UC Berkeley Department of French

10/03/2021

March 11th is BIG GIVE time! In celebration of Carol Dolcini’s retirement after 30+ years of service to our undergraduates, the Department of French has renamed its Study Abroad Flight Fund the Carol Dolcini Study Abroad Flight Fund. If you are able, please consider making a contribution and help our undergraduates find their wings. Allez les ours! https://give.berkeley.edu/fund/FN7207000.

19/11/2020

Now out from Bloomsbury Press! Examining how photography plays in Proust’s monumental (unfinished) novel changes our understanding of how time is at work in it. Challenging the traditional story about Proust's masterpiece we bring it back to earth, revealing Proust's attention to French popular culture and his vigorous engagement with time as it happens—a time of life we examine with the help of three philosophers who were Proust’s contemporaries.

24/06/2020

Need hardware for Fall semester, but can’t afford it? The Student Technology Equity Program (STEP) will freely lend and mail undergraduate and graduate students a laptop, Wi-Fi hotspot, and/or other required technology. Apply here while supplies last. priority deadline is July 15.

09/06/2020

Welcome to Fall 2020 admits! The French Department is available for student inquiries about French programming. Visit our website https://french.berkeley.edu for fall courses and contact info.

15/05/2020

As a semester more chaotic than most closes, the French Department remembers that in an extended moment of social distancing, we are, and always will be, a community connected by two left turns connecting three hallways on Level D Dwinelle. Although we cannot be together, the closing of each academic year reminds us that students come to us so that we might we prepare them to go. It is with no less a bittersweet sentiment that we send off our Spring 2020 graduates, whose feet may no longer tread our hallways, but whose echoes will surely still sound there when we return. We wish them all the best and ask them to always remember that they have formed us as much as we hope to have formed them.

Courage, les jeunes! Le monde est à vous!

[Please enjoy this script, which is meant to be read aloud by the Department Chair, to present you,the graduates in French, as you walk across the stage to receive a scroll and a handshake. To set the stage, click here to receive your commemorative scroll, then click here to be accompanied by Pomp a...

13/03/2020

The Department of French is pleased to bring you glad tidings from our extended community at Cal.

So far, peregrine mates Annie and Grinnell have two eggs, more on the way

06/02/2020

TODAY AT 4 PM IN 4229 DWINELLE: PROF. LIZ BROGAL (UCLA)
"Learning to Swim: October 17 and the Seine's 'Exceptional Bodies'"

03/02/2020

The French Department is pleased to welcome Pajus Distinguished Visiting Professor Marielle Macé.

For those interested, please make a note of her talk on February 11, her seminar on February 13, as well as her office hours.

(Poster Courtesy of Alan Yeh)

29/01/2020

A new (special) issue of Critical Times: Interventions in Global Critical Theory, guest edited by our very own Debarati Sanyal, is now out and available to read online.

This issue examines the entanglements and aftermaths of colonialism, Apartheid, and genocide in our moment of forced displacements, techno-surveillance, and global authoritarian ethno-nationalism. The essays connect seemingly disparate legacies of racialized violence; they negotiate continuities and discontinuities between events and aftermaths; and they offer various openings for imagining the future, the un-thought, and the not-yet-imagined.

Contributors to "Time and Politics in Contemporary Critique: Entanglements and Aftermaths" include Vilashini Cooppan, Paul Gilroy, David Theo Goldberg, Marianne Hirsch and Debarati Sanyal.

Read it here:

Critical Times, a project of the International Consortium of Critical Theory Programs, is a peer-reviewed, open access journal with the aim of foregrounding encounters between canonical critical theory and various traditions of critique emerging from other historical legacies, seeking to present th...

26/03/2019

Summer in French at UC Berkeley -- Enrollment open to all students at http://summer.berkeley.edu/apply