Past Event Category: Germaine Brée Lecture
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Oct 23Paris In Ruins: How A Brutal Conflict Informed the Birth of Impressionism
Conrad A. Elvehjem Building, Room L160
2025 Germaine Brée Lecture: Sebastian Smee
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Oct 12From Rabelais to the Revolution: The French Afterlife of “The Ugly Duchess”
Conrad A. Elvehjem Building, Room L140
2023 Germaine Brée Lecture: Emma Capron
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Sep 29“One is not born, but becomes, a genius”: Another Simone de Beauvoir
Conrad A. Elvehjem Building, Room L140
2022 Germaine Brée Lecture: Kate Kirkpatrick
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Oct 23The Lost Art of Literary Criticism
Conrad A. Elvehjem Building, Room L140
2019 Germaine Brée Lecture: Alice Kaplan
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Oct 25History, Memory, and Identity: A French Debate
Conrad A. Elvehjem Building, Room L140
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 three decades, the French national past has been put into question: Vichy, the Holocaust, the Algerian War, and finally May …
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Mar 31Le Président: Africa for the Future
Conrad A. Elvehjem Building, Room L160
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 on multiple layers, engaging viewers with thrilling stories, biting humor and dramatic aesthetics. An advocate of artistic freedom, Bekolo is …
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Oct 30French Outside France
French House
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 to the public. Simon Gaunt has taught at the University of Cambridge and King’s College London, where he has been …
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Oct 29French Literature Abroad: Towards an Alternative History of Literature in French
University Club, Room 212
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 suggests an alternative history of medieval literature in French, one that is centripetal rather than centrifugal. Focusing initially on three …
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Oct 31Poetics of Resistance: Women Between Aesthetics and Politics
Wisconsin Institute for Discovery, DeLuca Forum
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 totalitarian regimes in the Middle East and Africa have prompted women to find new ways to cope with political expression …
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Nov 30Education and Identity Among the Children of Minorities in the French Republic
Conrad A. Elvehjem Building, Room L140
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 more than twenty books, most of which are subject to various problems faced by the youth of North African origin, …