IU Department of French and Italian

Bienvenue and benvenuto! This is the official Twitter account of the @IUBloomington Department of French and Italian

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Congratulations to our undergraduate and graduate student nominees at this years Award ceremony and thank you to everyone who came out to show their support for the winners. We hope to see you back in future years with all new experiences to share with FRIT.

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Please note that the below event has been cancelled and will be rescheduled for sometime in the upcoming Fall semester.

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Thank you to all who made the 2023 GSO Conference a success this year. We hope to see you in the future for upcoming GSO and department events.

A special thank you to Corentin Mazet, Alvise Stefani, and Nicolas Noé as our GSO representatives who worked to organize this event.

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Don't miss this upcoming lecture opportunity on April 19.

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Join FRIT for April's First Thursday Festival. First Thursdays festivals showcase the diversity of arts and humanities at IU Bloomington and offer a welcoming environment for students, faculty, staff, and community members to explore new creative outlets
https://t.co/zSDBKxbL6N

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Join the French Club for their second to last event this semester on Monday, April 3rd from 3-5:15 pm in GA 4067 for a screening of the French-language film Stuck Together (8 Rue de l’Humanité) (2021, 2h 5m, TV-MA) with English subtitles.

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Please join us for the 2nd Annual HLS music festival This Friday at 5pm. The Department of French and Italian are proud sponsors of this event.

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As part of the Navruz celebration on Friday, there is a free featured concert from the Bloomington Silk Road Ensemble, as they perform traditional music and original compositions from the Mediterranean region to China and everywhere in between. The concert will begin at 5:30 pm

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FRIT is pleased to welcome you to its biennial graduate conference. The topic of patterns and singularities will be discussed with multiple fields represented, we'll also have speakers, Michael Dow and Rocco Rubini, on Saturday after a roundtable on French & Francophone Studies.

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Caroline Fache, chair of French and Francophone Studies and director of the Global Literary Theory Program as well as a FRIT alumni, has been named an Associated Colleges of the South (ACS) Mellon Academic Leadership Fellow.

https://t.co/NbTu9zLcLP

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At Direct Admit Day FRIT members helped to advertise our program to incoming undergraduate students to the Art's and Science's College.
Direct Admit attendees enjoyed virtual visits to Paris, Versailles, Rome or Florence thanks to the VR sets we use in our language classes.

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Join the French Club on Monday, Feb 27th from 3-4:30 pm in GA 3134 for a screening of the French-language film Meander (2020, 1h30m, R) with English subtitles.

Contact the coordinators with any questions:
Clara Miller-Broomfield ([email protected])
Jennifer Cox ([email protected])

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Don't forget French Club's conversation table tomorrow about Mardi Gras. Beginning French learners especially welcome.

TUESDAY, FEB 21ST FROM 11-12 IN GA 2134. For more info, contact the coordinators Clara Miller
Broomfield ([email protected]) and Jennifer Cox (jc143@iu.

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Join us this Sunday either at Auer Hall or online for a continuation of the Melodie Music Project started in January.

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Don't forget to submit your abstract by the end of today to [email protected] if interested in participating in this years FRIT Graduate Conference.

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Don't miss one of our upcoming conferences from our Graduate students. If interested in participating then please note the deadline for submitting an abstract has been extended to February 7th.

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Don't forget some of the application deadlines for upcoming overseas studies programs.

Aix-en-Provence (All Year 2023-24 or Fall 2023): February 6, 2023

https://t.co/pOe6Z5Ivkn

Paris IES (Fall 2023 semester) – French Studies: February 27, 2023

https://t.co/FX8ByaJIPF

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This is a reminder that our French Club conversation table 2 is coming up this week which provides an opportunity to practice speaking French in a fun, informal setting. Beginning French learners are especially welcome.

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Former IUB French student Nur Ashikin Mohd Taib BS'91 and Malaysian Ambassador to Sweden gave an interview to The Local talking about her takeaways from living in Sweden as well as detailing some history of Malaysian/Swede history.
https://t.co/yhG2Cr9tvV

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Join us in congratulating our former student, Flavien Falantin (VAP, Colby College), whose book "Faut-il brûler Sagan?" was recently published by Classiques
Garnier.

Congratulations Flavien!