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 February 13, 2017 | 6:30 PM CST
IN FRENCH
Alliance Française de Chicago
54 W. Chicago Avenue
FREE but registration recommended
Dany Laferrière is one of today’s most original writers in French, rooted both in Haiti and Quebec. He is the first Quebecer and the second black writer, after Senegalese writer and statesman Léopold Sédar Senghor, to be inducted at the prestigious Académie française in Paris. The author of some 23 novels, he first made a mark in 1985 with a witty, semi-autobiographical novel How to Make Love to a Negro Without Getting Tired and later on, won the Prix Médicis
in 2009 withThe Enigma of the Return. Come to meet and listen an "immortal" like no other! FOR MORE INFORMATION |
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| LIVE BROADCAST IN 7 CITIES IN THE MIDWEST |
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This lecture will also be broadcast live in 7 cities as part of the
Marianne Midwest Series, which provides a forum for distinguished cultural and political icons from France to engage audiences in Chicago, and to interact (via live teleconference broadcast) with audience members network in the Midwest. It consists of a series of web debates on contemporary topics, meant to bring together American and French points of view, and to reach Midwest partners. Listen to November's lecture by historian Pap NDiaye
FOR MORE INFORMATION OR TO LISTEN PAST TALKS |
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Monday, February 13 | 7:30 pm (EST)
University of Saint Francis - Fort Wayne
Organized by the Alliance pour la Francophonie de Fort Wayne FOR MORE INFORMATION |
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Monday, February 13 | 6:30 pm
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign - Champaign (IL)
Organized by the Department of French and Italian FOR MORE INFORMATION |
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Monday, February 13 | 7:30 pm (EST)
Wayne State University - Detroit
Organized by the Alliances Françaises de Détroit and de Grosse Pointe in partnership with the Department of Classical and Modern Languages at Wayne State University FOR MORE INFORMATION |
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Monday, February 13 | 6:30 pm
Truman State University - Kirksville
Organized by the Department of Classical and Modern Languages FOR MORE INFORMATION |
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Monday, February 13 | 6:30 pm
Webster University - Webster Groves
Organized by the Centre Francophone at Webster University FOR MORE INFORMATION |
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| OTHER EVENTS WITH DANY LAFERRIÈRE |
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Indiana University Cinema - Bloomington (IN)
Feb 6 - Feb 16, 2017
Indiana University Cinema presents a series of films and a lecture. Laferrière, a collaborator in these three films centered on his work, tells stories of America as a region where the scars of colonialism are evident still in the social and racial hierarchies born out of the growing global economy. FOR MORE INFORMATION |
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Sofitel Magnificent Mile - Chicago
Feb 12, 2017 | 10:00 am
Catch Dany Laferrière as he wakes up, ready to share with you some of the reflections he published in Journal d’un écrivain en pyjama / Diary of a Writer in his PJs. Time for Q&A will give guests an opportunity to interact with this award winning and influential writer. The morning also includes a delectable breakfast designed by Sofitel Chicago Executive Chef Greg Biggers. Followed by a French and English book sale and signing with the author.
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