Following the Lecture Series delivered during Term 1 of 2014-2015, the School of Foreign Languages continues to offer the Lecture Series on Fine Arts and Literature in Europe to the University’s entire students and staff for Term 2 of 2014-2015.
 
This weekly Lecture Series features 19 lectures given by Diane Zorzi and Benoit Hamon, the two Sorbonne graduates who have joined the TVU School of Foreign Languages since October 2014.

Lectures Schedule - 2015

Unless otherwise noted, all lectures take place Thursday from 9:00 to 11:00 AM in Room B11.208 (next to the School Office), Campus One.

Mark your calendars, have some coffee, and learn for free!

WORKSHOP 2015 – FINE ARTS AND LITERATURE IN EUROPE

JANUARY

January 14th
A brief history of European classical music (2/2)

January 21st
Main rules of Renaissance painting’s composition (Italy, France)

January 28th
The birth of a new genre: the portrait in Renaissance paintings

FEBRUARY

February 25th
Main stories and characters of Greek and Roman Antic mythology

MARCH

March 4th
Study on Iliad and Odysseus by Homer
 

March 11st
Conceptions of Time from Greek Antiquity to German Philosophy: Being and Tragedy

March 19th
Comparison of several conceptions of destiny: the myth of Phaedra by Euripides, Seneca and Jean Racine

APRIL

April 8-9th
Study on Phèdre (Phaedra) by Jean Racine: the example of the French classical tragedy    

April 16th
History of French architecture through the study of main buildings in France and French buildings in Vietnam (1/2)

April 23rd
History of French architecture through the study of main buildings in France and French buildings in Vietnam (2/2)

April 30th
Study on Les Rêveries du promeneur solitaire (Reveries of a Solitary Walker) by Jean-Jacques Rousseau: the pre- and early Romanticism in France and Germany (1/2)        

UPCOMING EVENTS

MAY

May 7th
Study on Les Rêveries du promeneur solitaire (Reveries of a Solitary Walker) by Jean-Jacques Rousseau: the pre- and early Romanticism in France and Germany (2/2)

May 14th
From Méditations (Alphonse Lamartine) and Contemplations (Victor Hugo) to Illuminations (Arthur Rimbaud): French poetry from Romanticism to Symbolism in the 19th century

May 21st
Study on Les Fleurs du Mal (The Flowers of Evil) by Charles Baudelaire: French modernity in poetry

May 28th
Study on Le Coup de dès (A throw of dices) by Stéphane Mallarmé: symbolism, absence and being

JUNE

June 4th
What is beauty?

June 11st
Study on The Necklace by Guy de Maupassant: a naturalist brief story

June 18th
Study on Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert: a French realist novel

June 25th
Study on Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert: a French realist novel (2)