From Conquest to Camembert: Exploring Connections: Normandy­­-Wisconsin

5:00 p.m. Thursday October 2 Room 4151, Grainger Hall 975 University Ave. Open to the public. Reception follows. Bill Berg, French Professor A Wisconsin-Normandy Connection through Literature and Painting Professor Berg, a specialist in 19th-century French literature and art, discusses the work of painters Boudin and Monet, writers Flaubert and Maupassant. Keith Busby, French Professor 1066 and All That: Linguistic and Literary Consequences of the Norman Invasion The influence of Norman French on English language and literature or why a third of the English lexikon is of Romance origin, and why it took a Chaucer to make English a respectable literary medium. Anne Topham, Wisconsin Cheesemaker Terroir, Artisanal Cheesemaking, and the Significance of Place The owner of Fantôme Farm and maker of award-winning chèvre talks about making farmstead cheeses in Southern Wisconsin and France. Co-sponsored by the Center for Interdisciplinary French Studies, UW–Madison and the European Studies Alliance.