I would rather call this section community involvement. I have been fortunate these last years not only to give presentations at exciting academic conferences but to organize numerous talks, poetry events, art events and cultural panels here in Norfolk and in Brooklyn as well. Here are some of them!
Community Service
Lecture on Jules Verne’s Around the World in Eighty Days for Montblanc Pens to celebrate their special pen collection devoted to the work of Jule Verne, event titled “Celebrating the Finest Adventure Ever Told: Around the World in 80 Days” with Jean-Michel Margot and Alessandra Elia, Head of Writing Instruments at Montblanc
Appointed to the Community Council for the Jewish Community Relations Council through the United Jewish
Federation of Tidewater (representing ODU’s Institute for Jewish and Interfaith Understanding.)
Appointed to the Community Advisory Board of the Hunter House Victorian Museum (Norfolk, VA).
Organized and moderated a special screening of the National Board of Canada film Plus haut que les flammes (Monique Leblanc, 2010) with the director Monique Leblanc; the author Louise Dupré and Radio Canada journalist Melanie Loisel at ODU and the Slover Library.(from a grant by the Délégation du Québec de New York)
Organized and moderated “A Virtual Roundtable on the Importance of Art in our Daily Lives” with Charlotte Kasic, Director of the Barry Museum Of Art (Norfolk VA); Stephany Gagnon (Litchy Art, Quebec City); Sacha Zabotin (Brooklyn abstract artist); Ukwensi Chapell, Owner Ukwensi Gallery, Norfolk VA and urban sketcher and political cartoonist Walt Taylor, 04. 14. 21.
Organized and moderated a special roundtable “Spotlight Cultural Diplomacy”with Laura Baude, and Denis Quenelle, French Cultural Services, Washington DC; Justin Margolis from the Cultural Services of Quebec in DC, and Dr. Maria Laura Fornella, UN Representative Soroptimist International, NY-Co Chair, NGO Committee for Social Development. 04/07/21/
“Business French: Gateway to International Entrepreneurship” presentation for the 2021 Program Acceleration for Collaborative Entrepreneurship (PACE) Institute, April 7, 2021. Hosted by Old Dominion University’s E-Collaborative
Special screening of Yves Sioui Durand’s First Nation film Mesnak as part of Le Mois de la Francophonie in collaboration with La Maison Française de NYU and La Délégation du Québec à New York, 03/03/21
“ ‘Justice & Peace: Black Lives Matter and Beyond‘Keynote Speaker, conference sponsored by the Old Dominion University Global Monarch Club (GMC), and Public Affairs Committee, International Student Advisory Board (ISAB) 02/22/21
“LLCHAT Podcast Series co-host and organizer: Quebec Writers and Poets – an interview with poet Marisol Drouin in conjunction with National Poetry Month,” 04/08/21 (Spotify/Buzzsprout)
Participated in a virtual event sponsored by La Traversée (UQAM) “La marche comme un voyage: excursion virtuelle près de chez nous – huits récits de marche près de chez eux, près de chez elles’ dir. Christian Paré with André Carpentier, Peter Schulman, Jean-Claude Castelain, Dalie Giroux & Amélie-Anne Mailhot, Nicolas Lanouette, Dominic Marcil, Thibaut Quinchon
Organized, moderated and translated an evening of “glass poetry” at the Chrysler Museum of Art Glass Studio: a reading of Notebooks of Color by and with Denise Desautels, Diane Régimbald and Louise Dupré combined with the creation of glass art based on their poems.03/14/21
Organized, moderated and translated a poetry reading with Andréanne Frenette-Vallières and her book Juillet, le nord as part of a “Northern Lights” series at the Slover Library (03/10/21)
“LLCHAT Podcast Series co-host and organizer: Quebec Writers and Poets – an interview with poet Ouanessa Younssi in conjunction with Le Mois de la Francophonie,” 02/14/21 ( Spotify/Buzzsprout)
“LLCHAT Podcast Series co-host and organizer: Quebec Writers and Poets – an interview with filmmaker Benoit Pilon on his career in film and his most recent release Le Club Vinland 02/15/21( Spotify/Buzzsprout)
“LLCHAT Podcast Series co-host and organizer: Quebec Writers and Poets – an interview with novelist Perrine Leblanc on writing, travel, and her most recent book Gens du nord” 01/15/20 (Spotify/Buzzsprout)
“Nights at the Calcutta Café”, online poetry event co-host and organizer with Naina Dey. A joint Norfolk-Kolkata-Montreal poetry reading with Amit Shankar Saha; Catherine Cormier-Larose; Catherine Fletcher; Gopal Lahiri; Hector Ruiz; Kelly Norah Drukker; Nyla Matuk; Samia Ahmed; Sanjukta Dasgupta &
Somrita Urni Ganguly, Dec 28, 2020.
“Séminaire du Cercle Benveniste: Parenthèse poétique multilingue/ Multilingual Poetry Session, » led by Anna Pletnyova, Dec 11, 2020, University of Calgary (virtual), spoke on read works of Laura Riding and François Rioux.
“A Deep Dive into the Work of Jules Verne, the Inspiration Behind Our New Exhibit Voyage to the Deep!” Nauticus Nautical Museum, Norfolk VA, Dec 7th, 2020. organized with Nauticus a virtual round table on Jules Verne’s works with Jean-Michel Margot, scholar and Vice-President of the North American Jules Verne Society (NAJVS), Luc Davillier, graphic novelist and adapter of Jules Verne’s works in graphic novel form; and Stephen Kirkland, Executive Director of Nauticus.
“LLCHAT Podcast Series co-host and organizer: Quebec Writers and Poets – an interview with Daphné B on writing, translation and her most recent book Maquillée” 10/22/20 (Spotify/Buzzsprout)
“Iter Per Litteras, Invisible Cities Part I: Rome,” online Zoom event organized by Dr. Ben Haller, Classics Dept, Virginia Wesleyan University, spoke on “Du Bellay’s Vision of Rome: “Happy as Ulysses,” Sept, 2020.
“Stories on Stage: The Weather Made Me Do It,” event co-organized with the Hermitage Museum, Norfolk, VA, Sept 10, 2020, in conjunction with the exhibition “Unknown Outcomes” (featured readers: Tim Siebles, Sherry Reynolds, Thom Yuill, Noah Renn, Kindra Macdonald, Nathan Richardson
“Women in Translation Month Reading,” The Muse Writing Center/Poetry Society of Virginia, read with and I poet Lorrie Jean-louis (La femme cent couleurs), and with Asaf Benssahieh, passages by and with Fabienne Kanor of her text from Humus, along with Virginia poet laureates Luisa Igloria and Sofia Starnes, novelist Nana Brew-Hammond, poets Amanda Galvan Huyn, Joanna Eleftheriou Aug 30, 2020.
“Voices Across Borders: A Dialogue in French and in English with Quebecoise Author and former Radio Canada reporter Mélanie Loisel” Arts at ODU Summer Series, July, 2020
Zoom Poetry Reading to Support Local French Businesses with special Québécoise special guest, poet Ariane Audet, May 2020
LCCHAT- Zoom interview with Kelsey Norton “How I became a French Professor and Why” (May, 2020, Podcast/Spotify, Language Learning Center, Dept of World Languages and Cultures, ODU)
“Lectures autour de et pour l’anniversaire d’Anais Nin » organized and participated in a poetry reading at Librairie L’Euguelionne, Montreal Québec with poets Carole David, Laurence Ouellet-Tremblay, Laurie Bédard, Diane Régimbald, Caroline Louisseize, Catherine Cormier-Larose, Kelly Norah Drukker et Clémence Dumas-Côté, Feb, 2020
Jan-May 2020, named “Scholar-in-Residence” at the Cure Coffeehouse, Norfolk Va to curate a semester long “UniverCity Spoken Word Series” combining university scholars with local poets and artists. Feb, 2020 “Examinations of Love in French, Classical, Portuguese Literature” March, 2020 “Irish Words and Song in Honor of Lady Gregory,” April, 2020 “Two Poets and a Ghost: Poems in Honor of Langston Hughes.”
2019, November, screening of Drissa Taouré’s film from Burkina Faso, Hamanuya, for the Office of International Relations at ODU as part of the nationwide “International Education Week” initiative.
2019, February, organized and participated in a reading, film presentation and discussion of the works of Jules Verne (and star and planet observation) with the Pretlow Planetarium, Norfolk VA, for an event titled: “In Honor of Jules Verne’s Birthday: Screenings, Readings and More”
2019, January, presented the Hungarian film Budapest Noir (Eva Gardos, 2018) for the 28th Virginia Festival of Jewish Film, at Cinema Café, VA Beach
2019, January, a discussion of Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s Reveries of a Solitary Walker at the Kaplan Orchid Conservatory, ODU, Norfolk, VA.
2019, January, organized and participated in an international poetry reading “Brooklyn-Montreal Exchanges” at the Brooklyn Heights Public Library, Brooklyn, NY with poets Catherine Cormier-Larose, Madeleine Monette, Catherine Fletcher, Joanna Eleftheriou, Sacha Zabotin and Ewan Turner.
2018, October, participated and read in a university memorial and solidarity service for the Tree of Life Pittsburgh attack.
2018, Sept-December “GPIS Ghosts of French Colonization Lecture Series: NGOs, Alumni, Academics and Diplomatic Spotlights” (a 5 part series including Senegalese-Quebecois rapper Webster, Ex-US Ambassador to Mali and Madascar, Vicki Huddleston, and David Gallup, President of the World Services Authority.
2019, November, organized the lecture by Henri Bore, Consultant Africa Contingency Operations and National Defense University, France (Africa Desk and Terrorism expert), for the Office of International Relations at ODU as part of the nationwide “International Education Week” initiative.
2018, April, co-organized and co-hosted “Existential Café: Remembering Jean-Paul Sartre) with Philosophy Professor MaryCatherine Macdonald, Borjo Coffeehouse, April 16, 2018
2018, April, presented and led a discussion of Arnaud Deplechin’s film Ishmael’s Ghosts at the Naro Cinema’s First Look Film Forum series, Norfolk VA
2018, January, presented and introduced the Hungarian film 1945 (dir. Feren Toruc) at the VA Beach JCC in conjunction with the 27th Virginia Festival of Jewish Film.
2018, January, organized and participated in a workshop on désambulation with World Languages and Cultures poet-in-residence Hector Ruiz and the Hampton Roads Alliance Française through a poetic walking tour of downtown Norfolk; organized and initiated the visit of poet-in-residence Hector Ruiz and a special workshop on “walking poetry, reading cities” within my French writing class. FR 312 Writing and Reading.
2018, January, organized and participated in a poetry reading with Montreal poet Hector Ruiz and American poet Tom Yuill titled Montreal-Norfolk Exchanges, Old Dominion University.
2017, October, gave the Arts and Letters Senior Scholar Lecture: “Surrealist Cairo: Overcoming Angst in Lee Miller’s Egyptian Photography.”
2017, October, organized and participated in a round-table discussion on Catalonian independence (with Dr. Luis Guadano in Spanish and Dr. Georg Menz in Political Science) for the Graduate Program of International Studies.
2017, November, screened the Malian film A Screaming Man (Mahamet Saleh Haroun, 2010) with post-film discussion at the Office of International Relations in conjunction with International Education Week (IEW, a joint initiative with the US Department of State and the US Department of Education to highlight the benefits of international exchange and education worldwide
2017, October, organized and hosted a ballet company from Bordeaux, The ArtisT (dir. Christine Jannin), and their production of Lafayette (Oct 18/19) as well as a public talk on their creative process and ballet techniques, Norfolk VA.
2017, August, organized and hosted a literary reading titled “A Midsummer’s Night Poetry Reading in Honor of Philip Larkin,” at Soldiers and Sailors’ Monument, Manhattan, NY with writers Amy Dannenmueller, Marvin Ginsberg and Ewan Turner
2017, June, organized and hosted a poetry reading titled “An Evening of Quebecois and New York Contemporary Poetry,” at Berl’s Brooklyn Poetry Shop, Brooklyn, NY with poets: Hector Ruiz, Laurence Ouellet-Tremblay, François Rioux, Madeleine Monette, Erica Ehrenberg and Ewan Turner
2017, May, co-organized in collaboration with the Hampton Roads Alliance Française, “Shh – Don’t Tell Anyone: Dangerous Women, Allied Spies,” lecture by April Cheek-Messier (President of the National D-Day Memorial Foundation)
2017, April, co-organized with Renée Olander, a two day Quebecois poetry festival with La Maison de la Poésie de Montreal and Old Dominion University-VA Beach ( a reading and translation of Carole David, Denise Brassard and Paul Chanel Malenfant; a reading and presentation at Tallwood Academy Global Studies Program with the three Quebecois poets, VA Beach; and Quebecois Poetry Roundtable on Poetic Voices and Exchanges” with the 3 Quebecois poets in dialogue with American poets M.J. Kledzik, Luisa Igloria, Renée Olander and Peter Schulman)
2017, February, organized with François Rioux and Hector Ruiz, and participated in a poetry reading titled “En une seule phrase nombreuse” at Porte de Tête, Montreal, QC with poets: Carole David, Hector Ruiz, Virginie Beauregard D., Rachel McCrum, Chloe Savoie-Bernard, Sebastien Boulanger-Gagnon, and Ouanessa Younsi.
2017, January, presented and led a post-film discussion of Larry Peerce’s Goodbye, Columbus, at the Naro Cinema in conjunction with the 26th Virginia Festival of Jewish Film.
2016, November, Organized a “ Brown Bag Business French Local and National Lunchtime Talk Series”: Lamia Pappas, owner of Lamia’s Crêpes, Norfolk Va (Nov 8); Mischa Zabotin, Vice President Credit Agricole- New York (via Skype) (Dec 3)
2016, November, led a talk-back on Marie Nimier’s play Another Year, Another Christmas, at the Access Theater, New York City.
2016, November, accompanied an organ recital by James Kosnick of Oliver Messiaen’s Les Corps Glorieux (1939) with his French narration of each movement (Larchmont Methodist C.), Norfolk, VA.
2016, November, led a talk-back on Marie Nimier’s play Another Year, Another Christmas at the Franklinton Playhouse, Columbus Ohio
2016, October, organized a reading (with Dr. Elizabeth Black) of French sea fiction and poetry (Verne, Hugo, Du Bellay, Proust), “Fond de la Mer Littéraire” at O’Connors Brewery (Norfolk VA) in conjunction with a launch of their new Belgian abbey-style beer called Fond de la Mer.
2016, October, organized and participated in a reading with Ying Chen of her poetry and prose (in French and in translation) as part of the ODU Literary Festival
2016, April, presented and led a discussion of Arnaud Deplechin’s film My Golden Days at the Naro Cinema’s First Look Film Forum series, Norfolk VA
2016, April, screened and commented an American premier of the documentary Les nuits de la poésie produced by La Maison de la Poésie de Montreal for National Poetry Month
2016, March, organized a poetry reading for Louis Jenkins, “An Evening with Louis Jenkins” at Berl’s Brooklyn Poetry Shop, DUMBO, Brooklyn, NYC in conjunction with his play Nice Fish with Mark Rylance at St Anne’s Warehouse
2016, March, organized talk by theater director Mike Salisbury of Regent University to discuss his production of Ionesco’s Rhinocéros
2016, Jan-Feb-March, organized a three part “Quebecois Cultural Studies Speakers Series: with Quebecoise Opera Soprano (cd Coloratures) Marie-Eve Munger; Norfolk Admirals Hockey Head Coach Eric Veilleux; Poets Sylvain Campeau and François Rioux)
2016, February, Organized and Participated in ”Exploring the Arctic: 1861 and today” an evening presentation of “Science Pub” an initiative to bring the sciences and the humanities to the public at large on the topic of “Polar Explorers” in honor of Jules Verne’s birthday (readings of Verne’s polar narratives, as well as presentations by ODU scientists returning from their own South Pole explorations at Wasserund Brewery, VA Beach.
2016, January, Presented, Participated in and Organized an after-film panel on François Margolin’s film L’Antiquaire (The Art Dealer) at the Naro Cinema in conjunction with the 25th Virginia Festival of Jewish Film
2015, Fall, Organized and presented a lecture by Prof. Alain Gabon, Virginia Wesleyan College, on “From Charlie Hebdo to November 13: Jihadism in France,” December, 2015.
2015, Fall, Organized a three-part “Reporters Without Borders” Skype Lecture Series on the Migrant Crisis in Europe and the Middle East
2015, October, introduced and organized ODU’s Presidential Lecture Speaker, Edwige Danticat, as part of the ODU Literary Festival.
2015- October 7, organized and presented an “Evening of Poe” in honor of the anniversary of Edgar Allan Poe’s death at the Hunter House Victorian Museum, Norfolk VA, with Virginia Poet Laureate Ron Smith and Dr. Elizabeth Vincelette.
2015- April, presented “ Jean-Francois PAROT “Le Fantôme de la rue Royale (Nicolas leFloch No. 3)” Maison Française, Columbia University, Danielle Lasser’s Book Series.
2015- April, Invited Speaker for Pi Delta Phi French initiation dinner/ceremony, “Traduire le monde/ Translating the World,” Virginia Wesleyan College, Virginia Beach, VA
2014- Nov 18, Organized a screening of the documentary Beyond the Blue Veil for the Organization of International Relations about the Tuareg and NGOs in Mali (with Q and A with the film’s producer, Lynda Simon)
2014 – Nov 9, organized and hosted “A Night in Celebration of Dylan Thomas” Sponsored by New Directions Publishing and including Pulitzer Prize winning poet Paul Muldoon; Grace Schulman, Victoria Redel and Robert Polito at BookCourt, Brooklyn NY
2014- July, presented and led a discussion on Renoir’s Diary of a Chamber Maid at The Brooklyn Commons, Brooklyn, NY
2014- January, Organized a poetry reading at Borjo’s Coffeehouse in honor of Lord Byron’s birthday
2014- Created a 4 part Public Japanese Literature Book Club with Dr. Junji Yoshida at Kotobuki (Kokoro; Naomi; A True Novel pts 1 and 2) Jan-April.
2013- Organized “Meet the Filmmaker” Screening and Reception of Julie Voisin’s award-winning film “Les Perruches!” with Hampton Roads Alliance Française and the ODU French Club
2013- Fall, Organized a 4 part Francophone World Lecture Series (Politics and Engagement in Senegal; Quebec; Haiti and Congo)
2013- April, Organized Poetry Reading in honor of National Poetry Month, and Louise Labé’s Birthday, Pasha Mezze Café, Norfolk, VA, Featured Poet: Luisa A. Igloria
2013- Jan/March/June: “Tales of the 1% Film Series” for the Brecht Forum, NYC (Cantet’s Ressources Humaines; Renoir’s Le Crime de Monsieur Lange; Von Trotta’s The Lost Honor of Katarina Blum)
2012- Oct. Organized and led a Joint Poetry Reading between Café Borjo (Norfolk) and Café Einstein (Berlin) in conjunction with the Photography exhibit “Transitional Spaces in Berlin” by Susan Wanskink.
2012- Founded and co-organized “UniverCity: ODU/City of Norfolk Urban Symposium” – a monthly series of “Coffeehouse Conversations” linking ODU faculty with local cafés and restaurants.
2012- Fall, organized a 3 part Francophone Humanitarian Lecture Series (with Physicians for Peace; Operation Smile, Operation Blessing)
2012- May, co-organized a lecture/performance by Kossan from the University of Okinawa titled “Zen and the art of the Sanshin” with Dr. Josh Weinstein at Virginia Wesleyan College.
2012- Jan, Organized a lecture by theater Director Scott Hayes at ODU in conjunction with the opening of his production of Molière’s Tartuffe at Regent University.
2012- Jan, Organized a lecture by Conductor Steven Jarvi at ODU in conjunction with the opening of Philip Glass’s/Jean Cocteau’s Opera Orphée at the VA Opera.
2011, Fall, Organized a 4 part “France and the Francophone World Lecture Series” with local scholars.
2011- Nov, Organized a Moroccan Poetry Night with the ODU French Club and Hampton Roads Alliance Française
2011- Oct, organized a reading/discussion of the work of Haruki Murakami in conjunction with the release of his novel 1Q84.
2011- May, organized a French Poetry Day for the HamptonRoads Alliance Française
2010-, served on the screening/selection committee for the UJFT Virginia Festival of Jewish Film
2010, Nov-Dec, organized a “France in Crisis” 2 part lecture series with local scholars and diplomats.
2010, Oct, spoke on ““France and the Holocaust: The Diary of Helène Berr.” on a panel at the Wells Theater, Norfolk, titled “Memory, Trauma, and the Holocaust” in conjunction with a theatrical run of The Diary of Anne Frank”
2010, Oct, organized a “French for Business Lecture Series” with prominent local francophone professionals.
2010, Oct, organized a two week French film festival (10 films with discussion afterwards) on the works of Alain Corneau and Claude Chabrol at Old Dominion University with the ODU French Club (“The Corneau/Chabrol Film Festival: A Celebration of Two Seminal Directors in French Film”)
2010, May, organized a poetry reading in honor of Greek poet Cavafy’s birthday at Pasha Mezze Café, Norfolk, VA.
2009, May, organized and moderated a poetry reading at Francis Vielé-Griffin House, Norfolk VA, the Hampton Rds Alliance Française.
2008, Fall, organized and moderated a « Dangerous Liaisons : French-American Relations » lecture series (William Ayres, Jamestown-Yorktown Foundation,Williamsburg, VA ; Prof. Philip Nord, Rosengarden Professor of History, Princeton University ; Jae Sennett, Jazz personality and PBS radio host) for the Graduate Program of International Studies (GPIS) at ODU.
2007, Fall, organized and moderated dinner/poetry reading in historical downtown Norfolk in honor
of French symbolist poet (and Norfolk-born) Francis Vielé-Griffin
2007, Summer, organized and moderated a panel about 3 historical downtown buildings slated for destruction : « Saving the Norfolk 3: Architecture and Memory »
2007, Summer, organized and moderated a French Film Noir series at a local restaurant, The Boot, with the Hampton Rds Alliance Française
2005-, appointed to the Board of Directors of the Friends of the Old Dominion University Library.
2005-2006 organized and created Graduate Program of International Studies Alumni Lecture Series
Spring 2005, Yom HaShoah Commemoration Reading: Robert Desnos (ODU Library)
Spring 2005 organized special lecture by Swiss Jazzman Marc Morric, « Le Jazz en France, et mes Experiences avec le Jazz à New York »
Fall 2005, moderator and screening for the film The Dybbuk (1937, Michael Waszynski) for ODU Yiddish Club
Fall 2005, organized and moderated a round table titled: « France, Germany, Poland: A New Europe? » for the Center for Regional and Global Studies, Old Dominion University
Fall 2005, organized and created French Naval Officers Maritime World Lecture Series, Topic: Contemporary France
Fall 2005, organized special lecture by Genevieve Couillard-Depres, Quebecoise opera star on « My Life in Theater: Anglophone and Francophone Stages »
Fall 2005, guest moderator for Everything is Illuminated (Liev Schreiber) for First Look Film Forum, Naro Movie Theater, Norfolk, Va
Spring 2005, presented and moderated Monsieur Ibrahim for the the ODU Film Festival
Spring 2005, presented a paper titled, « The Stealth Globalization of France » at an ODU symposium on « Old Europe- New Europe: Back to the Future? »
Fall 2004, presented a paper titled « Of Questions and Answers » for a symposium in honor of Elie Wiesel.
Fall 2003-Spring 2004, organized and presented « Franco-Jewish Film Series » (4 films).
Spring 2003, Presented Loren Winner and her book God Meets Girl at ODU’s Virginia Literature Festival
Fall 2002, Participated in a Presidential September 11 commemoration representing ODU Hillel.
Fall 2002, Presented and read translations of Rimbaud with Pulitzer Prize winning poet, W.D. Snodgrass for the ODU Literary Festival.
Spring 2002, Presented and moderated Hiroshima, mon amour, for the ODU Film Festival
Spring 2002, Bnai Brith, invited guest speaker: « Hillel: Student Engagement at ODU and Beyond. »
Spring 2002, Alliance Française/ Dept of Foreign Language talk: « The Twentieth Century: A Ninteteenth- Century Approach »
Spring, 2002, Graduate Program in International Studies, Student-Faculty Research talk, presentation of Le Dernier du siècle
Fall 2001, Organized and Presented talk by Jay Sebaloff for ODU Hillel, « Israel Today: Crisis and Resolutions ».
Fall 2001-2002: Organized Weekly Hillel Lunch and Learns with Rabbi Schwartz »
Fall 2001, Presented a paper titled: « Mourning and Melancholy in Kristeva’s Work, » at the ODU Humanities: Julia Kristeva Symposium
Fall 2001, Organized and Presented talk by Professor Sylvia Tieffenberg, University of Buenos Aires for ODU Hillel, « The Stories of Our Grandparents Told us: Jewish Immigration to Argentina. »
Spring 2001, invited talk at Congregation Beth Chaverim on « From New York to Norfolk: A Jewish Odyssey ».
Fall 2000-Spring 2001: Organized and Presented The Hampton Rds Alliance Française/Old Dominion University French Film Series (4 films)
Fall 1999-Spring 2000: Organized and Presented The Hampton Rds Alliance Française/Old Dominion University French Film Series (4 films)
Spring 2000: Organized and Presented Pi Delta Phi French Honors Society Initiation
Spring 2000: Organized and Presented visit by Suzanne Jacob, Québecois novelist/poet
Spring 2000: Faculty Outreach Lectures to 3 local high schools (Maury High School, Granby High School, Norfolk Collegiate)
1999-2000: Co-organized and participated in Old Dominion University Foreign Language International Symposium, « The Sexual Revolution. »
Spring 1999: Organized and Presented « French for Business Community Lecture Series (3 invited guests lecture series)
Spring 1999: Invited talk at Virginia Wesleyan College on Ophul’s La Ronde ».
1997-2000: Moderated Panels, Presented films, and Participated in organization of Old Dominion University Annual Film Festival
1997-1998: Organized and Presented The Hampton Rds Alliance Française/Old Dominion University French Comedy Film Series (3 films)
1996-1997: Old Dominion University Ciné-Club Marcel Carné Film Series (3 films).
Spring 1997: Keynote address for Pi Delta Phi French Honor’s Society
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