The German program is excited to announce a virtual book launch event to celebrate emerita professor Ruth Schwertfeger’s latest monograph, A Nazi Camp Near Danzig: Perspectives on Shame and on the Holocaust from Stutthof. Winson Chu (UWM History) will introduce the work and Ruth will do a reading … Continue Reading »
Free Staged Reading of Aimé Césaire’s A Tempest
Join us for a viewing of the Postcolonial Play A Tempest (Une Tempête), livestreamed from FIAF Florence Gould Hall, NYC. UWM’s in-person livestream will be held in Curtin 175 at 6:30PM CST. Free and open to all. Masks required and … Continue Reading »
2022 Festival of Films in French, February 11-20
The UWM Festival of Films in French is back in person this year, for the 25th annual festival! It will run February 11 through February 20 and is free and open to the public at the UWM Union Cinema, 2200 … Continue Reading »
Upcoming French Language Films
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 »
Register now for the 2021 Virtual Graduate School Open House
The Grad School Open House is just around the corner, October 28th from 6:00-8:00pm. Please register at this link. Please note: Open House is in Central Daylight Time – If you are not in the Central Time Zone, use this Time Zone Converter to … 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 »
P&P Live! Véronique Tadjo | IN THE COMPANY OF MEN with Sarah Davies Cordova
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 … Continue Reading »
LACUSL Speaker Series: “Living ‘A Part Apart’: Brazilian Migrants in Toronto, Canada”
The 2020-2021 LACUSL Speakers Series Presents: “Living ‘A Part Apart’: Brazilian Migrants in Toronto, Canada” Falina Enriquez, Assistant Professor of Anthropology, University of Wisconsin-Madison Monday, March 8, 2021 @ 2:00pm CST Via Zoom, Please register in advance through Zoom Based on a preliminary ethnographic study, this … Continue Reading »
Routes & Histoires d’Esclavisé.e.s de l’océan Indien aux Amériques
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 Americas with Webster from Quebec and Senegal and Marie-Clémence Andriamonta from Madagascar and France.
2pm-3:30pm (CST) Saturday Feb 27.
To register and receive zoom link please email: erinl@afmilwaukee.org
~~ Closing Black History month EVENT Opening le mois de la Francophonie ~~
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 »