In connection with the display of their video trilogy, Finding Fanon, as part of the Kettle’s yard exhibition, Untitled: Art on the Conditions of Our Time, artists Larry Achiampong and David Blandy were in conversation with leading Fanon scholar Dr Jean Khalfa, of the French Section.

Recent books by two members of the French Section have been highly praised in this year’s Gapper Book Prize, run by the Society for French Studies.

Congratulations to Eleanor Stefiuk who has won the 2021 Postgraduate Essay Prize of the Society of Dix-Neuviémistes for her paper ‘Villiers de l’Isle-Adam’s Anarchism: A Legacy of the Paris Commune’.

Anton Bruder has been awarded the 2021 Society for French Studies R, Gapper Postgraduate Essay Prize for his essay 'Topoi of the Philological Imagination from the Renaissance to the Revolution: Claude Fauchet (1530-1602) and Charles de Pougens (1755-1833)’. Giulia Boitani was highly commended by the judges for her essay '...