Fall 2012 - Professional French Masters Program
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1. across our six concentration areas Last fall Bloomberg noted that French was the third most important business language on the planet behind Mandarin with a very dominant English in first place and others have noted the relatively rapid growth of economies in several African countries Even in times of economic crisis in this world of rapidly evolving markets and populations French speakers are involved in all kinds of business Just ask our alumni PFMP students join the program s growing and interconnected communi ty of partners and alumni in their enthusiasm for the French language since it is that language that is driving their professional development in the fields our concentration areas lead to The alumni presence in the pro gram has been strong in large part due to alumni readership of and contri butions to this very newsletter a deeply effective networking tool in itself PFMP students tutors and three new graduates wrap up Fall Orientation August 2012 Continued on page 12 Bouger la banlieue continued from page 1 A little boy wants its cover parallel to the grey floor of my train car and cede to be French enough to be President I m done advertising oo This book was written for the likes of my peers and one day What If freedom is an ideal mobility is its means In the me the self conscious culturally sensitive metro same volume roughly occupied by an iPhone the riders with no mobility issues to spe2. search assistant in the Delegation s econom ic affairs team Ashley Herrick business is currently intern ing at Express Conseil a communications and tourism consulting firm in Paris Dipl m e de Kalamazoo College en fran ais et en psychologie en 2011 Lauren Herzog d veloppement international vient de com mencer son deuxi me semestre au PFMP Elle a pass l t 2012 l University of Flori da African Languages Initiative o elle a continu ses tudes de la langue wolof Cet hiver elle aimerait faire son stage au S n gal dans une organisation qui promeut les langues nationales s n galaises Amanda C Hill MFS 2011 m dia arts production culturelle a re u une bourse du gouvernement qu b cois qui lui a permis d tudier la culture qu b coise et la didac tique du fran ais langue trang re l Uni versit Laval Qu bec Elle y a fait un stage pendant le mois de juillet 2012 Elle est actuellement professeur de fran ais Central High School La Crosse Wisconsin Leah Johnson business a obtenu son B A en sciences conomiques avec une sous sp cialisation en traduction fran aise DePaul University Chicago en 2011 Sui vant ses tudes elle a travaill comme as sistante d anglais Bergerac en France puis comme stagiaire en marketing pour le Canadian Pacific Railway Chicago Elle se sp cialise en marketing international et ai merait travailler pour une
3. Professional French Masters Program University of Wisconsin Madison 618 Van Hise Hall 1220 Linden Drive Madison WI 53706 Tel 608 262 4090 Fax 608 265 3892 E mail mdeitz wisc edu Find us on Facebook 39 Follow ThePFMP http pfmp wisc edu The University of Wisconsin Madison Professional French Masters Program is an interdisciplinary master s degree program in French studies with con centrations in business French education international education Europe an Union affairs international development and media arts cultural pro duction culminating in a personalized professional internship abroad and a ma professional portfolio Qualified students not working toward a master s T s4 mt 1264 a sigh Al degree but who wish to do much of the coursework and the internship may sit take the Capstone Certificate of Professional French Studies L Op ra Bastille
4. he traveled to the annual Trek World Europe trade show in Frankfurt Germany where he met with his new customers In his free time Chris con tinues his volunteer work as Scoutmaster of Boy Scout Troop 29 in Madison WI Katrina Brown ducation internationale est actuellement stagiaire au sein du Service des Partenariats Internationaux a l ESCP Europe une grande cole de commerce Paris o 50 des tudiants viennent de l tranger John Brunner MFS 2012 business has been hired as an International Communica tions Assistant at the Paris office of the Bu reau Export de la Musique Francaise where he recently completed his PFMP internship He will be coordinating and managing En glish content for http www french music org Rachael Cooper Certificat d veloppement international a obtenu son dipl me en fran ais et psychologie a l UW Madison en 2010 apres quoi elle a travaill dans la lev e de fonds pour les personnes vivant avec le VIH SIDA au Wisconsin Elle s int resse particuli rement la propagation courante du VIH SIDA l avenir elle voudrait travail ler dans le d veloppement de programmes de pr vention et d ducation au niveau mon dial Sarah Craver MFS 2012 media arts cultural production is an Admissions Counselor for SIT Study Abroad at World Learning in Brattleboro Vermont where she specializes in SIT programs in Switzer land and parts of Asia She is thrilled to
5. le groupe anti raciste Les Indivisibles Diallo est aussi membre actif du groupe anti sexiste Mix Cit chroniqueuse La Matinale une emission d informations sur Canal et la radio C est aussi l auteur entre autres de Rac isme mode d emploi Dans son intervention Mme Diallo a parl de diverses initiatives prises par les Indivisibles Rokhaya Diallo photo boytownmag com telles que les Y a bon awards Cet v nement annuel qui a pour nom le fameux ancien slo gan de la marque de chocolat Banania donne un prix aux plus grands racistes de l ann e prenant comme cible surtout des personnalit s politiques et m diatiques francaises Elle a aussi discut de ph nom nes sociaux francais qui int ressent depuis plusieurs an n es les tudiants et anciens l ves du PFMP ainsi que les plus avanc s des tudiants de premier cycle qui formaient aussi une bonne partie du public ce jour la Ce sont des sujets comme l interdiction de la prise des statistiques ethniques le testing pour lequel est connue l organisation S O S Racisme et la loi sur la laicit de 2004 qui interdit le port de symboles ostentatoires tel que le foulard islamique dans les coles publiques Suivant les questions du public Diallo s est concentr e sur certaines nuances distinguant l approche des Indivisibles et en g n ral sa propre philosophie vis vis du pr jug et de l identit nationale Par exempl
6. of firsts In a little more than a month I ve amassed quite a collection of new experiences lve been squished like a sardine on my morning met ro commute to work and squished even more on my way home I ve gotten lost so regularly that I ve considered buying a compass I ve also gotten to know Paris inside and out literally lve even been to the sew ers Just a couple weeks ago confronted my fear of using the tele phone in French at work it went well thank goodness and made French news when a TV crew interviewed me at the Assembl e Natio nale even celebrated my birthday with a glass of wine new friends and a backdrop of the twinkling Eiffel Tower But the most interest ing new experience I ve had so far is becoming an unofficial walking customer service rep for my home state Let me explain Most of the French adults have met seem to be quite curious about Louisiana They ve heard just enough about the state to whet their inquisitive appetites and they are hungry for more While didn t grow up speaking Louisiana French my accent today does give away the fact that I m not Parisian in true Cajun fashion I roll my r s So as soon as respond to the inevitable questio Where are you from a Q amp A session always follows Those who have never been to my state usually begin a lengthy interrogation They want to know about everyday life there and how many residents speak French tod
7. rieure fran ais elle a chang de m tier et travaille maintenant chez Tiffany amp Co Elle s int resse la gestion dans le cadre des produits de luxe et au branding Kristen Murphy MFS 2008 EU affairs is Social Media Manager and Wine Consultant at the Wine Library in Springfield NJ where she specializes in wines from Languedoc Roussillion Savoie Jura Provence South west Alsace and Loire in France as well as German and Austrian wines Continued on page 14 Jennifer Schueneman and Cameroo nian musician Just W an at the Fran cofolies de Montreal this summer While interning at Arion Jen wrote a blog about the hip hop scene in Montreal Kelley Swanlund international educa tion is currently inter ning in Bordeaux at Europe Education Formation France 2e2f the French National Agency for Lifelong Learning and Student Mobility d Annecy in the French Alps and Congolese women s advocacy NGO Azur D veloppement That organization s founding executive director Sylvie Niombo will visit us this fall Her visit comes on the heels of another Central African visitor Dr Chim re Diaw of the R seau Africain des For ts Mod les in Cameroon PFMP stu dent Mike Bradbury was just our first intern there See Current Students and Alumni and the RAFM has also entered into part nership with the larger university involving students and scholars in forestry botany and wildlife ecology The PFMP i
8. D jeuner du printemps PFMP Madison World Music Festival Three days of performances workshops and lectures by artists from all over the world Multicultural Career and Internship Fair Sponsored by L amp S Career Services International Internship Info Session Sponsored by International Studies La reproduction des lites et la peur de l chec Mamadou Gaye Agence Nouvel Cour Paris France Sponsored by the Professional French Masters Program Struggling for Inclusion Mobilizing Across Differences Coalitions and Networks for Gender Equality in the European Union Silke Roth Sponsored by European Union Center of Excellence Global Hip Hop Nation Language Race M tissage and the Semiotic of Globalization Awad Ibrahim University of Ottawa Part of the Cosmopolitanism and Language lecture series Le conseil d orientation professionnel au Cameroun Sophie Mbenoum Sous Directeur de l Orienta tion Professionnelle Minist re de l emploi et de la formation professionnelle R publique du Came roun Causerie avec rappeur s n qu b Webster Originaire du Qu bec d origine qu b co s n galaise le rappeur Webster raconte le Qu bec black ONGOING Africa at Noon Series Weekly presentations on African phenomena current and historical by scholars from all over the world DINERS PUBLICS le mercredi la Maison Fran aise appeler 262 5074 pour r server une place DEJEUNERS PUBLICS le vendredi la Maison Fran ai
9. ISAE pour le GEA Summer Pro gram est une bonne introduction au quotidien v cu par les coordinateurs Je ne m en nuie jamais ni de ce stage ni du travail Chaque jour est diff rent pr sentant des situa tions diverses et int ressantes Ashley Volume 9 Issue 2 Book Review White Poverty in American Culture By Jordan Milliken LAURENT SYLVIE Poor White Trash La pauvret Ewells see no value in adapting to the town s While France has its own history of odieuse du Blanc am ricain Paris Presses Universit Paris Sorbonne 2011 ISBN 978 2 84050 769 7 308p 18 Although income disparities have long existed in America Sylvia Laurent posits in a new book Poor White Trash La pauvret odieuse du Blanc am ri cain that race and class are inextricably inter twined in our society Her research traces the depic tion of poor white trash from Tom Sawyer to Eminem arguing that since the 1800s the white bourgeoisie has racialized poor whites to avoid the embarrassment of such an aberration The failures of poor whites Laurent argues represent the col SYLVIE LAURENT ete odieuse lu Blanc am ricaii lapse of a population racialement destin e pros p rer 8 and thus their whiteness is questioned Laurent s most compelling argument centers around Harper Lee s novel To Kill a Mockingbird Universally praised as a liberal vision of southern politics Laurent advances a new reading of the
10. entreprise cultu PFMP students discuss sustainable forest mana gement in central Africa relle at the Maison fran aise Melanie Kathan business a obtenu son Spring 2013 B A en fran ais et en litt rature anglaise Lawrence University en 2009 apr s quoi elle a pass deux ans Bordeaux d abord L __ en tant qu assistante d anglais l cole pri Patrick M alarkey maire Jean Jaur s et ensuite comme fille au pair Elle s int resse particuli rement aux organisations qui promeuvent les arts en international develop ment is interning at Elance AZUR D veloppement Ashley Koerner international education did an NGO devoted to her PFMP internship this summer at the GEA improving the lives of Summer Program at the Institut Sup rieur ET de l A ronautique et de l Espace in Tou OEE NEE LET EEE louse France the R publique du ie Congo in Brazzaville Annick Kiel MFS 2004 international educa tion has been named PFMP Honorary Fellow for 2012 She is Assistant Director for Drake Administered Programs Abroad at Drake University in Des Moines lowa Kirsten Holdwick King MFS 2009 interna tional educa tion now works at Met ropolitan State University of Denver as an International Admissions amp High School Outreach Counse lor She lives with her husband Jake in Boulder Colorado PFMP intern Ashley Koerner front left coordinating inter national students i
11. has recently joined the International Partnerships Depart continued on p 15 Volume 9 Issue 2 EUR SL 1 W A 4 PI gt ox 2 o News Faculty Staff Partners amp Friends UW Madison Dean of International Studies Vice Provost for Globalization and PFMP faculty co director Gilles Bousquet is serving as Interim Chan cellor this year at the University of Wisconsin Eau Claire Kelley Conway Associate Professor in the Communication Arts gave a talk on filmmaker Agn s Varda in June 2012 at the colloquium Contemporary French Cinema and the Crisis of Globalization in Missillac France She also conducted research at Varda s production company in Par is with the assistance of Laura Gross MFS 2012 media arts cultural pro duction with whom Conway traveled tions in Nantes part of a city wide art exhibition entitled Voyage a Nantes Rodopi has just published T moi Snages fictionnels au f minin une r criture des blancs de la guerre civile alg rienne by UW Madison As sistant Professor of French N vine El Nossery PFMP Executive Director Ritt Deitz is currently editing a book of essays by PFMP alumni about moments when they realized that the monde franco phone was not exactly what they had previously expected Titled Franco phonia this book will be published by Incidence Editions in 2013 Deitz s collection of French language short stories R ver local is a
12. 012 She joins older brother Dominic Wesley age 2 The Freemans live in Wheaton IL Laura Gross MFS 2012 media arts cultural production has published a review essay of Agnes Varda s films Les glaneurs et la glaneuse 2000 and Les plages d Agn s 2008 in the Films for the Feminist Class Continued on page 11 While still a PFMP intern at the Centre Chor ographique National d Orl ans Sarah Craver was interviewed by Edith Magazine in a piece on her work at the CCCN photo Edith Magazine Laura Gross bas pub lished a review essay of two Agnes Varda films in the spring issue of the feminist journal Signs Journal of Women in Culture and Society Laura Gross right with UW Madison film professor Kelley Con way left and filmmaker Agn s Varda center in Noirmoutier June 2012 Volume 9 Issue 2 CS gt wW NAZ i Beyond the Classroom Selected recent events on campus Marketing Your Language Skills An interactive workshop Advance sign up required Wendy Johnson and Michael Kruse UW Madison Language Institute Chim re Diaw Directeur g n ral R seau Africain des For ts Mod les Yaound Cameroun sur la biodiversit et les initiatives du RAFM Conf rence en fran ais Professional French Masters Pro gram An Evening with Paul Farmer Global Health and Social Medicine Harvard U N Deputy Special Envoy for Haiti Founding Director of Partners in Health and author
13. I couldn t put it down and ended up reading it cover to cover With the current discussion about the crisis in foreign language education in the United States and all of the obstacles that French educators are facing it was refreshing and uplifting to read these stories that clearly Edited iby Ritt Deitz show that the study of French is alive and AIME Bousyuei well Molly Krueger Enz IF cence Assistant Professor of French South Dakota State University POST FRANCOPHILE Stories from the Professional French Masters Program Edited by Ritt Deitz Foreword by Gilles Bousquet INCIDENCE gt IncidenceEditions Yolasite com Available at Amazon com All net royalties go to a PFMP scholarship fund Page 6 nt LH W n W Se ROT s Kristi Sandven international develop ment has presented her master s pro ject her degree is slated for this Decem ber She currently lives in Oslo Norway While still interning last April at ProAct Network in Geneva she emailed PFMP Executive Director Ritt Deitz with an update on the networking and profes sional development she had been en gaging in at conferences and outside of her internship PFMP alumni regularly advise current students to network in this fashion both while on campus and while interning as a way to make them selves more marketable and to learn the latest developments in their fields I have done a tittle research at ProAct on wome
14. Pr sident Obama l obligeant a mod ifier un peu le programme qu on lui avait organis au d but Dr le de coicidence tant donn que sur la page Facebook du PFMP un des d tacteurs de Diallo l avait accus e quelques jours auparavant d tre financ e par une fondation am ricaine tout le monde le sait Ala fin en nous quittant pour rentrer Paris elle semblait heureuse d avoir pu intervenir sur notre campus ce lieu si habitu au dialogue et aux contro verses RD Amanda Hill Qu bec cet t Volume 9 Issue 2 KO uw N PAS 7 MZ 7 1 AZA ss n Current Students amp Alumni Continued from page 8 room section of the spring summer 2012 issue of Signs Journal of Women in Culture and Society Gross who did her PFMP intern ship at Varda s film production company in Paris is currently working with UW Madison film professor Kelley Conway on a book about Varda s career Bryan Hammerquist MFS 2011 business is a senior customer operations analyst at SPS Commerce a provider of on demand supply chain management solutions based in 2 Minneapolis MN where he interacts with francophone and anglophone custom ers from Canada and the US Michelle Harrison MFS 2009 media arts cultural produc tion works at the D l gation du Qu bec Chicago where she has left her position as assistant to the director of Investisse ment Qu bec in Chicago to work as a re
15. Volume 9 Issue 2 FALL 2012 Special points of interest e Marketing Louisiana in Paris e Book reviews A French take on white poverty in America reading Azouz Begag on the metro Paris in the lives of three famous American women and the return of Charlotte Lavigne e Founder of Les Indivisibles Rokhaya Diallo visits the PFMP e WHAT PEOPLE ARE DOING news from students alumni partners and friends IN THIS ISSUE PFMP Intern on Marketing in Paris Reading Azouz Begag on the M tro From the Executive Director Lettre d une stagiaire ISAE Toulouse Book review Poor white trash PFMP Intern Networks in Geneva Book review La vie pic e de Charlotte Lavigne Tome 2 Current students amp alumni Beyond the classroom Rokhaya Diallo de passage a Madison Book review Dreaming in French Faculty Staff and Friends 10 13 15 L ESSOR Newsletter of the Professional French Masters Program University of Wisconsin Madison PFMP Internship Daughter of Acadian Louisiana Helps Market Her Home State at Paris Firm It is a cool September evening and I m glad opted to wear a dressy jacket over the only cocktail dress brought from the States notice that a few other more glamorously dressed women on the patio are not so lucky They try somewhat successfully to juggle champagne glasses while pulling their thin shawls more tightly around their bare shoulders There s a brief lull in conver
16. ak of The ending will he have to ultimate in mobility Begag manages to reinforce the leaves me glowing with hope concede to be primacy of freedom of movement for the people of Bouger la banlieue is a beautifully concise apology F j he the banlieue in a style that find impressive given of La R publique s attempt to piece together a more Pench CENOULNS the small space wonder about my unwillingness to unified France that can for once celebrate its diversi cause a potential scene on the metro and how my ty As for knowing to whom that job actually belongs apprehension over my fellow passenger feeds into I ve yet to decide mi his sense of mobility iB The use of fear as a political tool the construction Peebles Squire international development is current y of the other and its impacts on both sides of the ly interning at Vigeo in Bagnolet just outside the p ri yii Parisian p riph rique the crushing immobility that ph rique the expressway that stands as the figurative MN comes with writing off people as them cannot be wall between Paris proper and its neighbors At Vigeo inh ignored and the author gives us all too clear a pic Peebles does research and analysis on the world s WA ture of its consequences Don t dare venture out largest companies measuring and rating their envi They don t want you ronmental and social performance for organizations Mais oui les temps changent A little boy wants seek
17. ay Those who have visited Louisiana instantly start relaying their experiences enjoy listening and in return tell them stories about my childhood how used to go to the buffet once a week with my grandparents pronounced boo fay the outings used to go on with my parrain the French version of a godfather and what it s like growing up next to a swamp also love introducing them to Laissez les bons temps rouler a phrase that every Louisian ian understands even if they don t know how to spell it FYI this phrase initially makes no sense to people in France have educational en counters like this on an almost daily basis and they re teaching me even more about how unique my culture really is But what makes this situation even more interesting is that promot ing Louisiana is also part of my job The state and specifically the city of New Orleans is also one of Express Conseil s clients So when I m not out in town fielding questions from people meet I m responding to brochure requests editing newsletters and the French version of the state s tourism website louisiane tourisme fr I m also helping to organ ize a special media trade dinner for a delegation of state officials and businessmen who are coming to France at the end of the month Dur ing this event will have the privilege of attending the signing of the French Louisiana Accords could not have come to Paris at a better t
18. be putting her French to use at this posi tion and is very excited about the many opportunities offered by the company including world travel professional devel opment and the chance to experience fall in New England after a four year hiatus Nicole D Amour MFS 2004 international development received her MBA from the University of Wisconsin Parkside in May She currently works at CNH Capital a captive finance company as a Commercial Lending Portfolio Manager for Canada Karen Dawes MFS 2005 international de velopment and PFMP Honorary Fellow 2009 is now Senior Pricing amp Cost Officer at PSI a global health organization in Washing ton D C Caity Dawson ducation internationale a obtenu son bachelor en francais a Mus kingham University en 2005 apr s quoi elle a travaill comme assistante d anglais l IUT de Nice France Suivant son ann e d assis tanat elle a travaill cinq ans comme g rante de bureau chez un importateur de vins fran ais et italiens dans la r gion de Was hington D C Depuis son premier s jour en France lors de ses tudes sous gradu es elle s int resse aux changes internationaux et aux b n fices qu ils apportent aux partici pants Elle voudrait travailler dans ce do maine suivant son master au PFMP Rosemarie Scrivo Freeman Certificate 2002 education and her husband Matt are proud to announce the arrival of their baby daughter Claire Adele born June 14 2
19. ducation Formation France 2e2f the French National Agency for Lifelong Learning and Student Mobili ty Natalia Swerchowsky MFS 2010 busi ness works for Longbow Research Cleveland OH where she has been promoted She now manages Long bow s international team Nicole Udriot business is currently interning at Omnivore the internation al gastronomy group based in Paris Jessica Warmington business a obte nu ses B A respectivement en francais et musique avec des certificats en business et tudes europ ennes a l University of Wisconsin Madison en 2010 Elle a travaill deux ans par la suite comme assistante d anglais aux coles primaires La Marianne et Jacques Pr vert Bruges c t de Bordeaux et aux coles primaires Edouard Herriot et Edouard Lacour Agen A l avenir elle s int resse a cr er une cole de langues Elizabeth Wautlet media arts cultural production works for Morgane Produc tion in Paris She was Assistant Pro duction Manager for the film Walk Away Renee by Jonathan Caouette and for the documentary Jonas Mekas am not a Filmmaker Elizabeth is in volved in theatre in Paris and has per formed at Shakespeare and Co and at Le Pav d Orsay This fall she will act in a series of plays based on the sto ries of Edgar Allen Poe Her translation of an article on The Moscow Art Thea tre will be published by Routledge in 2013 Susan West MFS 2012 international education
20. e selon Dial lo tout en travaillant avec S O S sur certains projets les Indivisibles ont des tendances moins r publicaines que S O S qui elle reste contre la prise des statistiques eth niques dans la documentation et la recher che officielle Les Indivisibles d apr s Diallo seraient plut t favorables cette approche Elle a aussi cit Hamou Bouakkaz adjoint au maire de Paris et auteur l an dernier du livre Aveugle arabe et homme politique cela vous tonne Pourillustrer sa critique de ce qu elle a appell l islamaphobie qu on trouve parmi les intel lectuels de gauche en France surtout en ce qui concerne la la cit en g n ral et la pol mique du foulard chez les filles en particulier Diallo a cit le titre d un des chapitres du livre de son ami Bouak kaz La droite n aime pas les Arabes et la gauche n aime pas les musulmans Selon Diallo cette id e dr le et pour certains un peu surprenante ou du moins nouvelle pourrait tre formul e d une mani re encore plus simple la droite n aime pas les trangers et la gauche n aime pas la religion Au milieu des millions de Fran ais issus de l immigration maghr bine La visite de Diallo au PFMP a constitu la derni re tape d une petite tourn e qu elle a faite cet automne au Etats Unis Suivant des pr sentations a Washington et a Chicago Diallo est venue l UW Madison le jour de la visite du
21. e de M canique et A rotechnique ENSMA Ces tudiants suivent des cours de Survival French en conjonction avec leurs cours d ing nierie Ils crivent des rapports propos des visites techniques et culturelles et ils passent des examens hebdomadaires C est vraiment un programme charg mais aussi une exp rience extraordinaire IIS ont gagn cette exp rience rapidement Je me rappelle du jour de notre visite Eurocopter en Marignane Le groupe tait Marseille pour rencontrer la vie marine et une culture tr s diff rente de celle de Toulouse Un tudiant voulant acheter des sou venirs avant de quitter la ville a d cid de louer un v lo 7h du matin pour aller en ville sans rien dire a personne A 9h quand on devait partir pour Marignane il m a appel e il n avait pas pu garer le v lo parce que les stations taient toutes compl tes ll est arriv l h tel avec le v lo D un c t c tait une situation tr s emb tante on tait d j en retard pour la vi site Mais c tait aussi marrant on ne savait pas quoi faire sauf prendre le v lo avec nous Mais il l avait lou avec la carte bancaire d un autre tudiant Apr s une qua rantaine de minutes un travailleur de la compagnie des v los est arriv et on lui a laiss le v lo On est mont dans le bus rapidement pour rentrer sur l autoroute au m me moment d un embouteillage On tait tr s en retard pour la visite Eurocopter
22. en in de velopment projects She finished the conversation by inviting me to write something about my research for one of their publications Even though what ProAct is looking at is more women s role in natural resource management rather than violence against women think there could be some interesting overlap For example if it is the role of women to gather firewood from the local forests and to fetch water they may be putting their lives and bodily integrity in harm s way Feeling like was on a roll made my way next to the international headquarters for WILPF the Women s International League for Peace and Freedom Their office is located right next to the UN and near the UN refugee agency didnt have an appointment there but at the first conference attended here in Geneva which they sponsored on disarmament they invited me to stop by and say hello Had a nice chat with one of their staff members who had met at the confer ence Swedish girl The Secretary General whom had met at the conference was unfortunately out of town on some business in Tur key If you get a chance to see the film Whistle Blowers about the war in Bosnia one of the characters in the movie plays her her name is Madeleine Rees Anyway gave the girl who talked to today one of my business cards and she promised to get back in touch with me about an event that WILPF is organizing in June here in Geneva that could potentially att
23. end Next networking event is a 2 day conference that the UK based Shelter Centre is organizing here in Genev a together with the Norwe gian Refugee Council in late May The NRC does a lot of good work with transitional shelters in the context of refugee camps Kristi Volume 9 Issue 2 Book Review La vie pic e partie deux La VIC pic e de Charlotte Lavigne Tome 2 Bulles de champagne et sucre la cr me YOUR TAX DEDUCTIBLE GIFT SUPPORTS PFMP STUDENTS ROY NATHALIE La vie pic e de Char lotte Lavigne Tome 2 Bulles de champagne et sucre la creme Mon tr al Libre Expression 2012 ISBN 9780207648 0592 3 394p 24 95 CAN Imagine a character quirky like the heroine in Bridget Jones s Diary who loves to cook and is usually good at it and you will have the essence of Char lotte Lavigne Add a few friends a dash of work drama a smattering of culinary successes and failures a lovely French man named Maximilen aka Maxou a romance that goes from hot to cold to hot again and you ll have the first book in a nutshell At the end of the first book Maximilien proposes to our pro tagonist and leads us to a seemingly happy beginning in the second book by Karen Tubb This book Tome 2 starts with the dra matic and controversial planning and actu al performance of Charlotte and Maxou s wedding in Quebec which is documented at every stage by the television show Charl
24. facing both the humanities and public universities in general Madison remains one of those hubs of innovation that visiting French people also often refer to as both exciting and with some surprise in their voice une ville taille humaine We remain excited about new partner organizations who have begun taking our interns in all concentrations Among them are the Centre International de Langue Fran aise rector Marketing Director Operations and Finance Directors are all French she wrote Who would have thought Mariam Masroor Certificat d veloppement international a obtenu son dipl me en fran ais l UW Oshkosh en 2012 Elle s int resse particuli rement l exp rience des immigr s dans le monde francophone Jackie Mauer international development came to the PFMP with several years of teaching experience in Wisconsin She is currently interning at Prosjekt Haiti an or ganization creating income generating activi ties for women and education programs for women and children in the Delmas area of Port au Prince There she applies her previ ous experience to a new setting especially in working with Haitian teachers and pupils to strengthen their adult women s literacy program Erin Murphy business a obtenu son B A en fran ais et anglais Loyola University Chica go Apr s quelques ann es au Consulat G n ral de France Chicago et chez Pierre Yves Rochon un bureau d architecture int
25. ime To quote one of my co workers Wow that s not something most interns get to do And he s right That s why networking is so important Without it never would have discovered the PFMP or that Louisiana worked with a communication agency in France And would definitely not be having so much fun doing something that seems to come natu rally to me promoting my home state must be doing something right Volume 9 Issue 2 Page 3 Last fall Bloomberg noted that French was the third most important business language on the planet Now in our thirteenth year the Professional French Masters Program rounds out the fall semester with its usual hum of activity Talks on campus personalized research projects in class professional conferences and French language cultural events are keeping this year s students busy in Madison while those who began last year span the globe in their current internships As usual L ESSOR readers will peruse our ever popular Current Students and Alumni blurbs for the details but in terms of intern ships this year is particularly international For the first time close of half of current in terns either are or have just finished interning a be 2 in the francophone world outside continental France PFMP internships this year have covered not only l Hexagone but also Haiti Switzerland Quebec the Congo and Cameroon with another intern about to head to Senegal
26. ing more ethical ways to manage their invest to be President one day What will he have to con ments He s a huge fan of critical thinking and pain au chocolat Peebles Squire Page 4 OA AP 2 E H WA k W P p p te 4 il Lett re d une stag a re par Ashley Koerner ducation internationale Ashley Koerner a fait son stage cet t a l Institut Sup rieur de l A ronautique et de l Espace a Toulouse comme coordi natrice dans leur programme d t GEA Elle s est occup e en partie de la coordi nation des tudiants en visite d coles d ing nieurie am ricaines Je suis tellement chanceuse d avoir eu cette exp rience Comme j aimerais tre coordinatrice d changes l avenir tre stagiaire lISAE est une bonne introduction au quotidien v cu par les coordinateurs Le bapt me de feu C est souvent la meilleure fa on d apprendre C tait le cas pour les tudiants am ricains venus a Toulouse pour le GEA Summer Program Avec le GEA Summer Program ils ont eu l occasion de visiter des entreprises puissantes comme Airbus et Eurocopter SAFRAN et LIEBHERR ainsi que de voyager a d autres villes comme Marseille Aix en Provence Bordeaux et Arcachon C est un programme r sul tant d un accord entre l Institut Sup rieur de l A ronautique et l Espace ISAE l Ecole Nationale de l Aviation Civile ENAC et l Ecole Nationale Sup rieur
27. ir ensei gn l anglais langue seconde des immi gr s et des r fugi s Minneapolis elle a travaill deux ans Epic Systems une soci t de logiciel m dical dont le si ge se trouve Verona Wisconsin Elle s int resse aux march s internationaux de produits alimentaires et en particulier du vin Elena Potanos international develop ment is currently interning at the R seau National des Associations de Tantines in Yaound Cameroon RENATA s mission focuses on educating the Cameroonian public at large especially young mothers on sexual and reproductive health sexual violence and hygiene Katie Emrich Sankey MFS 2009 inter national education got married in April and currently lives in Minneapolis Upon moving north last summer her job as an Admissions Counselor for UW Madison followed her she is now a Regional Coun selor for UW Madison in the Twin City Metro area Jennifer Schueneman ducation a fait son stage PFMP a Montr al cet t au sein d Arion Orchestre Baroque Peebles Squire d veloppement interna tional fait actuellement son stage a Vigeo une agence de notation extra financi re sp cialis e en responsabilit sociale de l entreprise RSE et en inves tissement socialement responsable ISR continued from page 12 Vigeo se trouve Bagnolet en ban lieue parisienne Kelley Swanlund international educa tion is currently interning in Bordeaux at Europe E
28. isons between life in France and life in Quebec Finally and perhaps the most interesting aspect is the novel s plethora of French Canadian expressions A high school French teacher for many years Karen Tubb MFS 2011 education did her PFMP internship at Montreal international film collective KINO OO Tubb is currently an instructor of French at Centre College in Danville Kentucky Page 14 Laura Paris MFS 2011 international education is a study abroad advisor at the University of Georgia in Athens Nicole Udriot business is currently interning at Omnivore the international Lastronomy group in Parts Elizabeth Wautlet media arts cultural production works for Morgane Production in Paris This fall she will act in a sertes of plays based on the stories of Edgar Allen Poe a 4 ij SO PE ares E B e W HI IRV RWJ e Current Students and Alumni Emily Ostenson MFS 2013 International Education is interning this fall at CILFA a French language school in Annecy France In addition to assisting the office with special projects she also gives pri vate lessons and accompanies the stu dents on excursions throughout the re gion Laura Paris MFS 2011 international education is a study abroad advisor at the University of Georgia in Athens Megan Pashkevich business a obtenu son dipl me l University of Minnesota Twin Cities en 2009 Apr s avo
29. ithin white society and the assumption that poor must always have an ethnic compo nent Yet a shift has occurred With Occupy Wall Street the oft ignored words income inequality surfaced Notions of the 99 and a shrinking Kate Williams international develop ment is currently interning at La Mai Erin Lieg son d Ha ti in Montreal where she IS Woodard MFS researching second language acqui sition literacy and minority women s 2004 business Was development recently promoted to Erin Lieg Woodard MFS 2004 busi Future Vision P lot ness was recently promoted to Fu Operations Manag ture Vision Pilot Operations Manager er at Rotary Tnter at Rotary International In her new national position Erin will facilitate the devel opment of a new grant making model for Rotary s foundation Jordan Milliken middle class emerged taking center stage in the American political debate Perhaps in this new climate the fate of all members of the underclass can now be ameliorated in a thoughtful intention al way Jordan Milliken 2007 media arts cultural production is complementing her MFS with a master s in speech language pathology at the University of Nebraska at Lincoln She hopes to work as a bilingual therapist or serve as a consult ant to school districts in implementing bilingual speech language programs L ESSOR Newsletter of the Professional French Masters Program
30. lso due out next year Lovasoa Rambaorisata Visiting Assis tant Professor of French and Busi ness UW Madison printemps 2012 est maintenant professeur en respon sabilit sociale engagement des par ties prenantes et nouveaux m dias au D partement de strat gie respon sabilit sociale et environnementale de l Universit du Qu bec Montr al A l UQAM ell continue tre associ e la Chaire de responsabilit sociale et de d veloppement durable et la Chaire lvanho Cambridge en immobi lier see Varda s latest multi media installa Current Students and Alumni continued from page 14 ment at ESCP Europe a business school in Paris and currently works with out going exchange students Patrick Whelan MFS 2009 internation al education currently works for the University of Wisconsin Survey Center in Madison He is part of the project staff for the Wisconsin Longitudinal Study a survey on aging involving over 12 000 graduates of Wisconsin high schools from 1957 and their siblings Laurent continued from page 5 countries The conflicting notions of poor and white reveal deep societal failures Although Poor White Trash does little to dis miss these French stereotypes solidarity with the poor whites critiques an America claiming to be settled on higher ideals the book adds new negotiations to a discussion on underclass im portantly infusing a critique of social stratifica tions w
31. mais nos animateurs taient sympathiques En fait c tait la meilleure visite qu on a eue et les tudiants avaient honte d tre en retard Apr s cette gaffe ils m ont suivie comme des canetons voila comment je suis devenue Maman Canard parmi mes col l gues J aime bien mon travail J aime comment il a volu si rapidement J aime comment les tudiants m me s ils se plaignent toujours de tout et de n importe quoi me disent aussi combien ils sont contents d tre en France d avoir fait la d cision de participer ce programme et d avoir eu l occasion de cr er de beaux souvenirs Je suis aussi con tente d avoir un groupe d tudiants si respectueux des Fran ais si int ress s ap prendre la vie et la culture fran aises et si amicaux entre eux C est aussi une belle exp rience pour moi Je m occupe des tudiants d s le lever du soleil et bien apr s qu il se couche Je r ponds leurs questions je passe le temps avec eux en prenant un caf ou un verre de vin ils plaisantent avec moi et ils se fient moi J agis comme la liaison entre les tudiants leurs professeurs et mes coll gues Si les tudiants ont un souci je l am liore autant que possible Dans l autre sens s il y a un souci de la part de mes coll gues je r agis de mani re similaire Je suis tellement chanceuse d avoir eu cette exp rience Comme j aimerais tre coordinatrice d changes l avenir tre stagiaire l
32. n and participatory development with the idea in mind that I might write a short addendum to our foundation document on CELAPS community envi ronmental action plans about how we approach gender issues in our work COLOR AZ AR _ by Kristi Sandven just got back from a successful afternoon of networking spent in Ge neva made an appointment for this afternoon to with to meet with the statistical analyst and research director of the Small Arms Survey met this analyst at the GIS conference attended at the World Meteorological Organization a few weeks back in Geneva followed up with him and he invited me to come down to their office for a chat was specifically interested in the research they do on violence against women and ways in which gender plays a role in their Surveys have done a little research at ProAct on women and participatory development with the idea in mind that might write a short adden dum to our foundation document on CEAPs community environmen tal action plans about how we approach gender issues in our work It is easy to idealize development projects that are locally focused or women focused without mentioning the potential pitfalls and obsta cles creation of tension conflict in patriarchical societies putting the women s lives at risk even The research director seemed to mirror my observations about the difficulties and risks that may arise in actively including wom
33. n the GEA Summer Program in Toulouse France this summer Continued on page 12 Page 12 z W wW el W A SF e f 57 x eZ IZ a z a Current Students amp Alumni Continued from page 11 De retour de son stage comme assistant de marketing Efficience3 Reims France Jon Lipp certificat 2012 business travaille maintenant comme programmeur Wells Fargo Home Mortgage Minneapolis Patrick Malarkey international develop ment is currently interning at AZUR D veloppement an NGO devoted to improving the lives of women and children in the R publique du Congo Based in Brazzaville he hopes to work for a humanitarian organiza tion in Subsaharan Francophone Africa fol lowing completion of his degree this Decem ber Le PFMP au printemps 2012 en cours de communication professionnelle Megan Maley MFS 2005 European Union affairs has left her post at Nike in London and has been promoted to Women s Retail Buying Director for all Nike stores in Western Europe She lives in Amsterdam Even though it is in the Netherlands Megan s new team is about 85 French In our Wom en s Senior Leadership team the Sales Di Executive Director continued from page 3 and continues to enrich the value of this unique and interdis ciplinary master s degree in French Meanwhile the Universi ty of Wisconsin Madison s large and diverse campus remains creative in the face of the crisis
34. novel revealing an entrenched social stratification dividing white society into the middle class and two subsystems good country people and white trash The latter are incorrigible their skin color depicted as dirty or tinted 15 In the book the Ewell clan a term ethnicizing their whiteness refuses to be civilized 113 Unlike the black families represented by the sympathetic defendant Tom Robinson and the literate nanny Calpurnia the expectations Although the book portrays the social divides many French view the black community as willing to integrate the cleavages in American society as hypo poor whites the trash blemish the society critical America claimed to establish a Because they are white and historically new social and political order one that expected to be sovereign they must be would serve as a moral model to other dismissed or in the climax of Lee s novel condemned continued on page 15 Some French majors don t want to teach So what do they do with their French Find out el PE Exactly the type of text we need to really show how relevant studies in French can be L John P Greene Professor of Classical y S tories froni the and Modern Languages IA ofessional FrenchiMasters Prog am University of Louisville I opened Post Francophile this evening after dinner thinking I would just read an article before putting my kids to bed but
35. ortunity An academic Begag has made several forays into politics the product of which con sider the philosophical foundations of this book Bouger la banlieue is a quick read in the metro where display its cover as some sort of advertisement of my willing ness to venture past the comfort of my all American white ness It fits in my pocket At only 60 odd pages it is compact enough to be the mobile billboard of my open minded atti tude That is of course until some young man from la banlieue hops on board the little book takes a nose dive and hovers Continued on page 3 World marketing between photos of Las Vegas and her Mexico Stand neighbor in traditional in digenous dress Ashley Herrick represents Express Conseils clients International French Travel Mar ket Convention in Paris September 2012 To quote one of my co workers Wow thats not something most interns get to do And he s right Thats why networking ts so important Ashley Herrick business is currently doing her PFMP internship as an account assistant at Ex press Conseil a tourism communication and PR agency in Paris When not translating press trip itineraries and writing for clients such as Louisi ana Colorado Arizona Las Vegas and Oman Air she enjoys swing dancing funny encounters with strangers and searching for the best pain au chocolat in Paris that this would be another interesting evening to add to my growing list
36. otte works for Despite numerous indications that the wedding will be a disaster it goes off without a hitch and both bride and groom are happy Soon after Charlotte and Maxou leave for Paris where Maxou works and where they will live as a newlywed couple However Charlotte has no job prospects friends or family and has sacrificed all to be with Max ou there In the interim there are tense even infuriating moments between Char lotte and others in her life There is her best friend Ugo who visits from Quebec with unsettling news There is Maxou s mother Victoria who makes passive aggressive behavior seem like an art form There is Continued on page 13 The generosity of PFMP alumni and other donors has allowed us to create important scholarships for PFMP students These gifts directly help our students defray important living expenses both in Madison and while they do their internships abroad EVEN SMALL GIFTS COUNT Here is what some smaller gifts all by themselves can buy for a PFMP student 50 copies of Pour une entreprise responsable and La logique de l honneur for the PFMP professional communication course 100 2 round trip Intercar bus fares from Montreal to Quebec City 150 TGV fare from Paris to Brussels round trip to attend an EU networking event 250 the remainder of Madison Paris internship airfare after the PFMP travel stipend 1000 anew laptop for work on that Professional Portfolio DONATE ONLINE It
37. s easy go to https secure supportuw org MultiPage processStep1 do and make sure to type Professional French Masters Program Support Fund in the Designation box TO MAKE A GIFT BY CHECK please make your check payable to the University of Wisconsin Foundation write Professional French Masters Program Support Fund in the memo line and send to MERCI University of Wisconsin Foundation U S Bank Lockbox P O Box 78807 Milwaukee WI 53278 0807 Page 8 AP DAP ch gt ox gt ox gt Wo AVE CWE W AT Je F IE p gt F TE F IY y GAZ 5 CZ a O77 i AT Wi EE 2 all 2 Current Students amp Alumni Jamie Adler ducation internationale a ob tenu son B A en fran ais l UW Madison en 2009 Elle a fait deux s jours en France d abord en tant qu tudiante et ensuite as sistante d anglais suivant son B A Elle aime rait aider les gens a d couvrir le monde Chris Beaver MFS 2005 EU affairs PFMP Honorary Fellow 2011 has finished five years as PFMP internships liaison passing that role to program alumna Mandi Schoville MFS 2005 international education Chris works at Trek Bicycle in Waterloo Wiscon sin in the international department After several years working with distributors in Eastern Canada then Northern Europe and Southern Africa Chris currently works with central and eastern European bicycle distrib utors from the Czech Republic to Russia and Kazakhstan In July 2012
38. s proud to continue its work at the forefront of these kinds of projects since French to build interesting careers Just ask our alumni for us their end goal is that ever expanding realm of professional possibilities for our students who have come here to use their Volume 9 Issue 2 Book Review Paris Study Abroad and Famous Americans Kaplan Alice Dreaming in French the Paris Years of Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Susan Sontag and Angela Davis Chica go and London University of Chicago Press 2012 ISBN 978 0 226 42438 5 289p 26 Over three sections Kaplan intimately relates the Paris study abroad experiences of three famous American women spanning the peri od of post German occupation when Kenne dy arrived through the loss of Algeria complete by the time Davis left Reading Kaplan s portraits of these women was like reading some of my own experience abroad thought of Jacqueline Kennedy s feeling that mastering French gave her and her class mates an almost religious sense of mis sion 29 or of Susan Sontag s extensive vocabulary lists in countless notebooks cen tered on her life in Paris 101 or of Kenne dy s observation about the marvelous way that French had doubled her life 73 This book is as much a historical reflection as a linguistic and cultural one Kaplan has a keen eye for interesting contrasts During Davis year in Paris in 1963 for example Algeria was mo
39. sa tion and finally have a moment to glance around the dimly lit immac ulately trimmed garden leading from a gorgeous mansion to the patio where now stand Then to a fountain in the distance and What s on the other side of that hedge wall ask myself L ambassade de Grande Bretagne a man answers aloud reading my gaze We strike up a conversation en francais about the beauty of the garden our reasons for coming By Ashley Herrick to the cocktail this evening his latest trip to the Sultan ate of Oman Pause Rewind How did find myself just one month into my internship in Paris all alone on the patio of an exclusive and old Parisian social and dining club mingling with international diplomats French media and tourism professionals guess you could call ita combination of both good and bad luck depending on the perspec tive Regardless was rep resenting Express Conseil and one of our biggest cli ents at a special cocktail and dinner knew from the get go Continued on page 2 Diversit Reading Begag on the M tro by Peebles Squire CUS 2 a P E Azouz Begag Bouger la banlieue ELYTIS BEGAG AZOUZ Bouger la banlieue l int gration en ques tion Bordeaux Elytis 2012 ISBN 978 2 35639 09 7 4 64p 5 80 Azouz Begag served as a former minister under Dominique Villepin s government charged with the promotion of l galit des chances equal opp
40. se appeler 262 5074 pour r server une place French Caf et Conversation All levels Michelangelo s Coffee Shop 114 State St Thursdays 7 00 8 00 pm 256 1113 French Vin et Conversation Monday evenings 7 9pm Barriques 127 W Washington Ave Weekly WUD Global Connections Committee Meetings Get involved in planning international and multicultural events Sponsored by the Wisconsin Union Directorate Page 9 The UW Madison Maison fran aise on the shores of Lake Mendota where PFMP students may live alongside other francophones including native speaking assistants Many French language program events take place here In addition to a full schedule of courses PFMP students attend activities lec tures and other networking events both on campus and abroad UW Madison offers hundreds of talks and events every semester Most events are free and open to the public Chim re Diaw Madison Militante anti raciste Rokaya Diallo au PFMP Diallo nous a donn sa perspective sur la diversit r publicaine Diallo semblait heureuse d avoir Du intervenir sur notre campus ce lien si habitu au dialogue et aux CONLVOVETSES MADISON La journaliste et militante anti raciste francaise Rokhaya Diallo a visit le campus de UW Madison le 4 octobre o elle a donn une pr sentation appel e La diversit r publicaine Connue surtout d avoir fond
41. still seems separate from them 30 Whether they imagine a place in Franco phone Africa Quebec or France PFMP read ers might recognize themselves in Susan Sontag s description of Paris as the alterna tive capital of her imagination 139 Like these women PFMP students and alumni and most students of travel have learned a lot by comparison and by contrast with their lives at home 228 Kaplan notices that each of these women left Paris with a clearer sense of what mat tered This is also true for many of us who have lived in the Francophone world We left knowing what we could leave behind and what we had to keep learning about As Kaplan illustrates each woman s life in Paris she signals when their stories brush up against each other The reader gets the sense that although these women were there at different times they nod to one another having shared both the streets of Paris and the pages of Kaplan s book Julia Grawemeyer MFS 2008 media arts cultural production currently teaches French at Otterbein University and ESOL at Columbus State Community College in Co lumbus Ohio Her translations of Tahar Ben Jelloun s 2010 book Jean Genet menteur sublime appeared recently in the Kenyon Review by Julia Grawemeyer DREAMING IN FRENCH THE PARIS YEARS OF JACQUELINE BOUVIER KENNEDY SUSAN SONTAG AND ANGELA DAVIS ALICE KAPLAN Some of the best moments in the books are the compar
42. ving towards independ ence That year Kaplan observes African workers were diversifying Paris while the architectural face of Paris was getting whit er 153 Kaplan also makes smart connec tions between the predominant French can ons of philosophy literature and politics of the time When these three women studied in France Kaplan notes they were much more independent 28 without the technologies like Skype text messaging and email that allow students studying abroad today to live Karen Tubb Charlotte continued from page 7 Maxou s teenage daughter Alixe who is impressionable and easily manipulated by her grandmother Victoria The first year of marriage for Maxou and Charlotte is turning out to be anything but a honeymoon Char lotte struggles to find her place in Paris and in Maxou s life This continuation of the spicy life of Char lotte Lavigne imagines life in France through the eyes of a Qu b coise It s a fun easy read for students of French Also the prob lems Charlotte faces can seem very real for anyone adjusting to life in a new country simultaneously in France and back at home However as those of us who have studied a foreign language know when doing that kind of cultural and language learning we remain separate in a sense whether we are plugged in or not In the book photos of Kennedy show her with her new French friends she is with them but as Kaplan notes
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