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USC Francophone Resource Center

Past Events

2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008


DATE		EVENT
Mar 1st-June 1st		Beyond the iconic, contemporary photographs of Paris
April 19		Teacher's training:Teaching French with film, an integrated approach
Mar 8		Beyond the iconic, contemporary photographs of Paris, guided tour by Jean-Christophe Ballot
Mar 4		Anne-Marie Thiesse : les romans-feuilletons et leurs lectrices a la Belle-Époque


DATE		EVENT
Dec 17		The USC Francophone Resource Center received the French ambassador to the United States, Pierre Vimont
Dec 5		Gisèle Seginger : Flaubert, une écriture de l'histoire
Oct 9		André Velter et Zéno Bianu
Oct 5, 6		Soundeye poetry between languages
Sept 5		Anna Moï : écrire en français dans le Vietnam d'aujourd'hui
April 20		Rachid Boudjedra : Faulkner et la littérature maghrébine
April 17		Hélène Sanguinetti et Ann Cefola : Hence this cradle
April 14		Teachers' training : teaching French with music
February 8		Dr Béatrice Mousli Bennett, the director of the Francophone Resource Center, was honored for her career and her contribution to French culture and language with the "Chevalier dans l'ordre des Palmes Académiques" award.

2006
DATE		EVENT
Nov 9		David Lepoutre : Family memory and the relation to the past in working class immigrant families
Nov 3		Jean-Pierre Jeunet : Delicatessen followed by Q&A
Oct 26		Faïza Guène : Kiffe Kiffe Demain
Oct 24		Bruce Bégout : La découverte du quotidien, esquisse d'une philosophie de la vie quotidienne
		The Mezzonians : Django Night : Live Gypsy Jazz
Oct 18		Grégoire Bouillier : "Ecriture de la réalité et réalité de l'écriture"
Oct 12		Laurent Thévenot : "How are moral exectations real? Researching troubles in the coordination of action."
Jun 15-17		Los Angeles : A Different look at a different city
Apr 20		Thierry Breton, French Minister for the Economy, Finance and Industry
Apr 14		2nd French-American week of contemporary poetry
Apr 3		His Excellency Jean-David Levitte, French ambassador to the U.S
April-May- June		Photography workshop with Olivier Culmann
Mar 24 - Apr 21		Conference : Women in the public sphere: French and American perspective
Mar 11		Teachers' Training: Teaching French with photography

2005
DATE	EVENT
Nov 12	Teachers' Training : Teaching French with comic strip
Oct 24	David Prochaska : All in the family
Oct 20	Christophe Fiat : Class visit
Oct 10	Valérie Mréjen : reading
May 2	Teachers' Training: Understanding and using French media in the classroom
Apr 28	Géraldine Muhlmann : Journalism and democracy, a view from Paris
Apr 26	Four Poets from Quebec : Writing in French in North America
Apr 22	Elisabeth Boyi : Inversion and subversion, African and colonial novels
Apr 14,15	Trinh T. Minh-ha
Mar 30	Fahrad Khosrokhavar, New perspectives on Islam (4), Allah's new martyrs
Mar 23	Business French: New approaches on teaching and thinking the discipline
Mar 11	Debarati Sanyal : Bodies in motion, Baudelaire's women and the forms of modernity
Mar 2	Robert Boyer : Evolution and diversity in contemporary capitalism
Feb 22	Jean-Pierre Azéma : Historiography of Vichy France
Feb 18	Dominic Thomas : The mediation of global blackness, Ousmane Sembène and Richard Wright
Feb 17	Edgar Pisani : Economy, society-nature, politics

2004
DATE	EVENT
Nov 16,17,18	Perfume workshop with Valérie Lajeanne
Nov 11	Georges Corm : New perspectives on Islam (3), the determinants of sustainable development and governance in the Arab world
Oct 26	Jean-Michel Espitallier
Oct 25	Jean Bauberot : New perspectives on Islam (2), France and the United States, two models of separation between Church and State
Oct 2	Teachers' Training: Teaching French with TV5
Sept 22	Claude Imbert : The French exception
Sept 16	Francois Burgat : New perspectives on Islam (1), face to face with political Islam
Sept 9	Christian Delage and Vincent Guigueno : The historian and film, writing history with and through film
Apr 16	His Excellency Jean-David Levitte, French ambassador to the U.S
Feb 18	The role of NGOs in public debate and international relations

2003
DATE	EVENT
Dec 5	Blandine Kriegel : French and American republics, two philosophies of international relationships ?
Nov 12	Pierre Mumbere-Mujomba : Life as a writer in the Democratic Republic of Congo