Register for Arizona Graduate Conference in French

Jan. 22, 2018
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The College of Humanites and Department of French & Italian is hosting the first Arizona Graduate Conference in French.

Registration deadline is Feb. 1. Register at the conference website

The conference will begin Friday, Feb. 23 with a public screening of the French-Mauritanian film Timbuktu, at 4:30 p.m. in ILC 120. The conference continues for a full day on Saturday, Feb. 24. 

Master's and doctoral students will make presentations on a number of subjects: 

  • Theoretical and applied linguistics
  • First, second language acquisition
  • Teaching French as a second/foreign language
  • Digital technologies (and pedagogy)
  • French and Francophone literature, culture and civilization 
  • Francophone cinema
  • Women’s studies, queer studies and sexuality
Participants will also be able to sign up for two research workshops:
  1. Dr. Alain-Philippe Durand (Dean and Professor of French, University of Arizona): “How to build a research agenda in hip hop studies and an overview of the field”. 
  2. Dr. Emily Hellmich (Assistant Professor of French Linguistics and Second Language Acquisition & Teaching, University of Arizona): Digital technologies and language learning.
Plenary speakers will be: Dr. Denis Jamet from the Université de Lyon whose plenary is entitled “Euphemisms for physical and mental illnesses in French and English”; and Dr. Lydie Moudileno from the University of Southern California whose plenary is entitled “The Multicultural Comedy: Race, Humor, and the Republic”.
 
The conference is organized with the support of a College of Humanities Teaching and Outreach Grant.