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DIDIGITAL FORAYS: SPACE & PLACE II: VISUALIZATION & DIGITAL STORYTELLING

This year-long series starts from a simple premise: What does it look like to think, engage, and do research in this digital age?  This is not a call for researchers to simply produce digital outputs - but we live in an ever-increasingly digital world. In order to better activate our scholarship, and to grasp the terrain in which our research…

The Mews French Book Club – Virtual Meeting with Author Catherine Cusset

This meeting will be virtual. Celebrated French writer Catherine Cusset leads a French Book Club, exploring new tendencies in French and Francophone literature in a relaxed setting. Discussion is in French. At the special request of the regular Mews French Book Club attendees, the book to be discussed at the May 8 online meeting will be Catherine Cusset's novel L'autre qu'on adorait. Please purchase…

Contesting the Classroom. Reimagining Education in Moroccan and Algerian Literatures

La Maison Française (Columbia) Buell Hall, 515 West 116th Street, New York City

To RSVP, please click here. Introduction, Madeleine Dobie Respondent, Sophia Mo Contesting the Classroom is the first scholarly work to analyze both how Algerian and Moroccan novels depict the postcolonial classroom, and how postcolonial literatures are taught in Morocco and Algeria. Drawing on a corpus of contemporary novels in French and Arabic, it shows that authors imagined the fictional classroom as a…