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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

  • 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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  • Film: Caesar Must Die (Cesare deve morire), by Paolo Taviani, returns May 10th

    Opening Friday, May 10: Caesar Must Die. After multiple sell-out screenings, this 2013 MSP International Film Fest darling returns for a theatrical run! Winner of the Golden Bear at the 2012 Berlin Film Festival, Caesar Must Die follows the inmates of the high-security Rebibbia prison as they put on a breathtaking and vivid performance of Shakespeare's Julius Caesar. Critically lauded, this festival highlight is an absolute must-see.

    at St. Anthony Main Theater brought to you by the MSP Film Society.

    Italy • 76 min • Italian w/English subtitles • 2012 • Drama • 35mm • PG-13
    Directed by: Paolo Taviani, Vittorio Taviani

    SHOWTIMES
    Friday, May 10 thru Thursday, May 16
    (1:20), (3:20), (5:20), 7:20, 9:40

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Campus Events

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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