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Susan Suleiman presents her new book at Harvard Book Store

April 19, 2024

A message from emeritus professor Susan Suleiman

Dear friends and colleagues,

I’ll be presenting my new book on the great Hungarian filmmaker István Szabó at Harvard Bookstore next Friday, April 19  at 7 p.m., in conversation with prize-wining novelist Daphne Kalotay.  During our conversation we’ll show some film clips from Szabó’s films, including a few that are hard to find on streaming platforms.  (Some of you may know some of his films without knowing his name:  Mephisto, starring Klaus Maria Brandauer, won...

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Political Philosophy in Action, Gonzalo Ramos Pérez -- April 17th

April 17, 2024

What is philosophy for? What can a letter do? Political Philosophy in Action

Gonzalo Ramos Pérez (UCM/Harvard Predoctoral Fellow; Department of Philosophy and Society at the Universidad Complutense - Madrid)

 

Date: Wednesday, April 17, 2024, 5:00pm to 6:00pm

Location: Real Colegio Complutense: Conference Room, 26 Trowbridge St.

 

The rapid pace of our modern lives is kept going on by automatized behaviors, driven by a shared common sense...

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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 Chagos by 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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