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The Harlequin Eaters: Janet Beizer's book event at the Brookline Booksmith

April 17, 2024

 

Janet Beizer will be in conversation with Deidre Lynch about her new book, The Harlequin Eaters: From Food Scraps to Modernism in Nineteenth-Century France 

Brookline Booksmith in Coolidge Corner, Brookline

Wednesday April 17th at 7pm

Please join us if you're able!

Register as soon as possible at the following link so that the bookstore can set up appropriately:

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BRUNO PERREAU (MIT), "SPHERES OF INJUSTICE: A DEFENSE OF MINORITY UNIVERSALISM"

April 10, 2024

Harvard Mahindra Humanities Center's France and the World Seminar & the Department of Romance Languages Literatures presents

"Sphères d'injustice: Pour un universalisme minoritaire"

Wednesday, April 10 @ 5:00PM

Location: Boylston Hall, Room 335 

Reception to follow

Bruno Perreau (MIT) will be presenting on his latest book, Sphères d'injustice: pour un universalisme minoritaire (Spheres of Injustice: A Defense of Minority Universalism),...

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Citizens of Nowhere: Stateless and Refugee Literature in Latin America A Dissertation Defense by Mauro Lazarovich

April 3, 2024

Department of Romance Languages and Literatures

Dissertation Defense

Citizens of Nowhere: Stateless and Refugee Literature in Latin America

A Dissertation Defense by Mauro Lazarovich

Harvard University
Monday May 6th, 3pm-5рm
Boylston 403
In-person

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Claire-Marie Brisson's recent television interview!

March 28, 2024

Claire-Marie Brisson, Ph.D., Preceptor in French in RLL, was invited to deliver a keynote address by two prestigious organizations: the Fédération des chambres de commerce du Québec, Quebec's leading business network, and the Centre de la Francophonie des Amériques, a government agency fostering ties between Francophone communities in Canada and the Americas on Friday, March 22, 2024. Her audience included CEOs, the Quebec Minister of the French Language, and even an Ambassador to Canada. Following her talk, she was invited to appear on Zone Économique with Gérard Fillion, a daily...

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Silence of the Chagos, A Book Group Discussion in French

March 27, 2024

Dear Colleagues at Harvard,

The Boston University African Studies Center K-16 Education Outreach Program will host our next African literature book group discussion around Le Silence des Chagoby Shenaz Patel on March 27, 2024 4pm-6pm ET. The discussion will be over Zoom and is free and open to all. Those interested can read the book on their own (in French or English) and come discuss with other Francophiles and educators in French. Please use this ...

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OPERA TRUCKS, A Cultural Agents Event

March 22, 2024

FABIO CHERSTICH, PRODUCER OF MAJOR OPERAS IN THE ROME OPERA HOUSE AND THE MASSIMO OF PALERMO ALSO DEVELOPED "OPERA TRUCKS" TO PERFORM IN VULNERABLE NEIGHBORHOODS.

HE WILL BE PRESENTING THIS WORK FOR PEDAGOGIES FOR LIFE, THE SEMINAR OF THE MAHINDRA HUMANITIES CENTER, WHERE HE WILL BE JOINED BY LEANDRO VALIATI, CULTURAL ECONOMIST AND CO-AUTHOR WITH FABIO OF A FUTURE CASE FOR CULTURE ABOUT THE OPERA TRUCKS.

THIS EVENT IS OPEN TO ALL.

Date:...

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Pre-Texts Training Series

March 20, 2024

Pre-Texts

Training Series

For Interns and other Facilitators

Pre-Texts is an educational, train-the-trainers program that is run out of Cultural Agents, an NGO founded in 2015 by Professors Doris Sommer and Jose Falconi with the mission to develop recognition of the arts as resources for positive change, and apply them in society. 

Proven to enhance work in education, literacy, public health, violence prevention, and more, Pre-Texts has become a platform for international...

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A Conversation with Tania Rivera (Universidade Federal Fluminense) Lugares do delírio: o artista "louco" no modernismo francês e brasileiro

March 19, 2024

Lugares do delírio: o artista "louco" no modernismo
francês e brasileiro

a conversation with Tania Rivera
Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, UFF


March 19 | 12:30 pm - 2 pm
Harvard Yard | Boylston Hall 403
This event will be held in Portuguese

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