The Francophone, Italian, and Germanic Graduate Society is a student-run organization that represents graduate students in Francophone, Italian and Germanic studies. FIGGS plans monthly meetings on topics of shared professional and academic interest, and organizes the annual FIGGS Conference in the spring semester. Recent conference titles include "Dis/Indentifications and Orientations" (2010), "Written in Blood" (2011), “Altered States" (2012), "Silence . . . Silenzio" (2013), "No Man's Land" (2014), "Rewriting" (2015), "Bitterness" (2016), "War of the Wor(l)ds" (2018), "Secrets" (2019), "Apocalyptic Landscapes" (2021),"Uprootedness" (2022), "Crossroads" (2023).

 

2023-2024 Board

President & Treasurer
Massimiliano Lorenzon (masl@sas.upenn.edu )

Social Chairs
Lourdes Contreras (lourdesc@sas.upenn.edu)
Deion Dresser (ddresser@sas.upenn.edu )
Asia Cureton (acureton@sas.upenn.edu )

Roundtable Organizers
Julia Pelosi-Thorpe (peju@sas.upenn.edu)
Marie Reeb (mreeb@sas.upenn.edu)

SASGov Representatives
Deion Dresser (ddresser@sas.upenn.edu)

Faculty-Student Liaisons
Hannah Bradley (hbradl@sas.upenn.edu )
Chaoge Wang (chaogew@sas.upenn.edu )

Social Media
Sandrine Rajaonarivony (srajao@sas.upenn.edu )