French Sessions at PAMLA 2025
PAMLA 2025 welcomes scholars and students of French and Francophone Studies to join us in San Francisco, November 19–23, for an engaging program of panels and discussions exploring language, literature, and film across French-speaking traditions.
Our French-themed sessions this year include:
Thursday, Nov. 20
- 1.11: Francophone Postcolonial Remakes (8:20-9:50 AM; Telegraph Hill)
- 4.10: Diverse Francophonie (4:20-5:50 PM; Telegraph Hill)
- Screening French Diasporic and Marginalized Narratives (co-sponsored by Women in French) (6:00-7:15 PM; Telegraph Hill)
Friday, Nov. 21
- 5.12: French and Francophone Literature and Culture I (8:10-9:40 AM; Russian Hill)
- 6.24: Urban Spaces of Control in Francophone Film and Literature (co-sponsored by Women in French) (9:55-11:25 AM; Russian Hill)
- 7.18: French and Francophone Literature and Culture II (3:10-4:40 PM; Russian Hill)
- Please join us to thank Professor Catherine Montfort for her support of PAMLA, French studies and scholars, and the Humanities through a generous donation to begin two scholarship funds, at the start of our PAMLA 2025 Presidential Address (Friday, November 21, at 4:50 pm in Grand Ballroom B/C). Please join us.
- PAMLA Presidential Address: Palimpsests of Melancholia: Paris, New York, Istanbul with Peter Schulman and Debarati Sanyal (4:50-6:00 PM; Grand Ballroom B/C). Followed by the PAMLA Grand Reception.
Saturday, Nov. 22
- 9.14: Gendered French and Francophone Contact Zones (co-sponsored by Women in French) (9:50-11:20 AM; SOMA)
- PAMLA Plenary Address: Arts of the Border: Memory, Metamorphosis, and Migration (11:30-12:30 PM; Grand Ballroom B/C)
- French Caucus Meeting (4:50-5:40 PM; Telegraph Hill)
- 11.23: Women and Gender in Contemporary French/Francophone Literature and Film (6:00-7:30 PM; InterContinental Ballroom C)
Sunday, Nov. 23
- 12.14: Reimagining Asian Diasporas with/in the Francophone World (8:10-9:40 AM; Telegraph Hill)
- 13.04: Debt, Dispossession, and Memory in French and Francophone Literature (9:55-11:25 AM; Telegraph Hill)
Together, these panels highlight the range and vitality of French-language scholarship at PAMLA, from topics of gender and diasporic studies to new critical approaches in French and Francophone studies.
And you can find more papers and events of interest by searching the conference schedule here: https://pamla.ballastacademic.com/Webforms/Schedule.aspx
Join the conversation this November in San Francisco as we reflect on memory, modernity, and the enduring influence of French thought across the humanities.