Department of French

Below are some of the previous events held and organized by the French Department at Georgetown University.

March 2009 
Playwright and Social Activist: Elsa Solal 
A lecture by award-winning Mauritian author Ananda Devi   

 October 2008
L'Affaire Dreyfus: A Lecture by Professor Jean-Max Guieu

April 2008
Spirit Fires of Vodou: Haiti on Stage

March 2008
20th & 21st Century French and Francophone Studies Colloquiuim

March 2007
La Franc-maçonnerie francophone dans le monde

April 2007
Engaging in Humanitarianism in the Real and Virtual Worlds

February 2007
Les Musiciens de Jazz Americain à Paris

December 2006
Sigui Siguila Siguiya

October 2006
Lecture by Professor Laurence Tardy, Director of Studies at the École du Louvre

 September 2006
"Marie-Madeleine: la tradition provençal," a lecture by Professor Jean-Max Guieu 

April 2006
Utopias, Apocalypses and Inventions
Lecture by Professor Lawrence Kritzman
Reading by Québecoise author, Marie-Claire Blais

September 2005
Dramatic Readings and Theater Workshops by actor Giovanni Vitello

April 2005
Derrida... Cosa Mentale

November 2004
Lecture by Professor Peter Brooks

 September 2004
Lecture by Professor Mark McKinney

April 2004
Le Mal dans la Littérature: An interdisciplinary conference on Evil in Literature 

  March 2002
Lecture and Film Screening by Maghrebi-French author Azouz Begag

September 2001
Marseille Bouillabaisse Culturelle

 November 2000
Lecture by Professor Isabelle de Courtivron

 March 1999
Conference on Memories for the 20th Century