Our volume France at the Dawn of the Twenty-First Century: Trends and Transformations (Summa, 2000) is now in its third printing.It may be purchased from Summa Publications, P.O. Box 660725, Birmingham, AL 35266-0725. Based on this success, we areplanning a second volume on contemporary France to be published in 2008.Our other volume, Le Québec aujourd’hui. Identité, société et culture (2003), is available from the Presses de l’Université Laval [www.ulaval.ca/pul]. 

Please support the AATF by having your school library purchase these books!  Another project that I am pursuing is the organization of a two-week seminar in Belgium and Switzerland right before the 2008 AATF convention which will take place in Liège. Information about this project will be disseminated as it becomes available.  Please join us at ACTFL in Nashville where we are organizing a session on the work and objectives of the Commission (Ann Williams and Marie-Christine Koop) and another on immigration and social upheavals in France (Fred Toner and Marie-Christine Koop).

Following an increasing demand on the part of our members, we are looking for short articles describing classroom activities of acultural content around feature films from France and French-speaking countries. If you have developed units around films, please e-mail them to me for publication in the National Bulletin. As usual, I would like to encourage AATF members to join the Commission and participate in our work. Please contact me as follows:

Marie-Christine Koop

Dept. of Foreign Languages and Literatures

University of North Texas

P.O. Box 311127

Denton, TX 76203-1127

E-mail: koop@unt.edu

Visit the Commission Web site at http://courses.unt.edu/koop/aatfculture.htm.

Created: October 18, 2001
Last update: April 16, 2007