Workshops

AFCS Pedagogical Workshop, November 1997, SUNY/Albany:

This workshop for secondary school teachers explored methods of teaching culture using new media technology. Claire Keith (Marist College), Peter Kirkpatrick (Virginia Commonwealth University) and Janet Horne (University of Virginia) made presentations.

This workshop was co-sponsored by the College of Arts and Sciences of SUNY/Albany.

AFCS Session, American Association of Teachers of French (AATF), July 1998, Montréal.

Four speakers, specializing in anthropology, will present papers:

• Steve Albert (NYU): "Mass media, youth culture and the popularization of new language forms in contemporary France."
• Janet Morford (Bryn Mawr College): "Manners, Moeurs and Modernity: historical and anthropological approaches to teaching French civilization."
• Michele Koven (University of Chicago): "Identity play and register shifting in the spoken French of children of Portuguese immigrants."
• Mark Ingram (Goucher College): "Modernizing State Cultural Policy: the legacy of the French Ministry of Cultural Affairs."