Remembering Agnès Varda: Faces Places (2017)
Remembering Agnès Varda Faces Places (2017) screening Join the Department of French and Francophone Studies for a special screening of the highly acclaimed documentary chronicling Varda’s collaborative and artistic venture in creating large portraits of small-town and village residents across France. Presented by Chair of Department and world cinema scholar Associate Professor Michelle Royer. Open …
Conversation with Olivia Rosenthal: We’re Not Here to Disappear
The Department of French and Francophone Studies presents A Conversation with Olivia Rosenthal Join us for a talk with French contemporary writer and academic Olivia Rosenthal as she shares about her book We’re Not Here to Disappear (2016), her writing practice, the contemporary French literary landscape and collaborations with other artists. Olivia Rosenthal is the …
2019 Sonia Marks Memorial Lecture: Teaching ‘French’ in Brexit Britain
The 2019 Sonia Marks Memorial Lecture Teaching ‘French’ in Brexit Britain Speaker: Professor Julia Waters (University of Reading, UK) Presented by the Department of French and Francophone Studies with support from the School of Languages and Cultures In his 1992 Sonia Marks Memorial Lecture, ‘On Teaching “French”’, Ross Chambers remarks on the ‘unusually messy and …
French Film Screenings – Semester 1, 2019
Department of French and Francophone Studies French Film Screenings (Semester 1, 2019) Join us for our Wednesday lunchtime French films this semester! Free and open to all University of Sydney students and staff. All film screenings in French with English subtitles. 13 March: Après mai (2012), dir. Olivier Assayas Set in 1971, this is Assayas’ …
A Conversation with Annick Cojean
In Conversation with Annick Cojean Join us for a talk with eminent French journalist Annick Cojean, senior reporter for the French daily newspaper Le Monde and President of the Albert Londres prize committee, as she shares about her work as a journalist. Her reporting work focuses on global women issues and has published books on …