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French Center of Excellence and Wexner Center for the Arts host Nuit des Idees Celebration
On April 1, 2025, the French Center of Excellence and Wexner Center for the Arts co-hosted a series of events dedicated to honoring and exploring French and Francophone culture and language as a…

French Center of Excellence Talk: #Ob/GynViolence: From French Studies to Narrative Medicine
The French Center of Excellence and Department of French and Italian hosted Dr. Loïc Bourdeau on April 3 to discuss his research in narrative medicine. Dr. Bourdeau's talk, entitled #Ob/…

French Center of Excellence Host Conversation on Literary Translation
The French Center of Excellence and Department of French and Italian hosted a conversation between Dr. Mauro Cazzolla and Professor Jonathan Combs-Schilling on Thursday, April 17 to analyze some…

French Center of Excellence hosts Professor Chase Cormier
The French Center of Excellence and Department of French and Italian hosted Professor Chase Cormier for this year's Jules Verne Lecture in Creative Writing on March 17, 2025 at Thompson Library.…

French Center of Excellence hosts Professor Morgane Cadieu
The French Center of Excellence was honored to host Yale University Associate Professor of French, Morgane Cadieu, on February 3. Professor Cadieu gave a talk in Thompson Library on her most…

Nicolas Idier On Campus
The French Center of Excellence was pleased to host author Nicolas Idier, this year's Jules Verne Resident in Creative Writing, for a lecture experience entitled "Why Was I Chinese?" This event…

Announcing the AY25 Jules Verne Creative Writing Resident - Nicolas Idier
Nicolas IdierEverywhere you go, from Paris to Los Angeles, from Dakar to La Réunion, you will always find some cheap, colorful and strangely useless…

French Center of Excellence Lecture Series - Kévi Donat "Black Seine, White Paris"
The French Center of Excellence, Department of French & Italian, and OSU Newark were delighted to host Kévi Donat on Tuesday, September 19 for his lecture in this year's French Center of…