University of Illinois Department of French

University of
Illinois
Department
of French
23 October 2009
PAUSE CAFÉ
Pause Café at Espresso Royale, (Oregon/Goodwin)
5:30pm, Thursdays. All are welcome!
CONGRATULATIONS!
Congratulations to Michael Foster, who won
instructor of the summer in August 2009 for the
Upward Bound College Prep Academy here at
University of Illinois. Michael worked as an English
instructor over the summer.
Michael Foster also presented "TBLT Materials
Development as an Instance of Action
Research" at the 3rd Biennial International
Conference on Task-Based Language Teaching on
September 14, 2009 at Lancaster University.
PUBLICATIONS
Armine Mortimer has published the following article :
“Autofiction as Allofiction: Doubrovsky’s L’Aprèsvivre.” L’Esprit Créateur 49:3 (2009): 22-35
Jean Xavier Ridon (PhD in French Studies, UIUC,
1993) has published “Elizabeth Vonarburg: pour une
redéfinition du voyage spatio-temporel.” Redefining
the Real: The Fantastic in Contemporary French and
Francophone Women’s Writing. Modern French
Identities, Vol. 81. Ed. Margaret-Anne Hutton.
Peter Lang Publishing: Oxford, Berne, Berlin,
Bruxelles, Frankfurt am Main, New York, Wein,
2009.
FOREIGN LANGUAGE TEACHING SHARE FAIR
Fourth annual Foreign Language Share Fair
Friday, November 13 th , 3-6 p.m., Lucy Ellis
Lounge.
The general goal of the share fair is to provide
foreign language instructors a means in which to
share ideas and activities spanning several
categories of foreign language education. Faculty
members and
graduate students will be encouraged to present for
five minutes on a variety of topics relevant to the
foreign language classroom such as, but not limited
to: technology in the FL classroom, teaching
grammar and vocabulary, using music in the FL
classroom, teaching reading/listening
comprehension, classroom management/discipline
issues, teaching culture, and building skills in
speaking. Following the presentations there will be
time for some Q&A based on the presentations
along with some refreshments.
For those interested in submitting a proposal to the
Share Fair, below
are the criteria for share fair submissions:
1) 1-page proposal
2) any relevant illustrations
3) why the idea is pertinent to foreign
language teaching
4) applicability of the idea to
the foreign language classroom
5) a list of equipment needed for
the presentation (projector, computer, etc).
Participants will furnish their own hand-outs.
Please submit your abstract ideas no later than
Friday, October 30th,
to Michael Foster at [email protected].
UPCOMING EVENTS
Proust and His Era
7-10 April 2010
Planning for this spring’s upcoming Proust
conference is in the works! Graduate students who
are interested in chairing sessions should contact
Lawrence Schehr ([email protected]) or Patrick
Bray ([email protected]).
XVIe Salon du Livre Francophone de Beyrouth,
BIEL
Le jeudi 29 octobre 2009 à 16 heures, salle
SCHEHADÉ. Dédicace à 17 heures au stand de
la Librairie LE POINT, Beyrouth, BIEL
La Mission Culturelle Française au Liban
et la Librairie Le Point ont le plaisir de vous inviter à
la conférence - signature d’Évelyne Accad à
l’occasion de la parution de son roman nouvelle
édition bilingue L’Excisée / The Excised, Traduction,
Préface et Introduction Cynthia HAHN (l’Harmattan,
2009) Collection « Lettres du monde arabe ».
Conférence sur « L’excision ou l’écriture de la
douleur » par l’auteur avec chants composés et
interprétés par l’auteur.
Intervenantes :
Ezza Agha Malak, Professeur émérite et romancière
Nazik Yared, Professeur émérite et romancière
Amira Issa, Professeur et écrivaine.
CALL FOR PAPERS
Significant Readings: 4th Annual Department of
French Studies Graduate Student Conference at
Louisiana State University
12-13 March 2010
Dr. Tom Conley will be the literature keynote and Dr.
Zsuzsanna Fagyal will be the linguistics keynote.
The 4th Annual Graduate Student Conference,
hosted by the Department of French Studies at
Louisiana State University, aims to explore the
continued importance of signs and symbols in
French literature and linguistics. In what ways are
signs and symbols used in language to
represent/distort or maintain/subvert the status quo?
How have certain symbols evolved throughout
French literary history? How do symbols reflect
cultural ideals?
We welcome abstracts for 15-minute papers of 250300 words discussing any aspect of the conference
topic including, but not limited to, the following:
• Archetypal characters
• L’Argot
• Authorship/Imitation
• Barthes
• Baudrillard
• Bilingualism
• Bourdieu
• Cognitive/linguistic metaphors
• Cultural Technologies
• L’Ecriture féminine
• (False) Signatures
• Fetishism
• Language (standard or non-standard)
• Literary metaphors
• Masquerade
• Physical signs
• Representations
• Saussure
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Semiology
Semiotics
Signposts
Symbolism/Symbolist Movement
Tropes
Visual Culture
Please send your 250-300 word abstract,
including your paper title and contact
information to [email protected] by
December 15, 2009.
Please write “2010
Abstract” in the subject line.
The conference will take place on the LSU campus
in Baton Rouge, LA, March 12-13, 2010.
Please
contact
Michael
Foster
at
[email protected]
or
Liz
Mayne
at
[email protected] by Wednesday at 5pm if you
have news you would like mentioned in next week’s
newsletter