Title    Marie-Claire Blais: A Vision of Our Tortured Times            
Location    La Maison Française Auditorium             
Start Time    3/20/2012 2:30 PM            
End Time    3/20/2012 3:30 PM            
Description    Marie-Claire Blais presents “A Vision of Our Tortured Times.”
Reading by award-winning Quebec novelist Marie-Claire Blais
Tuesday March 20, 2012  from 2:30 PM-3:30 PM in La Maison Française Auditorium.

Marie-Claire Blais, a leading light in Quebec and Canadian literature, is the author of  poetry, plays, and more than twenty novels.  Two of her novels have been adapted for cinema. She was named International Woman of the Year by the International Biographical Centre of Cambridge, England in 1995. Blais will read, in English  translation, from three of her acclaimed novels: These Festive Nights (1995), Thunder and Light (2001), and Mai at the Predators’ Ball (2010).     

Sponsored by: The French Institute and Women’s Studies.  For more information, e-mail lchoquet@assumption.edu.

Title    “Why did the Allied Win World War II?”               
Location    La Maison Française Auditorium               
Start Time    3/20/2012 7:00 PM               
End Time    3/20/2012 8:30 PM               
Description    Lecture by Jeremy Black
“Why did the Allied Win World War II?”

Tuesday March 20, 2012 at 7:00 PM in La Maison Française Auditorium -
Jeremy Black, a specialist in world diplomatic and military history, is Professor of History at the University of Exeter in England. He lectures frequently all over the world, and has spoken at Assumption several times in the past.  He has published over 100 books, including War: A Short History; The Politics of World War Two; The Age of Total War 1860-1945; and World War Two: A Military History.

Sponsored by the History Department, the Ecumenical Institute, and the First Year Program.  For more information, contact David Cohen at dcohen@assumption.edu