French and Italian Events

Past Events

May
12

The 2026 Michel Serres Distinguished Lecture: Frédérique Leichter-Flack

Date
Tuesday, May 12, 2026, 4:30pm - 6:00pm
April
24

Italian Lecture Series: Giancarlo Tursi (Dante in Dialect: The Politics of Translation in the Risorgimento)

Date
Friday, April 24, 2026, 5:00pm - 6:30pm
April
23

Sant Jordi 2026: Alberto Giacometti and Salvador Dalí: Through and Beyond Surrealism

Date
Thursday, April 23, 2026, 12:00pm - 1:30pm
April
14

French-Speaking Worlds: “Writing History After the Colonial Turn” by Emmanuelle Saada (Columbia University)

Date
Tuesday, April 14, 2026, 5:00pm - 6:30pm
March
10

Talk / Writing Workshop: “Why Writing is Hard, And What to Do About It” with Prof. Eric Hayot (Distinguished Prof. of Comparative Literature and Asian Studies, Penn State)

Date
Tuesday, March 10, 2026, 4:00pm - 5:30pm
March
3

French-Speaking Worlds: "Becoming the Marquise de Pompadour: The Letters of Jeanne-Antoinette Poisson" by Chloe Edmondson (Stanford)

Date
Tuesday, March 3, 2026, 5:00pm - 6:30pm
February
18

French & Italian Peer Advising

Date
Wednesday, February 18, 2026, 7:00pm - 8:00pm
February
17

French-Speaking Worlds: "After the Coup: Literature in an Age of Tyranny" by Maurice Samuels (Yale) 

Date
Tuesday, February 17, 2026, 5:00pm - 6:30pm
February
12

French-Speaking Worlds: "Friedrich Nietzsche, a Poet, and the French Revolution" by Guillaume Métayer (CNRS)

Date
Thursday, February 12, 2026, 5:00pm - 6:30pm
February
3

Italian Lecture Series: Writing, Re-Writing, and Women Authors in Early Modern Italy

Date
Tuesday, February 3, 2026, 4:30pm - 6:00pm
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