Thanks to everyone who helped Steve Trout and me make our conference "Experiencing War Memorials: Place, Feeling, and Public Memory" a success last week in Tuscaloosa. Jennifer Ladino gave a marvelous keynote. Special shout-out to my WWI colleagues!

#CeJourLà 📚 | Le 3 août 1954, décède l'écrivaine française Colette. Tout au long de sa vie, elle n’a cessé de défier les stéréotypes et de refuser les normes imposées à son genre.

Shocked

Another wow

Les acteurs économiques 🇨🇵 aux 🇺🇲 réunis à Washington au forum des #CCE: 2 jours d'échanges sur le dynamisme de nos entreprises aux 🇺🇲 et les enjeux, opportunités et défis du moment. Intelligence artificielle, cybersécurité: merci Les CCE & Embassy of France in the U.S. pour ces discussions.

An exciting event coming up involving one of our members, Dr Adina Stroia , who will be in conversation with Manon Garcia on the 3rd November! More information available here ⬇️

Delighted that my presentation on Annie Ernaux has been accepted to 20th and 21st-Century French and Francophone Studies colloquium—looking forward to writing it !!!!

Educator, Miles Meijer, talks about using data to create a student-centered language classroom in his recent TLE article. Read more in the latest issue of TLE: bit.ly/2QNKo3w #TuesdayTLE

New York never lets you down on Halloween

#NFW23 AATF’s Commission on the Promotion of French Chair, Justin Charles, created images for social media for the 8 days of 2023’s #NationalFrenchWeek theme, “All around me, la francophonie!” 🌎🇨🇦🌏🇵🇫🌍🇫🇷🌍🇸🇳 Free download: promotion.frenchteachers.org Justin F Charles

Receiving the Amos award at SAMLA!!

AATF Looking ahead to 2024. Be on the lookout for a registration announcement for "French Teachers' Tip Swap with Jon Shee and Melissa Tubbs" on January 11.

Deeply honored to bestow the 🇨🇵 Legion of honor to WWII 🇺🇲 veteran George Reitmeier. France is forever grateful for his courage & sacrifice.

We are very sorry to bring you the sad news that our colleague, Emerita Professor Margaret Atack, died this week. Margaret was renowned in the UK and internationally as a major scholar in French Studies.

WiF Australia is also expresses their opposition to proposed cuts to Language Programs at Macquarie and the University of Aberdeen. Please consider sharing among your networks this open letter by the Australian Society for French Studies.

Sad news this past week

Saw this on x

He was a great addition to our conference!!!