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Albertine Cinémathèque French Film Festival Returns to MSU

October 3, 2024

Assistant Professors Elizabeth Tuttle and Jena Whitaker in the Department of Romance and Classical Studies at Michigan State University are excited to announce the return of the MSU Albertine Cinémathèque French Film Festival. The 2024 festival is slated to bring one classic and five contemporary French films to MSU’s campus during the month of October. 

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FRN 440: Cartoons, Graphic Novels and Film in the Francophone and Arab Worlds

August 1, 2024

FS24 MW 12:40 - 2:00 p.m., 3 cr This course offers fresh views of the recent political history of the Arab and Francophone worlds from a subaltern angle. Drs. Valentina…

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FRN 350: French History in Painting and Visual Arts

July 29, 2024

SS25 TR 10:20 - 11:40 a.m., 3 cr In this course, with guidance from Prof. Safoi Babana-Hampton, you will visit a variety of fascinating art collections and galleries, including the:…

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Boehm Awarded Grant to Develop “Our Knotted Gun” Documentary

July 22, 2024

RCS Spanish Professor Scott Boehm and Peter Johnston (Film Studies), were awarded a Large-scale Development Humanities and Arts Research Program (HARP) grant to film the new feature-length documentary Our Knotted…

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Prof. Safoi Babana-Hampton Releases Film Trailer

June 22, 2024

Safoi Babana-Hampton, Professor of French at RCS, recently released the official trailer of her HARP Large-Scale Development grant-funded documentary feature "Chœurs atlantiques" (Tales from the Atlantic Beyond). Public release of the…

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20th Annual Italian Film Festival Returns to MSU

April 9, 2024

In April, the Italian Film Festival USA --now in its 20th year-- made MSU's East Lansing campus one of the successful stops in its nationwide tour. The Festival USA (link:…

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Festival of Listening

February 27, 2024

On Mar. 13th, the RCAH Center for Poetry is partnering with MSU's Arts Living-Learning Community (ALLC) to present an evening of untranslated poetry for the first time since 2020. The…

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Doctoral Student Researching Female Representation in Latin American Horror Films

October 31, 2023

Since she was a kid, Ana Patricia Ponce Castañeda has loved horror films and fondly remembers watching scary movies with her mom as she was growing up in Mexico. Now,…

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MSU Video “Peruvian Speculative Fiction/Futurismo Peruano” Featured at Feria Internacional del Libro de Lima

September 8, 2023

It may not be the first thing that comes to mind when you think of Peru, but the Andean country has a fascinating cultural scene centered on speculative fiction or…

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Italian Film Festival Returns to MSU after Three Years Online

April 11, 2023

After three years of online-only programming, the Italian Film Festival is making its in-person return to the MSU campus. The Italian Film Festival USA (link: https://italianfilmfests.org/detroit.html) is organized by a…