Lecture on Jules Verne\u2019s Around the World in Eighty Days<\/em> for Montblanc Pens to celebrate their special pen collection devoted to the work of Jule Verne, event titled \u201cCelebrating the Finest Adventure Ever Told: Around the World in 80 Days<\/em>\u201d with Jean-Michel Margot and Alessandra Elia, Head of Writing Instruments at Montblanc<\/p>\n\n\n\n Appointed to the Community Council for the Jewish Community Relations Council through the United Jewish<\/p>\n\n\n\n Federation of Tidewater (representing ODU\u2019s Institute for Jewish and Interfaith Understanding.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n Appointed to the Community Advisory Board of the Hunter House Victorian Museum (Norfolk, VA).<\/p>\n\n\n\n Organized and moderated a special screening of the National Board of Canada film Plus haut que les flammes <\/em>(Monique Leblanc, 2010) with the director Monique Leblanc; the author Louise Dupr\u00e9 and Radio Canada journalist Melanie Loisel at ODU and the Slover Library.(from a grant by the D\u00e9l\u00e9gation du Qu\u00e9bec de New York)<\/p>\n\n\n\n Organized and moderated \u201cA Virtual Roundtable on the Importance of Art in our Daily Lives\u201d 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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Organized and moderated a special roundtable \u201cSpotlight Cultural Diplomacy\u201dwith<\/strong> 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\/<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cBusiness French: Gateway to International Entrepreneurship\u201d <\/em>presentation for the 2021 Program Acceleration for Collaborative Entrepreneurship (PACE) Institute, April 7, 2021. Hosted by Old Dominion University\u2019s E-Collaborative<\/p>\n\n\n\n Special screening of Yves Sioui Durand\u2019s First Nation film Mesnak<\/em> as part of Le Mois de la Francophonie in collaboration with La Maison Fran\u00e7aise de NYU and La D\u00e9l\u00e9gation du Qu\u00e9bec \u00e0 New York, 03\/03\/21<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201c ‘Justice & Peace: Black Lives Matter and Beyond<\/strong>‘<\/em>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<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cLLCHAT Podcast Series co-host and organizer: Quebec Writers and Poets \u2013 an interview with poet Marisol Drouin in conjunction with National Poetry Month,\u201d 04\/08\/21 (Spotify\/Buzzsprout)<\/p>\n\n\n\n Participated in a virtual event sponsored by La Travers\u00e9e (UQAM) \u201cLa marche comme un voyage: excursion virtuelle pr\u00e8s de chez nous \u2013 huits r\u00e9cits de marche pr\u00e8s de chez eux, pr\u00e8s de chez elles\u2019 dir. Christian Par\u00e9 with Andr\u00e9 Carpentier, Peter Schulman, Jean-Claude Castelain, Dalie Giroux & Am\u00e9lie-Anne Mailhot, Nicolas Lanouette, Dominic Marcil, Thibaut Quinchon<\/p>\n\n\n\n Organized, moderated and translated an evening of \u201cglass poetry\u201d at the Chrysler Museum of Art Glass Studio: a reading of Notebooks of Color <\/em>by and with Denise Desautels, Diane R\u00e9gimbald and Louise Dupr\u00e9 combined with the creation of glass art based on their poems.03\/14\/21<\/p>\n\n\n\n Organized, moderated and translated a poetry reading with Andr\u00e9anne Frenette-Valli\u00e8res and her book Juillet, le nord <\/em>as part of a \u201cNorthern Lights\u201d series at the Slover Library (03\/10\/21)<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cLLCHAT Podcast Series co-host and organizer: Quebec Writers and Poets \u2013 an interview with poet Ouanessa Younssi in conjunction with Le Mois de la Francophonie,\u201d 02\/14\/21 ( Spotify\/Buzzsprout)<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cLLCHAT Podcast Series co-host and organizer: Quebec Writers and Poets \u2013 an interview with filmmaker Benoit Pilon on his career in film and his most recent release Le Club Vinland<\/em> 02\/15\/21( Spotify\/Buzzsprout)<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cLLCHAT Podcast Series co-host and organizer: Quebec Writers and Poets \u2013 an interview with novelist Perrine Leblanc on writing, travel, and her most recent book Gens du nord<\/em>\u201d 01\/15\/20 (Spotify\/Buzzsprout)<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cNights at the Calcutta Caf\u00e9\u201d, 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 & \u201cS\u00e9minaire du Cercle Benveniste: Parenth\u00e8se po\u00e9tique multilingue\/ Multilingual Poetry Session, \u00bb led by Anna Pletnyova, Dec 11, 2020, University of Calgary (virtual), spoke on read works of Laura Riding and Fran\u00e7ois Rioux.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cA Deep Dive into the Work of Jules Verne, the Inspiration Behind Our New Exhibit Voyage to the Deep<\/em>!\u201d Nauticus Nautical Museum, Norfolk VA, Dec 7th<\/sup>, 2020. organized with Nauticus a virtual round table on Jules Verne\u2019s 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\u2019s works in graphic novel form; and Stephen Kirkland, Executive Director of Nauticus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cLLCHAT Podcast Series co-host and organizer: Quebec Writers and Poets \u2013 an interview with Daphn\u00e9 B on writing, translation and her most recent book Maquill\u00e9e<\/em>\u201d 10\/22\/20 (Spotify\/Buzzsprout)<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cIter Per Litteras, Invisible Cities Part I: Rome<\/em>,\u201d online Zoom event organized by Dr. Ben Haller, Classics Dept, Virginia Wesleyan University, spoke on \u201cDu Bellay\u2019s Vision of Rome: \u201cHappy as Ulysses,\u201d Sept, 2020.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cStories on Stage: The Weather Made Me Do It,\u201d event co-organized with the Hermitage Museum, Norfolk, VA, Sept 10, 2020, in conjunction with the exhibition \u201cUnknown Outcomes\u201d (featured readers: Tim Siebles, Sherry Reynolds, Thom Yuill, Noah Renn, Kindra Macdonald, Nathan Richardson<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cWomen in Translation Month Reading,\u201d The Muse Writing Center\/Poetry Society of Virginia, read with and I poet Lorrie Jean-louis (La femme cent couleurs<\/em>), and with Asaf Benssahieh, passages by and with Fabienne Kanor of her text from Humus<\/em>, along with Virginia poet laureates Luisa Igloria and Sofia Starnes, novelist Nana Brew-Hammond, poets Amanda Galvan Huyn, Joanna Eleftheriou Aug 30, 2020.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cVoices Across Borders: A Dialogue in French and in English with Quebecoise Author and former Radio Canada reporter M\u00e9lanie Loisel\u201d Arts at ODU Summer Series, July, 2020<\/p>\n\n\n\n Zoom Poetry Reading to Support Local French Businesses with special Qu\u00e9b\u00e9coise special guest, poet Ariane Audet, May 2020<\/p>\n\n\n\n LCCHAT- Zoom interview with Kelsey Norton \u201cHow I became a French Professor and Why\u201d (May, 2020, Podcast\/Spotify, Language Learning Center, Dept of World Languages and Cultures, ODU)<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cLectures autour de et pour l\u2019anniversaire d\u2019Anais Nin \u00bb organized and participated in a poetry reading at Librairie L\u2019Euguelionne, Montreal Qu\u00e9bec with poets Carole David, Laurence Ouellet-Tremblay, Laurie B\u00e9dard, Diane R\u00e9gimbald, Caroline Louisseize, Catherine Cormier-Larose, Kelly Norah Drukker et Cl\u00e9mence Dumas-C\u00f4t\u00e9, Feb, 2020<\/p>\n\n\n\n Jan-May 2020, named \u201cScholar-in-Residence\u201d at the Cure Coffeehouse, Norfolk Va to curate a semester long \u201cUniverCity Spoken Word Series\u201d combining university scholars with local poets and artists. Feb, 2020 \u201cExaminations of Love in French, Classical, Portuguese Literature\u201d March, 2020 \u201cIrish Words and Song in Honor of Lady Gregory,\u201d April, 2020 \u201cTwo Poets and a Ghost: Poems in Honor of Langston Hughes.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n 2019, November, screening of Drissa Taour\u00e9\u2019s film from Burkina Faso, Hamanuya<\/em>, for the Office of International Relations at ODU as part of the nationwide \u201cInternational Education Week\u201d initiative.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 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: \u201cIn Honor of Jules Verne\u2019s Birthday: Screenings, Readings and More\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n 2019, January, presented the Hungarian film Budapest Noir<\/em> (Eva Gardos, 2018) for the 28th<\/sup> Virginia Festival of Jewish Film, at Cinema Caf\u00e9, VA Beach<\/p>\n\n\n\n 2019, January, a discussion of Jean-Jacques Rousseau\u2019s Reveries of a Solitary Walker <\/em>at the Kaplan Orchid Conservatory, ODU, Norfolk, VA.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 2019, January, organized and participated in an international poetry reading \u201cBrooklyn-Montreal Exchanges\u201d at the Brooklyn Heights Public Library, Brooklyn, NY with poets Catherine Cormier-Larose, Madeleine Monette, Catherine Fletcher, Joanna Eleftheriou, Sacha Zabotin and Ewan Turner.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 2018, October, participated and read in a university memorial and solidarity service for the Tree of Life Pittsburgh attack.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 2018, Sept-December \u201cGPIS Ghosts of French Colonization Lecture Series: NGOs, Alumni, Academics and Diplomatic Spotlights\u201d (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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 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 \u201cInternational Education Week\u201d initiative.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 2018, April, co-organized and co-hosted \u201cExistential Caf\u00e9: Remembering Jean-Paul Sartre) with Philosophy Professor MaryCatherine Macdonald, Borjo Coffeehouse, April 16, 2018<\/p>\n\n\n\n 2018, April, presented and led a discussion of Arnaud Deplechin\u2019s film Ishmael\u2019s Ghosts<\/em> at the Naro Cinema\u2019s First Look Film Forum series, Norfolk VA<\/p>\n\n\n\n 2018, January, presented and introduced the Hungarian film 1945<\/em> (dir. Feren Toruc) at the VA Beach JCC in conjunction with the 27th<\/sup> Virginia Festival of Jewish Film.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 2018, January, organized and participated in a workshop on d\u00e9sambulation <\/em>with World Languages and Cultures poet-in-residence Hector Ruiz and the Hampton Roads Alliance Fran\u00e7aise through a poetic walking tour of downtown Norfolk; organized and initiated the visit of poet-in-residence Hector Ruiz and a special workshop on \u201cwalking poetry, reading cities\u201d within my French writing class. FR 312 Writing and Reading.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 2017, October, gave the Arts and Letters Senior Scholar Lecture: \u201cSurrealist Cairo: Overcoming Angst in Lee Miller\u2019s Egyptian Photography.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n 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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 2017, November, screened the Malian film A Screaming Man <\/em> (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<\/p>\n\n\n\n 2017, October, organized and hosted a ballet company from Bordeaux, The ArtisT<\/em> (dir. Christine Jannin), and their production of Lafayette<\/em> (Oct 18\/19) as well as a public talk on their creative process and ballet techniques, Norfolk VA.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 2017, August, organized and hosted a literary reading titled \u201cA Midsummer\u2019s Night Poetry Reading in Honor of Philip Larkin,\u201d at Soldiers and Sailors\u2019 Monument, Manhattan, NY with writers Amy Dannenmueller, Marvin Ginsberg and Ewan Turner<\/p>\n\n\n\n 2017, June, organized and hosted a poetry reading titled \u201cAn Evening of Quebecois and New York Contemporary Poetry,\u201d at Berl\u2019s Brooklyn Poetry Shop, Brooklyn, NY with poets: Hector Ruiz, Laurence Ouellet-Tremblay, Fran\u00e7ois Rioux, Madeleine Monette, Erica Ehrenberg and Ewan Turner<\/p>\n\n\n\n 2017, May, co-organized in collaboration with the Hampton Roads Alliance Fran\u00e7aise, \u201cShh \u2013 Don\u2019t Tell Anyone: Dangerous Women, Allied Spies,\u201d lecture by April Cheek-Messier (President of the National D-Day Memorial Foundation)<\/p>\n\n\n\n 2017, April, co-organized with Ren\u00e9e Olander, a two day Quebecois poetry festival with La Maison de la Po\u00e9sie 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\u201d with the 3 Quebecois poets in dialogue with American poets M.J. Kledzik, Luisa Igloria, Ren\u00e9e Olander and Peter Schulman)<\/p>\n\n\n\n 2017, February, organized with Fran\u00e7ois Rioux and Hector Ruiz, and participated in a poetry reading titled \u201cEn une seule phrase nombreuse<\/em>\u201d at Porte de T\u00eate<\/em>, Montreal, QC with poets: Carole David, Hector Ruiz, Virginie Beauregard D., Rachel McCrum, Chloe Savoie-Bernard, Sebastien Boulanger-Gagnon, and Ouanessa Younsi.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 2017, January, presented and led a post-film discussion of Larry Peerce\u2019s Goodbye, Columbus<\/em>, at the Naro Cinema in conjunction with the 26th<\/sup> Virginia Festival of Jewish Film.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 2016, November, Organized a \u201c Brown Bag Business French Local and National Lunchtime Talk Series\u201d: Lamia Pappas, owner of Lamia\u2019s Cr\u00eapes, Norfolk Va (Nov 8); Mischa Zabotin, Vice President Credit Agricole- New York (via Skype) (Dec 3)<\/p>\n\n\n\n 2016, November, led a talk-back on Marie Nimier\u2019s play Another Year, Another Christmas, <\/em>at the Access Theater, New York City.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 2016, November, accompanied an organ recital by James Kosnick of Oliver Messiaen\u2019s Les Corps Glorieux<\/em> (1939) with his French narration of each movement (Larchmont Methodist C.), Norfolk, VA.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 2016, November, led a talk-back on Marie Nimier\u2019s play Another Year, Another Christmas<\/em> at the Franklinton Playhouse, Columbus Ohio<\/p>\n\n\n\n 2016, October, organized a reading (with Dr. Elizabeth Black) of French sea fiction and poetry (Verne, Hugo, Du Bellay, Proust), \u201cFond de la Mer Litt\u00e9raire<\/em>\u201d at O\u2019Connors Brewery (Norfolk VA) in conjunction with a launch of their new Belgian abbey-style beer called Fond de la Mer<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 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<\/p>\n\n\n\n 2016, April, presented and led a discussion of Arnaud Deplechin\u2019s film My Golden Days<\/em> at the Naro Cinema\u2019s First Look Film Forum series, Norfolk VA<\/p>\n\n\n\n 2016, April, screened and commented an American premier of the documentary Les nuits de la po\u00e9sie <\/em>produced by La Maison de la Po\u00e9sie de Montreal for National Poetry Month<\/p>\n\n\n\n 2016, March, organized a poetry reading for Louis Jenkins, \u201cAn Evening with Louis Jenkins\u201d at Berl\u2019s Brooklyn Poetry Shop, DUMBO, Brooklyn, NYC in conjunction with his play Nice Fish<\/em> with Mark Rylance at St Anne\u2019s Warehouse<\/p>\n\n\n\n 2016, March, organized talk by theater director Mike Salisbury of Regent University to discuss his production of Ionesco\u2019s Rhinoc\u00e9ros<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n 2016, Jan-Feb-March, organized a three part \u201cQuebecois Cultural Studies Speakers Series: with Quebecoise Opera Soprano (cd Coloratures<\/em>) Marie-Eve Munger; Norfolk Admirals Hockey Head Coach Eric Veilleux; Poets Sylvain Campeau and Fran\u00e7ois Rioux)<\/p>\n\n\n\n 2016, February, Organized and Participated in \u201dExploring the Arctic: 1861 and today\u201d an evening presentation of \u201cScience Pub\u201d an initiative to bring the sciences and the humanities to the public at large on the topic of \u201cPolar Explorers\u201d in honor of Jules Verne\u2019s birthday (readings of Verne\u2019s polar narratives, as well as presentations by ODU scientists returning from their own South Pole explorations at Wasserund Brewery, VA Beach.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 2016, January, Presented, Participated in and Organized an after-film panel on Fran\u00e7ois Margolin\u2019s film L\u2019Antiquaire<\/em> (The Art Dealer<\/em>) at the Naro Cinema in conjunction with the 25th<\/sup> Virginia Festival of Jewish Film<\/p>\n\n\n\n 2015, Fall, Organized and presented a lecture by Prof. Alain Gabon, Virginia Wesleyan College, on \u201cFrom Charlie Hebdo to November 13: Jihadism in France,\u201d December, 2015.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 2015, Fall, Organized a three-part \u201cReporters Without Borders\u201d Skype Lecture Series on the Migrant Crisis in Europe and the Middle East<\/p>\n\n\n\n 2015, October, introduced and organized ODU\u2019s Presidential Lecture Speaker, Edwige Danticat, as part of the ODU Literary Festival.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 2015- October 7, organized and presented an \u201cEvening of Poe\u201d in honor of the anniversary of Edgar Allan Poe\u2019s death at the Hunter House Victorian Museum, Norfolk VA, with Virginia Poet Laureate Ron Smith and Dr. Elizabeth Vincelette.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 2015- April, presented \u201c Jean-Francois PAROT “Le Fant\u00f4me de la rue Royale (Nicolas leFloch No. 3)” Maison Fran\u00e7aise, Columbia University, Danielle Lasser\u2019s Book Series.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 2015- April, Invited Speaker for Pi Delta Phi French initiation dinner\/ceremony, \u201cTraduire le monde\/ Translating the World,\u201d Virginia Wesleyan College, Virginia Beach, VA<\/p>\n\n\n\n 2014- Nov 18, Organized a screening of the documentary Beyond the Blue Veil<\/em> for the Organization of International Relations about the Tuareg and NGOs in Mali (with Q and A with the film\u2019s producer, Lynda Simon)<\/p>\n\n\n\n 2014 \u2013 Nov 9, organized and hosted \u201cA Night in Celebration of Dylan Thomas\u201d Sponsored by New Directions Publishing and including Pulitzer Prize winning poet Paul Muldoon; Grace Schulman, Victoria Redel and Robert Polito at BookCourt, Brooklyn NY<\/p>\n\n\n\n 2014- July, presented and led a discussion on Renoir\u2019s Diary of a Chamber Maid<\/em> at The Brooklyn Commons, Brooklyn, NY<\/p>\n\n\n\n 2014- January, Organized a poetry reading at Borjo\u2019s Coffeehouse in honor of Lord Byron\u2019s birthday<\/p>\n\n\n\n 2014- Created a 4 part Public Japanese Literature Book Club with Dr. Junji Yoshida at Kotobuki (Kokoro;<\/em> Naomi<\/em>; A True Novel<\/em> pts 1 and 2) Jan-April.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 2013- Organized \u201cMeet the Filmmaker\u201d Screening and Reception of Julie Voisin\u2019s award-winning film \u201cLes Perruches<\/em>!\u201d with Hampton Roads Alliance Fran\u00e7aise and the ODU French Club<\/p>\n\n\n\n 2013- Fall, Organized a 4 part Francophone World Lecture Series (Politics and Engagement in Senegal; Quebec; Haiti and Congo)<\/p>\n\n\n\n 2013- April, Organized Poetry Reading in honor of National Poetry Month, and Louise Lab\u00e9\u2019s Birthday, Pasha Mezze Caf\u00e9, Norfolk, VA, Featured Poet: Luisa A. Igloria<\/p>\n\n\n\n 2013- Jan\/March\/June: \u201cTales of the 1% Film Series\u201d for the Brecht Forum, NYC (Cantet\u2019s Ressources Humaines; <\/em>Renoir\u2019s Le Crime de Monsieur Lange;<\/em> Von Trotta\u2019s The Lost Honor of Katarina Blum<\/em>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n 2012- Oct. Organized and led a Joint Poetry Reading between Caf\u00e9 Borjo (Norfolk) and Caf\u00e9 Einstein (Berlin) in conjunction with the Photography exhibit \u201cTransitional Spaces in Berlin\u201d by Susan Wanskink.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 2012- Founded and co-organized \u201cUniverCity: ODU\/City of Norfolk Urban Symposium\u201d \u2013 a monthly series of \u201cCoffeehouse Conversations\u201d linking ODU faculty with local caf\u00e9s and restaurants.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 2012- Fall, organized a 3 part Francophone Humanitarian Lecture Series (with Physicians for Peace; Operation Smile, Operation Blessing)<\/p>\n\n\n\n 2012- May, co-organized a lecture\/performance by Kossan from the University of Okinawa titled \u201cZen and the art of the Sanshin\u201d with Dr. Josh Weinstein at Virginia Wesleyan College.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 2012- Jan, Organized a lecture by theater Director Scott Hayes at ODU in conjunction with the opening of his production of Moli\u00e8re\u2019s Tartuffe<\/em> at Regent University.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 2012- Jan, Organized a lecture by Conductor Steven Jarvi at ODU in conjunction with the opening of Philip Glass\u2019s\/Jean Cocteau\u2019s Opera Orph\u00e9e<\/em> at the VA Opera.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 2011, Fall, Organized a 4 part \u201cFrance and the Francophone World Lecture Series\u201d with local scholars.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 2011- Nov, Organized a Moroccan Poetry Night with the ODU French Club and Hampton Roads Alliance Fran\u00e7aise<\/p>\n\n\n\n 2011- Oct, organized a reading\/discussion of the work of Haruki Murakami in conjunction with the release of his novel 1Q84.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 2011- May, organized a French Poetry Day for the HamptonRoads Alliance Fran\u00e7aise<\/p>\n\n\n\n 2010-, served on the screening\/selection committee for the UJFT Virginia Festival of Jewish Film<\/p>\n\n\n\n 2010, Nov-Dec, organized a \u201cFrance in Crisis\u201d 2 part lecture series with local scholars and diplomats.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 2010, Oct, spoke on \u201c\u201cFrance and the Holocaust: The Diary of Hel\u00e8ne Berr.\u201d on a panel at the Wells Theater, Norfolk, titled \u201cMemory, Trauma, and the Holocaust\u201d in conjunction with a theatrical run of The Diary of Anne Frank<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n 2010, Oct, organized a \u201cFrench for Business Lecture Series\u201d with prominent local francophone professionals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 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 (\u201cThe Corneau\/Chabrol Film Festival: A Celebration of Two Seminal Directors in French Film\u201d)<\/p>\n\n\n\n 2010, May, organized a poetry reading in honor of Greek poet Cavafy\u2019s birthday at Pasha Mezze Caf\u00e9, Norfolk, VA.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 2009, May, organized and moderated a poetry reading at Francis Viel\u00e9-Griffin House, Norfolk VA, the Hampton Rds Alliance Fran\u00e7aise.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 2008, Fall, organized and moderated a \u00ab Dangerous Liaisons : French-American Relations \u00bb 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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 2007, Fall, organized and moderated dinner\/poetry reading in historical downtown Norfolk in honor<\/p>\n\n\n\n of French symbolist poet (and Norfolk-born) Francis Viel\u00e9-Griffin<\/p>\n\n\n\n 2007, Summer, organized and moderated a panel about 3 historical downtown buildings slated for destruction : \u00ab Saving the Norfolk 3: Architecture and Memory \u00bb<\/p>\n\n\n\n 2007, Summer, organized and moderated a French Film Noir series at a local restaurant, The Boot, with the Hampton Rds Alliance Fran\u00e7aise<\/p>\n\n\n\n 2005-, appointed to the Board of Directors of the Friends of the Old Dominion University Library.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 2005-2006 organized and created Graduate Program of International Studies Alumni Lecture Series<\/p>\n\n\n\n Spring 2005, Yom HaShoah Commemoration Reading: Robert Desnos (ODU Library)<\/p>\n\n\n\n Spring 2005 organized special lecture by Swiss Jazzman Marc Morric, \u00ab Le Jazz en France, et mes Experiences avec le Jazz \u00e0 New York \u00bb<\/p>\n\n\n\n Fall 2005, moderator and screening for the film The Dybbuk<\/em> (1937, Michael Waszynski) for ODU Yiddish Club<\/p>\n\n\n\n Fall 2005, organized and moderated a round table titled: \u00ab France, Germany, Poland: A New Europe? \u00bb for the Center for Regional and Global Studies, Old Dominion University<\/p>\n\n\n\n Fall 2005, organized and created French Naval Officers Maritime World Lecture Series, Topic: Contemporary France<\/p>\n\n\n\n Fall 2005, organized special lecture by Genevieve Couillard-Depres, Quebecoise opera star on \u00ab My Life in Theater: Anglophone and Francophone Stages \u00bb<\/p>\n\n\n\n Fall 2005, guest moderator for Everything is Illuminated<\/em> (Liev Schreiber) for First Look Film Forum, Naro Movie Theater, Norfolk, Va<\/p>\n\n\n\n Spring 2005, presented and moderated Monsieur Ibrahim<\/em> for the the ODU Film Festival<\/p>\n\n\n\n Spring 2005, presented a paper titled, \u00ab The Stealth Globalization of France \u00bb at an ODU symposium on \u00ab Old Europe- New Europe: Back to the Future? \u00bb<\/p>\n\n\n\n Fall 2004, presented a paper titled \u00ab Of Questions and Answers \u00bb for a symposium in honor of Elie Wiesel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Fall 2003-Spring 2004, organized and presented \u00ab Franco-Jewish Film Series \u00bb (4 films).<\/p>\n\n\n\n Spring 2003, Presented Loren Winner and her book God Meets Girl<\/em> at ODU\u2019s Virginia Literature Festival<\/p>\n\n\n\n Fall 2002, Participated in a Presidential September 11 commemoration representing ODU Hillel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Fall 2002, Presented and read translations of Rimbaud with Pulitzer Prize winning poet, W.D. 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