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September 2011
The “Arab Spring” and the Humanities
2011 Germaine Brée Symposium: A long-awaited “Arab Spring” or “Arab Awakening” erupted with stunning swiftness in January of 2011. What are its roots? What are its futures? Pundits and politicians, political scientists and…
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Créer dans les marges. Azouz Begag: du gone au ministre, en passant par l’écrivain
2012 Germaine Brée Lecture: Azouz Begag Writer, CNRS Researcher, Equal Opportunity Minister (2005-2007) Azouz Begag, an internationally acclaimed French writer, has published more than twenty books, most of which are subject to various problems…
Find out more »Education and Identity Among the Children of Minorities in the French Republic
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,…
Find out more »October 2013
Poetics of Resistance: Women Between Aesthetics and Politics
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…
Find out more »October 2014
French Literature Abroad: Towards an Alternative History of Literature in French
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…
Find out more »French Outside France
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…
Find out more »March 2016
Le Président: Africa for the Future
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…
Find out more »October 2018
History, Memory, and Identity: A French Debate
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…
Find out more »October 2019
The Lost Art of Literary Criticism
2019 Germaine Brée Lecture: Alice Kaplan
Find out more »September 2022
“One is not born, but becomes, a genius”: Another Simone de Beauvoir
2022 Germaine Brée Lecture: Kate Kirkpatrick
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