The Department of Romance Languages & Literature invites you to a talk by Ana Almeyda-Cohen
Mediating Sex Work, Remediating the Madam in Mexican Cinema
Ana Almeyda-Cohen is a scholar of Latin American film, literature, and culture with a focus on Mexico and the Caribbean. Her research explores the cinematic and popular responses to sex work, migration, the drug trade, and witchcraft in twentieth and twenty-first century Mexican film and visual culture. She has written on 1980s screen culture in the Dominican Republic and has presented on...
The Department of Romance Languages & Literatures invites you to a talk by Charline Granger:
1759-1637. Une Histoire à L'envers Du Théâtre Classique
Charline Granger is currently a lecturer and researcher in theater studies at the École normale supérieure de Lyon. A former student at the École normale supérieure (Lyon), she holds an agrégation (2012) in French Literature, and she received her doctorate in French Literature and Performance Studies at the University Paris Nanterre (2020). She...
The Department of Romance Languages & Literatures invites you a talk by Annabelle Bolot:
Être de son temps? Les Mémoires anachroniques de Saint-Simon
Annabelle Bolot is a lecturer in 17th- and 18th-century French literature at Sorbonne Nouvelle University (Paris), and an affiliated researcher at the University of Picardie Jules Verne (Amiens). She also teaches in secondary education. In December 2021, she defended her doctoral thesis, supervised by Prof. Marc Hersant, entitled “Et voilà la cour et le monde !” Sentiment...
The RLL department invites you to a talk by Radhika Koul:
"L'AMOUR DES ANCIENS ET DES ÉTRANGERS": 17th CENTURY FRANCE AND THE QUESTION OF MODERNITY
Radhika Koul is a Career Launch Fellow at the Stanford Humanities Center and a PhD Candidate in Comparative Literature at Stanford University. Her research and teaching concern the way literature and philosophy from South Asia emerge into conversations usually governed by an implicit Western logic: whether aesthetics, education, or criticism itself. She has published on issues of...
Speaker: Ronald Raminelli, Robert F. Kennedy Visiting Professor, DRCLAS & RLL
Moderated by: Sidney Chalhoub, David and Peggy Rockefeller Professor of History and of African and African American Studies; Faculty Affiliate, Department of Romance Languages and Literatures
This lecture intends to analyze how blacks and "mulattos" were...
The path to understanding the origins of Trumpism runs through communities undergoing rapid demographic and economic change; we thus need a detailed history of Latina/o/e migration and political response. Pennsylvania is the perfect place to do that: it is the nation’s largest...