Indiana University enjoys a special relationship with institutions from France and Francophone countries, strengthened by the Partnership Agreement between IU and Paris-Sorbonne, signed in 2019. The Center represents a hub for research, teaching, and community engagement around French and Studies for scholars and students from major academic units such as College of Arts and Sciences, the Hamilton-Lugar School of Global and International Studies, the Media School, the Jacobs School of Music, the School of Education, the Maurer School of Law, the O’Neill School of Public and Environmental Affairs, and the Kelley School of Business.
Our Collaborations
What we do
The Center of Excellence enables and promotes activities on French-US relations, French language, and French and Francophone cultures. Cross-disciplinarity, diversity and inclusion, and community engagement are key components of its profile reflected in its engagement with African Francophone Studies, the Center for Latin-American and Caribbean Studies, the Institute for European Studies, Comparative Literature, History, Art History, Linguistics, Second Language Studies, Theater, Drama and Contemporary Dance, Medieval Studies, Renaissance Studies, or Eighteenth-Century Studies.Our inspiration
The Center draws its strength and inspiration for promoting the professional teaching of the French language and the study of the French and Francophone cultural patrimony in the Midwest from IU’s unique network of rich repositories and cutting-edge research centers and institutes such as IU Cinema, the Book Lab, the Lilly Library, the Center for Theoretical Inquiry in the Humanities, the Kinsey Institute, the Environmental Resilience Institute, or the Eskenazi Museum of Art.Image: Lebanese writer Amin Maalouf, Académie Française Perpetual Secretary Hélène Carrère d’Encausse, and Haitian-Canadian novelist Dany Laferrière following Laferrière’s induction into the Académie in Paris, May 28, 2015
