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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.

To modern-day feminists, the canon of authors and thinkers who contributed to the movement are well known and oft-repeated; Woolf, Gilbert and Gubar and de Beauvoir are a few. But Lexi Nisita ’12, in conjunction with an Emerson grant, is seeking to add one more name to this list: Emilie du Châtelet, a philosopher better known as Voltaire’s longtime companion.

Cynical, suspicious and propaganda-filled, France was not a pleasant place to be in the years between World War I and World War II. Despite having fought on the same side of the war, France and the United States reacted very differently to it, as is shown in their film and print media. Kelsey Brow ’12 received an Emerson Grant to dig deeper into these differences.

Professor of French John C. O'Neal gave a lecture titled "La frontière qui s'estompe entre l'âme et le corps chez Rousseau et les philosophes" for the research group on Rousseau studies at the Sorbonne in Paris on May 22.