UPCOMING EVENTS: Lectures
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The French Studies Program organizes lectures, scholarly visits,
and conferences involving France and the French traditions across
the disciplines of the Humanities and the Social Sciences. In
addition to the French Department, Berkeley has significant concentrations
of faculty engaged in work on France in the departments of History,
History of Art, Music, Comparative Literature, Anthropology, and
Political Science. These scholars continue a long and distinguished
Berkeley tradition of interdisciplinary study of things French.
They provide an important pedagogical and scholarly resource at
both the graduate and the undergraduate levels, for students working
on France and Francophonie Beyond the UC Berkeley campus, the
French Studies Program helps coordinate programs and activities
for faculty and graduate students and for members of the Bay Area
community committed to the investigation of French society, culture,
literature, science, and the arts.
The French Studies Program aims
to coordinate scholarly work on France conceived in both a European
and Francophone perspective.
The French Studies Program has a long and distinguished history:
active periodically in the 1980s and 1990s, it was the sponsor
of major international conferences that led to highly successful
publications on such topics as "Libraries of the Future."
In its
current incarnation, it is made up of a steering committee of Berkeley
faculty throughout the Humanities and Social Sciences
and graduate students in these departments; and a broader community
of scholars and other interested members of the Bay Area community.
The French Studies Program supports speakers, conferences, and
study groups, and aims to foster the informal sharing of work
among members of the Bay Area community.
Michael Wintroub (Professor of Rhetoric)
Director
