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 …
Monday March 15, 2021 – 3pm A virtual conversation with Franco-Ivorian author Véronique Tadjo about In the company of Men — a fictional work addressing the 2014-2016 Ebola outbreak in West Africa — just out in an English translation by the …
Please encourage students and colleagues to link in to a conversation in French about the history and routes of Malagasy enslavement crisscrossing the Indian and Atlantic Oceans, east and west, south and north along the coasts of Africa and the …
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 …
Congratulations to Prof. Sarah Davies Cordova on the coordination and publication of the dossier “Ina Césaire revisitée” Présence Africaine : Revue culturelle du monde noir …
It is with heavy hearts that the Comparative Literature Program shares news of the passing of Roy A Swanson, who was a professor of comparative literature at UWM from 1967-2003. Dr. Swanson was a beloved professor, an admired colleague, and …
Congratulations to Sayila Edmé First graduate of MALLT’s Accelerated MA program in French. She graduates this December with a BA in French and a MA in French and Francophone Language, Literature and Culture in 5 years.
Congratulations to Mme. Christiane Taubira on being awarded the following Doctorates: Doctorate Honoris Causa, Université libre de Bruxelles, Belgium (April 26, 2018) Doctorate Honoris Causa, Université de Genève, Switzerland (October 9, 2020) The following awards: Prix Laurent-Mc Cutcheon 2019, Fondation …
Congratulations to Sarah Davies Cordova, Professor of French and Francophone Studies, on the publication of Mère à Mère (Mémoire d’encrier, Canada: 2019; France: 2020) her translation of South African amaXhosa author, Sindiwe Magona’s Mother to Mother (1998). Mère à Mère is short-listed for the 2020 Prix …
Congratulations to Kayla Sanger (MALLT double concentration in Translation and French, summer 2020). She has been hired as Contractual Instructor, teaching English and Translation in the Dept of Foreign Languages and Cultures (UFR des langues et cultures étrangères) at the …