Lecture: Lorenzo Fabbri, “Questioning the National: Southerness and Subalternity from Visconti to Crialese ” (2/22, 2:30pm)

Lecture: Corbin Treacy, "Aesthetics and Aftermath: Algeria 1962-2012" (3/1/2013, 12pm)

PhD Candidate Department of French and Italian Corbin Treacy to Present at CHGS (Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies) Workshop

Interdisciplinary Workshop for Graduate Students and Faculty Holocaust, Genocide and Mass Violence Studies

Friday, March 1


12:00-1:30 p.m.


Room 710 Social Sciences

Aesthetics and Aftermath: Algeria 1962-2012

Treacy's dissertation studies
Algerian novels in French that respond to the political and social
landscape of the post-independence period. Through their literary form,
engagement with the political present, and utopian thinking, these works
imagine counter-realities that interrupt the closed-circuit loop of
violence and paralysis that have defined public life in Algeria in the
aftermath of independence from France in 1962.

Building on the
recent work of critics who combine materialist dialectics and
post-colonial critique, He will show how these texts disrupt this
permanence of aftermath through particular aesthetic moves, suggesting
new ways of reading post-colonial literature beyond the polarities of
politics and poetics.

If you are interested in participating in the workshop please contact Shannon Golden at golde118@umn.edu.

Updated schedule: CHGS 2013 HGMV Workshop 2-1-2013.pdf

Lecture: Alessandra Montalbano, “Italian Ransom Kidnapping: Language in Victims' Memoirs” (2/15, 3:00pm)

Study Abroad Pizza Extravaganza

French and Italian Study Abroad Programs Info Session

Are you interested in improving your language skills and learning about another country, all while earning credit toward your degree? If so, please join us to learn about opportunities for students to study in France, Senegal or Italy during the semester or summer. Past participants will join to share their experiences.

Friday March 8, 2013

12:15 - 1:15 p.m., 113 Folwell Hall

Pizza will be provided.

To ensure we have enough pizza, be sure to RSVP!

The Talle Family Scholarship Competition 2013