Honorary Degree for Christiane Taubira

The French program is proud to have organized this event, along with the dedicated and professional staff at the American Geographical Society Library. The ceremony featured welcoming comments by Chancellor Mark Mone (who also presented the diploma), an eloquent introduction by …

French Major and Minor Advisors

If you are wondering who you can contact to speak to about your major/minor or your interest in declaring either here is a handy list: Your adviser will be one of the following depending on the first letter of your …

New 5-year Integrated BA/MA degree program in French!

We’re delighted to announce that a new 5-year Integrated BA/MA Degree program in French and Translation has been approved, effective immediately! Through this program, students can earn a BA in French in three years and an MA in Language, Literature, and Translation (MALLT-Translation Concentration) …

Candles, Support at UW-Milwaukee for Terrorist Attack Victims

A report on yesterday’s gathering in support of victims of recent attacks around the globe, organized in part by  the French Program. http://mediamilwaukee.com/news/candles-support-at-uw-milwaukee-for-terrorist-attack-victims

Gathering today in solidarity with victims of terror

This Monday afternoon November 16th at 4pm (at UWM’s Spaights Plaza)There will be a gathering in remembrance of those we have lost to the recent terrorist attacks in Paris, Beirut, Egypt, Tunisia and Syria. Please join us in reflection and solidarityIn Spaights Plaza …

Professor Keith Busby to Speak at UWM on Medieval French in Ireland

Keith Busby, The University of Wisconsin-Madison “The Norman Conquest of Ireland: Linguistic and Cultural Implications” In this talk, Keith Busby examines the use of French both before and after the arrival of the first colonists in 1169. He sheds new …

Faculty Senate Statement on Concealed Weapons

At the Meeting of the Department of French, Italian, and Comparative Literature on October 23, 2015, faculty of the department voted unanimously to endorse the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Faculty Senate Statement on Concealed Weapons (passed at the October 22, 2015 …

Conference Presentations

Kudos to French Professor Sarah Davies Cordova who recently presented “Raising Specters:Cargo‘s Socio-Historical Memory” and moderated a panel: “On Olivier Dubois’ Tragédie” at the Joint Conference of the Society of Dance History Scholars (SDHS) and the Congress on Research in Dance (CORD) entitled “Cut and …

Congrats Prof. Sarah Davies Cordova!

GUNIMA Nouvelle africaine du dix-huitième siècleHippolyte CarnotPrésentation de Sarah Davies Cordova et Antoinette SolRécit d’aventure intimement lié à une histoire d’amour, Gunima raconte l’éducation morale du jeune Benjamin qui, muni des principes des Lumières, confronte ses préjugés et l’injustice du régime esclavagiste …

Sarah Davies Cordova, Recent International Conference Presentations

Kudos to French Professor Sarah Davies Cordova who recently presented “Raising Specters: Cargo‘s Socio-Historical Memory” and moderated a panel: “On Olivier Dubois’ Tragédie” at the Joint Conference of the Society of Dance History Scholars (SDHS) and the Congress on Research in Dance (CORD) entitled “Cut and …