Loyola’s Department of Modern Languages and Literatures will celebrate French Week with a series of events from Nov. 3 - 13. The week, which is designed to encourage appreciation of French culture and language, is titled “La Francophonie dans les pays du Maghreb: French culture and tradition in northern Africa.” The following events will be held at the College’s North Charles Street campus: Monday, Nov. 3
The musical group Gibraltar, which performs music of North African inspiration, will perform in the College’s 4th Floor Program Room in the Andrew White Student Center beginning at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 5
Loyola Fine Arts Professor Maureen O’Brien will present “Minarets, Madrasas, and Muquarnas: Islamic Art in North Africa” in Knott Hall B03 at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 6
Mass will be celebrated in Arabic and French in the Alumni Chapel at 12:10 p.m. Monday, Nov. 10
Students at Loyola College will have an opportunity to register for dinner at the Marrakesh Restaurant in Washington, D.C. at 7:30 p.m. Transportation will be provided to the students. Tuesday, Nov. 11
Alec Hargreaves, Director of the Winthrop-King Institute for Contemporary French and Francophone Studies and the Ada Belle Winthrop-King Professor of French at Florida State University, will present “France and the Maghreb: Post-Colonial Diasporas” in the 4th Floor Program Room of the Andrew White Student Center at 6 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 12
The French film, “L’esquive” (Games of Love and Chance), will be presented in Knott Hall B01 at 7:30 p.m. The film offers a unique perspective of the housing projects outside of Paris and the hardships experienced by North African immigrants living there. At the heart of the film is a romance between one of the few “native” French living in the neighborhood and a shy boy, who is ridiculed by his friends for taking a part in a high school play. Thursday, Nov. 13
Flo Martin of the Modern Languages department at Goucher College, will present “Framing Shahrazah: Women’s Cinema in the Maghreb” in the 4th Floor Program Room of the Andrew White Student Center at 6 p.m. Martin is the author of two books in French, Bessie Smith (1996) and De la Guyane à la diaspora africaine (2002); is a member of the editorial board of Studies in French Cinema (UK); and is currently writing a book titled, Veils and Screens: Maghrebi Women's Cinema (with an anticipated publication date in late 2008). For more information on any of these events, contact Natalie Rock at 410-617-2780.
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