The French Center of Excellence and Department of French & Italian are pleased to have Professor Tili Boon Cuillé. Professor Cuillé is a Professor of French & Comparative Literature Washington University in St. Louis.
Professor Cuillé's talk is entitled Magical Agents, Material Girls: The Pink Shoe from Paris to Paris Hilton
The translation of the Arabian Nights into French transformed the European cultural landscape. Characterized as an invasion of the land of fiction, the oriental tales’ magical lamps and flying carpets rapidly displaced the talking beasts and seven-league boots of French fables and fairy tales. In this presentation, Tili Boon Cuillé explores the relationship between magical objects and material culture.
Professor Cuillé's talk will take place in Hagerty Hall 180. Light refreshments will be served after the talk.
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This event is sponsored by the Department of French and Italian’s French Center of Excellence, which receives funding from French Cultural Services in the US and the Consulate General of France in Chicago. This series is also supported by the following departments and centers at Ohio State African American & African Studies, History, History of Art, Spanish & Portuguese, Slavic & Eastern European Languages & Literatures, the Humanities Institute, and the Center for Languages, Literatures, & Cultures.
In December of 2020, the Cultural Services of the French Embassy in the United States selected the Department of French and Italian at The Ohio State University to join its prestigious network of Centers of Excellence. Ohio State's Center of Excellence has the goal of promoting French and Francophone culture in the Midwest and beyond.
