News and Events

 

PARTNER UNIVERSITY FUND – FACE FOUNDATION

 

Dr. Alexandre Leupin, Phyllis M. Taylor professor in French Studies and Director of the Center of French and Francophones Studies, and Professor Jean-Pierre Sainton, Professor of History at the Université des Antilles (Guadeloupe) have won a very important grant from the Partner University Fund (cultural services of the French embassy in New York) and the FACE Foundation (French American Cultural Exchange, New York).
The amount of the grant, $235.000, is the largest ever granted to the Department of French Studies at LSU and the largest ever for a collaboration between LSU and the French governement.
The grant is to be shared over three years by LSU and the Université des Antilles and is centered on a main theme, Slavery in the Caribbean Basin. The main purpose of the grant is to enable intensive exchanges between the two institutions on the academic and teaching level in all fields of research, including sciences, for faculty and graduated students.
It will cover expenses for a number of graduate students and faculty exchanges over the three year duration of the grant, as well expenses for scientific collaboration, colloquia and academic publications. It will lead to permanent protocols of exchanges at all levels between LSU and the Université des Antilles.
The first steps of the exchange are already in place: a colloquium entitled Louisiana/French Antilles: a Shared Space-Time will be held at LSU on November 1012, 2016. Around the time of the colloquium, the first ten graduate students (5 from LSU, 5 from UA) will engage in a week of archival research at Whitney Plantation under its director of research, Dr. Ibrahima Seck.
A colloquium in Guadeloupe is planned for Fall 2017, along with a new student and faculty exchange. Interested faculty and students at LSU should contact the Director of the Center for French and Francophone studies (frleup@lsu.edu).
Dr. Alexandre Leupin would like to express his warmest thanks to the people at LSU that have helped with the grant request: Dean Staci Haynie, College of Humanities and Social Sciences, Dr. Hector Zapata, Associate Vice Provost for International Programs, Dr. Kenya Lenoir-Messer, Associate Vice Provost, Office of Diversity, Dean Alkis Tsolakis, College of Art and Design, Ann Whitmer, Assistant Dean for grants, CHSS, and Todd Jacob, Assistant Director for the Center for French and Francophone Studies. Of course, the greatest gratitude should be extended to the French Embassy cultural services and the FACE Foundation.

 Congratulations Dr. Leupin

In 2000, Dr. Alexandre Leupin was made Knight of the Order of Arts and Letters by the French governement (MInistry of Culture). In September 2016, he has received another award, the prestigious rank of Chevalier des Palmes académiques (Knight of the Order of the Academic Palms), a national honor awarded by the French government that recognizes distinguished contributions to the academic study of French culture. Please join the French Department in congratulating Dr. Alexandre Leupin . 

 

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THE FREE WRITING WORKSHOP directed by FABIENNE KANOR (Room 436, Hodges Hall)

 

Tuesdays, September 6 and 20, Tuesdays, October 4 and 18,

Tuesdays, November 1, 15 and 29, at 6:00 pm.

Fabienne Kanor is a novelist and moviemaker of international reknown. She will guide the workshop participants through the arcana of creative writing in French through a series of practical exercises. This course doesn’t grant credit.

Limited to 8 participants, students and others, with basic knowledge in French.

Please register with Emily O’Dell (eodell2@lsu.edu)

 

The Department of French Studies 10th Annual Graduate Student Conference:             
Violence and resistance in the French and Francophone world
Louisiana State University
Department of French Studies Graduate Association (DFSGA) Conference
March 11-12, 2016 at Baton Rouge, LA, USA

Conference Organizers: Ann François and Emily O'Dell

 

Our Ubaye Valley Program rises in success. See our students on the front page of not one, but two newspapers.

 

Two of our professors have received awards from the Fulbright program!
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Dr. Rosemary Peters has been awarded a Fulbright U.S. Scholar grant for research in Morocco.

Dr. Jack Yeager has been awarded a Fulbright U.S. Scholar grant for research in Vietnam.

Dr. Sylvie Dubois has been awarded an ATLAS grant from the Louisiana Board of Regents.

 

One of our graduate students, Gretchen Tressler, has been named a finalist for the 2015 Presidential Management Fellows Program, a very competitive and prestigious program administered by the US Office of Personnel Management. Congratulations on your achievement, Gretchen!

Click here for the full article.

 

Dr. John Protevi will be Distinguished Visiting Professor at Penn State Institute for the Arts and Humanities next Tuesday, April 7th, 2015.

Click here for more information.

 

Spring 2015 events

Friday 24 April, 3pm, DFS Awards Ceremony, 103 Design Building

 

Thursday 23 April, 3pm, 424 Hodges, Fredrika Spindler, Williams College. Lecture title TBA. http://faculty.williams.edu/2013-14-new-faculty/

 

Thursday 26 March, 3pm, 424 Hodges, Olivier Mathieu, Université de Montréal and University of New Mexico. Lecture title TBA

 

Friday – Saturday 13-14 March, LSU Union, Graduate Student conference: http://uiswcmsweb.prod.lsu.edu/hss/french/files/item72144.pdf

 

Friday 6 March, 3 pm, 424 Hodges: Helen Regis, LSU Anthropology, lecturing on “Subsistence practices in Coastal Louisiana” /ga/people/faculty/helen-regis/index.php

 

Thursday – Saturday 26 – 28 Feb, 20th – 21st century French and Francophone Studies conference, BR Hilton: http://point2015.wix.com/20-21-ffs-conf#!home-english/c1mjo

 

Thursday 12 Feb, 3pm, 424 Hodges, Deborah Goldgaber, LSU Philosophy. Lecture title TBA. http://uiswcmsweb.prod.lsu.edu/hss/prs/People/Philosophy%20Faculty/item70559.html

 

Thursday 5 February, Friends of French Studies Annual Dinner, Baton Rouge Country Club

 

Friday 23 January, 3 -5 pm, LSU Faculty Club: Memorial service for Professor Jeff Humphries: http://proteviblog.typepad.com/in_memoriam_jeff/

 

Thursday 22 Jan 3 pm, 424 Hodges: Leslie Tuttle, LSU History, lecturing on “Dreams, Sense, and Nonsense in 17th century France.” http://sites01.lsu.edu/wp/history/faculty/leslie-tuttle/

 

News from 2014

 

The Department of French Studies will host a lecture by Jay Murphy (PhD, Aberdeen, 2011) Thursday, December 4th at 3pm on the work of Antonin Artaud. Murphy is a screenwriter as well as cultural and intellectual critic. His website can be found here. The lecture will take place on LSU campus, in 324 Hodges Hall.

 

On Friday, October 17th, LSU's own Dr. Jack Yeager gave the French and Francophone Studies keynote speech at the Mountain Interstate Foreign Language Conference at Furman University in Greenville, South Carolina. His talk was entitled "Revisiting Plagiarism in Francophone Literatures."