The following presentations will be made at this symposium: Kirsten Fudeman, Assistant Professor of French, University of pittsburgh, 'What French and France Meant to Mediveval Jews'; Sharon Kinoshita, Professor of Literature, University of California, Santa Cruz and Fellow, Pitt Humanities Center, 'Multilingual France, Global French'; Deena Klepper, Associate Professor of Religion and History, Department of Religion, Boston University, 'Recovering Lost Letters: The Literary Study of Cross-Cultural Encounter and New Direction in Medieval European History'.