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Department of French & Italian.

Department of French & Italian

Welcome to the Department of French and Italian at the University of Minnesota. The Department offers undergraduate and graduate courses on the language, literature, and culture of France, the broader francophone world, and Italy. At all levels, our courses are designed to provide linguistic skills and to enhance the kind of critical thinking needed to explore other cultures, other historical periods, and to discover what makes them meaningful today.

 
Events

In the Community

  • Film and Event: Becoming Traviata, by Philippe Béziat

    The Film Society of Minneapolis St. Paul presents:

    Becoming Traviata
    France • 111 min • French w/English subtitles • 2013 • Documentary
    Directed by: Philippe Béziat

    The film is opening Friday, June 28 at the St Anthony Main Theater.with opera conductor/director Craig Fields
    and an outstanding cast of opera singers

    Monday, July 1, 2013
    6-7:30 pm
    Aster Café’s River Room
    125 SE Main St, Minneapolis

    $25 General / $20 Film Society Members
    Ticket Includes:
    performance & discussion | hors d’oeuvres & cash bar
    Screening of Becoming Traviata

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  • Films: 8 Pierre Étaix films throughout August

    Comedian, illustrator, gagman, film director - Pierre Étaix has done it all, and yet he remains largely unknown outside his homeland. Janus Films is proud to correct that situation with 8 new prints: five features and three shorts produced between 1961 and 1971, all beautifully restored in 35mm. Praised by directors as diverse as Truffaut, Bresson, Godard, and David Lynch, Étaix's films combine exquisite physical comedy with inventive sight gags and a slightly surreal visual sensibility. This retrospective is an unprecedented opportunity to discover a neglected master of comic filmmaking.

    Weekends, August at The Trylon microcinema in Minneapolis.

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News

Undergraduate News

  • Congratulations: Emily Parrent has been awarded the Selmer Birkelo scholarship for 2013-14

    Congratulations to Emily!

    Word was just received that one of the eighteen students selected to receive the Selmer Birkelo scholarship for 2013-14 is Emily Parrent, who is triple-majoring in Classical Civilization, Anthropology, and French & Italian Studies.

    These awards are given to students majoring in fields relating to history, modern languages, classics, or the social or behavioral science.

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Graduate News

  • 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

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