FOUR FRENCH and FRANCOPHONE THINKERS

FOUR FRENCH and FRANCOPHONE THINKERS

October 24 - November17

Friday, October 24 | 2:00 PM, 133 Barker Center

L’amour de la patrie, une notion controversée

Marc CREPON; Chair of Philosophy, École normale supérieure de Paris

Tuesday, October 28 | 6:00 PM, 133 Barker Center

“Performance” and “Performative”

Barbara CASSIN; Former Director of the Collège International de Philosophie

Monday, November 10 | 6:00 PM, 133 Barker Center

Pourquoi s’en faire: Being a French Writer

Philippe VASSET; Novelist and Editor-in-chief, Africa Intelligence Online

Monday, November 17 | 6:30 PM, 133 Barker Center

Strange Fruit: Bananas, Slavery, Military Coups, Sex and Race

Françoise VERGES; Goldsmiths College, University of London; President of the

Comité pour la Mémoire et l’Histoire de l’esclavage

With the support of the Bacon Fund, the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, the French Cultural Services and the Mahindra Humanities Center