Infuturarsi: Imagining and Depicting the Future

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Conference
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Presenter: 
Dr. Julia Frengs
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Friday, April 4, 2025 (All day)
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As Scheduled
Location: 
William Pitt Union 540
Contact Person: 
Joanna Conings
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JOC271@pitt.edu
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By examining how French and Italian cultures have imagined and depicted the future across various time periods and media forms, this conference seeks to contribute to our understanding of how societies conceptualize change, progress, and new possibilities.

Speaker: Dr. Julia Frengs
She is an Associate Professor of French and Francophone Studies at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Her past research has focused on representations of the body, Indigenous epistemologies, and environmental engagement in women’s literature from Kanaky/New Caledonia and Te Ao Mā’ohi/French Polynesia. Her monograph, Corporeal Archipelagos: Writing the Body in Francophone Oceanian Women’s Literature, was published by Lexington Books in 2018. Her current and future research projects investigate environmental engagement in Oceanian and Indian Ocean literatures. She served as guest co-editor of a double issue of Contemporary French and Francophone Studies: SITES, entitled “Parler la terre/Speaking the Earth,” which appears in fall 2021 in issues 25.3 and 25.4. Her most recent article, “Anticolonial Ecofeminisms: Women’s Environmental Literature in French-speaking Oceania” appears in French Cultural Studies

UCIS Unit: 
Center for Latin American Studies
European Studies Center
European Union Center of Excellence
Other Pitt Sponsors: 
World History Center
Film and Media Studies
Cultural Studies Program
Department of French and Italian
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No