IU Department of French and Italian

Félicitations à toutes et à tous ! 🎉 🎓 Complimenti a tuttə! 🎉 🎓
Photos from the Awards Ceremony and the Commencement Reception this Spring 2024. We are so proud of our students and faculty!

Prof. Marco Arnaudo's Honors College course on "Military Leadership--From Battle Field to Peace Time" made the news today in the College Newsletter! Make sure to watch the video!

Course spotlight: How military leadership theory informs business and management Students of all majors have been given the opportunity to develop sophisticated theories and practices of leadership through not just readings, but interactive games, as well. Skills the students learn in the course can be applied in business, politics and management, and any other kind of situation...

The Center of Excellence of the French Embassy at IU is delighted to welcome Professor Takyiwaa Manuh (Emerita Professor, University of Ghana, Legon) for a conversation on "West Africa in Focus: Political Developments and the Implications for Human Security." The event will be held Monday, April 15, 2-3:30pm EST, on the campus of Indiana University-Bloomington (GA1128) and via Zoom: https://iu.zoom.us/j/84333278663

Mark down your calendars for our French&Italian Coffee Breaks! ☕ 🇫🇷 🇮🇹 These coffee breaks are open TO ALL! IU students, future students, language enthusiasts, and anyone curious about our department or who wants to practice their français or italiano!
Faculty advisors Karolina Serafin and Barbara Vance will be on hand if you have questions about Fall courses, Study Abroad, or declaring a minor/major.
See you there! 😊

Check out this upcoming event at the Black Film Center & Archive which is co-sponsored by the Department of French and Italian and Cinema and Media Studies in The Media School!

Rebecca Wanzo (Washington University in St. Louis) will deliver a talk on “New Black Genres". Dr. Wanzo is an award-winning scholar of African American literature and culture, critical race theory, fan studies, feminist theory, the history of popular fiction, cultural studies, theories of affect, and graphic storytelling. Her acclaimed book, "The Content of Our Caricature: African American Comic Art and Political Belonging" (NYU, 2020), received a 2021 Katherine Singer Kovács Book Award from the Society for Cinema and Media Studies, a 2021 Will Eisner Comic Industry Award for Best Academic/Scholarly Work, and a 2020 Charles Hatfield Book Prize from the Comic Studies Society.

📍 Thursday, February 29th at 11:30 AM in BFCA Phyllis Klotman Classroom, Wells Library room 044B

Mark your calendars for the next event in our Student-Faculty Forum Series: a talk by Audrey Halley (PhD student in French/Francophone Studies) in preparation for her presentation at the American Comparative Literature Association conference in Montréal in March. She will be discussing Interactivity and Narrativity in Video Game Adaptation.

📍 Friday, Feb. 23rd at 4:15 pm in GA 3134

Don't miss out on these two events happening today with Franco-Senegalese playwright Penda Diouf! You can join the 4:30 pm event on Zoom as well by following this link:
https://iu.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZ0pcOCppjwsHdFeyIzLfBL5Xz_fWXXDx9yB?fbclid=IwAR0ZNE7Pl3UwPo1iRxbzsjwMMtz6t7AIJpkWRKZrrXWZ1rt8mtKdx480-GQ #/registration

Don't forget that this Friday, February 9th we are thrilled to host Franco-Senegalese playwright Penda Diouf at IU for a workshop at 10:00 am and an open conversation at 4:30 pm!
You can join the 4:30 pm event on Zoom by clicking on this link: https://iu.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZ0pcOCppjwsHdFeyIzLfBL5Xz_fWXXDx9yB #/registration
See you then!

Mark your calendars for Friday, February 9th! We are honored to have Franco-Senegalese playwright Penda Diouf visit IU next week for a workshop and an open conversation with her! These events are co-organized by FRIT through the Center of Excellence of the French Embassy, along with the IU Department of Theatre, Drama, and Contemporary Dance. It will not be an event to miss!

We are proud of our now famous FRIT alumnus, Laird Hunt! Here is an article from Le Monde last week featuring Laird Hunt's testimony about how "La littérature française enflamme mon imagination" with a crucial mention of his time at IU 😊

Laird Hunt : « La littérature française enflamme mon imagination » Adolescent, l’écrivain a été confié à sa grand-mère, au fin fond de l’Indiana. Cette femme solitaire lui a inspiré le personnage de Zorrie, au centre de son nouveau roman. « Zorrie », ou « Un cœur simple » dans le Midwest.