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Melbourne French Studies Seminar Series (June: Adeline Heck)
🗓️When: Friday 5 June, 3–4pm 📍Where: 407 Babel Building, The University of Melbourne « Wagnérisme et expérimentation littéraire : Le cas des Lauriers sont coupés d’Édouard Dujardin » Si la forme du monologue intérieur est généralement associée au modernisme anglo-saxon, c’est grâce à l’essor du stream-of-consciousness narrative dans les années 1920 et au succès d’Ulysse de James Joyce qui a, par la suite, influencé…
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Melbourne French Studies Seminar Series (May)
🗓️When: Friday 15 May, 3–4pm 📍Where: 407 Babel Building, The University of Melbourne “Writing the history of the French landscape 1770-2020” The French countryside is as beloved by the many millions of tourists who visit it each year as it is of French people themselves. But it has not always looked like it does today. The countryside…
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Melbourne French Studies Seminar Series (April)
🗓️When: Friday 17 April 2026, 3–4pm 📍Where: 407 Babel Building, The University of Melbourne – Parkville Campus “Decolonising, diversifying and decentring the study of European languages and cultures at Monash University and beyond” In this seminar, we present our collective work aimed at decolonising, diversifying, and decentring the study of European languages and cultures at…
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Melbourne French Studies Seminar Series (March)
🗓️When: Friday 20 March, 3–4pm 📍Where: 407 Babel Building, The University of Melbourne – Parkville Campus “Nature as Norm: Rousseau, Foucault, and the State of Nature as a Regime of Truth” The various accounts of the “state of nature” are often treated as modern political philosophy’s origin stories: speculative prehistories designed to explain why society,…
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Melbourne French Studies Seminar Series (November II)
🗓️When: Wednesday 26 November, 2-3pm 📍Where: 407 Babel Building, The University of Melbourne – Parkville Campus Scènes d’écriture au féminin : figurations d’autrices et mises en scène de l’acte d’écriture selon trois voix du Pacifique francophone (Chantal T. Spitz, Ariirau et Flora Aurima Devatine) Titaua Porcher (This seminar will be conducted in French) Cette présentation s’intéressera aux représentations…
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Melbourne French Studies Seminar Series (November)
🗓️When: Monday 10 November, 2-3pm 📍Where: 407 Babel Building, The University of Melbourne – Parkville Campus Coming-of-Age as Carnival: Screening Girlhood in Contemporary Francophone Cinema Sophie Tallis In this paper I examine contemporary French girlhood films to argue that the experience of French girlhood is a carnivalesque one. By carnivalesque I refer to Mikhail Bakhtin’s theory…
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Literary Worlds Research Network – Event (23 October)
Literary Worlds Research Network – Event (23 October) The Literary Worlds Research Network cordially invites you to a Showcase, Round-Table and Guest Presentation by Professor Marco Sonzogni, Victoria University of Wellington, “Goosed Up’ between Illusion and Imagination: Collaborative Intelligence in Poetry Translation.” This is a hybrid event taking place online and at UNE’s Armidale Campus…
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Melbourne French Studies Seminar Series (October)
🗓️Quand : lundi 20 octobre, 16h-17h 📍Où : 407 Babel Building, The University of Melbourne – Parkville Campus « La nourriture comme métaphore des émotions » Clément Baloup L’auteur Clément Baloup propose une exploration de ses techniques et processus de travail en BD sur le thème de la nourriture. En effet, l’auteur met en scène régulièrement…
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Melbourne French Studies Seminar Series (septembre)
Melbourne French Studies Seminar Series (septembre) 🗓️Quand : mercredi 24 septembre, 11h-12h 📍Où : 407 Babel Building, The University of Melbourne – Parkville Campus « Lire Adolphe avant # Me Too : de l’introspection de Constant à l’esthétisation de Jacquot » Résumé Comment une œuvre du passé résonne-t-elle avec nos sensibilités d’aujourd’hui ? Toute lecture demeure nécessairement partielle et partiale : elle exprime…
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Melbourne French Studies Seminar Series (July): Book Launch – BUMIDOM (1963-1982) and its Afterlives
BUMIDOM (1963-1982) and its Afterlives: Literature, Memory and Migration Dr Antonia Wimbush (University of Melbourne) 🗓️When: Friday 25 July, 2:00-3:00pm 📍Where: 407 Babel Building, The University of Melbourne Parkville Campus BUMIDOM (1963-1982) and its Afterlives: Literature, Memory and Migration In 1963, and in response to numerous demographic and economic issues, the French government created the Bureau…
