CFF Program SoSe 2026
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CFF Program Flyer, Summer Semester 2026, Page 1
CFF Program Flyer, Summer Semester 2026, Page 2
On this page you will always find the latest information on the semester program, as changes/additions often occur after the publication of the respective semester program.
About the Center
The Centrum Frankreich | Frankophonie (CFF), founded at the end of 2017 and confirmed by the University Executive Board as a scientific institution of the TUD since October 2024, is broadly interdisciplinary and has members from numerous faculties, in addition to those from the School of Humanities and Social Sciences, also from the Faculties of Civil Engineering, Biology, Chemistry and Food Chemistry, Electrical Engineering and Computer Engineering, Medicine, Mechanical Science and Engineering, Physics and Environmental Sciences.
The CFF sees itself as a
- A place for German-Francophone scientific and cultural exchange
- Contact point for international cooperation
- the transfer of expertise on francophone cultural areas.
It cooperates with the DRESDEN-concept partners, supports the "Culture and Societal Change" Research Priority Area and contributes to the visibility of TU Dresden's international relations.
Structured promotion of early-career researchers takes place within the framework of the Franco-German doctoral student college "Construire les différences" / Collège doctoral franco-allemand "Construire les différences", funded by the Franco-German University in Saarbrücken.
The CFF is a founding member of the network of university France and Francophonie centers in Germany, a network of currently thirteen academic centers at the universities of Berlin, Bonn, Bremen/Flensburg/Rostock, Dresden, Freiburg, Leipzig, Mainz, Münster, Paderborn, Saarbrücken, Stuttgart and Tübingen, as well as at the Mannheim University of Applied Sciences, which are committed to intensifying Franco-German university cooperation. Associated partners are the Centre Marc Bloch Berlin and the Institut franco-allemand de sciences historiques et sociales (IFRA-SHS) / Institut français Frankfurt.
It also acts as an organizer and venue in the Literaturnetz Dresden.
Contact / Imprint
Postal address:
TU Dresden
Faculty SLK
Center France | Francophonie (CFF)
Helmholtzstraße 10
01069 Dresden
Mailing address:
01062 Dresden
Visitor address:
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Center France | Francophonie (CFF) |
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+49 (0) 351 463 32038 (secretary's office) |
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cff_dresden[at]mailbox.tu-dresden.de |
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https://linkedin.com/company/centrum-frankreich-frankophonie-cff |
Image sources / Copyrights
- Flyer motif: Bekky Bekks on Unsplash
- 01.06.26: Mauvillon, Éléazar de, Remarques sur les germanismes, 1753, Bibliothèque nationale de France, Gallica, Public Domain
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18.03.26: IF Dresden; photo private
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18.06.26: Ulrich Vogt; Thelem Universitätsverlag
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23.06.26: Wikimedia Commons: public domain
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26.06.26: public domain via Pixabay
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30.06.26: Detail from Raden Saleh, Hunting, 1846, Mesdag Collection, public domain
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Note 27.04.26: Ministère de l'Europe et des Affaires étrangères
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Note 28.04.26: private, Matthes & Seitz Berlin
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Note: 30.04.26: M. Cuzon
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Note 07-13.05.26: Programmkino Ost Dresden
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Note 21.06.26: Gerd Altmann on Pixabay
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Design: Angelika Gleisberg
Barrier-free communication via:
the short link of the digital version of the flyer at https://tud.link/55abjd or
via the adjacent QR code :
QR code for the digital version of the CFF Program, Summer semester 2026
Events spring / summer 2026
Reading and talk - Simon Chevrier: photo on request
As part of the Week of the French Language and Francophonie
Poster for Simon Chevrier's reading “Photo on request” on March 18, 2026, at the Institut français Dresden.
Simon Chevrier received the prestigious Goncourt du Premier Roman 2025, France's highest honor for a debut novel, for Photo on Demand. Photo on Demand is an unsparing and touching portrait of a queer Generation Z that seeks to find a foothold in today by fraternizing with yesterday.
Simon Chevrier, born in 1992, studied English and literature in Le Havre, London and Galway. In his native France, his debut novel Photo on Demand has often been compared to Annie Ernaux.
In German and French.
Free admission.
Moderation: Dr. Torsten König, Centre France | Francophonie (CFF)
WHEN? Wednesday, March 18, 2026, 19:00-20:30
WHERE? Institute français Dresden, Lingnerallee 3, 01069 Dresden
A cooperation between the Institute français and the Center France | Francophonie (CFF) of the TU Dresden, on whose linked websites you will also find further information.
Lecture
Karina Slunkaite (Heidelberg): Standardization, variation and prestige of French (as a foreign language) in the German territories of the early modern period: The Remarques sur les germanismes by Éléazar de Mauvillon
Poster for the lecture “Standardization, Variation, and Prestige of French (as a Foreign Language) in German Territories during the Early Modern Period: Éléazar de Mauvillon’s Remarques sur les germanismes” by Karina Slunkaite (Heidelberg) on June 1, 2026
The lecture examines Éléazar de Mauvillon's Remarques sur les germanismes (1753 [1747]; 1754) in the context of French as a foreign language in the German territories of the early modern period. Mauvillon's two-volume work is in the tradition of the remarques, the language-standardizing text genre par excellence for French in the 17th century, but - unlike traditional remarques - is aimed at German-speaking learners and treats "typical errors" as deviations from an increasingly fixed norm. It thus illustrates the reciprocal link between language standardization, ideas of prestige and language didactics.
As part of the lecture Standardization, Variation and Prestige: French in the Mirror of History by PD Dr. Franz Meier.
Guests are welcome.
Download the poster as PDF.
Source of the image used: Mauvillon, Éléazar de, Remarques sur les germanismes, 1753, Bibliothèque nationale de France, Gallica, Public Domain, https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k91062545/f7.item.
WHEN? Monday, June 1, 2026, 16:40-18:10
WHERE: Faculty SLK, Wiener Straße 48, 01219 DD, Room 0.02
Lecture
Mikhail Murashov M.A. (Dresden): Dresden in the works of French prisoners of war and STO workers in Saxony 1940-1945
Poster on the occasion of the lecture “Dresden in the Works of French Prisoners of War and STO Workers in Saxony, 1940–1945” by Mikhail Murashov, M.A. (Dresden), to be held on June 18, 2026, at TU Dresden.
France's temporary defeat in the war in June 1940 meant that around 2 million Frenchmen and women found themselves in Germany as volunteers, forced laborers or prisoners of war.
Their numbers were also considerable in the Saxon capital and its surroundings between 1940 and 1945. With what eyes did they see Dresden? What was everyday life like for its inhabitants on the eve of its destruction? How did French prisoners of war and (forced) laborers experience the bombing on February 13 and 14, 1945?
In the lecture, the image of Dresden will be reconstructed based on some of these people's written memories and the traces preserved in them will be explored.
As part of the seminar The Responsibility of Intellectuals. France between 1940 and 1944 by Bettina Lindorfer.
Guests are welcome.
Download the poster as PDF.
Source of the image used: Vogt, U.: Dresden in Farbe, Thelem Universitätsverlag (Dresden, Munich) 2022, p. 62.
WHEN: Thursday, June 18, 2026, 09:20-10:50 a.m.
WHERE: August-Bebel-Str. 30, House 116, 01219 DD, Room ABS/2-10
Lecture
Dr. Matthias Kern (Dresden): Cult of Nature and Dehumanization: Romantic Poetry as Biopoetics?
A faithful photographic reproduction of Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot's 1834 oil painting “Forêt de Fontainebleau”; Copyright: Wikimedia Commons, public domain.
The poetry of French Romanticism is characterized by the fact that nature is given a special status. Literary scholars often speak of the creation of a "landscape of correspondence", which is intended to reflect the feelings of the lyrical self.
In his lecture, Matthias Kern explores the question of how more modern approaches from biopoetics can shed a different light on the poetry of Lamartine or Alfred de Vigny and thereby reveal the emergence of a consciousness of nature.
As part of the lecture Umbruch und Aufbruch: Romantik aus dem Geist der Revolution? by Bettina Lindorfer.
Guests are welcome.
WHEN: Tuesday, June 23, 2026, 14:50-16:20
WHERE: ABS/CON1/U (container), Teplitzer Straße 15, 01219 Dresden
Lecture / Discussion
Dr. Torsten König / JProf.in Dr.in Anne-Marie Lachmund (Dresden): Why learn foreign languages with/ through/ despite AI?
An abstract, colorful image on the theme of “translation,” available royalty-free via Pixabay.
AI is changing the way we learn and use foreign languages. On the basis of theses, we would like to put forward arguments that mastering a foreign language is much more than just translating. As part of the Dresden Science Night "Where curiosity creates knowledge".
WHEN: Friday, June 26, 2026, 7:00-8:00 p.m.
WHERE? Auditorium Center of the TUD, Bergstraße 64, 01069 Dresden, Room 105
Lecture
Dr. Torsten König (Dresden): Global Romanticism? Cultural studies research perspectives on the painter Raden Saleh between Indonesia, Paris and Dresden
Source: Raden Saleh, *The Hunt*, 1846, Mesdag Collection, The Hague (http://www.museummesdag.nl) (detail), in the public domain on Wikimedia Commons
What is the impact of Romanticism as a European phenomenon beyond the borders of Europe? In what ways and in what forms do Romantic aesthetics, world views and knowledge circulate between local and global actors? What role does the colonial world order play in this? The lecture explores these questions with a view to the painter Raden Saleh (1811-1880), whose artistic life unfolded between his Indonesian homeland and various European locations such as Dresden and Paris.
As part of the lecture Umbruch und Aufbruch: Romantik aus dem Geist der Revolution? by Bettina Lindorfer. Guests are welcome.
WHEN: Tuesday, June 30, 2026, 14:50-16:20
WHERE: ABS/CON1/U (container), Teplitzer Straße 15, 01219 Dresden
Further links / information
Logo of the French Embassy in Germany
27.04.2026 - Visit of representatives of the French Embassy in Berlin and the Institute français Saxony at TU Dresden.
Header on the occasion of Gaspard Koenig’s reading of *Humus* on April 28, 2026, at the Dresden Central Library (collage featuring a photo of Gaspard Koenig and the book cover)
28.04.2026 - Reading by Gaspard Koenig, Humus in the Central Library, Dresden Municipal Libraries
Poster on the occasion of the Franco-German Welcome Reception on April 30, 2026, at the SLK Faculty of TU Dresden.
30.04.2026 - German-French welcome evening - Soirée de bienvenue franco-allemande
Cover image for the French Film Festival, May 7–13, 2026, at the Programmkino Ost in Dresden.
May 7 to 13, 2026 - 27th French Film Days at the Programmkino Ost Dresden
Free color image on the theme of music; Copyright: Jorge Franganillo on Pixabay.
June 21, 2026 - Fête de la Musique Dresden
Thank you for supporting the work of the CFF
Donation account:
Recipient: TUD Dresden University of Technology
IBAN: DE52 8504 0000 0800 4004 00
BIC: COBADEFF850
Please use the following reference: F-005010-539-000-1070307, Donation CFF