The French cultural center at New York University offers a full calendar of cultural events for November and December, 2011.
A rich array of readings, talks, and music will be presented by New York University’s La Maison Française in November and early December. The French cultural center’s events include a two-day conference on the subject of memory (Nov. 18-19), and an additional conference entitled “The DSK Scandal: Transatlantic Reflections on Sex, Law, and Politics,” which will be co-hosted with Cardozo School of Law (Dec. 1-2).
For more information about thes November-December calendar of events, please call 212.998.8750 or address an email to maison.francaise@ny;u.edu, or visit www.nyu.edu/maisonfrancaise. The French cultural center at NYU is located at 16 Washington Mews, at University Place [nearest subway stations: N, R, 8th St.; 6, Astor Place]. All events take place at the center unless otherwise noted.
Tuesday, November 1, 7:00 p.m.
Lecture in French
JEAN-MARIE ROULIN
Professor of French Literature, Université Jean Monnet, Saint-Etienne; author of L’Exil et la gloire; L’Epopée de Voltaire à Chareaubriand: poésie, histoire et politique
“Retours d'émigration: le corps revenant (Chateaubriand, Balzac)”
Wednesday, November 2, 7:00 pm
Lecture in French
Institute of French Studies Colloquium
SAMY COHEN
Senior research fellow in political science, Sciences Po, Paris; author of Democracies at War Against Terrorism: A Comparative Perspective
“Guerre contre le terrorisme; pourquoi les démocraties violent-elles les droits de l'homme?”
Thursday, November 3, 7:00 p.m.
Lecture in French
FRANÇOISE GAILLARD
Professor, Université de Paris VII; author of Diana Crash; La Modernité en question
“Eloge de la simplicité: Flaubert et la question moderne de la bêtise”
Wednesday, November 9, 7:00 pm
Lecture in French
Institute of French Studies Colloquium
NONNA MAYER
Senior Research Fellow in Political Science (CNRS – Sciences Po, Paris); visiting professor NYU; author of Ces Français qui votent le Pen
“Le Vote Front National à l’heure de Marine le Pen”
Thursday, November 10, 7:00 p.m.
Lecture in English
DANIEL HELLER-ROAZEN
Professor of Comparative Literature, Princeton University; author of Echolalias: On the Forgetting of Language; The Inner Touch: Archaeology of a Sensation; The Enemy of All: Piracy and the Law of Nations
“Secrets and Cryptic Tongues”
Friday, November 11, 4:30 p.m.
Reading and Discussion (English/French)
Contemporary Poetry and Translation
JULIEN MARCLAND
Poet; actor; director; author of Neige; Parole et musique; Amitiés à Perec
MOLLY LOU FREEMAN
Poet, author of In Wind: A Paper; translator; editor, Carnet de route
Marcland and Freeman have translated American poets Barbara Guest, Jorie Graham, Geoffrey
Nutter, and James Tate, among others, and French poets Suzanne Doppelt, Dominique Fourcade,
and Jean-Christophe Bailly.
Tuesday, November 15, 8:00 p.m.
Lecture in French
Co-sponsored by Institute of African American Affairs
ABDELWAHAB MEDDEB
Novelist; essayist; professor, Université de Paris X; radio producer, “Cultures d’Islam” (France Culture); author of La Maladie de l’Islam (Prix François Mauriac); Pari de civilization; Printemps de Tunis
“Le Printemps arabe”
Friday and Saturday, November 18-19
Conference: In the Tracks of Memory
Sponsored by NYU/CNRS UMI “Transitions”
Friday, November 18
9:30 a.m.
Introduction
Edward Berenson, co-director, NYU/CNRS UMI “Transitions”
Clifford Chanin, National September 11 Memorial and Museum
Denis Pechanski, CNRS; Chair, Scientific Advisory Board, Mémorial de Caen
10:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m.
Session 1: Children and Traumatic Memory
Chair: Edward Berenson
Henry Parens, Psychiatrist; Daniella Doran, Colgate University; Jack Saul, Columbia University
2:00 – 5:00 p.m.
Session 2: Memory and Its Discontents
Chair: Denis Pechanski
Katherine Fleming, NYU; Ophelia Deroy, London; Adam Brown, NYU School of Medicine
Saturday, November 19
9:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.
Session 3: Archaeology of Memory; Archaeology of Death
Chair: Stéphane Grimaldi, Director, Mémorial de Caen
Father Patrick Desbois, Yahad-In Unum; Mark Schaming, NY State Museum;
Francesc Torres; Brigitte Sion
2:00 – 5:00 p.m.
Session 4: Diplomacy, Memory, and the State: A Roundtable Discussion
Chair: Clifford Chanin
Antonin Baudry, Cultural Counselor, French Embassy;
Inigo Ramirez de Haro, Cultural Counselor, Spanish Embassy; Others to be announced
Concluding Remarks
Carol Gluck, Columbia University
Monday, November 21, 7:00 p.m.
French Literature in the Making
JEAN HATZFELD
Reporter; war correspondent; writer; author of L’Air de la guerre; Dans le nu de la vie (Prix Pierre Mille, Prix France Culture); Une Saison de machettes (Prix Femina, Prix Joseph Kessel)
in conversation with
OLIVIER BARROT
Writer, journalist, Un Livre un jour (France 3)
In French.
Presented with the additional support of Open Skies, Sofitel, Institut Français, Cultural Services of the French Embassy.
Tuesday, November 22, 7:00 p.m.
Roundtable
New Scholarship in 18th-century French Art History
Laura Auricchio, Parsons The New School for Design
Nina L. Dubin, University of Illinois at Chicago
Meredith Martin, Wellesley College
Respondent: Thomas Crow, Institute of Fine Arts, NYU
Moderator: Ara H. Merjian, Italian Studies and Art History, NYU
Thursday and Friday, December 1-2
Conference
The DSK Scandal: Transatlantic Reflections on Sex, Law, and Politics
Sponsored by Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law - Yeshiva University and Institute of French Studies, NYU;co-sponsored by IRIS (CNRS/EHESS) and Faculty of Law, Université de Paris X - Nanterre
Organized by Éric Fassin, Stéphanie Hennette-Vauchez, Julie Suk, Frédéric Viguier
Participants include: Laure Bereni, Kimberlé Crenshaw, Amy Davidson, Pauline Delage, Delphine Dulong, Stéphanie Hénette-Vauchez, Julie Suk, Eric Fassin, Renée Kaplan, Ruth Rubio Marin, Frédérique Matonti, Joan Scott, James Q. Whitman
Thursday, December 1
Location: Cardozo School of Law, 55 Fifth Avenue (at 12th Street)
4:00 - 6:30 pm
Introduction
Panel 1: Sexual Violence in Public Discourse
Friday, December 2
Location: Cardozo School of Law
10:00 am -12:00 pm
Panel 2: Justice for Whom? Rape and Comparative Criminal Procedure
Friday, December 2
Location: La Maison Française, NYU
1:30 - 4:00 pm
Panel 3: The Politics of Seduction: The Role of Sex in Democracy
Monday, December 5, 8:00 p.m.
Concert
TRIO CLEONICE
Ari Isaacman-Beck, violin
Gwen Krosnick, cello
Emily Phelps, piano
Haydn Piano Trio in G Major, Hob. XV:15
Ravel Piano Trio in A Minor
Reservations: 212-998-8750; maison.francaise@nyu.ed
Tickets: $20. General Admission: $10. Students with i.d.
Tuesday, December 6, 7:00 p.m.
Illustrated Lecture
PATRICIA MAINARDI
Professor of Art History, Graduate Center, CUNY; author of Art and Politics of the Second Empire (Charles Rufus Morey Prize, CAA); Husbands, Wives, and Lovers: Marriage and Its Discontents in Nineteenth Century France
“Spreading the News: The Invention of the Illustrated Press in France.”