Fall 2025 French Cultural Activities

Conversation Hour

Wednesdays, 2:00-3:00pm. Schmitt Hall, second floor lounge (Schmitt 218). All levels welcome! With snacks and board games! Drop by for as much or as little time as you’d like.

Free French Tutoring

CAST tutoring with Ptissem. Sign up here: https://montclair.campus.eab.com/pal/P-7epSdKds: Tuesdays: 12-4 pm; Thursdays: 10 am-2 pm ; Fridays: 10-1 pm

Virtual Drop-in Tutoring with Montclair MA students, Mondays: 4:00pm to 7:00pm (by Zoom, for conversation or help with French classes).

Tutoring is available for conversation practice, to help explain difficult concepts, to read through assignments and to help understand errors in written work, but not to correct or rewrite the work itself.

Translation

Try your hand at translating a poem (from French into English, Spanish or Haitian Kreyòl) or recording a reading at our “Phares haïtiens: 19th-Century Haitian Luminaries in Translation” repository!

Free French Books!

Check out the “little library” of free French books in the second floor atrium of Schmitt. Feel free to take books home, to share with friends, or to add your own materials.

Scholarships and Other Resources

Scholarship Universe: Check out this new program at the University and start planning to write applications during winter break!

iGrad personal financial portal. Available in NEST to help with financial literacy (prizes available)!

Center for Writing Excellence (CWE). Need help with writing term papers or other projects? Need help with English language projects? Make an appointment with the CWE!  They provide one-on-one feedback for all students, faculty, staff, and alumni on all types of writing, in any stage of the writing process. In addition to face-to-face sessions, online appointments with the option to Zoom are available seven days per week. https://www.montclair.edu/center-for-writing-excellence/appointments/.

Cultural Activities

26 octobre, toute la journée. Virtual Graduate School Open House at Montclair State University. French programs are at 4pm (must sign up via link).

31 octobre. Registration for Spring classes. Take care of outstanding holds, see your advisor, and check out our course offerings.

1 novembre. Book Club. Inscrivez-vous pour le programme winter/spring 2026.

3 novembre. TAPIF applications. Les inscriptions commencent pour TAPIF (Teaching Assistant in France program). Spend seven months in France teaching English in K–12 or higher education classrooms while improving your French and gaining international experience. Open to U.S. citizens and permanent residents ages 20–35 with at least three years of higher education and a minimum B1 level in French. Placements are available throughout France and in the DOM-TOMs. Apply here between November 3, 2025 and March 15, 2026.

14 novembre.  Immersion day in New York City. Visit The Cloisters, literally a piece of France transported to New York in the early twentieth century (!). In addition to more sedate monastery-type activities we can explore the special exhibition: “Love, Sex, and Gender in the Middle Ages” before exploring French-themed New York. Reserve your spot here.

20 mars. French Day: “Coupe/s du monde”

Concluded Events

23 septembre, 5-8 pm, New York University. “Art, History, and Cultural Politics in Africa Today” at New York University. Artists, curators, cultural entrepreneurs, and researchers explore the challenges and opportunities of promoting contemporary African Art – its circulation, audiences, and cultural policies on both continental and international levels. RSVP here.

29 septembre, 2 pm. Double Majors! CHSS Success Center conference room (first floor of Dickson). It is open to any student interested in learning more about the benefits of double majoring, how to go about it, and degree/credit mapping. Here is the link to RSVP.

3 octobre, 1pm. Haïti: La rançon de l’indépendance/Haiti, The Ransom for Independence (2024; dir. Wandrille Lanos, 63 minutes). Film screening via Zoom with a Q&A with director. More info: https://www.haitianstudies.org/2025/09/film-screening-haiti-la-rancon-de-lindependance/ and Sign up link.

7 October, 2-3:30pm. Online conference with Thomas Alwood, “CAT Tools, MT and the Translator” (via Zoom) Prof. Thomas Alwood will touch upon the evolution of CAT tools and machine translation, show examples, and discuss the kinds of texts CAT tools work best on (and which ones don’t). What changes are happening now and which can we anticipate? And, obviously, how is the role of the human translator crucial in all of this? Q&A will follow. All are welcome.

7 October. 5:30 – 6:30pm. SBUS 327 “What are Languages Worth? Investigating the Use and Value of Multilingualism in the Labor Market,” with Dr. Tobias Schroedler, University of Duisburg, Germany.

Mis à jour le 17 octobre 2025