CFF Program SoSe 2021
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About the Center
Founded at the end of 2017, the Centrum Frankreich | Frankophonie (CFF) is broadly interdisciplinary and has members from numerous Faculties, including the School of Humanities and Social Sciences as well as the Faculties of Mechanical Science and Engineering.
The CFF sees itself as a place for German-Francophone academic and cultural exchange, a contact point for international cooperation and a mediator of expertise on francophone cultural areas.
The CFF cooperates with the DRESDEN-concept partners, supports the Research Priority Area "Culture and Societal Change" and contributes to the visibility of TU Dresden's international relations.
contact
© Burkhard Fiebiger
Center France | Francophonie (CFF)
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Visiting address:
Wiener Str. 48, Rooms 4.11, 4.06, 4.02
01219 Dresden
Postal address:
TUD Dresden University of Technology
Fakultät SLK
Institut für Romanistik
CIFRAQS
01062 Dresden
Secretariat Angelika Gleisberg:
Wiener Str. 48, Room 4.02
01219 Dresden
Deutschland
Tel.: +49 (0) 351 - 463 32038
Office hours:
Availability in the office (secretariat): Daily. Office hours for students: Mon-Thu, 13:30-15:30h. Vacation in the office: 11-29.09.24
Image sources
- Design: Paolo Pio Bevilacqua on Unsplash
- La Réunion: Ludivine Aubras
- Utopia Europe:/Digital Utopia: Institute français Germany
- Albertine Sarrazin: INK PRESS
- Camilla Renschke: Marcel Kamps
- Léonora Miano: JF PAGA
- Markus Messling: Author
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Events spring / summer 2021
Themed evening on the International Day of La Francophonie: "La Réunion lé là !"
Onthe occasion of the International Francophonie Day on March 20, which celebrates the French language and its 300 million speakers worldwide, the Institute français in Saxony in cooperation with the Centrum France | Francophonie invited you to a virtual trip to the island of La Réunion!
As a French overseas department in the Indian Ocean, located east of the African continent, the mountainous volcanic island is known for its unique landscape, its diverse fauna and flora, but also for the history of its population, which is reflected in the Creole of Réunion, which is spoken there by many inhabitants alongside French.
Ludivine Aubras, born in Réunion and a FranceMobil animator in Saxony, and her guests brought us a little closer to the island's Creole language, culture and history.
- When: 18.03.2021, 18:00 - 19:30
- Where: Online event with prior registration
- Language: French (recommended from language level B2)
- Organizer: Institute français Leipzig; Institute français Dresden; Centrum France | Francophonie
- Participation free of charge // with registration: info .leipzig[at]institutfrancais.de
Facebook event: La Réunion lé là ! | Facebook
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Project
Utopia Europe Prize 2021 - TU Dresden student team takes part in debating competition
After a series of virtual discussions on the topic "Utopia Europe - Digital Utopia?" in cooperation with the Centrum Frankreich|Frankophonie in September 2020, a team of students from TU Dresden took part in the final round of the ideas competition.
Based on the results of the discussions, the students developed their proposal for the foundation of a "European Culture and Education Platform (EuKuB) - digital, borderless and sustainable".
Based on the current challenging situation, the students want to offer a sustainable solution that promotes European exchange and intercultural learning on the basis of digitalization, regardless of national borders.
The proposal goes on to say:
"Each year, a commission will set a thematic focus on which musicians*, artists* and authors* can submit their digital projects. The commission, consisting of European representatives of culture and education from different age groups, makes a selection and publishes the results on the platform. The publication is also linked to financial support for the artists. All EU countries have unrestricted access to the platform in order to make sustainable use of the works and promote intercultural exchange. Accompanying materials can be offered for the educational context and the platform allows the artists to be invited digitally for discussions and presentations."
Would you like to find out more about the idea of the European Culture and Education Platform? Then you are welcome to take part in the virtual closing event and support the TU Dresden student team.
- When: 22.03.2021, 16:30 - 20:40 hrs
- Place: Online event
- Organizer: University cooperation of the Institute français Germany and the Franco-German University, this time in cooperation with the Liaison Office of the European Parliament in Germany and the Representation of the European Commission in Germany
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Reading
Scenic reading by Albertine Sarrazin. " Freedom really is the worst of all vices "
A cooperation with the Deutsches Hygiene-Museum Dresden (DHMD)
Albertine Sarrazin
In her autobiographical texts, Albertine Sarrazin deals with her own prison experiences. Sarrazin spent a large part of her youth in prisons, escaped repeatedly and finally made her breakthrough as a writer - thanks in part to the support of Simone de Beauvoir. Sarrazin's turbulent life and her authentic descriptions made the author a literary sensation in France in the 1960s, before she died in 1967 at the age of just 29.
Introduction to the topic: Dr. Matthias Kern.
Camilla Renschke
The actress Camilla Renschke, winner of the 2020 Audiobook Award for "Best Performer" (known from the Bremen crime series Tatort ) will read from Albertine Sarrazin's novel "Der Ausbruch".
With the kind support of INK PRESS. Albertine Sarrazin's works have been published there in translation by Claudia Steinitz since 2018.
Event as part of the exhibition: Prison. In Prison, 26.09.2020 - 31.05.2021, Deutsches Hygiene-Museum Dresden
- When: March 23, 2021, 7:00 pm
- Where: Live stream from the special exhibition "In Prison", Deutsches Hygiene-Museum Dresden (The YouTube link will be announced on March 15, 2021 on dhmd.de )
- Recording: Camilla Renschke reads from Albertine Sarrazin's novel "Der Ausbruch" - YouTube
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Reading
Inhabiting a Border - Time of Shadows. Reading and talk with Léonora Miano
How can we think about relations between Europe and Africa today in a new way that is oriented towards the problems of the present and the future? Léonora Miano is currently one of the most important and most discussed French-language writers dealing with this question. Born in Cameroon, the author lives and writes between the continents: in her country of origin, in France and in Togo. Her novels, plays and essays have been awarded numerous prizes. In them, she reflects on colonial history and the necessary decolonization of its narrative, its impact on the present and the possibilities of a future shaped by overcoming marginalizing identities. With the novel "Zeit des Schattens" and the essay collection "Eine Grenze bewohnen" (both published by w_orten & meer 2020), two texts by Léonora Miano are available in German translation for the first time. The reading and discussion with the author on the occasion of these publications is the first in German-speaking countries.
- When: April 15, 2021, 18:00-19:30
- Where: Online event, mandatory pre-registration at info.dresden[at]institutfrancais.de; receipt of the Zoom link one day before the event after prior registration by e-mail.
An event organized by the CFF in cooperation with the Institute français in Saxony, the Erich Kästner Haus für Literatur and the publishing house w_orten & meer
Moderator: Torsten König (Centrum Frankreich | Frankophonie, TU Dresden)German voice: Ina Pfitzner (translator of the novel "Zeit des Schattens")& Lisa Wegener (translator of the essay collection "Eine Grenze bewohnen")
This event is co-financed by tax funds on the basis of the budget approved by the members of the Saxon State Parliament.
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Exchange Program
German-Canadian Europe Seminar / Study trip to Montréal
The exchange between students from Germany/Europe and Québec/Canada has been at the heart of the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg's program since 2014, which includes a joint seminar in Europe (Autumn Academy) and a study trip to Montréal (Winter Academy).
Students of Romance Studies at TU Dresden were already able to participate in this program in winter 2019/20, in cooperation with Dr. Christoph Vatter (MLU Halle-Wittenberg).
The current call for applications and more detailed information can be found here and shortly on the website of Dr. Vatter (Deputy Head of Chair for Romance Regional and Cultural Studies at the University of Halle-Wittenberg).
Romance studies students at TU Dresden are cordially invited to attend. Please register your interest: christoph.vatter[at]romanistik.uni-halle.de.
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Project
Île numérique. Atelier d'écriture numérique en français / French writing workshop with Joachim Séné
The French writer and net activist Joachim Séné (https://www.joachimsene.fr) is offering a writing workshop under the motto "Île numérique" :
Qu'est-ce que serait une île numérique? Et d'abord, peut-on se déconnecter, et oublier le téléphone, le réseau ?
And also: is it true that the connection removes or relieves us from others? What are our uses? From the memory of the first connection to the promise of a reconnection, this workshop will ask questions about the digital in order to cultivate its richness, while at the same time reaffirming its negative effects.
The participants' texts will be published on a large, unique, navigable collective page on the L'aiR Nu (Littérature-Radio-Numérique) website https://lairnu.net
Prerequisite for participation: desire for (creative) writing.
In cooperation with the course "Écrit" by Florence Walter (Institute of Romance Studies TUD)
When:
- 1st date: May 20, 2021, 9:30-10:50 a.m.
- 2nd date: June 3, 2021, 9:30-10:50 a.m.
Where: Online event, mandatory pre-registration at cff_dresden[at]mailbox.tu-dresden.de
Receipt of the event link after prior registration by e-mail. Participation free of charge // with registration
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Guest lecture
Small Universality. Narrative world fabrications after universalism. Lecture and discussion with Prof. Dr. Markus Messling
The world literature debate, which is one of the cultural debates of our time about global validity, is being conducted in the French-speaking world under the heading of "littérature-monde" and thus refers to the problem of worldliness: the melting away of Western universalism since 1990 has been accompanied by the return of realism. How approaches to a new universality can be conceived, without which knowledge and justice in world society cannot be organized, thus proves to be a problem of narrative world design.
Markus Messling is Professor of Romance Cultural Studies at Saarland University. He was deputy director of the Marc Bloch Center in Berlin and has held visiting professorships and fellowships in Paris, Cambridge, London and Kobe.
When: June 15, 2021, 18:00-19:30
Where: Online event, mandatory pre-registration at cff_dresden[at]mailbox.tu-dresden.de
Receipt of the event link after prior registration by e-mail.
Participation free of charge // with registration
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Cooperation partner
- Member of the DRESDEN-concept network, Literaturnetz Dresden, network of French and Francophone university centers in Germany
- The Erich Kästner House for Literature Dresden
- Deutsches Hygiene-Museum Dresden
- Goethe Institute Dresden
- Institute français
- Deputy Head of Chair for Romance Regional and Cultural Studies at the University of Halle-Wittenberg(Dr. Christoph Vatter)