The next Melbourne French Studies Seminar Series will be held in-person on Friday, 17 May, 2-3pm. Dr Felicity Chaplin will be giving a talk titled “Tiny details: Julie Delpy’s cinephilia and cinécriture“ at The University of Melbourne, 407 Babel Building.
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New student prizes announced for the AALITRA Translation competition!
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David Ewing and I are delighted that this special issue following the French Studies 2022 Postgraduate Conference on the theme of 'AFTER WORK' is out in the world, with nine wonderful papers by contributors including Matthew Bruce olly w Benoît Loiseau academic.oup.com/fsb/issue/45/1…

The next Melbourne French Studies Seminar is coming up next Friday 19 April, 2-3pm, Faculty of Arts!

Dr Patrick Kennedy will be presenting on 'Victor Hugo, Theopoet: Re-reading the divine in Les Contemplations, Dieu, and La Fin de Satan'.

More info:
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Études françaises à l’échelle mondiale : perspectives transnationales, transculturelles et transdisciplinaires / Global French Studies : Transnational, Transcultural, and Transdisciplinary Perspectives (Melbourne) fabula.org/actualites/119…

Proposals for the ASFS School Liaison and Community Outreach Fund are now open! With the support of France in Australia 🇫🇷 🇪🇺, the ASFS will award up to two $500 grants to fund your projects.

Due date: 17 June, 2024

Please see our website for more information.
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🇫🇷 In a talk co-organised by USYD French, ISFAR & Alliance Française, catch historian Nelly Duret as she explores the life and influence of French-Australian educator and founder of Kambala School for Girls, Augustine Soubeiran.

🗓 Thurs 11 Apr, 5:30pm: bit.ly/3SIAOi2

Interested in becoming a mentor or a mentee in French Studies? Reminder to submit an expression of interest by 15 April!
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I just received my copy today! Everyone should read this necessary and thoroughly-researched book by Anais Maurer. Please think of including it in your courses on ecocriticism, ecofeminism, militarization, climate justice, Oceanian studies, and beyond. Tell your librarians too!

La Grande Dame des Lettres mondiales, Maryse Condé, tire sa révérence, nous léguant une œuvre portée par la quête d’un humanisme fondé sur les ramifications de nos identités et les fêlures de l’Histoire. RIP.

📢 DEADLINE EXTENDED | Submit abstracts & panel proposals by Monday 15 April for #LCNAU2024 at University of Sydney on 27–29 Nov. Topics invited include multilingual Australia, Indigenous languages and cultures, art, literature, identity, policy, pedagogy and more: bit.ly/lcnau2024

This looks terrific. Great to see that my QUB Modern Languages colleague Prof. Maeve McCusker is one of the keynotes.

We're very pleased to announce the 2023 Postgraduate Paper Prize, for the best paper given by a PG at the Annual Conference, held in September. It's wonderful to see so many PG scholars of such calibre coming through - félicitations to everyone who presented and entered!

🚨 CLOSING SOON | Submit abstracts & panel proposals for the #LCNAU2024 at University of Sydney on 27–29 Nov. Topics like multilingual Australia, Indigenous languages and cultures, art, literature, identity, policy, pedagogy, technology and more are welcome: bit.ly/lcnau2024

Very happy to see our special issue of French Australian Review out ISFAR, with some truly outstanding contributions isfar.org.au/the-french-aus… particularly grateful to our Keynote speakers Nic Maclellan and Matthew Graves at Aix Marseille👇

Join us for our next Work in Progress Seminar on Nelly Arcan organised by Ons Othmani (University of Carthage)!

⏰4 April at 12pm (Montreal)/4pm (UK)
📍Zoom (DM for link)

Full programme below. All welcome!