Professor Michael Meere and Cameron Bonnevie (French Studies and Neuroscience & Behavior, ’23) co-presented a paper titled “Talking about Transition in Early Modern France: The Case of Germain Garnier” at the 44th Annual International Conference of the Society of Interdisciplinary French Seventeenth-Century Studies, held at Smith College, November 7-9, 2025. Through the story of Germain Garnier, Meere and Bonnevie problemetized the ways gender variance was recounted and transmitted in the writings of Ambroise Paré, Michel de Montaigne, and the Princesse Palatine.
Below are the podcast episodes produced by students enrolled in ITAL225: Italian/Middletown: Podcasting Middletown’s Italian Treasures, a course taught by Professor Ellen Nerenberg in Fall 2024 and Fall 2025.
How does Middletown’s Italian past link to its present? And to Wesleyan? Where can we find Italian “treasures” on campus and off? Using these guiding principles, students in the course learned about the history of Middletown’s Italian community and conducted a hunt for Italian treasures to explore and study. Throughout the semester, students produced several short audio assignments and eventually collaborated on editing and producing 55-min podcast episodes which were broadcast on Wesleyan’s WESU. https://rll-departmentnews.site.wesleyan.edu/wp-login.php