institutionalized racism in the workplace (The Glass Ceiling).

Contacts
Festival website: http://staff.washington.edu/stromj/festival/
Joel Strom stromj@u.washington.edu

February 26, 2008

Seattle Repertory Theatre presents Moliere's Le Malade Imaginaire (The Imaginary Invalid)

On February 26, the UW French Studies Program will host a pre-performance reception and brief lecture by French Literature Professor Geoffrey Turnovsky.

$50 per person ($30 for students). Includes reception and a ticket to the play. Proceeds benefit the UW French Studies Program.

For tickets call 206-616-4943, or email jakel@u.washington.edu. Space is limited.


October 19, 2007

The French Advisory Board for French Studies at the University of Washington cordially invites you to an informal book discussion of Manon Lescaut by the Abbé Prévost.

Discussion will be led by Professor Geoffrey Turnovsky and will take place on Friday, October 19, from 12:00 to 1:00 in the Simpson Center for the Humanities, Communications Building (CMU), Room 202, University of Washington.

For location of Communications Building please see
http://www.washington.edu/home/maps/northcentral.html?CMU or ask at any toll booth as you enter campus. Nearest parking is in the Padelford garage (parking ticket necessary). For more information (206) 543-6241.

Published in 1731, Manon Lescaut is a tale of love, travel and adventure as a young nobleman, the Chevalier Des Grieux incurs debt, hardship and his fathers disapproval in the pursuit and maintenance of the beautiful Manon. Controversial in its time and was banned in France upon publication. Despite this it became very popular and pirated editions were widely distributed. In a subsequent 1753 edition, the Abbé Prévost toned down some scandalous details and injected more moralizing disclaimers.

Prof. Geoffrey Turnovsky joined the French Studies faculty at the University of Washington in the fall of 2006. His specialty is the literature and cultural history of 17th- and 18th-century France. Turnovsky's research focuses on the evolving institutional contexts of intellectual careers in this period. His publications include articles on Corneille, Diderot, Rousseau, as well as on marginal writers and the literary market in the late 18th century, which have appeared in SVEC, Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture, and Eighteenth-Century Studies.

 
 

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