Department of French Studies Graduate Student Association Conference
Past Conferences:
The Department of French Studies 12th Annual Graduate Student Conference:
Explorations littéraires/Literary Explorations
Louisiana State University
Department of French Studies Graduate Student Association (DFSGA) Conference
February 23-24, 2018
Keynote Address: Lawrence D. Kritzman
Conference Organizers: Mathilde Pointière and Piper Black
The Department of French Studies 11th Annual Graduate Student Conference:
Migrations and Contacts in the French and Francophone World
Louisiana State University
Department of French Studies Graduate Association (DFSGA) Conference
March 10-11, 2017 at Baton Rouge, LA, USA
Keynote Addresses: Pius Ngandu Nkashama and Yves Frenette
Conference Organizers: Sylvestre Mekem Douanla and Alecia Davis
The Department of French Studies 10th Annual Graduate Student Conference:
Violence and resistance in the French and Francophone world
Louisiana State University
Department of French Studies Graduate Association (DFSGA) Conference
March 11-12, 2016 at Baton Rouge, LA, USA
Conference Organizers: Ann François and Emily O'Dell
The Department of French Studies 9th Annual Graduate Student Conference:
Les chemins de la tradition
Louisiana State University
Department of French Studies Graduate Association (DFSGA) Conference
March 13-14, 2015 at Baton Rouge, LA, USA
Conference Organizers: Gordon Walker and Jeanne Jégousso
The Department of French Studies 8th Annual Graduate Student Conference:
Taboo, Sacrifice, & the Sacred
Louisiana State University
Department of French Studies Graduate Association (DFSGA) Conference
February 21-22, 2014 at Baton Rouge, LA, USA
Keynote Round Table Discussion with Susan Baddely, Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines;
Fabrice Jejcic, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
Keynote Address by Valérie Loichot, Emory University
Conference Organizers: John Patin and Chelsea Rye
The Department of French Studies 7th Annual Graduate Student Conference:
Ways of Being/Modes of Existance: Human, animal, machine
Louisiana State University
Department of French Studies Graduate Association (DFSGA) Conference
March 1-2, 2013 at Baton Rouge, LA, USA
Keynote Speakers: Dr. Verena Conley of Harvard University; Dr. Dominique Lestel of
Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris;
Dr. Jeffrey Nealon of Pennsylvania State University
Conference Organizers: Gina Breen and Mark Ohm
The Department of French Studies 6th Annual Graduate Student Conference:
Misfits, Outcasts and Exiles: Reading the Margins
Louisiana State University
Department of French Studies Graduate Association (DFSGA) Conference
March 2-3, 2012 at Baton Rouge, LA, USA
Keynote Speakers: Dr. Pierre Saint-Amand of Brown University and Dr. Jean-Pierre Le
Glaunec of Sherbrooke University
Conference Organizers: Lauren Pendas and David Llorca
Call for Papers
The Department of French Studies 5th Annual Graduate Student Conference:
Francophonies: the Living and the Dead
Louisiana State University
Department of French Studies Graduate Association (DFSGA) Conference
March 18-19, 2011 at Baton Rouge, LA, USA
Keynote Speakers: Dr Deborah Jenson, of Duke University and Dr. Thomas Klingler of
Tulane University
Conference Organizers: Tara Smithson and Nadia Miscowiec
Call for Papers
The Department of French Studies 4th Annual Graduate Student Conference:
SIGNificant Readings
Louisiana State University
Department of French Studies Graduate Association (DFSGA) Conference
March 12-13, 2010 at Baton Rouge, LA, USA
Keynote Speaker: Tom Conley of Harvard University
Conference Organizers: Carrie O'Connor and Rosemary Harrington
Call for Papers
The Department of French Studies 3rd Annual Graduate Student Conference:
Sexuality, Eroticism, and Gender
Louisiana State University
Department of French Studies Graduate Association (DFSGA) Conference
January 30-31, 2009 at Baton Rouge, LA, USA
Keynote Speaker: Gaëtan Brulotte
Conference Organizers: Melanie Hackney and Aaron Emmitte
Call for Papers
Selected articles from this conference were published in the book Sexuality, Eroticism and Gender in French and Francophone Literature, by Cambridge Scholars Publishing, edited by conference organizers Melanie Hackney
and Aaron Emmitte.
The Department of French Studies 2nd Annual Graduate Student Conference:
Literature, Language, Theory: Challenges to Authority
Louisiana State University
Department of French Studies Graduate Association (DFSGA) Conference
March 7-8, 2008 at Baton Rouge, LA, USA
Keynote Speaker: Professor Elena Russo of Johns Hopkins University
Conference organizers: Oana Cimpean and Rosie Harrington
Call for Papers
The Department of French Studies 1st Annual Graduate Student Conference:
Stirring the gumbo pot: French and Francophone Studies, Critical Approaches, and New
Directions
Louisiana State University
Department of French Studies Graduate Association (DFSGA) Conference
March 23rd-24th 2007 at Baton Rouge, LA, USA
Keynote Speaker: Professor Peggy Kamuf
Conference organizers: Logan Connors and Marianne Bessy
Call for Papers