We’re booked !  We can no longer take reservations. Please plan on joining us in December 13 for the Gala d’Hiver.

Betsy tire sa révérence !

La Maison Française vous invite à célébrer ses 32 ans de service au

Gala de Printemps 2013

vendredi 10 mai
18h00 apéritifs ~ 19h00 dîner

Entrée ~ Tapenade, Baba Ghanoush, Salade de Concombres et Féta à la sauce Yaourt
Plat principal ~ Gigot d’agneau (sans os) à la provencale (une option végétarienne sera offerte), servi avec un Tian de légumes
Salade Verte avec artichauts et poivrons rouges
Plateau de fromages
Gâteau à la ricotta et au vin santo
$25 / $20 étudiant

Cliquez ici pour réserver vos places.

Merci !

Students in French 301 / 302 enjoy their lunch with a generous helping of French conversation.

The French House lunchtime conversation class is featured in the Spring 2013 edition of On Wisconsin magazine. After a brief visit and a few photos, author Aimée Katz whipped together a great little article featured in their “News & Notes: Student Watch” section.  Click here to read the full article.

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Germaine Brée Lecture Series

Azouz Begag
Writer, CNRS Researcher, Equal Opportunity Minister (2005-2007)

Créer dans les marges. Azouz Begag: du gone au ministre, en passant par l’écrivain
November 29, 2012, 5:00 P.M.
The French House, 633 N. Frances Street

Azouz Begag will also be presenting the following day (note different location):

Education and Identity Among the Children of Minorities in the French Republic
followed by a screening of Le gone du Chaâba
November 30, 2012, 5:00 P.M.
L140 Conrad A. Elvehjem Building

Azouz Begag, an internationally acclaimed French writer, has published more than twenty books, most of which are subject to various problems faced by the youth of North African origin, caught between two cultures as well as between tradition and modernism: poverty, racism, unemployment, self-destruction, and despair. Originally Algerian, Azouz Begag was born in the suburbs of Lyon in France in 1957. He holds a PhD in Economics from the University Lyon 2 and leads from the front three careers: novelist, sociologist and politician. Researcher at the CNRS and the House of Social and Human Sciences in Lyon since 1980, he is a specialist in socio-urban economy: his work is largely on the mobility of immigrant populations in urban areas.

a documentary by
Professor Névine El Nossery
UW-Madison Dept. of French & Italian

Friday, November 16, 7pm
126 Memorial Library

“In the summer of 2012, I went to Egypt and did some interviews with women about the Revolution that started on January 2011. Upon my return to Madison, I worked on the translation of these interviews and made a documentary on nine resilient women, coming from different social, intellectual, religious backgrounds, and talking about the Egyptian Revolution, their frustrations, dreams and hopes…

Please come for the screening of the documentary on Friday, November 16, at 7 pm at 126 Memorial Library.“

For more details, please contact
Névine El Nossery: elnossery at wisc.edu

Olivier Wieviorka

Thursday November 1, 2012 at 4 p.m.
5233/5243 Mosse Humanities Bldg.
(Curti Lounge, 3rd floor)

Olivier Wieviorka is a professor of contemporary history at the Ecole Normale Supérieure of Cachan and a senior fellow of the Institut Universitaire de France specialized in Second World War History and France under occupation. His latest book Divided Memory: French Recollection of World War II from the Liberation to the Present has just been released by Stanford University Press.

Sponsored by the Cultural Services of the French Embassy, with additional funding from the Center for European Studies and Center for Interdisciplinary French Studies. Additional support provided by the Center for Interdisciplinary French Studies and the Center for European Studies.

For more information: europeanstudieswisconsin@gmail.com

Thursday November 1, 2012 at 4 p.m.
5233/5243 Mosse Humanities Bldg.
(Curti Lounge, 3rd floor)

Olivier Wieviorka is a professor of contemporary history at the Ecole Normale Supérieure of Cachan and a senior fellow of the Institut Universitaire de France specialized in Second World War History and France under occupation. His latest book Divided Memory: French Recollection of World War II from the Liberation to the Present has just been released by Stanford University Press.

Sponsored by the Cultural Services of the French Embassy, with additional funding from the Center for European Studies and Center for Interdisciplinary French Studies. Additional support provided by the Center for Interdisciplinary French Studies and the Center for European Studies.

For more information: europeanstudieswisconsin@gmail.com

French Meet-up Group
weekly, bi-weekly, & more
Click here for more information.

Vin et Conversation
Mondays, 7pm, year round
Barriques, 127 W Washington Ave.

This Monday group does tend to have more native speakers but all levels are welcome. Start time is technically 7pm but some participants tend to arrive a bit late (7:30ish). Subscribe to their email list by sending a blank email to: join-francophiles@lists.wisc.edu.

Dîners et Déjeuners à la Maison Française
Wednesdays, 6pm & Fridays, 12:15pm during the academic year

Our Wednesday dinners and Friday lunches are open to the general public. Guests have at least a conversational level of French. There is limited space available so reservations are highly recommended.  To find out more, click on “Dining” at the top of this page.

Déjeuner à la Maison Française:  UW-Students only
Monday-Friday, 12:15pm during the academic year

Students with the equivalent of at least 3 semesters of French can join us any day for lunch. A group of native French speakers will be on hand to keep the conversation current and lively! Click here for more information.

If you are interested in working, please fill out the form below and we’ll get back to you soon. Merci!

Please note: This is not an on-campus ‘student hourly’ position. Applicants must be authorized to work in the U.S.