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The Tournées Festival is organized by the Williams College Department of Romance Languages and the Center for Foreign Languages, Literatures, and Cultures with generous support from the Cultural Services of the French Embassy in the US, the Centre National de la Cinématographie et de l’Image Animée, and the Franco-American Cultural Fund. ❑ Images Cinema February 15 / 7PM Camille Claudel, 1915 by Bruno Dumont, 2013, 97’ February 22 / 7 PM Abus de faiblesse / Abuse of Weakness by Catherine Breillat, 2013, 105’ February 29 6:15 PM / 7PM La Noiraude - 6:15PM Bande de filles / Girlhood by Céline Sciamma, 2014, 112’ - 7PM ❑ Paresky Auditorium March 2 / 7PM Alphaville: une étrange aventure de Lemmy Caution/ Alphaville de Jean-Luc Godard, 1965, 99’ March 9 La religieuse / The Nun by Guillaume Nicloux (Saint and Sinners course) Guillaume Nicloux, 2013, 100’ March 16 L'Apollonide, souvenirs de la maison close / House of Pleasures by Bertrand Bonello, 2010, 125’ Continue reading »

“Walking (in) the world, means retracing the paths of undocumented migrants and exiles to tell their stories. It expresses the belief articulated by Saint-John Perse, that sometimes, writing is a form of repatriation.” ❉ Screening of La noiraude: February 29 | Images Cinema, 6:15 PM ❉ Talk by Fabienne Kanor, Author, filmmaker, and former journalist March 1, Griffin 3, 6:15 PM Sponsored by the Williams College Department of Romance Languages with generous support from the Lecture Committee, Davis Center, Programs in Africana Studies, Comparative Literature, Global Studies, and Women, Gender, & Sexuality Studies and the Center for Foreign Languages, Literatures, and Cultures Continue reading »

Florent Masse from Princeton University’s Department of French and Italian, will conduct a theatre workshop in French. During this unique workshop, participants will put their language skills in motion, discover acting in a foreign language, and perform short excerpts from the classical and modern French theatrical canon. Don't miss this fun and exceptional evening of French theater Nov. 30, 8:00-9:30PM | Shapiro 129 Continue reading »

Magali Compan, Associate Professor of French at William and Mary, will speak about contemporary street art in Reunion Island. How are previous colonial spaces and their relationship to the past affected by their place in the contemporary world of post-modernity, consumerism, and global capital? In the global move from diversity to uniformity, how does memory get constructed, reconstructed, and sustained? During this talk, Compan will explore these questions through the case of Reunion Island and the work of two of its contemporary street artists, Kid Kreol and Boogie. Thursday, November 19 at 7:15pm to 8:30pm Sawyer Library, Mabie Rm. Continue reading »

Students from Professor Annette Joseph-Gabriel’s RLFR 205 France Noire. In this course, students study the lives and times of a variety of people who self-identify and are identified as "Black" or "Noir," people for whom France has been (and continues to be) a site of exile, immigration, and a contested home. How have understandings of "blackness," "race," and belonging diverged and converged for people of African descent throughout France's changing political history? How has the Black diaspora in France impacted French ideas of nation, identity and citizenship? These questions are examined through literature and film from the 19th and early 20th centuries, with some colonial and postcolonial interventions. Readings and films by Mme de Duras (France), Aimé Césaire (Martinique), Josephine Baker (US), Ousmane Sembène (Senegal) and Bernard Dadié (Côte d'Ivoire). Conducted in French. Tuesday, April 21 at 2:45pm to 3:45pm | Griffin Hall, Room 3 Continue reading »

A Performance Project by the Students of French 326 Under the direction of Emmanuelle Delpech of Pig Iron Theatre Company, the students of French 326 will present scenes from Molière’s​ seventeenth-century comedies and their critics. § Reception and discussion to follow​. Friday, April 24th | 7:00 - 8:00 pm Special thanks to the Center for Foreign Languages, Literatures, and Cultures, the Center for Learning in Action, the Department of Romance Languages, and the Department of Theatre and Dance. Continue reading »

Over 3 consecutive Mondays at 7PM, from February 16 to March 2 (2015), the Williams Department of Romance Languages will screen 3 recent French films at Images Cinema: • February 16 @7PM: Volker Schlöndorff’s Diplomacy (Diplomatie) (2014) • February 23 @7PM: Xavier Dolan’s Tom at the Farm (Tom à la ferme) (2013) • March 2 @7PM: Rachid Djaïdani’s Hold Back (Rengaine) (2012) All films are in French, with English subtitles. | Mondays at 7pm * Free to attend Sponsored by Williams Department of Romance Languages, the Center for Foreign Languages, Literatures, and Cultures, and the Dively Committee on Human Sexuality and Diversity.  Continue reading »