Florida State University’s Winthrop-King Institute for Contemporary French and Francophone Studies will welcome French and Senegalese distinguished scholars and well-known artists for a two-day symposium examining the legacies and culture of Senegal.

The Winthrop-King Institute for Contemporary French and Francophone Studies, the Florida State University Department of Modern Languages and Linguistics, and the College of Arts and Sciences will welcome some of the 21st century’s most prominent voices for a two-day virtual symposium exploring Africa’s past and present global interconnections, Thursday, Nov. 5, and Friday, Nov. 6.

A Florida State University faculty member from the Department of Modern Languages and Linguistics has won a coveted fellowship from the National Humanities Center. Martin Munro, Eminent Scholar and the Winthrop-King Professor of French and Francophone Studies, will spend the 2020-2021 academic year completing his residential fellowship at the NHC’s campus in Research Triangle Park, North Carolina.

Florida State’s Winthrop-King Institute for Contemporary French and Francophone Studies and its Literature, Media, and Culture program came together Dec. 7 to sponsor an academic symposium, “It Has to Come from Here: Protesting Twenty-first Century Caribbean Colonialism.”

Since its founding in 2001, Florida State University’s Winthrop-King Institute for Contemporary French and Francophone Studies has established itself as an international hub for academics, students and Francophiles dedicated to the study and preservation of French-speaking cultures around the world.

​​​​​​​Martin Munro is an Eminent Scholar and the Winthrop-King Professor of French and Francophone Studies in the Department of Modern Languages and Linguistics, part of Florida State University’s College of Arts and Sciences. He also serves as director of the Winthrop-King Institute for Contemporary French and Francophone Studies.

Matthew J. Smith, a professor of Caribbean history and chair of the Department of History and Archaeology at the University of the West Indies at Mona, Jamaica, will present his documentary “The Past Is Not Our Future” and answer questions from the audience at a screening sponsored by the Winthrop-King Institute for Contemporary French and Francophone Studies at Florida State University.

In an announcement that could rewrite the book on early colonization of the New World, two researchers have proposed new findings for the oldest fortified settlement in North America.

Professor Alec Hargreaves has been invited to speak alongside three former French prime ministers at a colloquium in Paris marking the 30th anniversary of the 1981 elections that brought the left to power in France for the first time since the 1950s. Hargreaves is one of just six academics – and the only one from outside France – invited to debate with former premiers Pierre Mauroy, Michel Rocard, and Lionel Jospin at the Institut d’Etudes Politiques de Paris, France’s foremost political science school.