Dr. Brezault organized and moderated a panel at NeMLA
Dr. Brezault organized and moderated a panel at the 2026 North East Modern Literature Association conference in Pittsburgh (March 5–8 2026) titled “Repair, Resilience, and Care: Health and Environment in Francophone Literatures and Arts.” The panel explored how Francophone literatures and arts engage with themes of care, resilience, and environmental responsibility in response to social, political, and ecological crises. Presentations examined topics such as a Māori writer in Tahiti addressing the legacy of French nuclear testing in the Pacific, cinematic representations of the French hospital as a living body, alongside reflections on how some postwar modernist buildings of Le Corbusier can be interpreted as an architectural expression of resilience. Together, the panel contributed to broader conversations in global medical and environmental humanities by highlighting how literature, film, and architecture confront histories of environmental injustice and imagine new forms of care.
