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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.

The Centre d'Etude de la Langue et de la Littérature Françaises des XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles at the Université Paris-Sorbonne Paris IV has named Professor of French John C. O'Neal a research associate in its center for 17th- and 18th-century studies. While on leave from Hamilton, O'Neal is working out of this research center. This is the second time he has been associated with the center, having first worked as a research associate there in 2004.

Hamilton President Joan Hinde Stewart and Philip Stewart visited the Hamilton College Junior Year in France Program in Paris, France, on a mild spring evening on March 18. They shared their memories of study abroad in France with Resident Director Cheryl Morgan and students currently studying with the Hamilton program.

As a member of the board of directors of the American Society of the French Academic Palms, Professor of French John C. O'Neal was invited to attend the United Nations' celebration of the 40th anniversary of the first event recognizing the importance of the Francophone world. Some 400 people were on hand to listen to speeches, live or recorded, by the secretary general of the United Nations and a number of other dignitaries. The event was held on March 26 at the Manhattan Center in New York City.

Cecile Dolisane-Ebossé, a professor at Cameroon’s University of Yaoundé and currently a Fulbright Scholar at Emory University, will present a lecture titled “Cultural Identity and Political Violence in African Literature” on Tuesday, April 6, at 8 p.m. in the Red Pit. Presented by the French Department, the lecture is sponsored by the Dean of Faculty Office and is free and open to the public.

An interview with Associate Professor of French Joseph Mwantuali was recently published in Africultures, an online magazine for Francophone African Studies.

Five students and three French faculty members spent the weekend of March 5-7 exploring Ottawa, the Canadian capital. The group was led by Visiting Assistant Professor of French Julie Kruidenier Tolliver '02, a native of the Ottawa region. The students and faculty experienced the distinctive character of a bilingual city situated at the juncture of anglophone Ontario and francophone Quebec.

Roberta Krueger, the Burgess Professor of French, will discuss “Piety and Profanity in Medieval French Conduct Books,” on Thursday, March 11, at 4:10 p.m., in the Hamilton Science Center’s classroom 3024. The lecture was rescheduled from Feb. 25, when it was postponed due to inclement weather.  It is the sixth in the Hamilton College Humanities Forum and is free and open to the public.