The UWM Union Cinema has three French language films coming up, in collaboration with the Festival of Films in French: Ghost Tropic; Directed by Bas Devos, 2019, 85 minutes Khadija (Saadia Bentaïeb) is a fifty-eight-year-old Maghrebi cleaning woman living in … Continue Reading »
French, Italian, and Comparative Literature at the Exploring Majors Fair
The Department of French, Italian, and Comparative Literature will be at the Exploring Majors Fair in the Union Ballroom on Monday, October 18, 10am-2pm. If you’d like to find out more about any of our majors or minors, please stop … Continue Reading »
Milwaukee Film Festival
French at UWM is a community partner on three films in this year’s MFF: Call Me Human (Canada / 2020 / 78 min / French, Innu-aimun with English subtitles); Downstream to Kinshasa (Democratic Republic of Congo, France, Belgium / 2020 … Continue Reading »
April 2021- 27th Commemoration of the Tutsi Genocide in Rwanda
In the windows of the UWM Library by the Grind: Bruce Clark’s Upright Men – a woman, a child, a man -stand tall and upright, to honour and dignify the survivors and victims of the 100 days genocide in Rwanda that started … Continue Reading »
24th Annual Festival of Films in French
The 24th Festival of Films in French is rolling out as a pandemic-safe event this February. It is a mini festival — to be sure — with 5 feature-length films and a short available for streaming from the currently virtual … Continue Reading »
Summer Courses in French and Comparative Literature
This summer, the Department of French, Italian, and Comparative Literature is pleased to offer three entirely online courses in French and Comparative Literature: COMPLIT 135: Experiencing Literature in the 21st Century: Monsters and Monstrosity (3 undergraduate credits, 8-week course, June … Continue Reading »
Short Italian Films streaming online
We’re sad that Italian Film Festival USA won’t be able to bring the film festival to Milwaukee this spring, but we’re grateful that they’ve decided to post short films on their Facebook page. New films go up Saturday evening and … Continue Reading »
Notre Dame de Paris Presentation
Thursday, November 21, 6:00pm
American Geographical Society Library
Join Larry Kuiper (French) and Richard Leson (Art History) for a presentation and discussion on “The Building and Re-building of Notre Dame de Paris.” … Continue Reading »
POLYGLOT MKE: November 13, 5:30pm
Campus and community members of all ages are welcome to join Polyglot MKE – it’s never too late or too early to learn a new language! Wednesday, November 13 5:30pm at UWM, Curtin Hall 766 (3243 N. Downer Ave.)… Continue Reading »
Director of “By the Grace of God”, Francois Ozon
Please join us for the live streaming of a talk by Film Director FRANÇOIS OZON
Where: UWM, Curtin Hall 175
When: Wed. Oct 23rd, 2019 , 6:30pm … Continue Reading »