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Associate Professor of French Cheryl Morgan presented a paper titled “Qu’y a-t-il dans un nom? ‘La Princesse Brouhaha’ ou l’art du scandale dans les romans de Marie Studholmine Létitia Bonaparte-Wyse” at a conference May 11-13 at the Université de Bordeaux in France.

Professor of French John C. O'Neal presented a paper, "Saint-Preux comme personne transgenre dans La Nouvelle Héloïse de Rousseau," at the international colloquium "Masculin et pouvoir de Rousseau à Balzac," held at the Université Jean Monnet, May 19-20.

Associate Professor of French Joseph Mwantuali gave an invited talk titled "The Congo in the Colonial and Post-colonial Imagination" for the Colgate University Humanities Colloquium on March 22.

Professor of French John C. O’Neal has authored a new book, The Progressive Poetics of Confusion in the French Enlightenment, published by the University of Delaware Press. 

At the invitation of the Norges teknisk-naturvitenskapelige universitet (NTNU) or the Norwegian University of Science and Technology at Trondheim, Professor of French John C. O'Neal participated on the doctoral dissertation jury for a Ph.D. candidate in French on Feb. 11.

Associate Professor of French Joseph Mwantuali presented “What Would It Take to Bring an End to the Congo Holocaust?” at the 2010 Achebe African Colloquium held Dec. 3-4, in Providence, R.I. He was a member of a panel titled “Congo-Why the Resolution of the Congo Crisis Must Be Regional.” His talk was focused on three areas: truth and resolution, democracy and strategies to achieve durable peace. Mwantuali suggested that the resolution of the Congo crisis should be international as well as regional.

Associate Professor of French Cheryl Morgan gave a talk in French titled “Nineteenth-Century Noir” at the first “Festival Européen du roman and du cinéma noirs” held in Paris Nov. 13-15.

Associate Professor of French Joseph Mwantuali gave a talk in an international colloquium on African Literature focused on the Literature of the Democratic Republic of the Congo November 3-5. The colloquium, titled “The Congolese Post-Colonial Literature,” was organized by the Department of Classics and World Languages at the University of South Africa, Pretoria.

A new work by Hamilton College President Joan Hinde Stewart – The Enlightenment of age: Women, letters and growing old in eighteenth-century France – has been published by the Voltaire Foundation of the University of Oxford.

The center for the study of 18th-century studies at the University of Trondheim in Trondheim, Norway, has published the invited paper Professor of French John C. O’Neal gave in December of 2008.