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French and Francophone Studies

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Please join us for this film screening and Q&A with award-winning Senegalese film director and screenwriter, Mamadou Dia. Often based on his life growing up in West Africa, Dia’s films explore the tension between fact and fiction, realism and abstraction. In Baamum Nafi (Nafi’s Father), Dia explores themes like religious extremism, tradition, and family conflict in a small Senegalese town, focusing on an ideological battle between a traditional Imam and his brother. Monday, April 27, 2026 • 7:30 pm D…

Film Screening and Discussion with Mamadou Dia

Sponsored by:
French and Francophone Studies

Mamadou Dia is an award-winning Senegalese film director, screenwriter, and co-founder of the production company, Joyedidi. Often based on his life growing up in West Africa, Dia’s films explore the tension between fact and fiction, realism and abstraction.

THE FILM we are screening is BAAMUM NAFI (Nafi’s Father)

Dana Auditorium (Sunderland Language Center)

Open to the Public

International Karaoke

Sponsored by:
Russian, Arabic, Greenberg-Starr Department of Chinese Language and Literature, French and Francophone Studies, German, Italian, Japanese, Spanish Department, and Portuguese

International Karaoke is back!

The evening will begin with performances from student groups representing each language department - so come cheer on your department and help them win!

After the competition, the stage opens to everyone to sing a non-English song during Open Mic.

Come celebrate language, culture, and community at Middlebury College!

McCullough Wilson Cafe

International Karaoke

Sponsored by:
Arabic, Greenberg-Starr Department of Chinese Language and Literature, French and Francophone Studies, German, Italian, Japanese, Russian, and Luso-Hispanic Studies
Join us in singing songs in a foreign language! You won’t be able to sing in English but there is still a variety to choose from: Russian, German, Portuguese, Chinese, Italian, French, Japanese, Spanish, Arabic, and others. The details will follow up in the Language House Instagrams: @russianhousemidd @midd_chinese_house @deutschhaus_middlbry @casadeespanol @arabichouse2 @jhouse_diary @casaitalianamidd @lamaisonfrancaisemidd @casadeportuguesemidd

McCullough Wilson Cafe

Closed to the Public

Word and Image: Putting Proust’s Pictures in Perspective

Sponsored by:
Studio Art, French and Francophone Studies, History of Arts and Architecture, Literary Studies, Theatre, and Axinn Center for the Humanities
Marcel Proust’s A la Recherche du Temps Perdu, one of the most profoundly visual works in Western literature, houses a vast repository of paintings. How does the novelist, in his frequent reference to both famous and obscure works of art, manage to evoke emotion, character, history? How do the verbal and the visual interact and illuminate one another?

Franklin Environmental Center, The Orchard-Hillcrest 103

Open to the Public