Category: events

  • Invitation to a Free event: “Translation Nation: Literary Translators and Poets in Conversation”

    Please join us for this FREE event on Saturday 10 May 2025 at the State Library of NSW (or online via Zoom – A link will be provided to all registered attendees). This is an event to promote the importance of Australian translators and poets on the national and international cultural scene. Join us and our special…

  • Melbourne French Studies Seminar Series: C’est quoi, cet accent ?

    Quand : jeudi 20 mars, 14h-15h Où : 407 Babel Building, The University of Melbourne Parkville Campus Qui : Claire Dumans et Prof. Véronique Duché, The University of Melbourne « C’est quoi, cet accent ? La diversité des accents dans les manuels de FLE » Résumé À mesure que la sensibilisation à la mondialisation et à la…

  • Australian Society for French Studies 2024 Conference (Melbourne)

    Global French Studies: Transnational, Transcultural, and Transdisciplinary Perspectives The 32nd annual conference of the Australian Society for French Studies (ASFS) was held at The University of Melbourne, 11-13 December 2024. In total, 85 delegates from Australia and across the world shared their research with the ASFS community. The event kicked off its first day with online…

  • Melbourne French Studies Seminar Series: France and Australia at the South Pacific Commission

    When: Friday, 8 November, 2–3pm Where: 407 Babel Building, The University of Melbourne Parkville Campus Dr Alexis Bergantz, RMIT University “Whose Pacific ? France and Australia at the South Pacific Commission, 1947-1990s” In 1947, at Australia’s initiative, the South Pacific Commission (SPC) was established as an inter-governmental agency aimed at promoting cooperation among six colonial powers…

  • Melbourne French Studies Seminar Series: The Asterix Series as National Myth in Postwar France

    When: Friday, 20 September, 2–3pm Where: 407 Babel Building, The University of Melbourne Parkville Campus Professor Julie Kalman, Monash University “The Asterix Series as National Myth in Postwar France“ In October 1967, there was a first in France: the Floralies internationales. Lasting six months and located outside Orléans, this was the largest, and longest flower show…

  • Melbourne French Studies Seminar Series: Reading / Translating Proust

    When: Friday, 23 August, 2–3pm Where: 407 Babel Building, The University of Melbourne Parkville Campus Emeritus Professor Brian Nelson, Monash University “Reading / Translating Proust“ In this seminar, Brian Nelson will offer reflections on his experience as co-editor and contributing translator of the new, seven-volume Oxford edition / translation of Marcel Proust’s In Search of Lost…

  • Diversity, Decolonization, and the French Curriculum (DDFC) 2024 Conference

    Call for PapersPooling Open-Access Resources: Designing for Justice and AccessDiversity, Decolonization, and the French Curriculum (DDFC)A Two-day Virtual Conference (Zoom)November 8-9, 2024 Increasingly inclusive, representative, and accessible teaching resources are essential to a socially and pedagogically just learning environment. From traditional tools (textbooks, learning management systems) to new media, AI, and creative assessment design, the…

  • FATFA-TOFA conference 2024

    Every 2 years a National Conference for French Teachers is organised by the FATFA (Federation of French Teacher Assoc. in Australia). This year, the conference will be held on Nov 22-23 in beautiful Perth, WA! Come meet your WA colleagues for 2 days of professional development, networking and fun! The Conference theme is ‘Embarquement immédiat: vers…

  • Melbourne French Studies Seminar Series: Julie Delpy’s cinephilia and cinécriture

    When: Friday, 17 May, 2–3pm Where: 407 Babel Building, The University of Melbourne Parkville Campus Dr Felicity Chaplin, Monash University “Tiny details: Julie Delpy’s cinephilia and cinécriture“ Julie Delpy once remarked: “We are everything and we are nothing. It is just the big paradox of being alive. We’re tiny details, yet we are details.” Perhaps…

  • Melbourne French Studies Seminar Series: Victor Hugo, Theopoet

    When: Friday, 19 April, 2–3pm Where: 407 Babel Building, The University of Melbourne Parkville Campus Dr Patrick Kennedy, The University of Melbourne “Victor Hugo, Theopoet: Re-reading the divine in Les Contemplations, Dieu, and La Fin de Satan“ Though well-known as a prolific nineteenth-century author and écrivain engagé, Victor Hugo is less remembered for his idiosyncratic view of the…