Conrad A. Elvehjem Building, Room L160 @ 4:30 pm - 6:00 pm
2025 Germaine Brée Lecture: Sebastian Smee
Past Events Category: Germaine Brée Lecture
From Rabelais to the Revolution: The French Afterlife of “The Ugly Duchess”
Conrad A. Elvehjem Building, Room L140 @ 4:30 pm - 6:00 pm
2023 Germaine Brée Lecture: Emma Capron
“One is not born, but becomes, a genius”: Another Simone de Beauvoir
Conrad A. Elvehjem Building, Room L140 @ 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm
2022 Germaine Brée Lecture: Kate Kirkpatrick
The Lost Art of Literary Criticism
Conrad A. Elvehjem Building, Room L140 @ 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
2019 Germaine Brée Lecture: Alice Kaplan
History, Memory, and Identity: A French Debate
Conrad A. Elvehjem Building, Room L140 @ 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm
2018 Germaine Brée Lecture: Enzo Traverso Susan and Barton Winokur Professor in the Humanities, Cornell University How many layers of French history does the highly controversial slogan Je suis Charlie conceal? Over the last …
Le Président: Africa for the Future
Conrad A. Elvehjem Building, Room L160 @ 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm
2016 Germaine Brée Lecture: Jean-Pierre Bekolo Filmmaker and Activist Jean-Pierre Bekolo (1966, Yaounde) is an avant-garde filmmaker and socio-cultural activist whose imaginative work overturns stereotypes of Africa and African cinema. His entertaining films operate …
French Outside France
French House @ 4:30 pm - 6:30 pm
2014 Germaine Brée Event: Roundtable Simon Gaunt French, King’s College London A roundtable discussion with UW-Madison faculty Vlad Dima, Névine El-Nossery, Jennifer Gipson, and Ullrich Langer. French and Italian Departmental Colloquium. Free and open …
French Literature Abroad: Towards an Alternative History of Literature in French
University Club, Room 212 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
2014 Germaine Brée Lecture: Simon Gaunt French, King’s College London Traditional literary histories tend to be centrifugal, tracing trajectories that move outwards from a strong and identifiable center towards peripheral zones. This lecture …
Poetics of Resistance: Women Between Aesthetics and Politics
Wisconsin Institute for Discovery, DeLuca Forum @ 4:30 pm - 6:30 pm
The 2013 Germaine Brée International Symposium: Speakers: Sahar Elmougy, Cairo University Shereen Abouelnaga, Cairo University Souad Halila, University of Tunisia May Telmissany, University of Ottawa Aili Tripp, University of Wisconsin-Madison Increasing confrontations with …
Education and Identity Among the Children of Minorities in the French Republic
Conrad A. Elvehjem Building, Room L140 @ 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Germaine Brée Lecture: Azouz Begag Writer, CNRS Researcher, Equal Opportunity Minister (2005-2007) This talk will be followed by a screening of Le gone du Chaâba. Azouz Begag, an internationally acclaimed French writer, has published …