CALL FOR PAPERS - Mutations and Permutations of Care: Graduate Conference

^{Friday, April 4th, 2025 - Saturday, April 5th, 2025}

The French and Francophone World Studies graduate program is hosting a conference in the Spring 2025 semester. They are currently seeking papers for this conference. For more information, see the Call for Papers page here.

Lecture/Discussion featuring award-winning Haitian writer Kettly Mars and Assistant Professor of Francophone Studies and translator, Nathan Dize, Washington University in St. Louis, co-sponsored by the Obermann Center for Advanced Studies

^{Thursday, Nov. 16th, 2023 at 2:00 pm}

A discussion of Mars's novel Je suis vivant (2015) and Dize's translation I am alive (2022) with students in Professor Anny-Dominique Curtius's course on Haiti

Works on Memory: Concepts and Projects - Memorial to the Abolition of Slavery in Nantes, France

^{Thursday, Sept. 29th, 2022 - 3:30 pm}

A talk by Architect and Professor Julian Bonder, Roger Williams University, Bristol, Rhode Island

African Art Restitution, Museums, and the Politics of Heritage: Lessons from the Belgian-Congolese Case

^{Monday, Apr. 25th, 2022 - 3:30 pm}

A talk by Dr. Sarah Van Beurden, Associate Professor of History and African American and African Studies, Ohio State University

Rethinking Museums as Spaces of Social Justice

^{Friday, Apr. 8th, 2022 - 9:00 am}

A talk by Geraldine Frieslaar, Curator of Research, Dialogue, and Social Justice at Stellenbosch University Museum, South Africa

Spring 2023 Lecture Series - FREN:6001 - Reimagining Humanities Scholarship

Organized and team-taught by Professors Anny-Dominique Curtius and Downing Thomas
Sponsored by the Ambassade de France/FACE Foundation and the Office of the Provost at the University of Iowa