Nov 9, 2021
Cabaret evening
The German program is hosting this annual event featuring performances by students, faculty, and friends, followed by a Germany-related trivia game.
Foreign languages and literatures
Jun 14, 2021
A merry chirp
Classical writers admired cicadas so much they wrote poems about them.
Jun 1, 2021
Lafayette hosting international middle French conference
It will unite scholars from the U.S., Austria, Belgium, Canada, France, Hungary, and Italy.
Apr 15, 2021
French fellowship
Prof. Annie de Saussure has won the Walter J. Jensen Fellowship, which funds a trip of at least six months to France to improve instruction.
Apr 13, 2021
Diversity and decolonization
The series features discussions of the histories and literatures of the African diaspora in the French and Spanish-speaking Caribbean.
Mar 21, 2021
Zombie epidemics
Raphael Koenig of the Met and Harvard will talk about zombie epidemics and literary modernity in I.L. Peretz’s Yiddish short story The Dead Town.
Feb 24, 2021
Art and resistance in WWII France
Raphael Koenig of Harvard will give a talk on "Art, Resistance, and Psychiatry in Saint-Alban (1940-1944)" on March 4.
Nov 11, 2020
Cabaret evening
All performances are welcome. Music, poetry, theater, storytelling, visual art, or something entirely unexpected—in all languages and forms—live or…
Nov 4, 2020
Unsung hero: Mary Toulouse
Mary Toulouse, FL&LRC director and French professor, had her eye on the storm when we first started hearing about the possibility of a coronavirus outbreak…
Oct 19, 2020
Francosteins in Spain
Prof. Katie Stafford will speak on "Francosteins: Fascist monsters, misfits and imaginaries in Democratic Spain" on Friday, Oct. 30.