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French Book Group Launches!
We are excited to launch a French Book Group, open to all French speakers (and created specifically for the French-speaking community in Sheffield), held monthly on Mondays at Café Rouge, Peace Gardens. Coordinated by Dr Karine Zbinden k.zbinden@sheffield.ac.uk
Date première rencontre: 11 février 2013, 20h30
Premier livre: Didier Daeninckx, CannibaleOuvert à tous les francophones de Sheffield et des environs, notre groupe de lecture se réunira un lundi par mois à Café Rouge, Peace Gardens, dès 20h.30.
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French Research Seminar Series kicks off on 30 October 2012
The Department of French Research Seminar Series kicks off on 30 October 2012 with our very own Dr Audrey Small presenting on Francophone publishing:
“Works written in French should be taken to be published in Paris”: the absence of francophone literature.
ALL are welcome to attend (JW G03, 6-7pm).
There are two other seminars this Autumn - Dr Will Higbee (Exeter) speaks on Rachid Bouchareb's Hors-la-loi (21 November 2012, 5pm JB SR116), and Dr Catharina Peersman speaks on Language use and perception in Flanders (11 December 2012, 6pm, JW G03).
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Book launch celebration!
Blackwell's on Mappin Street hosted a wonderful book launch for recently-published books by three members of staff in French - Dr Helen Abbott, Dr Julia Dobson & Dr Catharina Peersman.
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New book on contemporary French film directors by Dr Julia Dobson
Congratulations to Dr Julia Dobson who has just published her latest book Negotiating the auteur: Dominique Cabrera, Noémie Lvovsky, Laetitia Masson and Marion Vernoux with Manchester University Press.
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New publication by Dr Catharina Peersman
Congratulations to Dr Catharina Peersman, who has recently arrived in the French Department at Sheffield, on the publication of her first book L’essor des langues vernaculaires dans les chartes de Ninove. Perspectives sociolinguistiques sur l’essor et l’emploi de l’ancien français dans les chartes de l’abbaye 1137-1350 with Presses Académiques Francophones.
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New book on Baudelaire and song by Dr Helen Abbott
Dr Helen Abbott publishes a new book on Baudelaire and song called Parisian Intersections: Baudelaire's Legacy to Composers, looking at the relationship between poetry and music, and between poets and musicians in 19th-century Paris. She focuses on different song settings of Baudelaire's poem 'La Mort des amants', and the book has an innovative companion SoundCloud website with recordings of the songs analysed in the study.
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Academic Awards winners 2012
Congratulations to two members of French staff who have won awards at the Sheffield Students' Union Academic Awards 2012! Dr Amanda Crawley Jackson wins the Employability Award, and Dr Audrey Small wins the Student Experience Award. We're delighted and hugely proud of their success!
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French students perform Marivaux's 'La Fausse suivante' in Sheffield and Montpellier
Dr David McCallam directs and coordinates performances of a reduced version of Marivaux's La Fausse suivante by final year students from the Department of French at a public dress rehearsal in Sheffield and at the Université de Montpellier, attending the Colloque-Festival in Montpellier on the theme of ‘recognition scenes in early modern French and English drama’.
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French Department Theatre Group perform Molière's 'Le Malade imaginaire' in Sheffield & Provence
As part of an ongoing collaboration, the French Department Theatre Group travelled to Beaumes de Venise in Provence. Along with the TRAC - a community-based enterprise in France - the Group put on their production of Molière's 'Le Malade imaginaire' to a highly receptive audience.