Seminar Series

Department of French Studies seminars take place every second Thursday (except special events – see in parentheses below) from 5.15 to 6.30 pm in Brennan MacCallum 524 (SLC common room).

5.15 | Thursday 21 August
Brennan MacCallum 524 (SLC common room)
“Veoir apertement: le graal dans les manuscrits medievaux”.
Andrea Williams
Department of French Studies, University of Sydney

Presented by the Sydney University Arts Association

5pm for 6-7pm | Thursday 28 August
Lecture Theatre N395, Woolley Building

Lloyd Rees: Artist and Teacher Event
Dr Edward Duyker
Honorary Associate of the Department of French Studies
University of Sydney

5.15 | Thursday 11 September
Brennan MacCallum 524 (SLC common room)
“The education of the witch in the Prose Lancelot Cycle & Orlando Furioso by Ludovico Ariosto” — Pip Muratore (Honours student) and "Antonin Artaud's letters to Anie Besnard.” — Natalie Camerlinck (Honours student)

5.15 | Thursday 18 September
Eastern Avenue Lecture Theatre
“History, Modernity & the Muslim World Between Europe and Asia”
Public Forum with international speakers Brigitte Rollet [France], Elaheh Rostami-Povey [Iran/UK] and Irwan Abdullah [Indonesia]. Opened by Head of School Professor Jeffrey Riegel.

5.15 | Thursday 25 September
Brennan MacCallum 524 (SLC common room)
“Le cinéma beur” — Caitlin Brown (Honours student) and "Three Maghrebian Francophone novels from the 1980s: L’amour la fanatasia by Assia Djebar, L’Enfant de sable by Tahar Ben Jelloun and L’Oeil du jour by Hélé Béji." — Bernadette Gemmell (Honours student)

5.15 | Thursday 9 October
Brennan MacCallum 524 (SLC common room)
“Linguistic analysis of front page articles of Le Courrier Australien following the occupation of Paris in 1940.”
Charles Stott (Honours student)

5.15 | Thursday 23 October
Brennan MacCallum 524 (SLC common room)
Film studies (topic TBC)
Miriam Thompson (Phd student and departmental tutor)

5.15 | Thursday 6 November
Brennan MacCallum 524 (SLC common room)
Race and gender in France (topic TBC)
Kiran Grewal
Phd student UTS,
Temporary associate lecturer, School of Social and Political Sciences, University of Sydney

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