Tags: French


Romance Languages Trivia Night

Come test your knowledge about the languages, cultures, and people of Italian-speaking, French-speaking, Portuguese-speaking, and Spanish-speaking countries. There will be tasty snacks and prizes!


Join us for a Match!

As part of National French Week, the Pétanque Club of Athens  will be hosting a Pétanque event on campus!  What: If you have never heard of this game and want to try something new, come out for an introduction to the French sport of Pétanque! Or if you’ve played before, this is a great chance to have fun and show off your skills!   Where: The brand new Pétanque Club of UGA court in front of the Lamar Dodd School of Art!…


Roundtable with Dr. Chantell Smith Limerick

Come learn about Dr. Smith Limerick's experience in graduate school and navigating the job market. She will be available for questions about preparing your application dossier, the ins and outs of campus visits, and what her experiences have been like on search committees. 


Dr. Luis González of Wake Forest U. visits UGA for talk and corpus workshop

People from all departments are welcome at this event. Please, feel free to share this info and the flyer with your students.  1. TALK on Wednesday, November 9, 4:00-5:00 pm, Gilbert Hall 113 "Rules that work: a verber/verbed fragment of a grammar of Spanish" This talk, meant for language students and instructors as well as linguists, will show that rules of language are easier to state, understand, retain, and apply if…


French + Portuguese Movie Night

On Wednesday, November 16th from 5-7pm, Fala Aí, the magazine of the Portuguese department at UGA,  will sponsor a French + Portuguese film night in Gilbert Hall room 118. The movie being shown is "La Cage Dorée" or "The Gilded Cage", which is a French-language comedy about the lives of Portuguese immigrants living in France. It will be subtitled in English. Light refreshments will be served, and there will be a discussion in English…


Screening of Trouble Sleep (2020) with director Alain Kassanda

Spoken-word artist, musician, and filmmaker Alain Kassanda was born in Democratic Republic of Congo and has lived in France since the age of 11. Trouble Sleep, its title drawn from the great Fela Kuti, follows two young taxi drivers as they navigate the crowded streets of Ibadan, Nigeria. An innovative city symphony that reveals the rules governing seeming chaos, Kassanda’s new  documentary has been featured at Visions du Réel, DOK Leipzig…


Romance Languages Student Appreciation Event 11am-1pm

Come join fellow students for cookies and refreshments in a celebration of our ROML undergraduates! Stop by our tent on Herty Field on your way to class between 11-1 Monday or Tuesday.  Are you a Spanish, French, Italian, or Portuguese minor or just interested in these programs? Come chat with us about various ways you can jump from a minor to a major with just a few more classes. Already a Spanish, French, or Romance Languages major? Come…


Roundtable: Global South Cinephilias

The idea of cinema as an art is one born of cinephilia. While the term simply means “love of cinema,” cinephilia sets itself apart from the average film fan’s love of stars, spectacle, and popular genres, seeking out more challenging and complex pleasures. Like the art cinema it promotes, cinephilia has long been viewed as a mostly Euro-American phenomenon, a perception that has obscured rich traditions of film appreciation in Africa, Asia, and…


GSO Workshop : Developing your Professional Presence Online

In the world we currently live in, our presence online is almost as important as our presence on campus. Employers today are likely to "meet you" online before they get to see you in person. That is why the GSO has decided to help our graduate students understand and develop their professional presence online with the help of the DigiLab. Join us on Instagram @uga.roml


Knowledge of Nothing: On Apocalyptic Ekphrasis in The Flowers of Evil

Nathan Brown, Associate Professor of French and Canada Research Chair in Poetics of Concordia University, Montreal will give a guest lecture on Baudelaire. In one of the key sonnets of Les Fleurs du mal, "Obsession," Baudelaire's speaker declares a resolute orientation toward the void: How you would please me, o night! without these stars Whose light speaks a language we know! For I seek the void, and the black, and the bare! …
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