Center for French and Francophone Studies at LSU

Archives (2015-2017)

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2017 

Cristina Álvarez: 

Lecture: "Ni iranienne ni française : l'universel, selon Chahdortt Djavann. Départenance, psychanalyse et littérature"

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Pulsions d'écriture:

Participants from l'atelier du libre-écrire directed by Fabienne Kanor perform their final texts. 

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Ollivier Dyens: 

Lecture: "A New Future for Higher Education: Nursing and Farming an Ecosystem of Intelligent Machines"

POWERPOINT PRESENTATION

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2016

Louisiane/Antilles: Un espace/temps partagé

Colloque international

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Fabienne Kanor: 

L’atelier du libre-écrire/The Free Writing Workshop 

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An Interpretative Reading:
Je ne suis pas un homme qui pleure

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Olivier Dyens: 

Lecture: "The Future of Humanities"

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POWERPOINT PRESENTATION

Lecture: "University 2050"

POWERPOINT PRESENTATION

Graduate Seminar: "Humanities in the Digital Age" 

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Jacques Martial: 

A Reading of Aimé Césaire’s Notebook of a Return to the Native Land 

Presentation of Memorial ACTe in Guadeloupe

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2015

Jacques Brasseul: 

Lecture: "Questions About African Economic History"

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For events prior to 2015 see History

RELATED EVENTS

Announcements

THE CFFS RECEIVES $9,000 GRANT FROM THE FRENCH EMBASSY OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE GLISSANT TRANSLATION PROJECT

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 ALEXANDRE LEUPIN RECEIVES THE PRESTIGIOUS ORDRE DES PALMES ACADEMIQUES

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Read Alexandre Leupin's Speech: "The Necessity of the Humanities" 

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GRADUATE STUDENTS EXCHANGE LSU-UNIVERSITÉ DES ANTILLES 2016-2017

The five LSU graduate students for the first exchange between LSU and the Université des Antilles for the AY 2016-2017 have been selected.

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Books and Videos

Quand le maître et l'esclave se raturent  (Video)

Alexandre Leupin analyzes the relationship between the master and the slave through the writings of several philosophers, such as Edouard Glissant and Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, while exploring concepts such as the Relation, the Whole-World, Identity and Creation.

Bonnes feuilles: Edouard Glissant, philosophe. Héraclite et Hegel dans le Tout-Monde

 Book Review: Édouard Glissant, philosophe: Héraclite et Hegel dans le Tout-Monde

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