Category Archives: French

Congres “Les Lieux de Georges Perec”

Postuum uitgegeven in 2022 door uitgever Seuil – samen met een interactieve website waarop de volledige tekst op verschillende manieren te onderzoeken is – Lieux van Georges Perec (1936-1982) «is een onvoltooid gebleven, autobiografisch en etnografisch project waaraan Perec werkte … Continue reading

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New books from the Bibliothèques francophones (Classiques Garnier)

First purchased in 2021, and expanded last year with the volume Ducharme et Rimbaud: L’océan de la beauté, the Classiques Garnier’s collection Bibliothèques francophones has now been further augmented by the following two volumes:

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“Les Colleuses”: French women street artists against gender-based violence. With literature search tips

Inclusive searches & sources @UvA Romance languages (18) The UNITE campaign runs for sixteen days from November 25th, International day for the elimination of violence against women, to December 10th, International Human Rights Day. Active since 2016 and making the … Continue reading

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On the occasion of Pride Month: Queer literature from North Africa and the Maghreb

Inclusive searches & sources @UvA Romance languages (11) Just as previously with the post on (African) Francophone Cinema or, at Library333: UvA Social Sciences Library blog, with the one on Celebrating Black History Month, it is an issue of JSTOR … Continue reading

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Inclusive searches & sources @UvA Romance languages (7)

How to search for UvA books on graphic novelsIn French, Italian, or Spanish While the UvA Allard Pierson (the heritage collections of the University of Amsterdam) holds a vast collection of (Dutch) comics – hugely expanded under (recently awarded) Jos … Continue reading

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Inclusive searches & sources @UvA Romance languages (6)

recommended resource: JSTOR Daily(African) Francophone Cinema JSTOR Daily is a website providing «context for current events using scholarship found in JSTOR». While the stories published on JSTOR Daily are free for everyone to read, the peer-reviewed articles they refer to … Continue reading

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Inclusive searches & sources @UvA Romance languages (5)

How to search for UvA books on inclusive languageIn French, Italian, or Spanish Complementary to a a list of mostly English language resources published on Library 333: UvA Social Sciences Library blog, the present post aims at helping find French, … Continue reading

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End of the year quote, and reading list (3): Simone de Beauvoir

«Je me perdais dans l’infini tout en restant, moi-même. Je sentais sur mes paupières la chaleur du soleil qui brille pour tous et qui ici, en cet instant, ne caressait que moi. Le vent tournoyait autour des peupliers il venait … Continue reading

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Honderdste sterfjaar Marcel Proust: UvA-gerelateerde initiatieven

Van 7 oktober tot 11 november a.s., ter herdenking van Marcel Proust (1871-1922) honderdste sterfjaar, organiseert de Illustere School van de UvA een collegereeks gefocust op de twee laatste delen van À la recherche du temps perdu: Albertine disparue en … Continue reading

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Full online access to “Expressions maghrébines” via the UvA Library

Published twice a year by the Coordination Internationale des Chercheur-e-s sur les Littératures Maghrébines, Expressions maghrébines is a peer-reviewed journal publishing research (in French and English) on the culture, literature and arts in the Maghreb and its diasporas. Issues includes … Continue reading

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