The next meeting of the French Linguistics Research Seminar will take place on 6 February 2019. Olivier Mayeux (Cambridge) will speak on 'What can endangered creoles tell us about language change? Three centuries of Louisiana Creole'. The talk will take place at 6.30 pm in Room GR-06-07, Faculty of English, and is co-...

Dr Claire White will be speaking at the Cambridge Festival of Ideas on 'French Revolutions in Painting' on Saturday 20 October 2018 from 11-12 in the Little Hall, Sidgwick Site. All are welcome. From Eugène Delacroix to Édouard Manet, French painters of the long nineteenth century captured the nation’s revolutions. After...

The Cambridge Medieval French Research Seminar, in an effort to truly reflect the fluidity of Medieval Europe, has decided to embrace all aspects of Medieval Literature and Culture: this was made possible by a generous grant from the Arts and Humanities Research Centre. The 2017/2018 programme will include speakers from...

Hannah Mowat, a former PhD student in the French department, has made her thesis, 'Gesture and the cinéaste : Akerman/Agamben, Varda/Warburg', available online via the University's online repository. Her thesis can be found at https://doi.org/10.17863/CAM.6333