La Maison Française is open Monday through Friday,
10:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m.
The building re-opens a half-hour
before evening programs.
All events are open to the public
and free of charge unless otherwise indicated.
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October 7 – November 7
EXHIBITION
DE LA PHYSIONOMIE HUMAINE ET ANIMALE:
Dessins de Charles LE BRUN
gravés pour la Chalcographie du musée Napoléon en 1806
Exhibition organized by the Département des Arts Graphiques of the Musée du Louvre and the Réunion des Musées Nationaux, with the cooperation of the Atelier de la Chalcographie and the Travaux Muséographiques
Tuesday, September 17 – 7:30 p.m.
MICHEL ZINK
Professor, Collège de France; author of Déodat, ou la transparence; Littérature française du Moyen âge; Le Jongleur de Notre Dame
La Cène et le Graal
Thursday, September 19 – 7:30 p.m.
CHRISTIAN BIET
Professor of Theater Studies, Université de Paris X-Nanterre; author of Droit et littérature sous l’Ancien régime; La Tragédie; visiting professor, NYU
Mises-en-scène contemporaines du théâtre classique en France
Monday, September 23 – 6:00 p.m. (Note time)
Florence Gould Lecture
Co-sponsored with the Alliance Française USA, French Institute Alliance Française, and The Arthur Garfield Hays Civil Liberties Program of the School of Law
Location: NYU Main Building, 32 Waverly Place, Hemmerdinger Hall, 1st Floor
ROBERT BADINTER
Senator; former president, Constitutional Court; former Minister of Justice; author of L’Abolition, L’Exécution: La Prison Républicaine
Victor Hugo et l’abolition de la peine de mort
Wednesday, September 25 – 7:30 p.m.
Institute of French Studies Colloquium
MICHELLE PERROT
Historian; professor emerita, Université de Paris-VII; author of Les Femmes ou les silences de l’Histoire
Les Femmes et la création
CONFERENCE
Friday, September 27 and Saturday, September 28
9:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. and 2:00 – 5:00 p.m.
ALAIN CORBIN AND THE HISTORICAL IMAGINATION
Sponsored by the Institute of French Studies
Stéphane Gerson, NYU; Arthur Goldhammer, Harvard; Dominique Kalifa, Paris-I;
Christophe Prochasson, EHESS; William Reddy, Duke; Emmanuelle Saada, NYU;
Jeffrey Lionel Gossman, Princeton; Michel Beaujour, NYU; Priscilla Ferguson, Columbia; Vanessa Schwartz, USC; Michelle Perrot, Paris-VII; Françoise Gaillard, Paris-VII;
Alain Corbin, Paris-I
For schedule and conference details, contact the Institute of French Studies, NYU: 212-998-8740.
Tuesday, October 1 – 7:30 p.m.
GEORGES BORCHARDT
Georges Borchardt, Inc. Literary Agency
Beyond Academia: Literature and Money
Wednesday, October 2 – 7:30 p.m.
Institute of French Studies Colloquium
GWENAELE CALVES
Professor of Public Law, Université de Cergy-Pontoise; author of L’Affirmative Action dans la jurisprudence de la Cour Suprême des Etats-Unis
Beaucoup de bruit pour rien: la parité entre hommes et femmes
Thursday, October 3 – 7:30 p.m.
JEAN SALEM
Director, Centre d’Histoire des Systèmes de Pensée Moderne, Université de Paris I-Sorbonne; author of Démocrite, Epicure, Lucrèce ; Cinq variations sur la sagesse, le plaisir et la mort (Prix La Bruyère, 2000)
Variations sur la sagesse, le plaisir et la mort
Tuesday, October 8 – 7:30 p.m.
MARC CHOLODENKO
Writer, translator, screenwriter; author of Mon héros; Un rêve ou un rêve; Quelques petits portraits de ce monde; Quasi una fantasia; La Poésie la vie
Je ne suis pas écrivain
Thursday, October 10 – 7:30 p.m.
Co-sponsored with Africana Studies
RICHARD PHILCOX
Translator of Maryse Condé’s The Last of the African Kings; Desirada; Tales from the Heart; Frantz Fanon’s Wretched of the Earth (forthcoming)
Re-translating Fanon: Retrieving a Lost Voice
Friday, October 11 and Monday, October 14
BERNARD - HENRI LEVY
Writer, philosopher, filmmaker; author of Les Damnés de la guerre; La Barbarie à visage humain; Le Siècle de Sartre
Friday, October 11 – 6:00 p.m. (Note time)
Florence Gould Event
Co-sponsored with The Directors’ Series, Tisch School of the Arts
Film Screening and Discussion
Location: Cantor Film Center, 36 East 8th Street, Theater 200
Bosna!
(1994, 117 min.) Directed by Bernard-Henri Lévy and Alain Ferrari. In French with English subtitles.
An investigation into the political, sociological, and military events which led to the bloodbath in Sarajevo.
Monday, October 14 – 7:30 p.m.
Florence Gould Lecture
Location: NYU Main Building, 32 Waverly Place, Room 703
Non, l’histoire n’est pas finie
Wednesday, October 16 – 7:30 p.m.
Institute of French Studies Colloquium
STEPHANE BEAUD
Sociologist, Université de Nantes; visiting professor, IFS; co-author of Retour sur la condition ouvrière; 80% au bac … et après ?
Elections 2002: pourquoi la gauche a-t-elle perdu les classes populaires?
Thursday, October 17 – 7:30 p.m.
DIDIER VAN CAUWELAERT
Novelist, playwright; author of Un Aller Simple (Prix Goncourt); L’Education d’une fée; author of book and lyrics, Amour (October 2002 Broadway production)
Title to be announced
Monday, October 21 – 6:00 p.m. (Note time)
YVETTE ROUDY
Former Minister for Women’s Rights; journalist; author of Mais de quoi ont-ils peur?
La Fonction des institutions politiques : la France et les Etats-Unis
Tuesday, October 22 – 7:30 p.m.
MARIE CHAIX
Writer; author of Le Fils de Marthe; Les Lauriers du lac de Constance : Chronique d’une collaboration
Autobiographie face à l’histoire
Wednesday, October 23 – 7:30 p.m.
Institute of French Studies Colloquium
ANDRE BAEYENS
Ministre Plénipotentiaire; former Consul Général of France in New York
The Reelection of Jacques Chirac: What Does it Mean for the European Union?
Monday, October 28 – 7:30 p.m.
Location: NYU Main Building, 32 Waverly Place, Room 703
JACQUES DERRIDA
Philosopher; Distinguished Global Professor, NYU
Abraham, l’autre
Tuesday, October 29 – 7:30 p.m.
VALERIE STEELE
Chief curator, The Museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology; author of The Corset: A Cultural History; Paris Fashion: A Cultural History
Femme Fatale: Fashion and Visual Culture in Fin-de-siècle Paris
Wednesday, October 30 – 7:30 p.m.
Institute of French Studies Colloquium
CHRISTIAN DELAGE (CNRS) and VINCENT GUIGUENO (ENCP)
Histoire, mémoire et figuration de l’histoire
Through November 7
EXHIBITION
DE LA PHYSIONOMIE HUMAINE ET ANIMALE:
Dessins de Charles LE BRUN
gravés pour la Chalcographie du musée Napoléon en 1806
Exhibition organized by the Department of Graphic Arts of the Louvre Museum, the Réunion des Musées Nationaux, and EONS Association for Cultural Exchange, with the generous support of Société Générale.
November 18 – December 13
Monday - Friday, 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.
EXHIBITION
BREYTEN BREYTENBACH
The Memory of Meaning: Paintings and Works on Paper
Wednesday, November 6 – 7:30 p.m.
MICHEL DEGUY
Poet, philosopher, professor, Paris-VIII; author of A ce qui n’en finit pas; L’Energie du désespoir; Fragments du cadastre; Tombeau de Du Bellay
Un Ecrivain français et la francophonie
Tuesday, November 12 – 4:00 p.m. (Note time)
Co-sponsored by the Colloquium on Orality, Writing, and Culture
MERADITH McMUNN
Professor, Rhode Island College
Manuscripts of the Romance of the Rose
Tuesday, November 12 – 7:30 p.m.
JACQUES DARRAS
Poet, essayist; author of La Maye; Le Génie du Nord; La Mer hors d’elle-même; translator of Whitman and Pound
Le Poème face à l’évènement: 11 sept. 2001
Wednesday, November 13 – 6:30 p.m.
Institute of French Studies Colloquium
LAHOUARI ADDI
Anthropologist, IEP Grenoble and Institute for Advanced Studies; author of Sociologie et anthropologie chez Pierre Bourdieu; Les Mutations de la société algérienne
Religion et politique dans les pays arabes
Thursday, November 14 – 7:30 p.m.
YVES HERSANT
Director, Groupe de recherches sur l’Europe, EHESS; visiting professor, NYU; author of La Métaphore baroque; Europes; Italies; La Séduction mélancolique (forthcoming)
La Mélancolie du cinéma
Friday, November 15
A POLITICAL EARTHQUAKE IN FRANCE: The Elections of 2002
Organized by the Institute of French Studies
9:15 a.m. - 10:45 a.m.
Session I : Analyzing the Results and the Challenge of the National Front
Chair: Martin Schain (NYU)
Pierre Martin (IEP - Grenoble)
Commentaire général des doubles élections françaises de 2002
Pascal Perrineau (IEP - Paris)
Jean Marie Le Pen : la grand retour électoral
11:00 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
Session II: A New Political Landscape
Chair: David Goldey (Oxford)
Gérard Grunberg (IEP - Paris)
The Impact on the Party System
Marc Lazar (IEP - Paris)
Mort ou résurrection de l’extrême gauche
2:00 p.m. - 3:30 p.m.
Session III: Issues and Opinions
Chair: Frédéric Viguier(NYU)
Roland Cayrol (CEVIPOF, CSA polling institute)
The Guilty Actor: Opinion Polling?
Joan W. Scott (Institute for Advanced Study)
Parité: A Lost Opportunity?
3:45 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.
Session IV: International Contexts and Ramifications
Chair: Herrick Chapman (NYU)
Sophie Meunier (Princeton University)
France’s Double-Talk on the Globalization Debate
Ezra Suleiman (Princeton University)
Understanding French-American Relations
Sponsored by the Institute of French Studies, NYU; the Remarque Institute, NYU; the New York Consortium for European Studies (comprised of the European Centers of NYU, Columbia University and the New School University), and the journal French Politics, Culture & Society. This program is generously supported by the Cultural Services of the French Embassy.
PARIS CONFERENCE
Friday and Saturday, November 15 and 16
BOURDIEU AMERICAIN
Organized by FRANCE CULTURE and The Center for French Civilization and Culture, NYU
A Florence Gould Event
Location: Maison de la Radio, Studio 106
116, avenue du Président Kennedy
75016 Paris
Moderator: Sylvain Bourmeau
Friday, November 15
6:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m.
La réception de Pierre Bourdieu aux USA
Roger Chartier (EHESS)
L’influence de Pierre Bourdieu aux Etats Unis
Craig Calhoun (NYU)
The Fragmentation of Bourdieu
Discussion: Roger Chartier, Craig Calhoun, Yves Winkin (sous réserve)
Saturday, November 16 9:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.
I. Ecole et culture
David Swartz (Boston University)
From Human Capital to Cultural Capital: The Influence of Pierre Bourdieu on American Sociology of Education
Discussion: David Swartz, Eric Fassin, Christian Baudelot (sous réserve),
Gérard Noiriel
II. La notion d’habitus
Richard Sennett (NYU)
Habitus and habitat
Sherry Ortner (Columbia University)
On the Importance of Imperfection in the Habitus
Discussion: Richard Sennett, Sherry Ortner, Craig Calhoun, Bernard Lahire
INFORMATION SESSION FOR NYU STUDENTS
Monday, November 18 - 6:00 p.m.
The French-American Chamber of Commerce & The Embassy of France in the United States
INTERNSHIPS AND CAREER DEVELOPMENT OPPORTUNITIES IN FRANCE
Speakers:
FABRICE JAUMONT
Education Attaché, Embassy of France in the United States
CHRIS GALLAGHER
Manager, International Career Development Programs, French-American Chamber of Commerce
If you cannot attend, but would like more information, please call the FACC at 212-765-4460 or e-mail icdp@faccnyc.org
Wednesday, November 20 – 6:30 p.m.
Institute of French Studies Colloquium
ANNE-MARIE THIESSE
Cultural and social historian, CNRS; author of Ecrire la France; Ils apprenaient la France, l’exaltation des régions dans le discours patriotique; La Création des identités nationales
La France d’en bas: le régionalisme comme perpétuel recours de la République jacobine
Thursday, November 21 – 7:30 p.m.
Co-sponsored by the Graduate Creative Writing Program
BREYTEN BREYTENBACH
Distinguished Global Professor, Creative Writing Program, NYU; director, Gorée Institute, Center for Democracy, Development, and Culture, Dakar; painter; author of Lady One: Of Love and Other Poems and Dog Heart: A Memoir
interviewed by
LAWRENCE WESCHLER
Director, New York Institute for the Humanities; author of Mr. Wilson’s Cabinet of Wonder and Calamities of Exile: Three Nonfiction Novellas
The Memory of Meaning: Paintings and Works on Paper by Breyten Breytenbach will be on view at La Maison Française from November 18 - December 13.
Monday, December 2 – 7:30 p.m.
MARTINE REID
Université de Versailles-Saint-Quentin; author of Signer Sand : l’oeuvre et le nom (forthcoming); Flaubert correspondant; Stendhal en images
George Sand et le Berry: pour une critique des représentations
Thursday, December 5 – 7:30 p.m.
A Florence Gould Lecture
PHILIPPE ROGER
Directeur de Recherche, CNRS; editor, Critique; author of Roland Barthes : roman; Sade : la philosophie dans le pressoir; L’Ennemi américain : Généalogie de l’antiaméricanisme français
France – Amérique : guerre des mots, guerre des mondes, guerre des races
February 24 – March 28
EXHIBITION
ENDRE ROZSDA: A Painter’s Trajectory
Works from 1933 – 1998
Thursday, January 23 – 7:30 p.m.
HOLLIS CLAYSON
Professor of Art History, Northwestern University; author of Paris in Despair: Art and Everyday Life under Siege (1870-71) and Painted Love: Prostitution in French Art of the Impressionist Era
Eating Rats and Standing in Line: Art and the Food Crisis in Paris (1870 - 71)
Saturday, January 25 and Monday, January 27
8:00 p.m.
CONCERT
La Voix humaine
Music by Francis Poulenc
Libretto by Jean Cocteau
Sung in French by
Caroline Worra, soprano
Sung in English by
Edwin Cahill, tenor
Brian DeMaris, piano
Set and costume design by David Newell.
English adaptation and direction by
Lawrence Edelson
Reservations required: 212-998-8750
Wednesday, January 29 – 6:30 p.m.
Institute of French Studies Colloquium
ALAIN JOXE
Sociologist, Centre Interdisciplinaire de Recherches sur la Paix et d’Etudes Stratégiques, EHESS; author of L’Empire du chaos; L’Amérique mercenaire
Divergence stratégique entre Europe et Etats-Unis: Une vision française sur l’état du monde
Thursday, January 30 – 7:30 p.m.
VICTOR BROMBERT
Professor Emeritus, Princeton University; author of Trains of Thought: Memories of a Stateless Youth; Flaubert; Victor Hugo and the Visionary Novel; The Hidden Reader; In Praise of Antiheroes
Memories of a Stateless Youth
Friday, January 31 – 7:00 p.m.
France on Film
Co-sponsored with the Institute of French Studies
Location: Cantor Film Center, 36 East 8th Street, between University Place and Greene Street
Admission: $3 for NYU i.d. holders, $5 for all others
Va Savoir /
Who Knows?
Jacques Rivette, 2002, 150 min., in French with English subtitles
Introduced by Tom Bishop, NYU
This film program is made possible with the support of the Cultural Services of the French Embassy and the French Ministry of Culture (CNC).
Tuesday, February 4 – 7:30 p.m.
Co-sponsored with The Bard Graduate Center
KENNETH FRAMPTON
Professor of Architecture, Columbia University; author of Le Corbusier: Architect of the Twentieth Century; American Masterworks; Modern Architecture; Studies in Tectonic Culture
Le Corbusier: From Primitive Form to the Linear City
Friday, February 7 – 7:30 p.m.
CONCERT
Music of Gaubert, Boulanger, Beethoven, Bach, and Schneller
Jayn Rosenfeld, flute
Bernard Rose, piano
Reservations required: 212-998-8750
Tuesday, February 11 – 7:30 p.m.
RICHARD SIEBURTH
Professor of French and Comparative Literature, NYU; translator of Friedrich Hölderlin,
Michel Leiris, Walter Benjamin, Gerard de Nerval, Maurice Scève
Emblems of Desire: Selections from the Délie of Maurice Scève
Bilingual Reading, with Michel Beaujour
Thursday, February 13 – 7:30 p.m.
MICHEL MAFFESOLI
Director, Centre d’Etudes sur l’Actuel et le Quotidien, Université de Paris V; author of L’Instant éternel; Du Nomadisme; Eloge de la raison sensible; La Transfiguration du politique
La Part du diable. Précis de subversion postmoderne
Wednesday, February 19 – 6:30 p.m.
Institute of French Studies Colloquium
GILBERT ACHCAR
Professor of Politics and International Relations, Université de Paris VIII; author of The Clash of Barbarisms: September 11 and the Making of the New World Disorder
U.S. Dominance and World Disorder
Thursday, February 20 – 7:30 p.m.
ALLEN S. WEISS
Author of Feast and Folly: Cuisine, Intoxication, and the Poetics of the Sublime; Unnatural Horizons; editor, Taste, Nostalgia; co-editor, French Food
How to Cook a Phoenix: Essay on the Culinary Imagination
Monday, February 24 – 7:30 p.m.
FAITH BEASLEY
Professor, Dartmouth College; author of Revising Memory: Women’s Fiction and Memoirs in Seventeenth-Century France
The Voices of Shadows in the Salons of Seventeenth Century France
Tuesday, February 25 – 7:30 p.m.
Florence Gould Lecture
ALAIN ROBBE-GRILLET
Novelist; filmmaker; visiting professor, NYU; author of Le Voyeur; La Jalousie; La Maison du rendez-vous; Le Miroir qui revient; La Reprise
Entretien sur La Reprise
with Tom Bishop, NYU
Thursday, February 27 – 7:30 p.m.
Co-sponsored with the Grey Art Gallery, in conjunction with the exhibition
The Park Avenue Cubists: Gallatin, Morris, Frelinghuysen, and Shaw
From the Bateau Lavoir to Washington Square
Introduction
Lynn Gumpert, Director, Grey Art Gallery
Pepe Karmel, NYU
Pablo, Suzy, and the Two Georges: Cubism in Paris and New York
Debra Bricker Balken, Curator of the exhibition
Gallatin, Morris, Frelinghuysen, and Shaw
Robert Rosenblum, NYU
Cubism’s American Accents
The exhibition is on view at the Grey Art Gallery, 100 Washington Square East (212-998-6780).
Friday, February 28 – 7:00 p.m.
France on Film
Co-sponsored with the Institute of French Studies
Location: Cantor Film Center, 36 East 8th Street, between University Place and Greene Street
Admission: $3 for NYU i.d. holders, $5 for all others
Le Temps retrouvé /
Time Regained
Raul Ruiz, 1999, 158 min., in French with English subtitles
Introduced by Eugène Nicole, NYU
This film program is made possible with the support of the Cultural Services of the French Embassy and the French Ministry of Culture (CNC).
Thursday, March 13 – 7:30 p.m.
FRANÇOISE GILOT
Personal and Artistic Recollections of a Hungarian/French Modernist: A lecture on Endre Rozsda
in conjunction with the exhibition
Endre Rozsda: A Painter's Trajectory (February 24 - March 28).
Through March 28
EXHIBITION
Endre Rozsda: A Painter’s Trajectory
Works from 1933 to 1998
See also:
March 13 – 7:30 p.m.
Lecture on Endre Rozsda by Françoise Gilot
Monday, March 3 – 6:30 p.m.
Institute of French Studies Colloquium
PHILIP GORDON
Director, Center on the United States and France, Brookings Institution; author of The French Challenge: Adapting to Globalization; The Transatlantic Allies and a Changing Middle East
France and the United States: The Division Over Iraq
Tuesday, March 4 – 7:30 p.m.
HOWARD BLOCH
Professor of French, Yale University; author of Medieval Misogyny and the Invention of Western Romantic Love; God’s Plagiarist; The Anonymous Marie de France
The Bayeux Tapestry, Animal Fables, and the Making of the Anglo-Norman World
Wednesday, March 5 – 6:30 p.m.
Institute of French Studies Colloquium,co-sponsored by the Association of Sciences Po Alumni
PIERRE UHEL
Financial Counselor, French Embassy in the United States
Corporate Governance: A European Perspective
Rendez-Vous with French Cinema
Co-sponsored by La Maison Française and the Directors Series, Tisch School of the Arts, in cooperation with the French Film Office/Unifrance USA, The Film Society of Lincoln Center, and the Cultural Services of the French Embassy
Location for all films: Cantor Film Center, 36 East 8th Street
between University Place and Greene Street
All films are in French, with English subtitles.
Thursday, March 6 – 6:30 p.m.
Mon Idole /
My Idol
Guillaume Canet, 2003; 110 min., with François Berléand
Offering a French perspective on the world of “shock TV” .... My Idol charts the tangled course of Jean-Louis Broustal (François Berléand), a fiftyish, extremely successful producer of the current TV blockbuster Send in the Handkerchiefs. My Idol impressively delineates the ever-thinner line between reality and performance that has come, it to dominate so much of television on both sides of the Atlantic.
The actor/director will be present for discussion with the audience following the screening.
Friday, March 7 – 6:00 p.m.
Un Homme sans l’occident /
Untouched by the West
Raymond Depardon, 2003; 105 min.
One of France’s most unique and original filmmakers, Raymond Depardon here freely adapts a novel by Diego Brosset that returned the director to the extraordinary desert landscapes that graced his first feature, Captive of the Desert.
Friday, March 7 – 8:00 p.m.
Vivre me tue /
Life Kills Me
Jean-Pierre Sinapi, 2002; 89 min., with Sami Bouajila, Jalil Lespert, Sylvie Testud
Jean-Pierre Sinapi’s second film resists easy classification. Focusing on the story of Paul, an aspiring writer, it is set partially among North African immigrants in France. With excellent performances by three of France’s finest young actors – Sami Bouajila (La faute à Voltaire), Jalil Lespert (Human Resources) and Sylvie Testud (Murderous Maids), Life Kills Me is a deeply affecting drama whose competing plot lines are deftly woven together to create a rich portrait of contemporary life.
Saturday, March 8 – 6:00 p.m.
24 Heures de la vie d’une femme /
24 Hours in the Life of a Woman
Laurent Bouhnik, 2002; 103 min., with Michel Serrault, Bérénice Bejo, Agnès Jaoul
Director Laurent Bouhnik takes one of Stefan Zweig’s best-loved stories and brings it to life with an extraordinary cast. Michel Serrault is Louis, a retired diplomat whiling away his final years on the French Riviera. With Bérénice Bejo and Agnès Jaoui. A selection of the 2002 Toronto International Film Festival.
Saturday, March 8 – 8:00 p.m.
Carnages /
Carnage
Delphine Gleize, 2002; 130 min.; with Chiara Mastroianni, Jacques Gamblin, Angela Molina
What do a taxidermist, a teacher, an ice-skater, an adulterer, an attack of nerves, beauty marks, and a five-year old girl have in common? Well a 1,000-pound Andalusian bull, for one thing. The other is Carnage, Delphine Gleize’s provocative debut feature which was one of the most discussed films at last year’s Cannes Film Festival. With wonderful work by Chiara Mastroianni, Jacques Gamblin, Lio, Angela Molina and others.
Rendez-vous with French Cinema is free of charge; priority to NYU i.d. holders.
Monday, March 10 – 7:30 p.m.
OLIVIER ROLIN
Novelist, editor, journalist; author of L’Invention du monde; Port-Soudan (Prix Fémina); Méroé; Tigre en papier
Littérature et politique
Wednesday, March 12 – 6:30 p.m.
Institute of French Studies Colloquium
ALAIN DIECKHOFF
Political sociologist, CNRS, CERI; author of The Invention of a Nation: Zionist Thought and the Making of Modern Israel; Israéliens et Palestiniens. L’épreuve de la paix
Les Transformations de l’identité nationale en Israël
Thursday, March 13 – 7:30 p.m.
A Florence Gould Event
FRANÇOISE GILOT
Artist; author of Life with Picasso; The Fugitive Eye; An Artist’s Journey; Matisse and Picasso: A Friendship in Art
Endre Rozsda: Personal and Artistic Recollections of a Hungarian-French Modernist
Paintings of Endre Rozsda are on view at La Maison Française through March 28
FRANCE ON FILM
Sponsored by La Maison Française and the Institute of French Studies
Admission: $3 for NYU i.d. holders, $5 for all others
Friday, March 14 – 7:00 p.m.
L’Anglaise et le Duc /
The Lady and the Duke
Eric Rohmer, 2001; 129 min.
Introduced by Anne Deneys-Tunney, NYU
The France on Film program is made possible with the support of the Cultural Services of the French Embassy and the French Ministry of Culture (CNC)
Tuesday, March 25 – 7:30 p.m.
PASCAL DUSAPIN
Composer of stage, orchestral, chamber, choral, and vocal works, including To Be Sung, and Perelà, uomo di fumo; recipient of Grand Prix National de la Musique
How to Write an Opera to be Sung
Thursday, March 27 – 7:30 p.m.
FRANÇOIS BIZOT
The only Westerner to survive imprisonment by the Khmer Rouge, François Bizot will be speaking about his experiences in Cambodia in the 1970s and his new book, Le Portail (The Gate, Knopf, 2003), an account of his imprisonment by the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia.
Witness & Remembrance
Saturday, March 29
FRENCH GRADUATE STUDENT ASSOCIATION CONFERENCE
Mondes de la Fiction
9:30 a.m.
Keynote Speaker: Emily Apter, NYU
Literary Possible Worlds and the Scandal of Textual Reproduction
10:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.
Les Lettres et les arts
Zeina Hakim, Frontières mobiles: Diderot entre réalité et fiction; Jeannie Britton, Charles Baudelaire and Walter Pater: Fictions of Aesthetic Response; Victoria Llort-Llopart, Music in Literature: Fiction or Truth ?
1:30 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.
La Scène et l’écran
Stéphanie Boulard, Nevers, Again: Narration, Time, and Representation; Moussa Sow, Production filmique et discours social dans Faatkine de Sembène Ousmane; Nikta Mowlavi, Aux origines de la production théâtrale: Le Jeu de Saint-Nicolas de Jean Bodel
La Fiction dans ses limites
Serge Bouchardon, La Fiction interactive; Serenity Joo, Race in the City in Nalo Hopkinson’s Brown Girl in the Ring and Colson Whitehead’s The Intuitionist; Pierre-Alexandre Sicart, Une Poétique de l’antijournal
Monday, March 31 – 6:30 p.m.
Sponsored by the Faculty Colloquium on Orality, Writing, and Culture
KATHRYN TALARICO
Professor of French, College of Staten Island; author of Un merveilleux contraire: Public and Private Desire in the Galeran de Bretagne
Performance and the Subversion of Romance in Jean Renart’s Guillaume de Dole
Wednesday, April 2 – 6:30 p.m.
Institute of French Studies Colloquium
CLAUDE LEFORT
Philosopher, Centre de Recherches Politiques Raymond Aron (EHESS): author of L’Invention démocratique; Essai sur le politique; Ecrire à l’épreuve du politique; La Complication
L’Idée de domination invisible
Thursday, April 3 - 7:30 p.m.
A Florence Gould Lecture
CHANTAL THOMAS
Directrice de recherches, CNRS; author of Casanova; La Reine scélérate; Sade; Comment supporter sa liberté; La Vie réelle des petites filles; Les Adieux à la Reine (Prix Fémina)
Ecrire un roman historique
Monday, April 7 - 6:30 p.m.
Co-sponsored by the Medieval and Renaissance Center
BRIGITTE M. BEDOS-REZAK
Professor of History, NYU; author of Form and Order in Medieval France: Studies in Social and Quantitative Sigillography; Anne de Montmorency: seigneur de la Renaissance
The Ambiguities of Realism and the Question of Identity in Medieval Experience (1000-1250)
Thursday, April 10 – 7:30 p.m.
PASCALE CASANOVA
France Culture; author of La République mondiale des lettres: Histoire structurale des révoltes et des révolutions littéraires
in discussion with
EMILY APTER
Professor of French, NYU; author of Continental Drift: From National Characters to Virtual Subjects
The “Global Lit” Debate in France
LECTURE -------CANCELLED
Tuesday, April 15 - 7:30 p.m.
LUCETTE FINAS
Professor, Collège International de Philosophie and Université de Paris-VII; author of Le Toucher de rayon: Proust, Vautrin et Antinoüs; Centrale pureté: quatre lectures de Mallarmé
Marguerite Yourcenar et la souffrance animale
Wednesday, April 16 – 6:30 p.m.
Institute of French Studies Colloquium
PATRICK WEIL -- Postponed until April 23, 2003
Social Historian, CNRS and Université de Paris-I; member of the Haut-Conseil à l’Intégration; author of Qu’est-ce qu’un Français?; co-author of Nationalité
et citoyenneté en Europe
Jus soli vs. Jus sanguinis? False Opposition and True Comparison between French, German and American Nationality Laws
Tuesday, April 22 – 7:30 p.m.
BEATRICE DIDIER
Professor, Ecole Normale Supérieure; author of L’Ecriture-femme; Stendhal autobiographe; Alphabet et raison; La Musique des Lumières
L’Opéra et le mythe littéraire: Orphée, Don Juan, Faust
Thursday, April 24 – 7:30 p.m.
GERARD GENGEMBRE--Postponed until Fall 2003
Professor, Université de Caen; author of Le Romantisme; Le Théâtre français au 19ème siècle (1789-1900)
Napoléon, les métamorphoses d’un mythe littéraire
Friday, April 25 – 7:00 p.m.
France on film
Location: Cantor Film Center, 36 East Eighth Street
Sponsored by La Maison Française and the hoInstitute of French Studies
$3 with NYU i.d., $5 all other
In French with English subtitles
La Ville est tranquille /
The Town is Quiet
Robert Guédiguian; 2000, 16 mm.,132 min.
Introduced by Marie Cartier, NYU
This program was made possible with the support of the Cultural Services of the French Embassy and the Ministry of Culture (CNC).
Monday, April 28 - 7:30 p.m.
STEPHANE GERSON
Professor of French and French Studies, NYU
A Local France? Local Memories, Patois, and the State in the Nineteenth Century
Wednesday, April 30 – 6:30 p.m.
Institute of French Studies Colloquium
NICOLAS VERON
Consultant, European Corporate Governance Institute; former advisor to Minister of Labor Martine Aubry; former C.F.O., Multimania
Capitalism Unchecked? Stock Market Regulation in Europe and the U.S.
Friday, May 2 – 7:00 p.m.
France on Film
Sponsored by La Maison Française and the Institute of French Studies
Location: Cantor Film Center, 36 East Eighth Street
$3 with NYU i.d., $5 all other
In French with English subtitles
L’Emploi du temps /
Time Out
Laurent Cantet; 2001, 16 mm., 132 min.
Introduced by Frédéric Viguier, NYU
This program was made possible with the support of the Cultural Services of the French Embassy and the Ministry of Culture (CNC).
Friday, September 12 – 7:00 p.m.
FRANCE ON FILM
Sponsored by La Maison Française and the Institute of French Studies
Location:
Cantor Film Center, 36 East Eighth Street, (between University Place and Greene Street)
$3 with NYU i.d.; $5 all others
In French with English subtitles
Inch’Allah Dimanche
Yamina Benguigui, 2001, DVD, 97 min.
This program was made possible with the support of the Cultural Services of the French Embassy and the Ministry of Culture (CNC).
Wednesday, September 17 - 7:30 p.m.
Co-sponsored by the Medieval and Renaissance Center
JEAN-CLAUDE SCHMITT
Historian; directeur d’études, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales; author of La Conversion d’Hermann le juif; Le Corps des images. Essais sur la culture visuelle du
Moyen Âge
La Musique des images
Thursday, September 18 - 6:30 p.m.
Institute of French Studies Colloquium
BENJAMIN STORA
Historian, Institut National des Langues et Civilisations Orientales; author of La gangrène et l’oubli, la mémoire de la guerre d’Algérie; Algérie, Maroc, Histoires parallèles destins croisés
Entre images et mémoires, la guerre d’Algérie dans le cinéma français
Tuesday, September 23 – 7:30 p.m.
ANKA MUHLSTEIN
Author of A Taste for Freedom: The Life of Astolphe de Custine; Reines éphémères, mères perpétuelles; editor of Memoirs of the Comtesse de Boigne
The Memoirs of Madame de Boigne
(1781-1866) or
How to Survive Three Revolutions and Keep Your Sense of Humor
Thursday, September 25 – 7:30 p.m.
EMILY APTER
Professor of French, NYU; author of Continental Drift; Feminizing the Fetish: Psychoanalysis and Narrative Obsession in Turn-of-the-Century France
Weaponizing the Femme Fatale: Rachilde’s Marquise de Sade
Friday, October 3 – 7:30 p.m.
A Florence Gould Event
THEATER
Location:
Shorin Performance Studio - 8th floor, Kimmel Center for University Life,
60 Washington Square South
HUIS CLOS by Jean-Paul Sartre
Presented by Théâtre de la Chandelle Verte
with Francine Conley, Christian Flaugh, June Miyasaki
Performance in French
$10 with NYU i.d.; $20 all others.
Reservations: 212-998-8750
Tuesday, October 7 – 7:30 p.m.
PATRICK DANDREY
Professor of 17th Century French Literature, Université de Paris-Sorbonne; author of Maladie et médecine dans le théâtre de Molière; Phèdre de Jean Racine ou la liturgie de la souffrance
Mourir d’aimer: la “mélancolie érotique” et l’imaginaire médical ancien
Wednesday, October 8 – 6:30 p.m.
Institute of French Studies Colloquium
ARIANE CHEBEL d’APPOLLONIA
Political Scientist, Institut d’études politiques de Paris; author of L’extrême droite en France de Maurras à Le Pen; Les Racismes ordinaires
Les nouvelles formes de racismes et d’antisémitisme en France
Thursday, October 9 – 7:30 p.m.
JEAN-JACQUES LECERCLE
Professor, University of Cardiff and Université de Paris X-Nanterre; author of Philosophy Through the Looking Glass; Philosophy of Nonsense; Deleuze and Language
The Remainder Revisited or How to Leave the Mainstream Philosophy of Language
Tuesday, October 14 – 7:30 p.m.
FRANÇOISE GAILLARD
Professor, Université de Paris VII; visiting professor, NYU
Malaise de la filiation de Balzac à Zola
Wednesday, October 15 – 6:30 p.m.
Institute of French Studies Colloquium
JACQUES REVEL
Historian; President, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales; visiting professor, NYU; co-author of Une politique de la langue. La Révolution française et les patois; Political Uses
of the Past
Title to be announced (in French)
Friday, October 17 – 7:00 p.m.
Location:
Cantor Film Center, 36 East Eighth Street, (between University Place and Greene Street)
FRANCE ON FILM
Sponsored by La Maison Française and the Institute of French Studies
$3 with NYU i.d.; $5 all others
In French with English subtitles
Laissez-passer /
Safe Conduct
Bertrand Tavernier, 2002, VHS, 163 min.
This program was made possible with the support of the Cultural Services of the French Embassy and the Ministry of Culture (CNC).
Monday, October 20 – 6:00 p.m.
Presented in association with the Center for Religion and Media; co-sponsored by the Department of Anthropology; Program in Religious Studies;Center for Media, Culture, and History
Location: Hemmerdinger Hall, 1st floor, Silver Center, 100 Washington Square East
BRUNO LATOUR
Philosopher and anthropologist, Centre de Sociologie de l’Innovation, Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Mines; author of Laboratory Life; War of the World; co-editor, Iconoclash: Beyond the Image Wars in Science, Religion, and Art
If Gods Are at War, What Are the Peace Conditions?
Tuesday, October 21 – 7:30 p.m.
STEPHANE MICHAUD
Professor of Comparative Literature, Université de Paris III-Sorbonne Nouvelle; author of Visages de la femme de la Révolution française aux apparitions de Lourdes; Flora Tristan, la Paria et son rêve
Flora Tristan, américaine
Monday, October 27 – 7:30 p.m.
Why Lartigue?
Roundtable discussion, on the occasion of the exhibition
PAST TIMES: An Intimate Look at Jacques Henri Lartigue
Martine d’Astier
Director, Donation Jacques Henri Lartigue, Paris
Shelley Rice
Professor, Tisch School of the Arts, NYU
Kenneth Silver
Professor, Fine Arts, NYU
Wednesday, October 29 – 6:30 p.m.
Institute of French Studies Colloquium
ERIC FASSIN
Sociologist, Ecole Normale Supérieure; co-author of Au-delà du PaCS; author of Liberté, égalité, sexualités : actualité politique des questions sexuelles
Sexual Events: France in the American Mirror since 1989
EXHIBITION
October 27 – December 19
PAST TIMES:
An Intimate Look at Jacques Henri Lartigue
Photography exhibition organized in cooperation with the Donation Jacques Henri Lartigue
Monday, November 3 – 7:30 p.m.
Lecture by EUGENE NICOLE
Professor, Department of French, NYU; novelist; author of L’Oeuvre des mers; Les Larmes de Pierre; Le Caillou de l’enfant perdu; co-editor of Vols. 1 and 4, critical edition of Proust’s A la recherche du temps perdu (Bibliothèque de la Pléiade)
Albertine disparue ou les derniers jours de la vie de Marcel Proust
Monday, November 10 – 7:30 p.m.
Reading by SHAN SA
Novelist; author of Porte de la paix céleste (Prix Goncourt du premier roman); Les quatre vies du saule (Prix Cazes); La Joueuse de go (The Girl Who Played Go, Knopf, 2003)
Lecture de textes
Bilingual reading
Tuesday, November 11 – 6:30 p.m.
Institute of French Studies Colloquium
Lecture by STANLEY HOFFMANN
Political Scientist, Harvard University; author of The European Sisyphus: Essays on Europe, 1964-1994; The Ethics and Politics of Humanitarian Intervention; World Disorders: Troubled Peace in the Post-Cold War Era
Franco-American Discord
Thursday, November 13 – 7:30 p.m.
Lecture by FRANÇOIS CORNILLIAT
Professor, Department of French, Rutgers University; author of “Or ne mens.” Couleurs de l’Eloge et du Blâme chez les “Grands Rhétoriqueurs”
La Rhétorique revient: où va la littérature?
Tuesday, November 18 – 6:30 to 9:30 p.m.
Colloquium on Orality, Writing, and Culture; co-sponsored by the Medieval and Renaissance Center and the Dean, Graduate School of Arts and Science.
New Perspectives On Medieval Narrative: A Round Table
Elizabeth Cavitch (George Washington University), Resetting the Stone: Jean de Meun’s Rewriting of Guillaume de Lorris’ Richece; Markus Cruse (NYU), The Book Tells the Story: MS Bodley 264; Marilyn Lawrence (College of Staten Island), Nature, Nurture, and Narrative: Reading the Roman de Silence; Kathleen Loysen ( Montclair State), Storytelling and Truth in the Court of Love: Martial d’Auvergne, Les Arrests d’amour
Followed by student performances of medieval narrative.
Reservations for this event: kv246@nyu.edu
SPECIAL EVENT
Friday, November 21 – 5:00 to 7:00 p.m.
Institute of French Studies 25th Anniversary Event
in association with France Culture
Location: Eisner & Lubin Auditorium, Kimmel Center
60 Washington Square South
The United States, France, and the Crisis over Iraq
Round table with Charlie Rose, Moderator
Pascal Bruckner, Novelist and essayist
Christopher Caldwell, Senior Editor, The Weekly Standard
Ariane Chebel d’Appollonia, Political Scientist, Institut d’Etudes Politiques, Paris
Gérard Grunberg, Political Scientist, Institut d’Etudes Politiques, Paris
Patrick Jarreau, Journalist, Le Monde
Tony Judt, Historian, Remarque Institute, NYU
Sylvie Kauffmann, Journalist, Le Monde
Denis Lacorne, Political Scientist, Institut d’Etudes Politiques, Paris
Ezra Suleiman, Political Scientist, Princeton University
Monday, November 24 – 7:30 p.m.
A Florence Gould Event
Lecture by PASCAL BRUCKNER
Essayist; author of Misère de la prospérité; L’Euphorie perpétuelle; Le vertige de Babel; novelist; author of Les voleurs de beauté (Prix Renaudot)
La Crise d’identité de la France
Wednesday, December 3 – 6:30 p.m.
Institute of French Studies Colloquium
Lecture by FREDERIC MARTEL
Attaché culturel et universitaire, French Consulate in Boston, author of
Le Rose et le noir: les homosexuels en France depuis 1968
Paysage après la bataille: Nouveaux débats d’idées et relève intellectuelle en France
Thursday, December 4 – 7:30 p.m.
Lecture by PHILIPPE ROGER
CNRS and EHESS; visiting professor, NYU; editor, Critique; author of Roland Barthes: roman; Sade: la philosophie dans le pressoir; L’Ennemi américain: Généalogie de l’antiaméricanisme français
Le Sabre et la plume: Bonaparte écrivain
Thursday, December 11 – 7:30 p.m.
A public conversation with composer
NED ROREM
in celebration of his 80th birthday
EXHIBITION
Through December 19
PAST TIMES:
An Intimate Look at Jacques Henri Lartigue
Photography exhibition organized in cooperation with the Donation Jacques Henri Lartigue
Thursday, January 29 – 7:30 p.m.
HENRI ZERNER
Professor of History of Art, Harvard University; author of The School of Fontainebleau; Renaissance Art in France: The Invention of Classicism
The Singularity of Jean Fouquet and the Problem of Early French Painting
Friday, January 30 – 7:00 p.m.
France on Film
Sponsored by La Maison Française and the Institute of French Studies
Location: Cantor Film Center, 36 East Eighth Street
(between University Place and Greene Street)
In French with English subtitles $5 or $3 with NYU i.d.
Le Fils / The Son
Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne, 2002, 16 mm., 103 min.
FRANCE ON FILM is made possible with the support of the Cultural Services of the French Embassy and the Ministry of Culture (CNC).
Wednesday, February 4 – 6:30 p.m.
Institute of French Studies Colloquium
CHRISTIAN BAUDELOT
Sociologist, Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris; Visiting Professor, IFS; author of Allez les filles; Le Niveau monte; Travailler pour être heureux ?
Les Français sont-ils paresseux? Retraites, 35 heures, etc.
Tuesday, February 10 – 7:30 p.m.
ASSIA DJEBAR
Novelist; poet; filmmaker; professor, Department of French, NYU; author of La Disparition de la langue française- roman; La Femme sans sépulture; Femmes d’Alger dans leurs appartements; Ces Voix qui m’assiègent
in conversation with
JUDITH MILLER
Chair, Department of French, NYU; co-editor, Plays by French and Francophone women: A Critical Anthology
Thursday, February 12 – 7:30 p.m.
ALAIN FAUDEMAY
Professor, Université de Fribourg; author of La Distinction à l’âge classique; Le Clair et l’obscure à l’âge classique
La Notion de clarté et ses ambiguïtés à l’âge classique
Thursday, February 19 – 7:30 p.m.
EUGENE NICOLE
Professor, Department of French, NYU; novelist; author of L’Oeuvre des mers (revised and expanded edition, Editions de l’Olivier, 2003); Les Larmes de Pierre; Le Caillou de l’enfant perdu
Lecture de textes
PLEASE NOTE - THIS HAS BEEN CANCELLED.
Tuesday, February 24 – 7:30 p.m.
Co-sponsored with the Institute of French Studies
PAULA COSSART
Sociologist, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris; Institute for Advanced Studies, Princeton
S’aimer clandestinement au XIXe siècle. Les lettres de deux amants parisiens
Wednesday, February 25 – 6:30 p.m.
Institute of French Studies Colloquium
ALAIN MARSAUD
Deputy (UMP, Haute-Vienne), Assemblée Nationale; Secretary, Commission des Lois; President, Groupe d’études sur la sécurité et la défense civile; judge; founder, Service Centrale de Lutte Antiterroriste
La Réponse française au terrorisme
Thursday, February 26 – 7:30 p.m.
A Florence Gould Event
THE ART CRITIC AS GLOBE TROTTER: AN HOMAGE TO PIERRE RESTANY, 1930-2003
Organized by MICHELE C. CONE
Critic; Visiting Scholar, Institute of French Studies; author of French Modernisms: Perspectives on Art before, during, and after Vichy
ROMY GOLAN
Professor of Contemporary European Art and Theory, Graduate Center, CUNY; author of Modernity and Nostalgia: Art and Politics in France between the Wars
PHYLLIS TUCHMAN
Art critic; author of George Segal
JILL CARRICK
Assistant Professor, School for Studies in Art and Culture, Carleton University
Friday, February 27 – 7:00 p.m.
FRANCE ON FILM
Sponsored by La Maison Française and the Institute of French Studies
Location: Cantor Film Center, 36 East Eighth Street
(between University Place and Greene Street)
In French with English subtitles $5 or $3 with NYU i.d.
Les Blessures assassines / Murderous Maids
Jean-Pierre Denis, 2000, DVD, 94 min.
FRANCE ON FILM is made possible with the support of the Cultural Services of the French Embassy and the Ministry of Culture (CNC).
Saturday, February 7
FRENCH GRADUATE STUDENT ASSOCIATION CONFERENCE
(Dés)Encadrer le texte: La mise en marge
10:00 a.m. Keynote Speaker
Michel Beaujour, Professor, Department of French, NYU
La Littérature comme langue secrète
10:45 a.m. – 12:15 p.m. Marges textuelles
Joyce Janca, Frameless Frames: Yourcenar’s Le Tour de la Prison as Meditative Inquiry; Gabriella Lodi, Subversion et transgression des genres en contexte de guerre: La Douleur de Marguerite Duras, l’autofiction dans un récit de guerre; Sophie Ulbrich, L’intertextualité chez Boudjedra
1:30 - 3:00 p.m. Marges du moi
Christophe Litwin, Marge et Identité: peut-on penser Dieu et le sujet à la marge? Sylvie Young, Le roman “célibataire”; Patrick Thériault, Le simulacre au seuil de l’autobiographie:
La vocation suspendue de Pierre Klossowski
3:15 - 4:30 p.m. L’individu en marge
Nathalie Dumas, La mise en marge du personnage houellebecquien; Bertrand Landry, Un marginal dans la Correspondance: Charles de Sévigné; Barbara Abad, In the Name of the Father: Retif de la Bretonne rewrites Rousseau’s Notion of Paternal and Sovereign Authority in Le Contrat Social
4:30 - 5:30 p.m. Marges spatiales
Frederic Conrod, Collectionner la marge de la saturation urbaine: la banlieue mystique de Des Esseintes dans A Rebours de Joris-Karl Huysmans; Philippe Barr, New Urban Realities: the Underground in Retif de la Bretonne’s Les Nuits de Paris
Note: Organized by graduate students of the departments of French of NYU and of Columbia University, this conference includes sessions on Friday, February 6 at Columbia. Please call 212-854-4482 for details.
Thursday, March 4 – 7:30 p.m.
Film Screening
Michel Leiris, l’homme sans honneur
Série : Un Siècle d’écrivains
Jean Jamin and Christophe Barreyre, 1995, VHS, 52 min.
Introduced by DENIS HOLLIER, Professor of French, NYU; organizer of Michel Leiris: Miroir des Antilles / Caribbean Mirrors (conference, March 5 & 6)
Friday and Saturday, March 5 and 6
CONFERENCE
MICHEL LEIRIS:
Miroir des Antilles / Caribbean Reflections
Sponsored by the Center for French Civilization and Culture, with the collaboration of the Africana Studies program, and the support of the Cultural Services of the French Embassy.
In French and English.
Organized by Denis Hollier and J. Michael Dash
Friday, March 5 – 2:30 to 5:30 p.m.
AUTOBIOGRAPHY
Denis Hollier, NYU
Introduction
Seán Hand, Oxford Brooks University
From Cubism to Cuba: Figures of Freedom in Michel Leiris
Philippe Met, University of Pennsylvania
Leiris et Mallarmé: une poésie qui serait absolument poésie?
Richard Sieburth, NYU
Leiris/Nerval: A Few Index Cards
Saturday, March 6 – 9:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.
ANTHROPOLOGY
Vincent Debaene, Université de Paris – I
Michel Leiris: les deux carrières
James Clifford, University of California, Santa Cruz
Impossible Realism
Jean Jamin, Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, Paris
Leiris: un ethnographe chez les ethnologues
Note: Jean Jamin will not be able to come from Paris; will be replaced by Denis Hollier.
Saturday, March 6 – 2:30 to 5:30 p.m.
SURREALISM
Moderator: J. Michael Dash, NYU
Kate Ramsey, University of Pennsylvania
Michel Leiris, Alfred Métraux, and Mid-Twentieth Century Haitian Ethnology
Carlo Arviel Célius, Université Laval
Le Surréalisme et l’avènement de l’art naïf en Haïti
Michael Richardson, Waseda University, Tokyo
Is it possible to speak of a Caribbean Surrealism?
Celia Britton, University College, London
Tropiques, Surrealism, and Leiris
Tuesday, March 9 – 7:30 p.m.
HENRI MITTERAND
Professor of French, Columbia University; editor of Rougon-Macquart (Bibliothèque de la Pléiade) and Œuvres Complètes de Zola; author of Zola I. Sous le regard d’Olympia (1840-1871), II. L’Homme de Germinal (1871-1893), III. L’honneur (1893-1902)
“Les pantoufles de la bonne...”, ou la sémiologie flaubertienne de la dérision
Saturday and Sunday, March 13 and 14
Rendez-Vous with French Cinema 2004
Co-sponsored by La Maison Française and the Directors Series, Tisch School of the Arts, in cooperation with the French Film Office / Unifrance USA, The Film Society of Lincoln Center, and the Cultural Services of the French Embassy
Location: Cantor Film Center, 36 East 8th Street between University Place and Greene Street
All films in French, with English subtitles
Free with NYU i.d.; $5 all others
The directors will be present for discussion with the audience following each Rendez-Vous screening.
Saturday, March 13 – 4:00 p.m.
Monsieur N
Antoine de Caunes, France/UK, 2003, 35 mm., 127 min.
Presented courtesy of Empire Pictures.
Saturday, March 13 – 7:30 p.m.
Elle est des nôtres / She’s One of Us
Siegrid Alnoy, 2003, 35 mm., 100 min.
Sunday, March 14 – 3:00 p.m.
Inquiétudes / A Sight for Sore Eyes
Gilles Bourdos, 2004, 35 mm., 137 min.
Sunday, March 14 – 6:30 p.m.
Après vous / After You
Pierre Salvadori, 2002, 35 mm., 110 min.
Wednesday, March 24 – 6:30 p.m.
Institute of French Studies Colloquium
DANIEL RIVET
Historian, University of Paris I – Sorbonne; director,
Institut d’Etudes de l’Islam et des Sociétés du Monde; author of Le Maghreb à l’épreuve de la colonisation; Le Maroc de Lyautey à Mohammed V : le double visage du protectorat
L’Algérie et la France. Le travail de l’historien et le conflit des mémoires
Thursday, March 25 – 7:30 p.m.
JEAN - MICHEL RABATE
Professor of English and Comparative Literature, University of Pennsylvania; author of Lacan in America; Jacques Lacan: Psychoanalysis and the Subject of Literature
Lacan’s Literatures
Friday, March 26 - 6:00 p.m.
Co-sponsored by the Belladonna* Poetry Series
Belladonna Bilingue:
Women’s Work in Translation
6:00 - 7:00 p.m.
Laura Wright, Joshua Clover, Kristin Prevallet, Sherry Brennan, Marcella Durand reading their translations of Henri Michaux, Genevieve Bernstein, Sandra Moussempés, and Jean-Michel Espitallier
7:30 - 8:30 p.m.
Lisa Lubasch, Serge Gavronsky, Sasha Watson, Tina Cane, Macgregor Card reading their translations of Paul Eluard, Joyce Mansour, Oscarine Bosquet, Sabine Macher, and Nathalie Quintane
Friday, March 26 - 7:00 p.m.
France on Film
Co-sponsored by La Maison Française and the Institute of French Studies
$3 with NYU i.d.; $5 all others.
Etre et Avoir / To Be and to Have
Nicolas Philibert, 2002, VHS, 104 min.
The France on Film program is made possible with the support of the Cultural Services of the French Embassy and the French Ministry of Culture (CNC).
Tuesday, March 30 – 7:30 p.m.
Co-sponsored with the Africana Studies Program and the Institute for African-American Affairs
Round Table
Jacques Roumain:
Haitian Writer, Activist, Anthropologist
LEON - FRANÇOIS HOFFMANN
Professor of French, Princeton University; editor, Jacques Roumain: Œuvres complètes (2003)
J. MICHAEL DASH
Professor of French; director, Africana Studies, NYU
MAXIMILIEN LAROCHE
Professor of French, Université Laval
Thursday, April 1
Screenings of Plays by Nathalie Sarraute
3:30 p.m.
Pour un oui ou pour un non
(1988, Jacques Doillon, 58 min., with Jean-Louis Trintignant, André Dussollier)
5 :00 p.m.
C’est beau
(1980, Michel Dumoulin, 71 min., with Jacques Dufilho, Dominique Blanchar, Fabrice Eberhard)
Friday & Saturday, April 2 & 3
CONFERENCE
NATHALIE SARRAUTE
In Her Century / La Traversée du siècle
Sponsored by the Center for French Civilization and Culture, New York University, and the
Department of French, Barnard College
Friday, April 2 – New York University
La Maison Française, 16 Washington Mews
2:30 p.m.
Opening remarks
Taped Readings by Nathalie Sarraute
3:00 p.m.
Nathalie Sarraute and Fiction (I)
Pascale Fautrier, U. of Le Havre
Lire Nathalie Sarraute à New York: étapes d’une ascèse
Ann Jefferson, Oxford U.
L’argent, l’avarice et la structure des échanges chez Nathalie Sarraute
Françoise Asso, U. of Lille
L’écrivain parle de soi: H.1, H.2, H.3…
5:00 p.m.
Readings from Sarraute (I)
Serge Gavronsky, Barnard C.; Francine du Plessix Gray, Writer; Siri Hustvedt, Writer
8:00 p.m.
Round Table: Nathalie Sarraute and Theatre
John Simon, Drama critic; Françoise Kourilsky, Director, Critic; Judith Miller, NYU;
Arnaud Rykner, U. of Toulouse-le-Mirail; Tom Bishop, NYU, Moderator
Saturday, April 3 – Barnard College
Sulzberger Parlor, Barnard Hall, 3rd floor
(118th Street & Broadway)
10:00 a.m.
Sarraute Reading Others
Mary Ann Caws, CUNY Graduate Center; Denis Hollier, NYU; Leah Hewitt, Amherst C.; Gaëtan Brulotte, U. of South Florida
11:30 a.m.
Richard Howard, Poet, Translator, Critic
Remembering Nathalie Sarraute
2:00 p.m.
Nathalie Sarraute and Fiction (II)
Arnaud Rykner, U. of Toulouse-le-Mirail
Sarraute et les dispositifs: le ventre / la nasse
Sarah Barbour, Wake Forest U.
Playing in the “Negative Space” of Sarraute’s Poetic Language
Rachel Boué, Critic
Du tropisme à la mystique de l’écriture chez Sarraute
4:00 p.m.
Readings fromSarraute (II)
Ann Jefferson, Oxford U.; Tom Bishop & Eugene Nicole, NYU; Pascale Fautrier, U. of Le Havre
Conference directed by Serge Gavronsky and Tom Bishop
This conference is made possible by the support of the Cultural Services of the French Embassy; the Office of the Provost, Barnard College; and the Friends of the LeRoy C. Breunig Fund.
Thursday, April 8 – 7:30 p.m.
PAUL AUDI
Author of L’Ivresse de l’art: Nietzsche et l’esthétique; L’Europe et son fantôme; L’Ethique mise à nu par ses paradoxes, même
Comment penser l’unité de l’éthique et de l’esthétique ?
Tuesday, April 13 – 7:30 p.m.
CHANTAL THOMAS
CNRS; essayist; author of Souffrir; Comment supporter sa liberté; Sade; novelist; author of Les Adieux à la reine (Prix Fémina)
L’Esprit de conversation
Thursday, April 15 – 7:30 p.m.
Round Table
The Legacy of Simone de Beauvoir
Celebrating the 50th anniversary of the publication of The Second Sex
with
EMILY GROSHOLZ, Moderator
Professor of Philosophy, Pennsylvania State University; editor, The Legacy of Simone de Beauvoir (Oxford UP, 2004)
NANCY BAUER
Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Tufts University: author of Simone de Beauvoir, Philosophy and Feminism
CAROL GILLIGAN
University Professor, NYU; author of In a Different Voice: Psychological Theory and Women’s Development; The Birth of Pleasure
CATHARINE R. STIMPSON
Dean, Graduate School of Arts and Science, NYU; author of Where the Meanings Are: Feminism and Cultural Spaces; founding editor, Signs
Tuesday, April 20 – 7:30 p.m.
JEAN-LOUP CHIFLET
Publisher, humorist, author of J’ai un mot à vous dire; Nouilles ou pâtes, le bon sens des mots; Sky my husband! Ciel mon mari!
Langue, humour, et pédagogie
Thursday, April 22 – 7:30 p.m.
A Florence Gould Event
JORGE LAVELLI
Theater director; director, Théâtre national de la Colline (1987-1996)
L’Art de la mise-en-scène: mes années au théâtre
Tuesday, April 27 - 7:30 p.m.
Conversation with KOFFI KWAHULÉ (in French)
Playwright from The Ivory Coast, now living in France. Author of twelve plays, including Bintou (1997), Jaz (1998), Big Shoot (2000).
Wednesday, April 28 – 6:30 p.m.
Institute of French Studies Colloquium
PATRICK WEIL
Social Historian, CNRS and Université de Paris –I; member of the Stasis Committee of Experts on Secularism in France; author of Qu’est-ce qu’un français? Histoire de la nationalité française depuis la Révolution
Why French Secularism Needs to Adapt: The Experts’ Recommendation and the Ban of Religious Symbols in Schools
Thursday, April 29 – 7 :30 p.m.
Co-sponsored by the Institute of French Studies
FRANÇOIS CUSSET
Author of French Theory: Foucault, Derrida, Deleuze & Cie et les mutations de la vie intellectuelle aux Etats-Unis; Queer Critics: la littérature française déshabillée par ses homo-lecteurs
What is Radicalism? From French Theory to Textual Politics
Tuesday, May 4 – 7:30 p.m.
BERNAR VENET
Artist
La Sculpture et la diversité d’une démarche
Thursday, May 6 – 6:30 p.m.
Institute of French Studies Colloquium
JEAN BAUBEROT
Historian and Sociologist, Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes; Member of the Stasi Committee of Experts on Secularism in France; author of La Morale laïque contre l’ordre moral;Une Haine oubliée. L’Antiprotestantisme avant le «pacte laïque» (1870-1905)
La Laïcité face à la crise de l’identité française
March 29 to May 14
EXHIBITION
A Distant View: Les Halles 1968
Photographs by MARTHA CARROLL
Tuesday, September 14 – 7:00 p.m.
CHRISTIAN BIET
Professor of Theater Studies, Université de Paris-Nanterre; visiting professor, NYU; author of Droit et littérature sous l’Ancien Régime; Les Miroirs du soleil
Représenter l’horreur: le spectacle et le sang, début XVIIe siècle / début XXIe siècle
Tuesday, September 21 – 7:00 p.m.
PAUL COHEN
Maître de conférences, Université de Paris-VIII
Excavating the Origins of French: The Politics of Historical Philology in Early Modern France
Thursday, September 23 – 7:00 p.m. CANCELLED
JEAN – JACQUES SCHUHL
Novelist; author of Rose poussière; Telex n.1; Ingrid Caven (Prix Goncourt)
Lecture de textes
Monday, September 27 – 7:00 p.m.
PATRICIA MAINARDI
Professor and Chair of Art History; Graduate Center, CUNY; author of Husbands, Wives, and Lovers; The End of the Salon; Art and Politics of the Second Empire
Husbands, Wives, and Lovers: Marriage and Its Discontents in Nineteenth-Century France
Wednesday, September 29 – 7:30 p.m.
Institute of French Studies Colloquium
LOIC WACQUANT
Professor of Sociology and Anthropology, New School University; author of Prisons of Poverty; Deadly Symbiosis: Race and the Rise of Neoliberal Penality
Punish the Poor: Correctional Aberrations in France
Friday, October 1
ROUNDTABLES
PERSPECTIVES ON STORYTELLING
10:00 a.m. – Noon
Storytelling across the Disciplines
Felice Aull, NYU, Medicine; Jerome Bruner, NYU, Law; Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett, NYU, Performance Studies; Linda Gordon, NYU, History; Fr. Joseph Koterski, S.J., Fordham, Philosophy; Robin Nagle, NYU, Draper Program; Kay Turner, NYU, Performance Studies; Timmie (E.B.) Vitz, NYU, French
2:00 – 4:00 p.m.
Storytellers in Performance
Mark Franko, Columbia, Visiting Professor; Kyra Gaunt, NYU, Music; Peggy Pettitt-Tissier, Performer, Tisch School of the Arts; Steve Zeitlin, Director, City Lore; Lea Thau, Director,
The Moth
Storytelling in Performance Workshop sponsored by the NYU Humanities Council; co-directors: Timmie Vitz (French), Nancy F. Regalado (French), Martha Hodes (History)
Friday, October 1 – 7:00 p.m.
France on Film
Sponsored by La Maison Française and the Institute of French Studies
Location : Cantor Film Center, 36 East Eighth St. (between University Pl. and Greene St.)
$3 with NYU i.d.; $5 all others. In French with English subtitles
La Confusion des genres
Ilan Duran Cohen; 2000; DVD; 94 min.; with Pascal Greggory, Nathalie Richard
This Tournées program was made possible with the support of the Cultural Services of the French Embassy and the Ministry of Culture (CNC).
Tuesday, October 5 – 7:00 p.m.
ELIETTE ABECASSIS
Novelist; author of Qumran; La Répudiée; Mon Père; Clandestin; La Dernière Tribu; essayist; author of Petite Métaphysique du meurtre
Le Roman en France: problèmes et perspectives
Wednesday, October 6 – 6:30 p.m.
Institute of French Studies Colloquium
MARC ABELES
Anthropologist, CNRS; visiting professor, NYU; author of La Vie quotidienne au Parlement européen; Les Nouveaux Riches. Un Ethnologue dans la Silicon Valley
The New 25 State Europe: Politics in a Transnational Age
Friday, October 8
ROUNDTABLE & SCREENINGS
GUY DEBORD: Ten Years Later
2:00 – 4:00 p.m.
Denis Hollier, NYU (moderator)
Vincent Kaufmann, Université de Saint-Gall
Anthony Vidler, Cooper Union
Thomas Y. Levin, Princeton
Tom McDonough, Binghampton
Screenings: Two Films by Guy Debord
4:30 – 6:30 p.m.
La Société du spectacle
(1973 VHS, 90 min.) Presented by Thomas Levin
7:00 – 9:00 p.m.
In Girum imus nocte et consumimur igni
(1978 VHS, 80 min.) Presented by Vincent Kaufmann
Tuesday, October 12 – 7:00 p.m.
SALLY PRICE & RICHARD PRICE
Anthropologists; College of William and Mary; authors of The Root of Roots: Or, How Afro-American Anthropology Got Its Start; Maroon Arts; Equatoria
Martinique through Different Eyes: Michel Leiris, Romare Bearden, and Ourselves
Thursday, October 14 – 7:30 p.m.
A Florence Gould Lecture
CANCELLED
Location: NYU Main Building, 32 Waverly Place, Hemmerdinger Hall, 1st Floor
HELENE CIXOUS
Essayist; novelist; author of Les Rêveries de la femme sauvage; Le jour où je n’étais pas là; playwright; author of Tambours sur la digue; Rouen, la trentième nuit de mars 31
The Book That I Didn’t Write
Friday, October 15 & Saturday, October 16
Location: NYU Main Building, 32 Waverly Place, Hemmerdinger Hall, 1st Floor (seating limited)
DERRIDA CONFERENCE CANCELLED
Tuesday, October 19 – 7:00 p.m.
MATEI VISNIEC
Playwright, poet, journalist; author of Le dernier Godot; La Femme comme champ de bataille dans la guerre en Bosnie; L’Histoire du communisme racontée aux malades mentaux
Une Aventure francophone – entre littérature, théâtre et politique
Wednesday, October 20 – 6:30 p.m.
Institute of French Studies Colloquium
JOSE KAGABO
Historian, Centre d’études africaines, EHESS ; author of L’Islam et le Swahili au Rwanda
France and Rwanda: The Debates over Genocide
Thursday, October 21 – 6:00 p.m.
Location: Tishman Auditorium, Vanderbilt Hall,
40 Washington Square South (between MacDougal St. and Sullivan St.)
Co-sponsored with Deutsches Haus:
Otto and Ilse Mainzer Lecture Series
JULIA KRISTEVA
Writer, philosopher, psychoanalyst; author of Le Génie féminin, t.1 Hannah Arendt; t.2 Melanie Klein, t.3 Colette; Le Temps sensible: Proust et l’expérience littéraire
Narration in Literature and Psychoanalysis
Thursday, October 28 – 7:00 p.m.
YVES HERSANT
Director, Groupe de recherches sur l’Europe, EHESS; visiting professor, NYU; author of La Métaphore baroque; Europes; Italies
La Nudité et le nu
Friday, October 29 – 7:00 p.m.
Location : Cantor Film Center, 36 East Eighth St. (between University Pl. and Greene St.)
FRANCE ON FILM
Sponsored by La Maison Française and the Institute of French Studies
Son Frère
Patrice Chéreau; 2002; DVD; 95 min.; with Bruno Todeschini, Eric Caravaca.
$3 with NYU i.d.; $5 all others. In French with English subtitles
This Tournées program was made possible with the support of the Cultural Services of the French Embassy and the Ministry of Culture (CNC).
October 11 – November 30
EXHIBITION
Contacts de civilisations: la Martinique de Michel Leiris
Photographs by Pierre Verger, Denise Colomb, Jean-Luc Laguarigue, David Damoison, and others.
Curator: Dominique Taffin, Conservateur en chef du patrimoine; Directrice des Archives départementales de la Martinique
Wednesday, November 3 – 6:30 p.m.
Institute of French Studies Colloquium
DOUNIA BOUZAR
Anthropologist, Ministère de la Justice; member of the Conseil Français du Culte Musulman; author of L’une voilée, l’autre pas; Monsieur Islam n’existe pas
Les Musulmans et la laïcité française
Thursday, November 4 – 7:30 p.m.
Co-sponsored by La Maison Française and the Directors Series, Tisch School of the Arts, NYU
Location: Cantor Film Center, 36 East 8th Street
On Set with French Cinema: CLAIRE DENIS
Filmmaker: Chocolat; I Can’t Sleep; Nénette and Boni; Trouble Every Day; Friday Night
Discussion with the director following screening of Beau Travail
(1999, 90 min., in French with English subtitles)
Free admission; priority with NYU i.d.
CONFERENCE
Friday & Saturday, November 5 & 6
Institute of French Studies Colloquium
The Lost Banlieues of the Republic?
Friday, November 5 - 9:30 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.
Opening Remarks:
Edward Berenson (NYU), Frédéric Viguier (NYU)
I. Troubled Banlieues or Banlieues in Trouble? (De)Constructing a Social Problem
Philippe Bernard (Le Monde), La Construction médiatique des banlieues; Sylvie Tissot (Université de Strasbourg), Le « quartier sensible » dans la politique de la ville; Christian Topalov (CNRS, EHESS), Lexiques de la stigmatisation urbaine;
Moderator: Martin Schain (NYU)
Friday, November 5 - 2:30 to 5:30 p.m.
II. Les BanlieuesSpeak: Hip Hop, Graffitti,and Cultural Expressions of Resistance
Screening: On n’est pas des marques de vélo
(2002, 89 min., in French with English subtitles)
Jean-Pierre Thorn (documentary filmmaker), Hip-Hop et résistance culturelle en banlieues; Moderator: Frédéric Viguier; Discussants: Ink 76 and Sonic (graffitti artists)
Saturday, November 6 10:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m.
III. Working-Class Identity and Immigration: The Rising Significance of Ethnicity, Religion, and Gender in les Banlieues
Dounia Bouzar (Ministère de la Justice), Français-e-s ET Musulman-e-s. Vivre une double appartenance hier et aujourd’hui; Nacira Guénif-Souilamas (Université de Paris-13), Aux Marges de la société française : « indigène », « immigrés », « garçons arabes »; Gérard Mauger (CNRS), Le Monde des bandes et ses transformations depuis les années 1970.
Moderator: Aristide Zolberg (New School) Discussant: Ruth Horowitz (NYU)
Saturday, November 6 2:30 to 4:15 p.m.
IV. New Causes, New Militants
Safia Lebdi (Vice President, Mouvement Ni Putes ni Soumises), Le Mouvement « Ni Putes ni Soumises » Olivier Masclet (Université de Paris -5), Le Rendez-vous manqué de la gauche et des cités
Saturday, November 6 4:30 to 6:30 p.m.
V. What Happened to the Alliance of the “People” and the Left? Comparing France
and the United States
Round Table with Dick Howard (SUNY Stony Brook), Tony Judt (NYU), and conference participants. Moderator: Edward Berenson
Tuesday, November 9 – 7:30 p.m.
Co-sponsored by the Grey Art Gallery, NYU
MING TIAMPO
Art Historian, Carleton University; co-curator of Grey Art Gallery exhibition Electrifying Art: Atsuko Tanaka, 1954-1968
Around the World in 80 Exhibitions: Internationalism and Cultural Translation in Art Informel and Gutai
Wednesday, November 10 – 6:30 p.m.
Institute of French Studies Colloquium
JACQUES MISTRAL
Economist; Financial Counselor to the French Embassy
BERNARD SPITZ
Economist; founder, BSC Conseil ; Senior Advisor (1988-91) to Prime Minister Michel Rocard; author of Etat d’urgence: réformer ou abdiquer, le choix français
Reforming the Welfare State? The French Case
CONFERENCE
Friday & Saturday, November 12 & 13
GEORGE SAND: Families and Communities - Familles et Communautés
Friday, November 12 - 9:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m.
Claudie Bernard, Families and Communities in Post-Revolutionary Fr ance; Philippe Régnier, orale privée et morale sociale, famille selon le sang; et famille selon l’esprit: G. Sand à la lumière des débats saint-simoniens; Michelle Perrot, La Famille, lieu de mémoire sandien; Anne-Marie Baron, Histoire de ma vie: ou la famille imaginaire
Friday, November 12 - 2:00 to 6:00 p.m.
Christine Planté, Ici, ailleurs: les Couperies,Lettres d’un voyageur, Histoire de ma vie; Evelyne Ender, Scènes d’enfance: l’invention de la famille chez George Sand; Béatrice Didier, Familles de musiciens;Lucienne Frappier-Mazur, Le Rêve communautaire au théâtre; Ruth A. Spencer, Sand and Chopin in Majorca: Music and Slides from the Winter of 1838-39
Saturday, November 13 - 9:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m.
Aimée Boutin, Characters and Communities in the 1830’s: The Case of Indiana, and Valentine; Isabelle Naginski, Familles d’élection. Rituel et initiation dans Horace et La Comtesse de Rudolstadt; Dominique Jullien, George Sand à côté d’Eugène Sue; Anne McCall, Fonctions de famille et dysfonction narrative dans Les Lettres à Marcie
Saturday, November 13 - 2:00 to 5:00 p.m.
Michèle Riot-Sarcey, L’Indépassable famille, de l’errance sans tabou au réalisme politique, de Lélia à 1848; Martine Reid, Huis clos: La Famille des Germandre; Françoise Massardier-Kenney, The Evolution of the Idea of Community: from Jacques to Valvèdre; David A. Powell, Communities in Confrontation
Thursday, November 18 – 7:00 p.m.
GILBERT MICHLIN
Author of Aucun intérêt au point de vue national
Of No Interest to the Nation: A Jewish Family in France 1925 – 1945
Friday, November 19 – 4:30 p.m.
DANIEL MESGUICH
Director; actor; professor, Conservatoire National Supérieure d’Art Dramatique de Paris; former director, Théâtre National de Lille
Transmettre le théâtre
CANCELLED
LECTURE
Monday, November 22 – 7:00 p.m.
MARK FRANKO
Dancer, choreographer, professor of dance and performance studies, University of California, Santa Cruz; author of The Work of Dance; Acting on the Past
Power, Force, and Mourning in French Court Ballet
CONFERENCE
Monday, November 29
What's New in France's Recent Health Care Reform?
Ecole Libre des Hautes Etudes and Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service Colloquium, NYU; co-sponsors: French Ministry of Health (Department of European and International Affairs); French-American Foundation; La Maison Française of NYU;
Center for European Studies, NYU; International Health Policy Research
Reservations required:
wagner.events@nyu.edu or 212-998-7546
Location: The Puck Building, 2nd Floor, 279 Lafayette St. (at Houston)
9:00 a.m. Registration
9:15 a.m. Introduction
Session 1 - 9:30 to 11:00 a.m.
Moderator: Rene I. Jahiel (Ecole Libre des Hautes Etudes; International Health Policy Research)
Victor G. Rodwin (NYU), The Douste-Blazy Reform: Should it be of Interest to U.S. Policymakers? Claude Le Pen (University of Paris IX – Dauphine), State-Led Managed Care in France. Will it Work? Jean de Kervasdoué (Centre National des Arts et Métiers; former Director of Hospitals, French Ministry of Health) The Crisis of the French Health System: What Next?
Session 2 - 11:30 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.
Moderator: Victor G. Rodwin
European Discussants: Dov Chernichovsky (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel);
Michel Grignon (CREDES, Paris); Pierre-Jean Lancry (Haut Conseil sur l’Avenir de l’Assurance Maladie)
American Discussants: Lawrence Brown (Columbia University, Department of Health Policy and Management); Michael K. Gusmano (International Longevity Center,USA and Columbia University); René I. Jahiel; Martin Schain (NYU)
Tuesday, November 30 – 7:00 p.m.
CHRISTINE FAURE
Directrice de recherche, CNRS; Centre de Recherches Politiques de la Sorbonne,
Université de Paris-I; editor, Des Manuscrits de Sieyès, 1773-1799
Sieyès, Rousseau, Spinoza et la théorie du contrat
THEATER
Thursday & Friday, December 2 & 3 – 8:00 p.m.
ALGERIAN WHITE: The Language of the Dead
A staged adaptation of Assia Djebar’s Algerian White, performed in English by KAREN McLAUGHLIN
Reservations required: 212-998-8750.
Tickets: $ 20; $ 10 with NYU i.d.
EXHIBITION
through November 30
Contacts de civilizations: la Martinique de Michel Leiris
Photographs by Pierre Verger, Denise Colomb, Jean-Luc de Laguarigue, David Damoison,
and others.
Presented by the Conseil Général de la Martinique, Archives Départementales. Curator: Dominique Taffin
Thursday, January 20 – 6:30 p.m.
JEAN-PHILIPPE CLARAC
OLIVIER DELŒUIL
Artistic directors, L’Opéra Français de New York; directors of Pelléas et Mélisande (performances
January 19 and 21 at French Institute Alliance Française)
Modernité de Maeterlinck et Debussy
SPECIAL EVENT
Friday, January 21 – 4:00 p.m.
NEW YORK REMEMBERS DERRIDA
A Tribute: Jacques Derrida (1930 – 2004)
Location: Hemmerdinger Hall, Silver Center, 32 Waverly Place, Ground Floor
Organized by
Tom Bishop, NYU
Avital Ronell, NYU
With
Gil Anidjar, Columbia University
Emily Apter, NYU
Ulrich Baer, NYU
Michel Beaujour, NYU
Mary Ann Caws, Graduate Center, CUNY
Drucilla Cornell, Rutgers University
Judith Friedlander, Hunter College, CUNY
Peter Goodrich, Cardozo Law School
Anselm Haverkamp, NYU
Beatrice Longuenesse, NYU
Shireen Patell, NYU
Gayatri Spivak, Columbia University
Tuesday, January 25 – 7:00 p.m.
MARK FRANKO
Dancer, choreographer; professor, UC Santa Cruz; author of The Dancing Body in Renaissance
Choreography; Dancing Modernism/Performing Politics; Dance as Text: Ideologies of the
Baroque Body
Power, Force, and Mourning in French Court Ballet
Friday, January 28 – 7:00 p.m.
FRANCE ON FILM
Sponsored by La Maison Française and the Institute of French Studies
Location: Cantor Film Center, 36 East 8th Street
$5, or $3 with NYU i.d. In French with English subtitles
Depuis qu’Otar est parti / Since Otar Left
Julie Bertuccelli, 2003, DVD, 102 min.
Grand Prize, Cannes Film Festival, 2003
This Tournées program made possible with the support of the Cultural Services of the French
Embassy and the French Ministry of Culture (CNC).
Thursday, February 3 – 6:30 p.m.
Institute of French Studies Colloquium
STEVEN ENGLUND
Writer; author of Napoleon, A Political Life; Grace of Monaco, An Interpretive Biography; The
Inquisition in Hollywood: Politics in the Film Community, 1930-1960
Presenting Napoleon in the 21st Century: A Challenge to the Mere Biographer
Friday, February 11 – 7:00 p.m.
FRANCE ON FILM
Sponsored by La Maison Française and the Institute of French Studies
Location: Cantor Film Center, 36 East 8th Street
$5, or $3 with NYU i.d. In French with English subtitles
Raja
Jacques Doillon, 2003, DVD, 112 min.
with Pascal Greggory, Najat Benssallem
This Tournées program made possible with the support of the Cultural Services of the French
Embassy and the French Ministry of Culture (CNC).
Tuesday, February 15 – 12:30 to 2:00 p.m.
Co-sponsored by La Maison Française; Center for Media, Culture, and History; Institute of
French Studies
JEAN-PIERRE BERTIN-MAGHIT
Historian, Université de Bordeaux ; author of Le Cinéma français sous Vichy; Le Cinéma français sous l’Occupation; Les Documenteurs des années noires
La Reconstruction d’une mémoire: les documentaires de propagande, France 1940-1944
Wednesday, February 16 – 6:30 p.m.
Institute of French Studies Colloquium
JEAN-PIERRE AZEMA
Historian, Sciences Po, Paris; author of Jean Moulin: le rebelle, le politique, le resistant; 6 Juin
1944 (with Paxton & Burrin); La France des années noires (with Bédarida)
Mémoires de Jean Moulin
Thursday, February 17 – 7:00 p.m.
CORI ELLISON
Dramaturg, New York City Opera
On French Opera
Wednesday, February 23 – 7:00 p.m.
DOMINIQUE CABRERA
Filmmaker: Nadia et les hippopotames; Le Lait de la tendresse humaine; Folle embellie
Presentation by the director following screening of
Demain et encore demain
1997, DVD, 80 min.
CHRISTOPHER PRENDERGAST
Honorary Professor, University of Copenhagen; Fellow of King’s College, Cambridge; general
editor, In Search of Lost Time (new translation, Penguin, 2002); author of The Triangle of
Representation; Writing the City: Paris and the 19th Century; The Order of Mimesis
PROUST’S SKEPTICISM
Lecture Series
Co-sponsored by La Maison Française; Department of French; Department of Comparative
Literature
Monday, February 28 – 7:00 p.m.
Elstir’s Optical Illusions
Thursday, March 3 – 7:00 p.m.
Location (this date only): 19 University Place, Rm. 222
Walking on Stilts
Tuesday, March 8 – 7:00 p.m.
The Allegorical Body
Location: March 3 at 19 Univ.Place, Rm. 222
March 8 at La Maison Française
Tuesday, March 1 – 7:00 p.m.
ELIANE VIENNOT
Université de Saint-Etienne; author of Marguerite de Valois: histoire d’une femme, histoire d’un mythe
De l’usage des mythes de femmes de pouvoir
Wednesday, March 2 – 6:30 p.m.
Institute of French Studies Colloquium
ZEEV STERNHELL
Political Scientist; The Hebrew University of Jerusalem; author of La Droite révolutionnaire 1885-1914; Ni droite, ni gauche; contributor to France in the Era of Fascism
Le Mythe de l'allergie française au fascisme
Thursday and Friday, March 10 and 11
Rendez-Vous with French Cinema 2005
Co-sponsored by La Maison Française and the Directors Series, Tisch School of the Arts, in cooperation with the French Film Office/Unifrance USA, The Film Society of Lincoln Center, Cultural Services of the French Embassy
Location: Cantor Film Center, 36 East 8th St.,
between Univ,.Place and Greene St.
Free admission: priority to those with NYU i.d.
All films in French, with English subtitles.
The directors will be present for discussion with the audience following each Rendez-Vous screening.
Thursday, March 10 – 7:00 p.m.
Clara et Moi / Clara and Me
Arnaud Viard, 2004, 35 mm, 86 min.
A contemporary love story, with two of France’s up-and-coming young stars, Julie Gayet and Julien Boisselier.
Friday, March 11 – 7:00 p.m.
J’me sens pas belle / Tell Me I’m Pretty
Bernard Jeanjean, 2004, 35 mm, 85 min.
A romantic comedy, with Marina Foïs and Julien Boisselier.
Tuesday, March 22 – 7:00 p.m.
MICHEL MAÏOFISS
Photographer (see EXHIBITION)
interviewed by
CAROLE NAGGAR
Writer, artist; author of George Rodger: An Adventure in Photography, 1908-1995; Dictionnaire des photographes
Wednesday, March 23 – 6 :30 p.m.
Institute of French Studies Colloquium
FARHAD KHOSROKHAVAR
Sociologist, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales; author of L’Islam dans les prisons; Les nouveaux martyrs d’Allah; L’Islam des jeunes
The New European Muslim Citizens
Wednesday, March 23 - 6:30 p.m.
Co-sponsored with Africana Studies
Location: 269 Mercer Street, 6th Floor
LOUIS-PHILIPPE DALEMBERT
Novelist, poet; author of Le Crayon du bon Dieu n’a pas de gomme; L’Autre face de la mer; L’Ile du bout des reves
Désir d’ailleurs et vagabondage
Thursday, March 24 – 7:00 p.m.
ETIENNE BALIBAR
University of California, Irvine; Emeritus Professor of Philosophy, Université de Paris-X; author of We, the People of Europe? Reflections on Transnational Citizenship; Politics and the Other Scene; Masses, Classes, Ideas
Constructions and Deconstructions of the Universal
Tuesday, March 29 – 7:00 p.m.
JEAN-CHARLES DARMON
Professor of French Literature, Université de Versailles-Saint-Quentin; author of Le Songe libertine; Philosophies de la fable: La Fontaine et la crise du lyrisme
Pensée libertine et crise de l’exemplarité à l’âge classique: la trace de Montaigne
Wednesday, March 30 – 6:30 p.m.
Institute of French Studies Colloquium
IRENE THERY
Sociologist, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales; visiting professor, NYU; author of Le démariage, justice et vie privée; Recomposer une famille, des rôles et des sentiments
Le PaCS : une exception française en Europe, ses raisons et ses limites
Thursday, March 31 – 6:30 p.m.
Keynote lecture, French Graduate Student Association Conference (April 1 and 2)
PETER HALLWARD
Professor of Philosophy, Department of Philosophy, University of Middlesex; author of Absolutely Postcolonial: Writing between the Singular and the Specific; Badiou: A Subject to Truth
The Politics of Prescription
EXHIBITION
March 22 to May 13
Photographs by MICHEL MAÏOFISS
March 2005 events at La Maison Française of New York University are included in the month-long celebration of Francophonie entitled "Around the French-speaking world"-- the first Francophonie Festival in New York. The festival is the initiative of a Francophone coalition of 30 organizations and 12 governments. Concerts, movies, performances,lectures, conferences, exhibitions, contests for students, etc., at a range of NYC institutions, are included. Visit http://www.francophonieny.org for more information.
March 31 – April 2
GRADUATE STUDENT CONFERENCE
Departments of French and Comparative Literature
REVOLUTION: Figure, Fiction, Event
April 4 and 5
Florence Gould Lectures
MAREK HALTER
Writer; artist; human rights activist; author of Le Fou et les rois; La Mémoire d’Abraham;
Le Vent des Khazars; Sarah; Zipporah
Monday, April 4 – 7:00 p.m.
La Shoah, comment préserver la mémoire?
(in French)
Tuesday, April 5 – 7:00 p.m.
And Woman Created God – Moses’ Black Wife
(in English)
CONFERENCE
Friday, April 8
Co-sponsored by the Department of French, NYU; The Humanities Council, NYU; and the Philosophy Department, New School for Social Research
ON INEQUALITY
A conference to celebrate the 250th anniversary of the publication of Rousseau’s Discourse on the Origin and Foundations of Inequality Among Men
Organizers:
Anne Deneys-Tunney, Department of French, NYU
Simon Critchley, Department of Philosophy, New School for Social Research
9:30 – 11:00 a.m.
Introduction: Anne Deneys-Tunney, NYU; James Miller, New School; Paul Audi, Paris
11:30 a.m. – 1:30 p.m.
Pierre Hartmann, Strasbourg; Robert Bernasconi, Memphis; Fred Neuhouser, Columbia
3:30 – 5:30 p.m.
Simon Critchley, New School;Elie Friedlander, Tel Aviv/Princeton;Helena Rosenblatt,
Hunter College
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Friday, April 8 – 8:00 p.m.
Theater performance of Narcisse
by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Directed by Anne Deneys-Tunney, member of the Lincoln Center Director’s Lab
Location: Theater for the New City, 155 1st Avenue, NY, NY 10003
T: 212-254-1109
Admission: $10.
Tuesday, April 12 – 6:30 p.m.
Co-sponsored by Institute of French Studies and NYU Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality
DIDIER ERIBON
Writer, philosopher, historian; author of Hérésies. Essais sur la politique de la sexualité;
Une Morale de minoritaire; Michel Foucault, 1926-1984
Same Sex Marriage Debates in France
Response by RICHARD KIM, American Studies, NYU
Wednesday, April 13 – 7:00 p.m.
A Florence Gould Lecture
FREDERIC BEIGBEDER
Novelist, editor; author of Windows on the World; Rester normal; 99 Francs
Are Novels Windows on our World?
April 18 and 19
PEN World Voices: The New York Festival of International Literature
Conversations co-sponsored by La Maison Française
Monday, April 18 – 12:00 to 1:30 p.m.
ADAM GOPNIK
Essayist; New Yorker staff writer; author of Paris to the Moon; editor, Americans in Paris:
A Literary Anthology
in conversation with
ANDREÏ MAKINE
Novelist; author of Le Testament français (Dreams of My Russian Summers); La Musique d’une vie; Requiem pour l’est; La Terre et le ciel de Jacques Dorme
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Tuesday, April 19 – 12:00 to 1:30 p.m.
ASSIA DJEBAR
Novelist; filmmaker; Professor of French and Francophone Studies, NYU; author of La Disparition de la langue française; Les Nuits de Strasbourg; Le Blanc de l’Algérie
in conversation with
LYONEL TROUILLOT
Novelist; Professor of Literature, Université de la Caraïbe, Haïti; author of Bicentenaire; Les Enfants des héros; Thérèse en mille morceaux
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Tuesday, April 19 – 2:00 to 3:30 p.m.
SIRI HUSTVEDT
Novelist; author of The Blindfold; The Enchantment of Lily Dahl; What I Loved
in conversation with
NANCY HUSTON
Novelist; author of L’Empreinte de l’Ange; Prodige; Dolce Agonia; Une Adoration
Wednesday, April 20 – 7:30 p.m.
FRANÇOIS DELATTRE
Consul General of France in New York
L’Etat et les perspectives de la relation franco – américaine
Tuesday, April 26 – 7:00 p.m.
Round Table
Rethinking 19th Century French Studies: Problems, Methods, Interdisciplinary Approaches
EMILY APTER, CLAUDIE BERNARD, STEPHANE GERSON,
DENIS HOLLIER, RICHARD SIEBURTH
Department of French, NYU
LINDA NOCHLIN
Institute of Fine Arts, NYU
MAURICE SAMUELS
Department of French, University of Pennsylvania
Wednesday, April 27 – 6:30 p.m.
Institute of French Studies Colloquium
CLAUDE GRUNITZKI
Editor, TRACE Magazine; co-founder, TRUE Agency; author of Transculturalism: How the World is Coming Together
Transculturalism: How Is It Changing American and French Societies?
Response by PATRICK WEIL, CNRS, co-author of Dual Nationality, Social Rights, and Federal Citizenship in the U.S. and Europe
Friday, April 29 – 7:00 p.m.
FRANCE ON FILM
Sponsored by La Maison Française and the Institute of French Studies
Location: Cantor Film Center, 36 East 8th Street
L’Auberge espagnole
Cédric Klapisch, 2002, DVD, 129 min.
$5, or $3 with NYU i.d. In French with English subtitles.
This Tournées program made possible with the support of the Cultural Services of the French Embassy and the French Ministry of Culture (CNC).
EXHIBITION
Photographs by MICHEL MAÏOFISS
Through May 13
Monday – Friday, 10:00 a.m. – 6:00 p.m.
Thursday, September 15 – 7:00 p.m.
CATHERINE TUROCY
Director, choreographer
and the NEW YORK BAROQUE DANCE COMPANY
Allez Sallé !
Honoring the 250th anniversary of Marie Sallé’s death and her innovative choreographies from the 1730's and 40's. A behind the scenes look at her shocking themes, costume innovations, and dramatic movements, as described in period sources and eyewitness accounts. With dancers Sarah Edgar, Caroline Copeland, and Tim Kasper, in period costume, performing excerpts from the company's upcoming NYC concerts.
In English. Limited seating. Doors open at 6:30 p.m.
Tuesday, September 20 – 7:00 p.m.
FRANÇOISE LAVOCAT
Professor of Comparative Literature, University of Paris VII- Denis Diderot; author of Arcadies malheureuses. Aux origins du roman moderne; Syrinx au Bûcher, Pan et les satyres à la Renaissance et à l’âge baroque
Un Crime indiscernable. Frères et sœurs dans le théâtre de la Renaissance
Wednesday, September 21 – 7:00 p.m.
A Florence Gould Lecture
PASCAL BRUCKNER
Philosopher; essayist; novelist; author of L’Euphorie perpétuelle; Misère de la prospérité; L’Amour du prochain
Les Maladies culturelles de la démocratie
Monday, September 26 – 7:00 p.m.
Le Portrait Croisé de Simone de Beauvoir et de Jean-Paul Sartre
(1967, Radio Canada. 60 min.) In French with English subtitles.
presented by Madeleine Gobeil-Noël
Journalist; former director of arts, UNESCO
Wednesday, September 28 – 6:30 p.m.
Institute of French Studies Colloquium
MARCELA IACUB
Legal scholar, philosopher, CNRS; author of L’Empire du ventre. Pour une autre histoire de la maternité; Qu’avez-vous fait de notre libération sexuelle ?
La Sexualité dans le droit français
Thursday, September 29 - Saturday, October 1
Center for French Civilization and Culture. A Florence Gould Event
SITUATING / SITUATION DE SARTRE 2005
Conference organized by DENIS HOLLIER and TOM BISHOP
Thursday, September 29
at La Maison Française
7:00 – 10:00 p.m.: Situating Sartre
Michel Rybalka, Emeritus, Washington U.
Situation de Sartre et des études sartriennes en 2005
François Noudelmann, U. of Paris-VIII
Vies, morts et renaissance de Sartre
Keynote Lecture: Michel Contat, C.N.R.S.
Le Théâtre de la politique
Friday, September 30
at La Maison Française
10:00 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.: Sartre and Literature (I)
Jeffrey Mehlman, Boston U.
His Mallarmé and Ours
Robert Harvey, SUNY, Stony Brook
from “The Image Family” to the Family as Image
Suzanne Guerlac, U. of California, Berkeley
Sartre “au bord de l’image”
Gilles Philippe, U. of Grenoble-III
Sartre et la langue littéraire
2:30 – 4:30 p.m.: Sartre and Philosophy
Thomas Nagel, NYU
Sartre and the Problem of Other Minds
Béatrice Longuenesse, NYU
Sartre on Self-Consciousness
Christian Delacampagne, Johns Hopkins U.
Sartre “au bord de l’image”
6:00 p.m.: Keynote Lecture at Kimmel Center, 60 Washington Square South, Room 914
Bernard-Henri Lévy, philosopher, author, Paris
Sartre et les Juifs
Saturday, October 1
at La Maison Française
10:00 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.: Sartre and the Theater
John Ireland, U. of Illinois, Chicago
Suffering for Real on the Sartrean Stage
Tom Bishop, NYU
Situating Sartre’s Theater of Situations
Denis Hollier, NYU
Limelight
Jean-François Louette, U. of Lyon-II
Sartre: un théâtre d’idées, sans idées de théâtre ?
2:30 – 5:30 p.m.: Sartre and Literature (II)
Françoise Gaillard, U. of Paris-VII
La Nausée: une philosophie célibataire
Michel Deguy, philosopher, poet, Paris
La Relation de Sartre aux poètes (Baudelaire, Mallarmé, Ponge) peut-elle être jugée mauvaise par un poète aujourd’hui ?
Martine Reid, U. of Versailles
Elle et lui: représentations sexuées dans les romans de Sartre
Serge Doubrovsky, NYU
Sartre: autobiographie/autofiction ?
This conference is made possible through the generous principal support of the Florence Gould Foundation, with additional support from the Humanities Council and the Faculty of Arts and Science of New York University, and the Cultural Services of the French Embassy.
Wednesday, October 5 – 7:00
ABDELWAHAB MEDDEB
Writer; poet professor, Université de Paris-X; producer, Cultures d’Islam, France-Culture; editor, Dédale; author of La Maladie de l’Islam; L’Exil occidental
L’Islam et la guerre des références
Thursday, October 6 – 7:00 p.m.
OLIVIER CORPET
Founder and director, IMEC
L’Archive du contemporain: l’expérience de l’Institut Mémoires de l’Edition Contemporaine
Tuesday, October 11 – 7:00 p.m.
GILLES PHILIPPE
Université de Grenoble-III; author of Sujet, verbe, complément. Le moment grammatical de la littérature française (1890 – 1940)
JULIEN PIAT
Université de Grenoble-III; co-editor, La Langue, le style et le sens
Pour une autre histoire de la littérature française: la langue littéraire de Gustave Flaubert à Claude Simon
Tuesday, October 18 – 7:00 p.m.
ANKA MUHLSTEIN
Writer, biographer; author of A Passion for Freedom: The Life of Astolfe de Custine; Elizabeth d’Angleterre et Marie Stuart: ou les perils du mariage
Proust and His Publishers
Wednesday, October 19 – 6:30 p.m.
Institute of French Studies Colloquium
ANTHONY LACOUDRE
Author of Ici est né l’impressionisme
Impressionism Was Born Here: On the Path of Monet and his Friends in Bougival, Chatou, Louveciennes
SPECIAL EVENT
Monday, October 24 – 6:00 p.m.
An “Act French” Event
Actress ISABELLE HUPPERT
(Ma Mère, The Piano Teacher, Madame Bovary, Passion, The Lacemaker)
in conversation with
Judith Miller (NYU) and Tom Bishop (NYU). In English.
Note change of location for this event to:
Kimmel Center, 10th Floor - Rosenthal Pavilion
60 Washington Square South (corner LaGuardia Place)
Doors open at 5:30 p.m.
Tuesday, October 25 – 7:00 p.m.
CANCELLED
FRANÇOIS BON
Novelist, playwright, essayist, theater critic; author of Daewoo; Rolling Stones, une biographie; Mécanique; Pour Koltès
Daewoo : La fiction sans le roman
COLLOQUIUM ON FRANCOPHONE THEATER
CONFERENCE
Friday, October 28
Organized by JUDITH MILLER, Chair, Dept. of French, NYU
2:00 – 3:15 p.m.:
Sylvie Chalaye
Drama critic, professor,Université de Rennes and Paris-III
An Overview of Francophone Theater of Africa and the Caribbean
3:30 – 5:30 p.m. Roundtable discussion
Francophone African and Caribbean Writers and Playwrights
Gerty Dambury
Professor of English, poet, playwright, theater director
Assia Djebar
de l’Académie Française; writer; professor of Francophone literature, NYU
Koffi Kwahulé
Playwright; author of Bintu, Big Shoot, Jaz, Misterioso
7:00 p.m.
Gerty Dambury
Dramatic Reading of Koffi Kwahule’s JAZ (in French)
Related “Act French” events:
Reading of Koffi Kwahule’s Misterioso-119 in English, October 27 at the
LARK THEATER, 939 Eighth Ave. www.larktheatre.org or 212-246-2676.
The José Pliya Project, presented Nov. 1 – 6 by Soho Think Tank at the
OHIO THEATER, 66 Wooster St. Coordinated by Philippa Wehle and Ellen Lampert-Gréaux. Included are staged readings of several Pliya plays and a full production of Enslaved (Le Complexe de Thénardier). www.sohothinktank.org or 212-966-4844.
Monday, October 31 – 7:00 p.m.
A Florence Gould Lecture
FERNANDO ARRABAL
Playwright, novelist, poet, filmmaker; author of Guernica; And They Put Handcuffs on the Flowers; The Architect and the Emperor of Assyria
Théâtre panique et théâtre pataphysique
September 26 – October 14
EXHIBITION
SARTRE 1905 – 1980
Highlights of the life and work of Jean-Paul Sartre: An exhibition of posters
Association pour la Diffusion de la Pensée Française, Ministère des Affaires Etrangères
“Act French” events are part of Act French: A Season of New Theater from France.
Six months of intriguing ideas and performances from the frontlines of French culture in adventurous theaters citywide, July 15 - December 15, 2005.
For additional information: www.actfrench.org
"Act French" is made possible by the Cultural Services of the French Embassy in the United States, Association Française d’Action Artistique (AFAA), The French Ministry of Culture and Communication, FACE (French American Cultural Exchange), Etant donnés: The French-American Fund for the Performing Arts. Generous support provided by PLAYBILL, The Berlys Foundation, May and Samuel Rudin Family Foundation, Inc.
Tuesday, November 1 – 6:00 p.m.
Presented in cooperation with the Bard Graduate Center for Studies in the Decorative Arts, Design, and Culture
ELIZABETH HYDE
College of New Jersey; author of Cultivated Power
Cultivated Power: Flowers, Culture, and Politics in the Reign of Louis XIV
Wednesday, November 2 – 6:30 p.m.
Institute of French Studies Colloquium
ESTHER BENBASSA and JEAN-CHRISTOPHE ATTIAS
Historians, Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, Paris; co-authors of Israel, the Impossible Land; The Jews and their Future; The Jew and the Other
Israelis and Palestinans in the Middle East, Jews and Arabs in France
and
Diaspora-Israel Relations: An Ethical Issue
Thursday, November 3 – 7:00 p.m.
SERGE DOUBROVSKY
Professor of French, NYU; critic; novelist; author of Laissé pour conte; L’Après vivre; Le Livre brisé (Prix Médicis 1989)
Pourquoi l’autofiction
See also November 29.
Wednesday, November 9 – 6:30 p.m.
Institute of French Studies Colloquium
ARNAUD BLIN
Political Analyst, Ecole de la Paix, Grenoble; author of Histoire du terrorisme: de l’Antiquité à Al Qaïda; Le désarroi de la puissance: les Etats-Unis vers la guerre permanente? (with G. Chaliand); Géopolitique de la paix démocratique
The Impact of Terrorism upon History
ROUND TABLE
Thursday, November 10 – 7:00 p.m.
Rethinking 19th Century French Art: New Approaches to Sexuality and Feminism
EMILY APTER
Professor of French, NYU
CAROL ARMSTRONG
Doris Stevens Professor of Women’s Studies and Professor of Art and Archaeology, Princeton University
ANNE D’SOUZA
Assistant Professor of Art History and Women’s Studies, Binghamton University
ANNE HIGONNET
Professor of Art History, Barnard College, Columbia University
SHARON MARCUS
Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature, Columbia University
LINDA NOCHLIN
Wallace Professor of Modern Art, Institute of Fine Arts, NYU
Tuesday, November 15 – 7:00 p.m.
A Florence Gould Lecture
ALAIN BADIOU
Philosopher, Ecole Normale Supérieure and Collège International de Philosophie; author of Being and Event; Ethics: An Essay on the Understanding of Evil; Saint Paul: The Foundation of Universalism; Le Siècle
Le Mathème LPP: Littérature, politique, philosophie
Wednesday, November 16 – 6:30 p.m.
Institute of French Studies Colloquium, in cooperation with NYU’s program “Dialogues: Islamic World - U.S. - The West”
MOHAMED CHARFI
Emeritus Law Professor, Tunis University; president, Tunisian League for the Defense of Human Rights; former Tunisian Minister of Education; author of Les Ministres de Bourguiba; Islam et Liberté
Islam et modernité: comment être musulman au XXIème siècle ?
Thursday, November 17 – 7:00 p.m.
SYLVERE LOTRINGER
Professor of French Literature, Columbia University; editor, Semiotext(e)
Cioran: In Praise of the Jews
Tuesday, November 29 – 7:00 p.m.
SERGE DOUBROVSKY
Professor of French, NYU; critic, novelist; author of Laissé pour conte; L’Après vivre; Le Livre brisé (Prix Médicis 1989)
Molière: critique et subjectivité See also November 3.
Friday, December 2 – 8:00 p.m.
Harpsichord Concert & Lecture
CONCERT
PHILIPPE FRITSCH
Eros, Thanatos et Narcisse chez François Couperin.
Principe structurel: le « Vingt-quatrième Ordre » des pièces de clavecin
$10. or $5. with current NYU i.d. Reservations: 212-998-8750
Thursday, December 8 – 7:00 p.m.
RICHARD SIEBURTH
Professor of French and Comparative Literature; editor of Ezra Pound’s Poems and Translations (Library of America) and Pisan Cantos (New Directions)
and
MICHEL BEAUJOUR
Professor of French, New York University; author of Terreur et rhétorique; Désublimation: de la transmutation à la rhétorique; translator of Pisan Cantos into French (forthcoming)
Translating Ezra Pound: A Conversation (with readings)
Wednesday, January 18 – 7:00 p.m.
SPECIAL EVENT
PLANTU
Illustrated lecture by France’s leading political cartoonist Jean Plantureux (aka Plantu), whose work has been featured on the front page of Le Monde since 1985.
The Editorial in Cartoons / L’Editorial en caricatures
Tuesday, January 24 – 7:00 p.m.
CAROLYN BURKE
Biographer, art critic, translator; author of Becoming Modern: The Life of Mina Loy; Lee Miller: A Life (Alfred A. Knopf, 2005)
Lee Miller and the Surrealists
Thursday, January 26 – 7:00 p.m
Co-sponsored with the New York Institute for the Humanities
JERROLD SEIGEL
Professor of History, NYU; author of Bohemian Paris; The Private Worlds of Marcel Duchamp: Desire, Liberation, and the Self in Modern Culture; The Idea of the Self: Thought and Experience in Western Europe Since the Seventeenth Century
Imagining the Modern Self
Monday, January 30 – 7:00 p.m.
SPECIAL EVENT
Multi-media (electro-acoustic and video) performance, with bilingual readings, presented in collaboration with Productions Rhizome.
Six Québec Poets in New York
Simon Dumas
Léon Guy Dupuis
Bertrand Laverdure
Yannick Renaud
André Roy
Elise Turcotte
Wednesday, February 1 – 6:30 p.m.
Institute of French Studies Colloquium
EMMANUEL FAYE
Philosopher, Université de Paris X-Nanterre; author of Philosophie et perfection de l’homme. De la Renaissance à Descartes; Heidegger, l’introduction du nazisme dans la philosophie
Heidegger, les fondements nazis de l’œuvre et le problème de sa réception
CONCERT
Friday, February 3 – 8:00 p.m.
MIRROR VISIONS ENSEMBLE
Portraits of Paris and its Parisians: Musical Mirrors
Tobé Malawista, soprano
Richard Lalli, baritone and pianist
Scott Murphree, tenor
Christopher Berg, composer and pianist
Program features the American premiere of Christopher Berg’s cantata Portrait en miniature de Madame de Sévigné and of his Loisirs de la poste, a song cycle based on short poems by Mallarmé, as well as music by Claude Debussy, Camille Saint-Saëns, André Caplet, René Berthelot, Francis Poulenc, Reynaldo Hahn, Ned Rorem, Georges Enesco, Richard Lalli, and Christopher Culpo.
Mirror Visions Ensemble concerts featuring commissioned new works on French texts by American composers are presented with the generous support of the Florence Gould Foundation.
Reservations: 212-998-8750
Tuesday, February 7 – 7:00 p.m.
JOHANNA STALNAKER
Assistant Professor of French, Columbia University
Unreadable Objects in the Encyclopédie
Tuesday, February 14 – 7:00 p.m.
A Florence Gould Event – Samuel Beckett Centennial
BRUNO CLEMENT
Professor, Université de Paris VIII; President, Collège Internationale de Philosophie; author of L’Œuvre sans qualités, rhétorique de Samuel Beckett; Le Lecteur et son modèle; L’Invention du commentaire, Augustin, Jacques Derrida; Le Récit de la méthode
La Voix, l’image, les figures: littérature et philosophie chez Samuel Beckett
Thursday, February 16 – 7:00 p.m.
CAROL OCKMAN
Professor of Art History, Williams College; author of Ingres’s Eroticized Bodies: Retracing the Serpentine Line
and
KENNETH E. SILVER
Professor and Chair of Fine Arts, NYU; author of Making Paradise: Art, Modernity, and the Myth of the French Riviera; An Expressionist in Paris:The Paintings of Chaim Soutine; Esprit de Corps: The Art of the Parisian Avant-Garde and the First World War
Sarah Bernhardt: The Art of High Drama
A conversation with the guest curators of the Jewish Museum exhibition devoted to the great French actress (1844 – 1923).
Tuesday, February 21 – 7:00 p.m.
GUY SPIELMANN
Professor, Georgetown University; author of Le Jeu de l’ordre et du chaos: Comédie et pouvoirs à la fin de règne, 1673-1715.
Réinventer le classicisme? Pour une approche performative des spectacles sous l’Ancien Régime
Wednesday, February 22 – 6:30 p.m.
Institute of French Studies Colloquium
EMMANUELLE LOYER
Historian, Université de Lille III; visiting professor, NYU; author of Le Théâtre citoyen de Jean Vilar, une utopie d’après-guerre; Paris à New York. Intellectuels et artistes français en exil (1940-1947).
Intellectuels et artistes français en exil à New York, 1940 – 1947
Friday & Saturday, February 24 & 25, 10:00 a.m. – 6:00 p.m.
FRENCH GRADUATE STUDENT ASSOCIATION CONFERENCE
Fractured Reflections: The Breaking Point between Text / Image
Reflets brisés: Le point de rupture entre texte / image
Keynote speakers:
Tom Conley, Harvard University
Kaja Silverman, University of California, Berkeley
Conference details to be announced.
Contact: nyufrenchconference@gmail.com
Monday, February 27– 7:00 p.m.
A Florence Gould Event – Samuel Beckett Centennial
SIMON CRITCHLEY
Professor of Philosophy, New School for Social Research; author of Very Little…Almost Nothing; Things Merely Are: Philosophy in Poetry of Wallace Stevens.
Samuel Beckett’s Film – To be or not to be is not the question
Includes screening of Film (1965, starring Buster Keaton)
PLEASE NOTE:
The conference, The World of Romain Gary, originally scheduled for March, has been postponed until May 4 and 5.
Thursday, March 2 – 6:30 p.m.
Institute of French Studies Colloquium
RENEE POZNANSKI
Professor of Contemporary History, Ben Gurion University of the Negev; visiting scholar, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum; author of Jews in France during World War II
The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising in the French Underground Press
Friday, March 3 – 6:00 p.m.
Conversation (in French)
GUILLAUME GALLIENNE
Comédie Française and cinema actor
and
FLORENT MASSE
French lecturer and director, l’Atelier, Princeton University
Monday, March 6 – 7:00 p.m.
New York University Humanities Council Workshop
Storytelling in Performance
A Demonstration-Talk
ANNE AZEMA
with Joel Cohen and Shira Kammen, viellist
Growing Your Own:
Fashioning a Modern-Day Performance from Old Sources
Anne Azéma, French soprano, is a leading interpreter of early music. She is a featured soloist with The Boston Camerata.
Further information on Storytelling in Performance is available online:
www.nyu.edu/humanities.council/workshops/storytelling/
Thursday, March 9
Rendez-Vous with French Cinema 2006
Co-sponsored by La Maison Française and the Directors Series, Tisch School of the Arts, in cooperation with the French Film Office/Unifrance USA, The Film Society of Lincoln Center, Cultural Services of the French Embassy
CONFERENCE
Location: Cantor Film Center, 36 East 8th St., between University Place and Greene St.
Free admission. Priority with NYU i.d.
All films in French, with English subtitles
The directors will be present for discussion with the audience following each Rendez-Vous screening.
6:00 p.m.
Gentille (Good Girl)
Sophie Fillières, 2005, 35mm., 102 min.
A comedy starring Emmanuelle Devos.
8:30 p.m.
La Moustache
Emmanuel Carrère, 2005, 35mm., 86 min.
An adaptation of his own novel by the writer Carrère, starring Vincent Lindon and Emmanuelle Devos.
Tuesday, March 21 – 7:00 p.m.
A Florence Gould Lecture
Samuel Beckett Centennial Event
PASCALE CASANOVA
Author of La République mondiale des lettres; Beckett l’Abstracteur: l’anatomie d’une révolution littéraire; visiting professor, UCLA
Beckett chez les philosophes
ROUND TABLE
Wednesday, March 22 – 6:30 p.m.
Institute of French Studies Colloquium
The Memory of Slavery in France: Perspectives on the Current Controversies
with
MARYSE CONDE
Writer; Professor Emeritus, Francophone Literature, Columbia University;
Chair, Comité pour la mémoire de l’esclavage
EDWARD BERENSON
Professor, History and French Studies, NYU
WALTER JOHNSON
Associate Professor, Southern History, NYU
GREGORY MANN Assistant Professor, Francophone African History, Columbia University
Thursday, March 23 – 7:00 p.m.
ROGER CHARTIER
Directeur d’études, E.H.E.S.S.; visiting professor, University of Pennsylvania; author of Publishing Drama in Early Modern Europe; On the Edge of the Cliff: History, Language, and Practices; Forms and Meanings: Texts, Performances, and Audiences from Codex to Computer
Materiality of the Text, Literary Property, and Reading Practices:
the Page and the Screen
Monday, March 27 – 7:00 p.m.
OLIVIER BARROT
Journalist; producer and presenter, FR3/TV5 literary program Un livre, un jour; editor in chief, SENSO
SENSO: le magazine culturel français
Numero 23: “I Love NY” – Hommage au New Yorker
Thursday, March 30 – 7:00 p.m.
SYLVIANE AGACINSKI
Philosopher, E.H.E.S.S.; author of Métaphysique des sexes: masculin/féminin aux origines du christianisme; Time Passing, Modernity, and Nostalgia; Parity of the Sexes
L'imaginaire masculin dans la philosophie : Lévinas et Sartre
Tuesday, April 4 – 7:00 p.m.
Location:
Rosenthal Pavilion, Kimmel Center
60 Washington Square South
LEO BERSANI
Professor Emeritus, University of California, Berkeley; visiting scholar, NYU; author of Forms of Being; Homos; Art of Impoverishment; The Culture of Redemption; The Freudian Body: Psychoanalysis and Art
Shame, AIDS, and Gay Spirituality
Wednesday, April 5 – 6:30 p.m.
Institute of French Studies Colloquium
RICHARD WOLIN
Historian, Graduate Center, CUNY; author of The Frankfurt School Revisited: Portrait and Profiles; The Seduction of Unreason; Heidegger’s Children
The Levinas Effect: 1906 - 2006
Thursday, April 6 – 7:00 p.m.
Roundtable in the series: Rethinking Nineteenth Century French Studies
DAVID A. BELL, Johns Hopkins University
BRIGITTE MAHUZIER, Bryn Mawr College
BRIAN MARTIN, Williams College
Moderator: STEPHANE GERSON, NYU
War, Sex, Empire: Military Cultures in Nineteenth Century France
Tuesday, April 11 – 5:30 p.m.
Irving R. Jurow Lecture
Hemmerdinger Hall, Silver Center
100 Washington Square East
LEO BERSANI
Professor Emeritus, University of California, Berkeley; visiting scholar, NYU; author of Forms of Being; Homos; Art of Impoverishment; The Culture of Redemption; The Freudian Body: Psychoanalysis and Art
The Power of Evil and the Power of Love
Thursday, April 13 – 7:00 p.m.
MAURO CARBONE
Author of La Visibilité de l’invisible: Merleau-Ponty entre Cézanne et Proust; The Thinking of the Sensible: Merleau-Ponty’s A-Philosophy
How Can One Recognize What One Did Not Know?
Mnemosyne and the Art of the Twentieth Century
Tuesday, April 18 – 7:00 p.m.
PHILIPPE ROGER
CNRS and EHESS; visiting professor, NYU; editor, Critique; author of Roland Barthes: roman; L’Ennemi américain: généalogie de l’antiaméricanisme français
Je t'aime, moi non plus: le divorce franco-américain est-il une comédie du remariage?
Wednesday, April 19 – 6:30 p.m.
Institute of French Studies Colloquium
PASCAL PERRINEAU
Political Scientist, Sciences Po, CEVIPOF; visiting professor, NYU; author of Le Vote européen 2004-2005, de l’élargissement au référendum français
Le Non français au référendum sur le traité constitutionnel européen
Thursday, April 20 – 7:00 p.m.
A Florence Gould Lecture -- Samuel Beckett Centennial Event
TOM BISHOP
Director, Center for French Civilization and Culture, NYU; author of From the Left Bank: Reflections on the Modern French Theater and Novel; co-editor, Beckett (L’Herne)
Samuel Beckett: From French to English and Back
April 26 & 27
PEN WORLD VOICES:
THE NEW YORK FESTIVAL OF INTERNATIONAL LITERATURE
Co-sponsored by La Maison Française of NYU
CONVERSATION
Wednesday, April 26 - 4:00 to 5:30 p.m.
LYDIE SALVAYRE
Novelist; author of The Declaration; Everyday Life; The Lecture; The Power of Flies; The Company of Ghosts; Le Passage à l’ennemie; La Méthode Mila
in conversation with
RICK MOODY
Novelist; author of Garden State; Purple America; The Ice Age; The Ring of Brightest Angels Around Heaven; Demonology; The Diviner; The Black Veil
Thursday, April 27 - Noon to 1:30 p.m.
RAYMOND FEDERMAN
Novelist, poet, critic; author of Smiles on Washington Square; La Fourrure de ma tante Rachel; The Precipice and Other Catastrophes; Surfiction; Retour au fumier
Reading from Retour au fumier
See PEN website for all festival events: www.pen.org
Thursday, April 27 - 5:30 p.m.
Co-sponsored by the Fales Library
Fales Library (Bobst Library - 3rd Floor)
70 Washington Square South
MICHEL BUTOR
Author of La Modification; Portrait de l'artiste en jeune singe; Le Génie du lieu; Matière de rêves; Les Mots dans la peinture; Répertoire (I à IV); L’Utilité poétique
in conversation with
TOM BISHOP and LOIS OPPENHEIM
Friday & Saturday, April 28 & 29
Co-sponsored by The Urban Studies Program, Fordham University; The Institute of French Studies, NYU; and La Maison Française of NYU
Refashioning Urban Spaces in Paris and New York for the 21st Century
Organized by Rosemary Wakeman (Fordham) and Herrick Chapman (NYU)
Friday, April 28 - 9:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.
Principal Design Projects in Paris and NY
FRANCIS NORDEMANN, Ecole d'architecture de Paris-Belleville
PHILIPPE PANERAI, Ecole d'architecture Paris-Malaquais
KENT BARWICK, Municipal Art Society
ROSEMARY WAKEMAN, Fordham
Friday, April 28 - 2:00 to 5:00 p.m.
Connecting City and Metropolis
Chair: ANNIE FOURCAUT, Centre d'Histoire Sociale du XXè siècle, Paris I
KENT BARWICK, Municipal Art Society
JEAN-LOUIS COHEN, NYU
SUSAN FAINSTEIN, Columbia
PHILIPPE PANERAI, Ecole d'architecture Paris-Malaquais
THIERRY PAQUOT, Institut d'Urbanisme de Paris
Saturday, April 29 - 9:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.
Public Space and the Uses of the City
Chair: SHARON ZUKIN, CUNY Graduate Center
AYALA FADER, Fordham)
DAVID HARVEY, CUNY Graduate Center
PARTRICE HIGONNET, Harvard
THIERRY PAQUOT, Institut d'Urbanisme de Paris
RICHARD SENNETT, NYU, LSE
Saturday, April 29 - 2:00 to 5:00 p.m.
Beyond Postmodernism in Urban Design
Chair: ANTHONY VIDLER, Cooper Union
COLIN CATHCART, Fordham
DAVID HARVEY, CUNY Graduate Center
FRANCIS NORDEMANN, Ecole d'Architecture de Paris-Belleville
GWENDOLYN WRIGHT, Columbia
Monday, May 1 – 7:00 p.m.
A Florence Gould Lecture
42 Washington Mews
JACQUES TOUBON
President, Cité Nationale de l’Histoire de l’Immigration; former Deputy, Assemblée Nationale (1981-1993); Mayor, 13ème Arrondisement, Paris (1983-2001); Ministre de la Culture et de la Francophonie (1993-1995); Ministre de la Justice (1995-1997)
Immigration in the History of the French Nation:
An American Model for a New French Museum?
Tuesday, May 2 – 7:00 p.m.
PAUL AUDI
Philosopher; author of Superiorité de l’éthique: de Schopenhauer à Wittgenstein et au-delà; Où je suis: topique du corps et de l’esprit; Créer; La Fin de l’impossible; co-editor, Romain Gary (L’Herne)
Can the Body Do Wrong?
Wednesday, May 3 – 6:30 p.m.
Presented in cooperation with Dialogues: Islamic World – U.S. – The West
Islam et modernité: comment être musulman et de son temps
ABDELMAJID CHARFI, University of Tunis
HAMADI REDISSI, University of Tunis
BOUTHEINA CHERIET, University of Algiers
CONFERENCE
Thursday & Friday, May 4 & 5
Center for French Civilization and Culture
THE WORLD OF ROMAIN GARY
Thursday, May 4 – 6:30 p.m.
Rm. 914, Kimmel Center
Washington Square South
Opening Remarks: Tom Bishop & Paul Audi
Film screening: Romain Gary by Variety Moszynski (1987), K Films.
The filmmaker will be present.
8:00 p.m. Keynote address:
BERNARD-HENRI LEVY (Paris)
The Gary Case
Friday, May 5 – 9:45 a.m. to 1:00 p.m.
La Maison Française of NYU
Jean-François Hangouët (Paris), Romain Gary Through the Kaleidoscope
Carole Allamand (Rutgers University), Going Down the Staircase of Success: Romain Gary's Autobiography
Jeffrey Mehlman (Boston University), Chien blanc: Gary Among the Panthers
Astrid Poier-Bernhard (University of Graz), The Dance of Genghis Cohn: A Literary Submarine
Friday, May 5 – 3:00 to 6:15 p.m.
La Maison Française of NYU
William Styron (New York) (with Tom Bishop), About Romain Gary
David Bellos (Princeton University), The Company of Men
Ralph Schoolcraft III (Texas A&M University), Romain Gary's Use of Alter Egos
Nathalie Loiseau (French Embassy, Washington), Romain Gary Diplomat
Paul Audi (Paris), A Deep-rooted Messianic Belief
Tuesday, May 9 – 6:30 p.m.
Emmanuel Lévinas (1906 – 1995) Centennial Celebration, co-sponsored by The Center for French Civilization and Culture, the Consulate General of France, and the Consulate General of Israel
Rm. 914, Kimmel Center
60 Washington Square South
BERNARD-HENRI LEVY
Philosopher, essayist, author of American Vertigo; Sartre
The Heritage of Lévinas
Tuesday, September 12 – 7:00 p.m.
CHRISTIAN BIET
Professor of Theater Studies, Université de Paris - Nanterre; visiting professor, NYU; author of Les Miroirs du soleil; Droit et littérature sous l’Ancien Régime; editor, Théâtre de la cruauté et récits sanglants
Portrait de Corneille en jeune auteur
Thursday, September 14 – 7:00 p.m.
ELISABETH LADENSON
Associate Professor of French, Columbia University; author of Dirt for Art’s Sake: Literature, Sex, and Obscenity, 1857 - 1966 (Cornell University Press, 2006); Proust’s Lesbianism
Lolita in France
Monday, September 18 – 7:00 p.m.
CHRISTOPHER THOMPSON
Associate Professor of History, Ball State University; author of The Tour de France: A Cultural History (University of California Press, 2006)
“Giants of the Road,” “Pedal Workers,” “Slave Laborers,” or Dopers? The Contested Heroism of Tour de France Racers, 1903 to the Present
Wednesday, September 20 – 6:30 p.m.
Institute of French Studies Colloquium
JOSEPH E. LEDOUX
Professor, Center for Neural Science, NYU; author of The Emotional Brain; Synaptic Self: How Our Brains Become Who We Are
Fearful Brains in the Age of Terror
Thursday, September 21 – 7:00 p.m.
JEAN ROLIN
Writer, journalist; author of La Ligne de front; L’Organisation (Prix Médicis); La Clôture; Chrétiens, Terminal Frigo; L’Homme qui a vu l’ours. Reportages et autres articles, 1980 - 2005
Travail de journaliste / Travail d’écrivain
Tuesday, September 26 – 7:00 p.m.
ADAM GOPNIK
Journalist; New Yorker staff writer; author of Paris to the Moon; The King in the Window; editor, Americans in Paris: A Literary Anthology
On The Letters of Marcel Proust
(Translated by Mina Curtiss, Helen Marx Books/Books & Co., 2006)
Thursday, September 28 – 7:00 p.m.
PIERRE MICHEL
Author of Les Combats d’Octave Mirbeau; Octave Mirbeau, l’imprécateur au Coeur fidèle; Octave Mirbeau et le roman
Les Intellectuels et l’affaire Dreyfus: le cas d’Octave Mirbeau
Friday, September 29 – 2 :00 p.m.
Institute of French Studies Colloquium
JACQUES ANDREANI
French Ambassador to the United States (1989 - 1995); author of L’Amérique et nous; Le Piège, Helsinki et la chute du communisme
French and U.S. Political Cultures
Tuesday, October 3 – 7:00 p.m.
Co-sponsored with the Grey Art Gallery
CHARLES MUSSER
Professor of American Studies, Film Studies, Theater Studies, Yale University; author of The Emergence of Cinema; Edison Motion Pictures, 1890 - 1900
The Lumière Cinématographe and Edison’s Vitascope:
The Beginnings of Cinema and the Clash of Cultures
Wednesday, October 4 – 6:30 p.m.
Institute of French Studies Colloquium
CATHERINE COQUERY - VIDROVITCH
Historian, Paris-7-Denis Diderot; visiting professor, NYU; author of History of African Cities South of the Sahara: From the Origins to Colonization
African Perspectives on Slave Trade, Colonial and Post-colonial Debates
Thursday, October 5 – 7:00 p.m.
GABRIELA BASTERRA
Associate Professor of Comparative Literature and Spanish, NYU; program director, Collège International de Philosophie, Paris; author of Seductions of Fate: Tragic Subjectivity, Ethics, Politics
The Paradox of Necessary Fictions: To Paul Ricœur
Special Events
October 12 – 14
HELENE CIXOUS
Novelist, playwright, critic; author of Le Rire de la Méduse; Le Livre de Promethea; Or: les letters de mon père; Les Rêveries de la femme sauvage; Portrait de Jacques Derrida en jeune juif; Rêve je te dis
Thursday, October 12 – 5:30 p.m.
The Irving H.Jurow Lecture
Location:
Hemmerdinger Hall, Silver Center, 100 Washington Square East
The Infinite Taste of Dreams
Hélène Cixous will speak of her collaboration with Jacques Derrida on the meaning and workings of dreams, as expressed in her 2005 essay Insister: à Jacques Derrida.
Friday, October 13 – 7:30 p.m.
The Irving H.Jurow Lecture
Location:
Loewe Theater, Tisch School of the Arts,
721 Broadway, 2nd Floor
Drums on the Dam
Staged reading of the English translation of Cixous’s Tambours sur la digue, directed by Kevin Kuhlke (Tisch School of the Arts, NYU). Followed by Q & A with the author, moderated by Judith Miller (Department of French, NYU).
Saturday, October 14 – 2:00 p.m.
The Flying Manuscript
Cixous will speak of her rediscovery of Jacques Derrida’s manuscript of his essay in Voiles, their collective work, which Derrida sent “not to be opened” from Buenos Aires in 1995.
Saturday, October 14 – 6:00 p.m.
Co-sponsored by Slought Foundation and The Drawing Center
Location: The Drawing Center, 35 Wooster Street
Celebrating Hélène Cixous and Maria Chevska: Ex-Cities
Book Launch with Hélène Cixous, Maria Chevska, Avital Ronell, Judith Miller, Eric Prenowitz, Jean-Michel Rabaté, Aaron Levy
Wednesday, October 18 – 6:30 p.m.
Institute of French Studies Colloquium
HERMAN LEBOVICS
Historian, Stony Brook University; author of Bringing the Empire Back Home; Mona Lisa's Escort
Art of Darkness: The Opening of the Musée du Quai Branly
Monday, October 23 – 7:00 p.m.
GREGOIRE BOUILLIER
Writer; author of Rapport sur moi (Prix de Flore); L’Invité mystère (The Mystery Guest, 2006)
Ecriture de la réalité et réalité de l’écriture
Monday, October 30 — 7:00 p.m.
VIRGINIA BUDNY
Art historian, Department of European Paintings, Metropolitan Museum of Art; curator of exhibition Left Bank New York: Artists off Washington Square, 1900—1950
Artists' Spaces in the Heart of New York's Latin Quarter
EXHIBITION
October 27 – December 8
Opening Reception: October 27, 6:00 – 8:00 p.m.
Left Bank New York:
Artists off Washington Square, 1900-1950
Curated by Virginia Budny
The exhibit surveys artists' studios and institutions dedicated to the visual arts in the two blocks north of Washington Square in the first half of the twentieth century. Converted from unused stables and townhouses, these artists' spaces evoked the atmosphere of the Latin Quarter in Paris and became a source of endless fascination for the public. Here some of America's most important artists – among them Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, Daniel Chester French, Edward Hopper, Paul Manship, Gaston Lachaise, and Isamu Noguchi – congregated, creating monuments that embellish New York City still today.
Paul Manship (1885-1966) in his studio at 42 Washington Mews,
New York City, ca. 1918. Photograph by Nickloas Muray (1892-1965).
George Eastman House, Rochester, New York.
Wednesday, November 1 - 7:00 p.m.
SARA DANIEL
Journalist, war correspondent, Le Nouvel Observateur; author of Voyage to
a Stricken Land: Four Years on the Ground Reporting from Iraq (Arcade, 2006)
Four Years on the Ground Reporting from Iraq
Thursday, November 2 – 7:00 p.m.
GONZAGUE SAINT BRIS
Writer, journalist; author of The World of Jules Verne (Helen Marx Books, 2006); Les Vieillards de Brighton (Prix Interallié); Le Romantisme absolu; Les Eugènes russes
Sur les pas de Jules Verne
Friday, November 3, 2:00 – 5:00 p.m.
Co-sponsored by Institute of French Studies and Department of French
Voices from the Banlieues
Roundtable (in English and French)
FAIZA GUENE,
Writer; author of Kiffe Kiffe Tomorrow (Harcourt, 2006)
JENNA JOHNSON, editor, Harcourt
DAVID LEPOUTRE, Université d’Amiens; author of Cœur de banlieue
with:
Susan Rogers, NYU
Emmanuelle Ertel, NYU
Kathryn Kleppinger, NYU
Jack Murphy, NYU
Wednesday, November 8 – 6:30 p.m.
Institute of French Studies Colloquium
FREDERIQUE MATONTI
Political scientist, Université de Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne; visiting professor, NYU; author of Le Comportement politique des Français
Elections présidentielles 2007: la gauche et les classes populaires
Friday, November 10 and Saturday, November 11 – 7:30 p.m.
Albertine, en cinq temps
by Michel Tremblay
Presented in French by
Théâtre de la Chandelle Verte
Reservations recommended: 212-998-8750
Tuesday, November 14 – 7:00 p.m.
Co-sponsored by the Humanities Council
ALAIN BADIOU
Philosopher, Ecole Normale Supérieure; author of Le Siècle; Logiques des mondes; L’éthique; Abrégé de métapolitque; L’être et l'événement
Timing “The Century”
Discussants:
Emily Apter, NYU
Bruno Bosteels, Cornell
Xudong Zhang, NYU
Wednesday, November 15 – 6:30 p.m.
Co-sponsored by La Maison Française, the Institute of French Studies,
and the French-American Foundation
Roundtable
Discrimination Positive? French Debates about Affirmative Action
Discussants:
Kimberle Crenshaw, UCLA Law School, Columbia School of Law
Daniel Sabbagh, CERI, Paris
Joël Vallat, Proviseur, Lycée Louis-le-Grand
Patrick Weil, CNRS Université de Paris I
Sunday, November 19, 2:00 – 4:30 p.m.
Haitian History and Culture:
Commemorating the Battle of Vertières
Book Presentation & Signing
Revolutionary Freedoms: A History of Survival, Strength,
and Imagination in Haiti
Paintings by Ulrick Jean-Pierre
Edited by Cécile Accilien,
Jessica Adams, and Elmide Méléance (Caribbean Studies Press, 2006)
LECTURE-------CANCELLED
RICHARD MILLET
Writer, novelist; author of Harcèlement littéraire; Musique secrète; Ma Vie parmi les ombres; L’Amour des trois sœurs Piale; La Gloire des Pythre
La Solitude de l’écrivain
Tuesday, November 28 – 7:00 p.m.
YVES HERSANT
Director, Group de recherches sur l’Europe, EHESS; visiting professor, NYU; author of Mélancolies: De l’Antiquité au XXe siècle; La Métaphore baroque
Michel Foucault et l’Europe
LECTURE-------POSTPONED (Date to be announced)
Co-sponsored by La Maison Française and the Institute of French Studies
PAUL BERMAN
Distinguished writer in residence, Department of Journalism, NYU; author of A Tale of Two Utopias; Power and the Idealists; Terror and Liberalism
Hugo, Hawthorne, Tocqueville, and God
CONFERENCE
Friday, December 1
Institute of French Studies Colloquium
Perspectives on Jerrold Seigel’s The Idea of the Self
9:30 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.
Panelists:
Warren Breckman, University of Pennsylvania
Lucien Jaume, Cevipof – CNRS
Louis Sass, Rutgers University
John Toews, University of Washington
3:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.
Discussants:
Edward Berenson, NYU
Tony Judt, NYU
Helena Rosenblatt, CUNY
Debora Silverman, UCLA
4:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Response:
Jerrold Seigel, NYU, author of The Idea of the Self: Thought and Experience in Europe since the 17th Century (Cambridge University Press, 2005)
LECTURE-------CANCELLED
CHRISTIAN DELACAMPAGNE
Philosopher, writer; Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, Johns Hopkins University; author of Animaux étrangeset fabuleux; Les Religions peuvent-elles être tolérantes
Tina Modotti, femme, photographe, et communiste
Friday, December 8 – 7:00 p.m.
DANY LAFERRIERE
Novelist ; author of Comment faire l'amour avec un nègre sans se fatiguer; Charme des après-midi sans fin; L'Odeur du café; Le goût des jeunes filles; Le cri des oiseaux fous (Prix Marguerite Yourcenar)
in conversation with
J. MICHAEL DASH
Professor of French, NYU; author of Culture and Customs of Haiti; The Other America: Caribbean Literature in a New World Context
LECTURE
Tuesday, December 12 - 6:30 p.m.
Co-sponsored by the Institute of French Studies and Dialogues: Islamic World - U.S. - The West
ABDESSELAM CHEDDADI
Historian, University MuhammadV,Rabat, Morocco; author of Ibn Khaldûn: L’homme et le théoricien de la civilisation
Ibn Khaldûn, Philosopher of Societies, Civilizations,
and Empires
(in English and French with interpretation)
Response:
RICHARD BULLIET
Historian, Middle East Institute, Columbia University author of The Case for Islamo-Christian Civilization
EXHIBITION
October 27 – December 15
Hours: Monday-Friday, 10 am-6 pm
Open Saturday, December 9, 12-6 pm
The gallery is closed occasionally for NYU events.
Please call to verify hours. 212.998.8750
Left Bank New York:
Artists off Washington Square, 1900-1950
Curated by Virginia Budny
The exhibit surveys artists' studios and institutions dedicated to the visual arts in the two blocks north of Washington Square in the first half of the twentieth century. Converted from unused stables and townhouses, these artists' spaces evoked the atmosphere of the Latin Quarter in Paris and became a source of endless fascination for the public. Here some of America's most important artists – among them Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, Daniel Chester French, Edward Hopper, Paul Manship, Gaston Lachaise, and Isamu Noguchi – congregated, creating monuments that embellish New York City still today.
Catalogue available
Paul Manship (1885-1966) in his studio at 42 Washington Mews,
New York City, ca. 1918. Photograph by Nickloas Muray (1892-1965).
George Eastman House, Rochester, New York.
La Maison Française
50th Anniversary Season
Friday, January 12 – 8:00 p.m.
THE DAN TEPFER TRIO
Improvisational Contemporary Jazz at the
Intersection of Musical Cultures
Dan Tepfer, piano
Jorge Roeder, double bass
Richie Barshay, drums
Reservations: 212-998-8750
This jazz concert is part of the“French Quarter Festival” organized by the Cultural Services of the French Embassy in conjunction with the 34th Annual IAJE International Conference.
Thursday, January 18 – 7:00 p.m.
Co-sponsored by the Grey Art Gallery
TOSH BERMAN
Founder, Tam Tam Books; co-editor of Boris Vian’s
Manual of Saint-Germain-des-Prés
City of Angels, City of Light: Reflections on Postwar
Avant-Gardes in L.A. and Paris
Monday, January 22 – 7:00 p.m.
Co-sponsored by First Performance
FABIEN LEVY
Composer; assistant professor, Columbia University; winner of
2004 Ernst von Siemens Foundation Prize
Composing with Transparametric Categories:
A Short Portrait of My Music
Thursday, January 25 – 7:00 p.m.
MADISON SMARTT BELL
Writer; author of All Soul’s Rising; Master of the Crossroads; The Stone that the Builder Refused
Reading from Toussaint Louverture: A Biography
(Pantheon, 2007)
Friday, January 26 – 7:30 p.m.
Theater
Performance of excerpts from
Illusions comiques, by Olivier Py
with
OLIVIER PY
Writer, director, actor; newly appointed director of Théâtre de l’Odéon ; author of Visage d’Orphée; L’Apocalypse joyeuse; Epître aux jeunes acteurs
JOHN ARNOLD
Actor
Reservations: 212-998-8750
Presented in cooperation with HotInk Festival, TSOA, and the Cultural Services of the French Embassy.
Tuesday, January 30 – 7:00 p.m.
FRED FOREST
Multimedia artist
L'art du futur sera-t-il invisible ?
Illustrated Lecture (in French and English)
Thursday, February 1 – 7:00 p.m.
Co-sponsored by the Distinguished Lecturer Series, Medieval and Renaissance Center
SARAH KAY
Professor of French, Princeton University; author of Subjectivity in Troubadour Poetry; Courtly Contradictions
Allegory and Melancholy in Julia Kristeva
and Christine de Pizan
Concert
Friday, February 2 – 8:00 p.m.
MIRROR VISIONS ENSEMBLE
Emmanuel Chabrier:
Impressions in Music, Painting, and Life
Tobé Malawista, soprano
Richard Lalli, baritone and pianist
Scott Murphree, tenor
Christopher Berg, composer and pianist
Music by Chabrier, Duparc, Chausson, Poulenc, and Berg.
Reservations: 212-998-8750
Concerts by the Mirror Visions Ensemble are presented with the generous support of the Florence Gould Foundation.
Wednesday, February 7 – 6:30 p.m.
Institute of French Studies Colloquium
RENE-DANIEL DUBOIS
Actor, director and playwright; author of Being at Home with Claude
La culture québécoise... Parler français, bon
d'accord -- mais pour dire quoi?
Thursday, February 8 – 7:00 p.m.
EUNICE LIPTON
Writer; author of French Seduction: An American’s Encounter with
France, Her Father, and the Holocaust (Carrol & Graf, 2007); Alias Olympia
On Pleasure and Hatred in France: Yesterday and Today
Tuesday, February 13 – 7:00 p.m.
Correspondances:
“Les parfums, les couleurs et les sons se répondent”
Images, music, readings in French and English
MARIELLE BANCOU
Artist; creator of The Color of Love: An Artist’s Book of Poetry and Passion
(Abrams, 2006)
CATHERINE DAVID
Novelist; essayist; journalist; author of Crescendo: Avis aux amateurs
(Actes Sud, 2006); La Beauté du geste (Babel, 2006); The Beauty of Gesture, the Invisible Keyboard of Piano and T'ai Chi(North Atlantic Books)
Roundtable
Wednesday, February 14 – 6:30 p.m.
Institute of French Studies Colloquium
Islam in France
A discussion of
Why the French Don't Like Headscarves:
Islam, the State and Public Space (Princeton, 2006)
John Bowen, anthropologist (Washington University, St Louis); author of Why the French Don't Like Headscarves; Islam, Law and Equality in Indonesia
Michael Gilsenan, anthropologist (NYU); author of Recognizing Islam; Lords of the Lebanese Marches: Violence and Narrative in an Arab Society (1996)
Sophie Meunier, political scientist (Princeton University); co-author of The French Challenge: Adapting to Globalization
Peter Sahlins, historian; director of academic programs (Social Science Research Council); author of Unnaturally French:Foreign Citizens in the Old Regime and After
Thursday, February 15 – 7:00 p.m.
MARGARET WALLER
Professor of French, Pomona College; author of The Male Malady: Fictions of Impotence in the French Romantic Novel
Napoleon’s Closet: Display, Cover-Up, and Exposure in Modern Masculinity
Conference
Friday & Saturday, February 16 & 17
Graduate Student Conference: Department of French
UN/COMMON EXPERIENCE:
The Dross and the Glory of Everyday Life
For full schedule: http://www.uncommonexperience.com
Monday, February 26 – 7:00 p.m.
A Florence Gould Event
French Literature in the Making
JEAN – PAUL DUBOIS
Writer; novelist; author of Une Vie française (Prix Femina, 2004); Je pense à autre chose; Kennedy et moi
in conversation with
OLIVIER BARROT
Journalist, Un Livre un jour (France 3); publisher, Senso
First in a series of programs presented with the support of Voyageurs du Monde (Paris ) and Directours.
Tuesday, February 27 – 7:00 p.m.
Roundtable on French Theater: The Last 50 Years
Christian Biet, Université de Paris–Nanterre; author of
Qu’est-ce que le théâtre ?
Tom Bishop, NYU; author of From the Left Bank: Reflections
on the Modern French Theater and Novel
Judith Miller, NYU; author of Theater and Revolution in
France since 1968; Ariane Mnouchkine (2007)
Wednesday, February 28 – 6:30 p.m.
Institute of French Studies Colloquium
PASCAL ORY
Historian, Université de Paris I-Panthéon-Sorbonne; visiting professor, NYU; author of L’Histoire culturelle
Américanisation : Le mot, la chose et leurs spectres.
Special events for March 2007, le mois de la francophonie, are made possible by the generous support of the Représentation Permanente de l’Organisation Internationale de la Francophonie auprès des Nations Unies à New York.
Monday, March 5 – 7:00 p.m.
JACK YEAGER
Professor of French Studies, Louisiana State University; author of The Vietnamese Novel in French: A Literary Response to Colonialism; co-editor, Postcolonial Subjects
Vietnamese Francophone Narratives: Adaptation and Transformation
Cinema
Wednesday March 7 – 7:00 p.m.
Rendez-Vous with French Cinema 2007
Screening presented in cooperation with the French Film Office/Unifrance USA, The Film Society of Lincoln Center, The IFC Center, and the Cultural Services of the French Embassy
Location: IFC Center, 323 Avenue of the Americas (at West 3rd Street)
Tel: 212-924-7771
General public - $12; NYU i.d - $8 (this screening only)
L’Intouchable / The Untouchable (2006, 82 min).
Followed by Q & A with director Benoit Jacquot and actress Isild Le Besco
Moderator: William Wolf, film and theater critic
Rendez-Vous with French Cinema runs from February 28 through March 11, presenting the U.S. premieres of sixteen new French films. Screenings take place at the Walter Reade Theater and at the IFC Center.
Thursday, March 8 – 6:30 p.m.
Institute of French Studies Colloquium
ELEONORE LEPINARD
Sociologist; author of L’Egalité introuvable: la parité, les féministes et la République
From Parity to Ségolène: The Elusive Search for Gender Equality in French Politics
Monday, March 19 – 7:00 p.m.
CHRISTOPHER PRENDERGAST
Honorary Professor, University of Copenhagen; Fellow of King’s College, Cambridge;
author of Writing the City: Paris and the Nineteenth Century; The Order of Mimesis
The Classic and the Good Frenchman: From Sainte-Beuve to Action française
Tuesday, March 20 – 6:30 p.m.
DOMINIQUE KALIFA
Historian, Université de Paris 1; author of Histoire des détectives privés en France, 1832-1942
Les bagnes coloniaux de l’armée francaise, XIXe-XXe siècle
Roundtable
Wednesday, March 21 – 5 :00 p.m.
Qu’est-ce que la francophonie ? What is Francophonie ?
Hervé Cassan
Permanent Representative of the International Organization of la Francophonie to the United Nations
J. Michael Dash
Professor of French, NYU; author of Culture and Customs of Haiti
Judith Miller
Chair, Department of French, NYU; author of Ariane Mnouchkine
José Pliya
Playwright; directeur général, l’Artchipel, scène nationale de la Guadeloupe
Wednesday, March 21 – 7 :00 p.m.
JOSE PLIYA
Directeur Général, l’Artchipel, scène nationale de la Guadeloupe; director; playwright; author of Le Complexe de Thénardier; Nous étions assis sur le rivage du monde
L’Artchipel, scène nationale de la Guadeloupe,
un théâtre pour présenter les esthétiques francophones
Colloquium
Friday, March 23
Co-sponsored by The Institute of French Studies and La Maison Française
WHY FRANCE? The Place of France in American Academia
2:00 – 4:00 p.m.
50 Years of American History of France
Herrick Chapman, NYU
Laurent Dubois, Michigan State University
Jacques Revel, E.H.E.S.S.
Bonnie Smith, Rutgers University
Edward Berenson, NYU, moderator
4:30 – 6:00 p.m.
France Across the Disciplines: Literature, Sociology, Anthropology
Emily Apter, NYU
Priscilla Ferguson, Columbia University
Susan Carol Rogers, NYU
Frédéric Viguier, NYU, moderator
7:30 p.m.
Why France? Autobiographical Reflections
Introduction:
Stéphane Gerson, NYU; editor (with Laura Lee Downs), Why France?
American Historians Reflect on an Enduring Fascination (Cornell UP, 2007)
Clare Haru Crowston, University of Illinois
Jan Goldstein, University of Chicago
Other participants to be announced
Afterword: Roger Chartier, E.H.E.S.S.
Lecture
Tuesday, March 27 – 7 :00 p.m.
Illustrated Lecture
ROSALIND KRAUSS
University Professor, Columbia University; founding editor,October Magazine; author of Formless; The Optical Unconscious; co-editor, Art Since 1900
True Stories: The Enigma of Sophie Calle
Roundtable
Wednesday, March 28 – 6:30 p.m.
Institute of French Studies Colloquium
Presented in cooperation with with ADFE-Français du Monde
Les candidats aux élections présidentielles de 2007: du neuf pour la France?
Philippe Antoine (RTL); Philippe Boulet-Gercourt (Le Nouvel Observateur); Thomas Cantaloube (La Vie, Le Parisien, Marianne); Emmanuel Saint-Martin (Le Point)
Roundtable
Thursday, March 29 – 7:00 p.m.
French Cinema: Revisiting the New Wave
Molly Haskell
Writer and critic; author of From Reverence to Rape: The Treatment of Women in the Movies
Richard Peña
Director, New York Film Festival; program director, Film Society of Lincoln Center; associate professor of film, Columbia University
Geneviève Sellier
Professeur d’études cinématographiques, Université de Caen; author of La Nouvelle vague, un cinéma au masculin singulier
Exhibition
March 26 – May 25 M – F, 10 a.m. – 6 p.m.
Paris Moderne
Photographs by
DOMINIQUE NABOKOV
Special Event
April 9
Maison Française 50th Anniversary Gala Benefit
Honoring Jean Nouvel, Architect
Inquiries: maison.francaise@nyu.edu
April 27 & 28
Homecoming for Alumni of the Graduate French Department, NYU;
Inquiries: larc.newsletter@nyu.edu
Several spring 2007 special events are made possible by the generous support of the Représentation Permanente de l’Organisation Internationale de la Francophonie auprès des Nations Unies à New York.
Thursday, April 5 – 6:30 p.m.
Institute of French Studies Colloquium
Perspectives on the 2007 Presidential Campaign in France
Thomas Philippon, economist, NYU
Muriel Rouyer, political scientist, Université de Nantes
Joan W. Scott, historian, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton
Friday, April 6 - 10:30 a.m.
Roundtable
”La Jeunesse est dans la rue”: les jeunes et la politique en France
BRUNO JULLIARD
Chairman, Union Nationale des Étudiants de France
with NYU students
Andrew Hansen, Noah Meyerson, Stéphanie Ponsavardy, Chelsea Stieber, Dominick Tribone
Lecture
Tuesday, April 10 – 7:00 p.m..
A Florence Gould Event
French Literature in the Making
PHILIPPE BESSON
Novelist; author of En l’absence des hommes; Son frère; L’arrière saison (Prix RTL-LIRE)
in conversation with
OLIVIER BARROT
Journalist, Un Livre un jour (France 3); publisher, Senso
Program presented with the support of Voyageurs du Monde (Paris) and Directours.
Lecture
Thursday, April 12 – 7:00 p.m.
A Florence Gould Event
MAURICE OLENDER
Maître de conferences, E.H.E.S.S.; author of Les Langues du Paradis; La Chasse aux évidences
La Passion des origines. Entre langue et nation
Conference
Friday & Saturday, April 13 & 14
Institute of French Studies Colloquium
Constructing Charisma: Fame, Celebrity and Power in 19th Century Europe
Morning sessions: 9:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.
Afternoon Sessions: 2:00 to 5:00 p.m.
participants:
Jeffrey Alexander, Yale; Emily Apter, NYU; Ruth Ben-Ghiat, NYU; Edward Berenson, NYU;
Venita Datta, Wellesley; Steven Englund, American University, Paris; University of Chicago
Peter Fritzsche, UI, Urbana-Champagne; Eva Giloi, Rutgers-Newark; Dana Gooley, Brown;
Dominique Kalifa, Paris I; Martin Kohlrausch, GHI, Warsaw; Steven Minta, York
Anson Rabinbach, Princeton; Mary Louise Roberts, Wisconsin; Vanessa Schwartz, USC;
Kenneth Silver, NYU
Monday, April 16 – 7:00 p.m.
Sponsored by the Humanities Council
JEAN-PAUL FARGIER
Video artist, television producer, critic; author of Nam Jun Paik; editor, Où va la video?
L’époque du post-cinéma
and first U.S. screening of
"Jour après jour" (2006)
Introduced by Professor Anne-Deneys-Tunney
Wednesday, April 18 – 6 :30 p.m.
Co-sponsored by the Institute of French Studies and the Remarque Institute
HENRI ALLEG
Journalist and writer, author of La Question (1958); Mémoire algérienne: Souvenirs de luttes et d’espérances
La Question et ses réceptions depuis la Guerre d’Algérie
Reponse: STEVEN M. LUKES
Sociologist, NYU; author of Emile Durkheim; Moral Conflict and Politics
Lecture
Monday, April 23 – 7:00 p.m.
Co-sponsored by the Institute of French Studies
FRANÇOIS CUSSET
Writer, historian; author of Queer Critics; French Theory; La Décennie: Le grand cauchemar des années 80
Counter-Revolution French Style: The Legacy of the 1980s
Wednesday, April 25 1:00 – 2:00 p.m.
PEN World Voices: The NY Festival of International Literature
Co-sponsored by La Maison Française of NYU
ALAIN MABANCKOU
Novelist and poet; author of Memoirs of a Porcupine (Prix Renaudot, 2006); African Psycho
DANY LAFERRIERE
Novelist; author of Comment faire l’amour avec un nègre sans se fatiguer (Prix Marguerite Yourcenar)
in conversation with
ANDERSON TEPPER
Journalist, Vanity Fair
Wednesday, April 25 – 6:00 p.m.
PEN World Voices Event; co-sponsored by La Maison
Française and the French Institute-Alliance Française
YASMINA KHADRA
Novelist; author of The Swallows of Kabul; Wolf Dreams
in conversation with
EMMANUELLE ERTEL
Professor, Department of French, NYU
Location: Tinker Auditorium, FIAF, 55 East 59th Street
Reservations: 646-388-6682
Special Events
April 27 & 28
Homecoming for Alumni of the Graduate French Department, NYU;
Inquiries: larc.newsletter@nyu.edu
Sunday April 29 3:00 – 4:30 p.m. -------- Event Cancelled
PEN World Voices Event
Ravel: A Conversation with Music
JEAN ECHENOZ, Novelist, author of Ravel
NURIT PACHT, Violinist
and The Alliance Players
Monday, April 30 – 7:00 p.m.
A Florence Gould Event
French Literature in the Making
ALAIN FLEISCHER
Filmmaker, photographer, visual artist, essayist, novelist; author of
La Femme couchée par écrit; Immersion; L’Amant en culottes courtes
in conversation with
OLIVIER BARROT
Journalist, Un Livre un jour (France 3); publisher, Senso
Program presented with the support of Voyageurs du Monde (Paris) and Directours.
Monday, May 7 – 7:00 p.m.
Co-sponsored by The Paris Review
Unknown Flaubert: Recently Discovered Texts
ESTHER ALLEN
Translator; co-founder, Center for Literary
Translation, Columbia University
RICHARD SIEBURTH
Translator; professor of French and Comparative Literature, NYU
Exhibition
Through May 25 M – F, 10 a.m. – 6 p.m. (call to confirm hours)
Paris Moderne 1986 - 1990
Photographs by
DOMINIQUE NABOKOV
Tuesday, September 18 - 7:00 p.m.
Multi-media lecture/demonstration
RAPHAEL MOSTEL
Composer, The Travels of Babar; Night and Dawn; Ceremonial for the Equinox; founder/composer/director of Tibetan Singing Bowl Ensemble: New Music for Old Instruments (sm); journalist
Composing for Babar
The Village Voice calls Mostel "one of New York's most popular and original composers."
Wednesday, September 19 - 6:30 p.m.
Institute of French Studies Colloquium
MARY D. LEWIS
Historian, Harvard University; author of The Boundaries of the Republic
Migrant Rights and the Limits of Universalism in France, 1918 - 1940
Thursday, September 20 - 7:00 p.m.
Des Femmes en littérature: comment et pourquoi éditer les femmes de lettres
MARTINE REID
Professor, Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines; editor, Femmes de lettres series, Gallimard
JOAN DEJEAN
Trustee Professor, University of Pennsylvania; author of Tender Geographies: Women and the Origins of the Novel in France
Monday, September 24 - 7:00 p.m.
A Florence Gould Event French Literature in the Making
First in the 2007-2008 series (More info...)
CECILE GUILBERT
Essayist, Saint Simon ou l'encre de la subversion; Pour Guy Debord; L'Ecrivain le plus libre; Surviving Andy Warhol (forthcoming); novelist, Le Musée national
in conversation with
OLIVIER BARROT
Journalist, Un Livre un jour (France 3); publisher, Senso.
Presented with the support of The Florence Gould Foundation,Voyageurs du Monde (Paris), Directours, L'Avion, The Cultural Services of the French Embassy, and CulturesFrance.
Thursday, September 27 - 7:00 p.m.
Round Table Discussion
Luxury and Labor: The 18th/19th Century Turn
EMILY APTER, NYU
BEN KAFKA, NYU
JOHN SHOVLIN, NYU
CAROLINE WEBER, Barnard College
Monday, October 1 - 8:00 p.m.
Concert Promenade avec Gertrude Stein
SYLVIE ROBERT, soprano
DIMITRI VASSILAKIS, piano
Includes works by Virgil Thomson, Ned Rorem, Nadia Boulanger, Francis Poulenc.
Concert Reservations: 212-998-8750
Wednesday, October 3 - 6:30 p.m.
Institute of French Studies Colloquium
LAURENT MUCCHIELLI
Sociologist, CNRS; author, Le scandale des "tournantes"
Violence en France: L'évolution des réalités et des représentions
Tuesday, October 9 - 7:00 p.m.
CAROL SYMES
Professor of History, University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana; author of A Medieval Theatre
Finding a Common Stage: Medieval Arras and the History of Theater
Thursday, October 11 - 7:00 p.m.
Centennial Round Table
A Celebration of René Char (1907-1988)
MARY ANN CAWS, CUNY (moderator)
SANDRA BERMANN, Princeton University
NANCY PIORE, Barnard
MICHAEL WOOD, Princeton University
Friday, October 12 - 8:00 p.m.
Concert
JAYN ROSENFELD, flute
BERNARD ROSE, piano
Includes works by François Couperin, Darius Milhaud, Henri Dutilleux, Claude Debussy.
Reservations: 212-998-8750
Tuesday, October 16 - 7:00 p.m.
Special Event:
Centennial Celebration: Germaine Brée (1907 2007)
Founder, La Maison Française, NYU; author of Camus; André Gide; Marcel Proust; Camus and Sartre: Crisis and Commitment; Women Writers in France
Participants include Tom Bishop, Georges Borchardt, Mary Ann Caws, Tom Conley, and David Noakes.
Wednesday, October 17 - 6:30 p.m.
Institute of French Studies Colloquium
LAURA LEE DOWNS
Historian, EHESS; visiting professor, NYU; author of Childhood in the Promised Land
Feminist Perspectives on the Politics of Childhood in France
Thursday, October 18 - 7:00 p.m.
Co-sponsored by the Division of Libraries, NYU
LARRY W. BOWMAN
Professor Emeritus of Africana Studies, University of Connecticut, Storrs
Collecting the Indian Ocean
A discussion of Prof. Bowman's collection of books, periodicals, maps, and other materials pertaining to the Indian Ocean littoral (from Cape Town to Fremantle, with a particular focus on Mauritius and Seychelles), recently acquired by the NYU libraries.
Monday, October 22 - 7:00 p.m.
A Florence Gould Event
French Literature in the Making (More info...)
CLAUDE ARNAUD
Novelist, Le Caméléon (Prix Femina du premier roman); Le Jeu des quatre coins; biographer, Jean Cocteau (Prix de l'essai de l'Académie française); essayist, Qui dit je en nous?
in conversation with
OLIVIER BARROT
Journalist, Un Livre un jour (France 3); publisher, Senso
Presented with the support of The Florence Gould Foundation, Voyageurs du Monde (Paris), Directours, L'Avion, The Cultural Services of the French Embassy, and CulturesFrance
Thursday, October 25 - 7:00 p.m.
GEORGES BORCHARDT
Literary agent; co-founder and president, Georges Borchardt, Inc.
in conversation with
RACHEL DONADIO
Writer and editor, New York Times Book Review
Monday, October 29 - 7:00 p.m.
Co-sponsored by the Grey Art Gallery
SERGE GUILBAUT
Professor of Art History, Visual Art, and Theory, University of British Columbia, Vancouver; author of How New York Stole the Idea of Modern Art
The Other Side of the Square:
Post-World War II French Art Scenes and All That Jazz!
Supported by grants from the Fundacion Cisneros and Professor Herman Berkman; organized in conjunction with The Geometry of Hope: Latin American Abstract Art from the Patricia de Cisneros Collection, exhibition on view at the Grey Art Gallery, NYU, Sept. 12 Dec. 8, 2007.
Wednesday, October 31 6:30 p.m.
Institute of French Studies Colloquium
VINCENT DUCLERT
Historian, Stony Brook University; author of Alfred Dreyfus
La France : une identité nationale ou une identité démocratique?
Friday & Saturday, November 2 & 3
French Studies Graduate Student Symposium
Conference
REGIME CHANGE:
The Social and Cultural Origins of Political Transformation in France
Details: www.ifssymposium.com
Monday, November 5 - 7 :00 p.m.
Reading (in French)
CHRISTINE ANGOT
Novelist and playwright; author of Sujet Angot; L'Inceste; Quitter la ville; Les Désaxés; Une Partie de coeur; Rendez-vous (Prix de Flore)
Lecture de textes
Thursday, November 8 - 7 :00 p.m.
A Florence Gould Event
PHILIPPE ROGER
CNRS and EHESS; Distinguished Global Visiting Professor, NYU; editor, Critique; author of Roland Barthes: roman; Sade; L'Ennemi américain
L'Invention littéraire du maître à penser et l'anti-intellectualisme à la française
Monday, November 12 - 7 :00 p.m.
Un Acteur, un auteur
Staged Reading in French and English. La Musica by Marguerite Duras
with ASTRID BAS and DANIEL PETROW
Reservations: 212-998-8750
Tuesday, November 13 - 7:00 p.m.
ROLEX ARTS WEEKEND
Mentor and Protégé Arts Initiative
World Literature Night
TAHAR BEN JELLOUN
EDEM AWUMEY
Location: Joe's Pub at the Public Theater, 425 Lafayette Street
Reservations: 212-539-8778
The young Togolese writer Edem Awumey, Rolex Protégé in Literature, and his Mentor, the Moroccan poet and author Tahar Ben Jelloun, whose 1987 novel La Nuit sacrée won France's prestigious Prix Goncourt, read from recent works (in French with English translation).
Presented in conjunction with The New School and the Canadian Consulate General in New York.
Wednesday, November 14 - 6:30 p.m.
Institute of French Studies Colloquium
BERNARD LAHIRE
Sociologist, ENS, Lyon; author of La Condition littéraire. La double vie des écrivains; L'esprit sociologique; L'Homme pluriel. Les ressorts de l'action
La Condition littéraire ou la double vie des écrivains
Thursday, November 15 - 7:00 p.m.
Co-sponsored by the Grey Art Gallery
MARIO GRADOWCZYK
Independent scholar and curator
Joaquin Torres-Garcia in Paris and Cercle et Carré
Organized in conjunction with The Geometry of Hope: Latin American Abstract Art from the Patricia de Cisneros Collection, exhibition on view at the Grey Art Gallery, NYU, Sept.12 - Dec.8, 2007
Monday, November 19 - 7:00 p.m.
A Florence Gould Event
French Literature in the Making (More info)
CLEMENCE BOULOUQUE
Novelist; Mort d'un silence (Prix Fénéon); Sujets libres; Le Goût de Tanger; Au Pays des macarons; Chasse à courre; Nuit ouverte.
in conversation with
OLIVIER BARROT
Journalist, Un Livre un jour (France 3); publisher, Senso
In French.
Presented with the support of The Florence Gould Foundation, Voyageurs du Monde (Paris), Directours, L'Avion. The Cultural Services of the French Embassy, and CulturesFrance.
Tuesday, November 27 - 7:00 p.m.
FABIENNE MOORE
Associate Professor, Romance Languages and Literatures, University of Oregon
Les poëmes en prose des Lumières ou la politique du genre
Wednesday, November 28 - 7:00 p.m.
Co-sponsored by the Institute of French Studies
A conversation with
JANE KRAMER
European correspondent, The New Yorker; author of nine books, including Unsettling Europe; Europeans; The Politics of Memory
France and the Rest of Us: Nicolas Sarkozy's First Six Months in the Elysée
Thursday, November 29 - 7:00 p.m.
Jean Anouilh, vingt ans après
Remembering Jean Anouilh (1910-1987)
Scenes, Songs, and Poems
interpreted by
Bernard Pisani, Jacqueline Chambord, Malinda Haslett, Michael Fennelly
In French.
With the participation of Colombe Anouilh, the playwright's daughter, and Alain Malraux, founder of Theater France 2000
Reservations: 212-998-8750. Waiting list only.
Tuesday, December 4 - 2:30 p.m.
Roundtable
Publishing French Fiction and Non-Fiction in the U.S.
Participants include:
OLIVIER NORA, President, Editions Grasset
ERIC VIGNE, Editorial Director, Social Sciences and Humanities, Editions Gallimard
LUCINDA KARTER, Director, French Publishers'Agency
JENNIFER CREWE, Associate Director and Editorial Director, Columbia University Press
Thursday, December 6 - 7:00 p.m.
Reading (in French)
EUGENE NICOLE
Professor of French, NYU; novelist; author of L'Oeuvre des mers; Les Larmes de Pierre; Le Caillou de L'Enfant-Perdu
Lecture de textes: Alaska (Ed. de l'Olivier, 2007)
Monday, December 10 - 7:30 p.m.
Special Screening
Presented by
M. FRANCOIS DELATTRE
Consul Général of France in New York
A HERO'S WELCOME:
A Story of Friendship, Gratitude, and Remembrance
A Film by ROBIN MASSEE
This feature documentary explores the impact of D-Day, sixty years later, on the French-American relationship, through interviews with veterans, French citizens, and American visitors to Normandy. With Tom Brokaw, author of The Greatest Generation, and Anne d'Ornano, President of the Conseil Régional du Calvados.
(Massee Productions, 2007; 90 min.).
Location: Cantor Film Center, Theater 101
36 East Eighth Street, between University Place and Greene Street
Tuesday, January 29 - 7:00 p.m.
ANKA MUHLSTEIN
Writer, historian, biographer; author of Elisabeth d’Angleterre et Marie Stuart ou les périls du mariage; Astolphe de Custine, le dernier marquis (Prix Goncourt, biographie); Napoléon à Moscou (Odile Jacob, 2007)
Napoleon and the Burning of Moscow
Wednesday, January 30 - 6:30 pm
Institute of French Studies Colloquium
PIERRE BOUVIER
Sociologist, Université de Paris X-Nanterre; author of Le Lien social; Socio-anthropologie du contemporain; Frantz Fanon
Les Antilles entre négritude et transnational: Aimé Césaire/Frantz Fanon
Thursday, January 31 - 7:00 p.m.
Lecture
KAREEN RISPAL
Cultural Counselor of the French Embassy
La diplomatie culturelle
Friday, February 1 - 8:00 p.m.
Concert
MIRROR VISIONS ENSEMBLE
French Jewels
Music by Reynaldo Hahn, Charles Koechlin, and Christopher Berg.
Tobé Malawista, soprano
Scott Murphree, tenor
Richard Lalli, baritone
Alan Darling, piano
Reservations: 212-998-8750
This concert is inspired by an exhibition of the jewelry of René Lalique at the Musée du Luxembourg in Paris and by the Lalique Collection at the Musée des Arts Décoratifs. The program is divided into groups of songs that link to the jewels, to the Divas who wore them, and to Lalique himself. The art and intricacy of Lalique's exquisite sculpture in enamel, gold and semi-precious stones and the sensuality of his subject-matter, are paralleled in the music of Reynaldo Hahn and Charles Koechlin, as well as Gabriel Fauré, César Cui, Albert Roussel, Erik Satie, Manuel de Falla and Maurice Ravel, among others.
New commission for this concert: Christopher Berg's setting of "Les Bijoux", a poem by Charles Baudelaire. The performers are Tobé Malawista, soprano; Scott Murphree, tenor; Richard Lalli, baritone; Alan Darling, pianist.
The ensemble will also present this concert at the newly reopened Musée des Arts Décoratifs in Paris on Saturday, March 15, 2008.
Concerts by the Mirror Visions Ensemble are presented with the generous support of the Florence Gould Foundation.
Tuesday, February 5 - 7:00 p.m.
ANDRE SCHIFFRIN
Publisher; founder, The New Press; author of A Political Education: Coming of Age in Paris and New York (Melville House, 2007)
A Political Education: Coming of Age in Paris and New York
Thursday, February 7 - 7:00 p.m.
SYLVERE LOTRINGER
Professor of French Literature and Philosophy, Columbia University;
founder, Semiotext(e)
Baudrillard’s Homage to Foucault
Monday, February 11 - 7:00 p.m.
A Florence Gould Event
French Literature in the Making
(more info...)
- Simultaneaous translation into English available
JEAN ECHENOZ
Author of Le Méridien de Greenwich; Cherokee (Prix Médicis); L’Equipée malaise; Je m’en vais (Prix Goncourt); Ravel
in conversation with
OLIVIER BARROT
Journalist, Un livre un jour (France 3); publisher, Senso
Presented with the support of Directours, l’Avion, the Cultural Services of the French Embassy, and CulturesFrance.
Tuesday, February 12 – 7:00 p.m.
Translating and Adapting Artaud: The Cenci
Selected Readings and Discussion
JOHN JAHNKE
Playwright/director, The Archery Contest; Funeral Games; The Shady Maids of Haiti; artistic director, The Hotel Savant theater company
RICHARD SIEBURTH
Professor of French and Comparative Literature, NYU; translator of Antonin Artaud, Michel Leiris, Henri Michaux, Gérard de Nerval, Maurice Scève
Antonin Artaud’s infamous version of the Roman scandal of 1599 takes on a wicked life of its own in his lurid account of a wealthy family felled by incest, murder, and Papal oppression. This rarely staged Theatre of Cruelty work, adapted and directed by John Jahnke, is presented in its first American translation at The Ohio Theater, NYC, February 6-24, 2008 (http://www.hotelsavant.com).
Wednesday, February 13 - 6:30 p.m.
Cinema
Film Screening (in French; no subtitles). Co-sponsored by the Africa House, the Institute of French Studies and La Maison Française.
Les Statues Meurent Aussi
Directed by Alain Resnais and Chris Marker (1953, 29 min.), produced by Présence Africaine
Panel discussion (in English)
Ludovic Cortade, Assistant Professor of French, NYU
Awam Ampka, Associate professor of Drama; director, Africana Studies; author of Theatre and Postcolonial Desires
Denis Hollier, Professor of French, NYU
Alisa LaGamma, Curator, Department of the Arts of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas, The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Thursday, February 14 – 7:00 p.m.
FRANÇOISE GAILLARD
Professor, Université de Paris-VII; visiting professor, NYU
De l’âge de la critique à l’âge de la morale
Tuesday, February 19 - 7:00 p.m.
LISE SCHREIER
Assistant Professor of French, Fordham University; author of Seul dans l'Orient lointain: les voyages de Nerval et Du Camp
Au Secours des inépousées: colonialisme, féminisme et consensus national (1897-1903)
Thursday, February 21 - 7:00 p.m.
PIERRE-MARC de BIASI
Director, CNRS-Institut des Textes et Manuscrits Modernes; author of L’Erotisme (de l’Olympe au Cybersex)
Erotisme: l’art et les techniques dans l’histoire des représentations du plaisir
Friday & Saturday, February 22 & 23
Graduate Student Conference – Department of French
La Vie de l’œuvre: inception, reproduction, and decomposition
Details: http://homepages.nyu.edu/~yeh206/index3.html
Tuesday, February 26 - 7:00 p.m.
A Conversation with
JEROME CHARYN
Writer; novelist; author of Sizzling Chops and Devilish Spins; The Isaac Quartet; The Green Lantern: A Romance of Stalinist Russia; Johnny One-Eye: A Tale of the American Revolution (Norton, 2008)
Participants:
Georges Borchardt, Literary Agent
Robert Weil, Editor, W.W. Norton
Wednesday, February 27 - 6:30 p.m.
Co-sponsored by the Institute of French Studies and the Program in Museum Studies
The Making of the Cité nationale de l’histoire de l’immigration
NANCY L. GREEN
Historian, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris; history advisory board member, Cité nationale de l’histoire de l’immigration; author of Ready-to-Wear and Ready-to-Work: A Century of Industry and Immigrants in Paris and New York
Respondants:
Jeffrey L. Trask, Historian, Museum Studies, NYU
Ruth J. Abram, Lower East Side Tenement Museum
Thursday, Feb. 28 - 7:00 p.m.
MAURO CARBONE
Philosopher, University of Milan; author of La Visibilité de l’invisible: Merleau-Ponty entre Cézanne et Proust; The Thinking of the Sensible: Merleau-Ponty’s A-Philosophy
Merleau-Ponty and Deleuze as Readers of Proust
Rendez-vous with French Cinema
Screenings presented in cooperation with Unifrance Film International, The Film Society of Lincoln Center, The IFC Center, and the Cultural Services of the French Embassy
Location:
IFC Center, 323 Avenue of the Americas (at West 3rd Street) Tel: 212-924-7771 www.ifccenter.com
$12 General public, $8 students with NYU i.d (these screenings only), IFC members, seniors
Sunday, March 2 – 3:30 p.m.
Her Name is Sabine / Elle s’appelle Sabine
(2007, 85 min., in French with English subtitles)
Followed by Q & A with director
SANDRINE BONNAIRE
Moderator: Ludovic Cortade, NYU
A touching documentary memoir of her sister’s autism written and directed by acclaimed actress Sandrine Bonnaire.
Tuesday, March 4 – 9:30 p.m.
Ain’t Scared / Regarde-moi
(2007, 97 min., in French with English subtitles)
Followed by Q & A with director
AUDREY ESTROUGO
Moderator: Robert Stam, NYU
The 23-year-old director’s first film explores racial dynamics and adolescent life in the Parisian housing projects.
Rendez-Vous with French Cinema runs from February 29 through March 9, presenting the U.S. premieres of fifteen new French films. Screenings take place at the Walter Reade Theater and at the IFC Center.
For a complete schedule, visit www.filmlinc.com and www.ifccenter.com
Monday, March 3 – 7:00 p.m.
A Florence Gould Event
French Literature in the Making
Simultaneous translation available for this event. More info...
LINDA LÊ
Writer, novelist; author of Un si tendre vampire; Les Evangiles du crime; Calomnies; Les Dits d’un Idiot; Les Trois Parques ; Lettre morte; Voix; Les Aubes; Autres Jeux avec le Feu;Personne; In Memoriam
in conversation with
OLIVIER BARROT
Journalist, Un livre un jour (France 3); publisher, Senso
Presented with the support of Directours, l’Avion, the Cultural Services of the French Embassy, and CulturesFrance.
Wednesday, March 5 – 6:30 p.m.
Institute of French Studies Colloquium
Reading and discussion with the authors
Queer Lives: Men's Autobiographies from 19th-Century France
(University of Nebraska Press, 2007)
WILLIAM A. PENISTON
Manager of Library and Archives, The Newark Museum; author of Pederasts and Others: Urban Culture and Sexual Identity in Nineteenth-Century Paris
NANCY ERBER
Professor of Linguistics and Modern Languages, LaGuardia Community College, CUNY; author of Disorder in the Court: Trials and Sexual Conflict at the Turn of the Century
March 10, 11, 12 at 7:00 p.m.
A Florence Gould Event
A TRIBUTE TO
CHRISTIAN DELACAMPAGNE (1949-2007)
Philosopher, writer, critic, human rights activist;
author of
Histoire de la philosophie au XXe siècle; De l’Indifférence;
Le Philosophe et le tyran; Histoire du racisme;
Islam et Occident; Apprendre à vivre ensemble
THREE LECTURES IN HONOR OF A FRIEND
Monday, March 10 - 7:00 p.m.
PAUL AUDI
Philosopher, writer, Paris; author of Supériorité de l’éthique; L’Ethique mise à nu par ses paradoxes, même; L’Ivresse de l’art; Nietzsche et l’esthétique; Créer
Le Paradoxe du désir selon Alfred Jarry
Tuesday, March 11 - 7:00 p.m.
LAWRENCE D. KRITZMAN
Rosenwald Research Professor in Arts and Sciences, Professor of French and Comparative Literature, Dartmouth College; author of The Rhetoric of Sexuality and the Literature of the French Renaissance
Romancing the Stone: Montaigne's Erotics of Experience
Wednesday, March 12 - 7:00 p.m.
TOM BISHOP
Florence Lacaze Gould Professor of French Literature, NYU; editor, L’Avant-Garde Théâtrale: French Theater Since 1950; author, From the Left Bank: Reflections on the Modern French Theater and Novel
Now You See It, Now You Don’t: The Disappearing Avant-Garde
Tuesday, March 25 – 7:00 p.m.
MARK CRUSE
Assistant Professor, School of International Letters and Cultures, Arizona State University
Wednesday, March 26 - 6:30 p.m.
Institute of French Studies Colloquium
ERIC FASSIN
Sociologist, Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris; visiting professor, NYU; author of L'Inversion de la question homosexuelle, Liberté, égalité, sexualités; coeditor, De la question sociale à la question raciale?
The Rising Significance of Race in France
Thursday, March 27 – 6:00 p.m. (Note time)
Special Event
Book Launch
Continental Shifts: The Art of Edouard Duval Carrié
Edited by Edward J. Sullivan (Arte al Dia Press, 2007)
Continental Shifts: The Art of Edouard Duval-Carrié features the magical realism captured in both painting and sculpture by this important Haitian-born artist. The art of Duval-Carrié exhibits a dynamic blend of Afro-Caribbean culture, fantasy, and spectacular ornamentation.
EDOUARD DUVAL CARRIE
Artist
in conversation with
EDWARD J. SULLIVAN
Dean of Humanities, NYU; art historian
MICHAEL DASH
Professor of French, NYU
SARAH LEWIS
Art historian, Yale University
March 10 – April 8
M – F, 10 a.m. – 6 p.m.
EXHIBITION
Duende: Visages et Voix du Flamenco
Photographs by
ARIANE DELACAMPAGNE
From the volume published by L’Archange Minotaure, 2007.
Text by Christian Delacampagne.
Festival de Mont-de-Marsan, Belén Maya, 2005
April/May 2008
Wednesday, April 2 – 6:30 p.m.
Co-sponsored by the Institute of French Studies
SYLVAIN CYPEL
Senior Correspondant, Le Monde; author of Walled: Israeli Society at an Impasse
France, Israel, and the U.S.: Shifting Debates
Thursday, April 3 – 7:00 p.m.
YAËL DAGAN
Fellow, Remarque Institute, NYU; author of La Nouvelle Revue française de la guerre à la paix, 1914-1925 (forthcoming)
La Nouvelle Revue française et l’oubli de la Première Guerre mondiale
Tuesday, April 8 – 6:30 p.m. (Note time)
A Florence Gould Event
Location: 19 West 4th Street, Room 101, New York, NY 10012 (map it...)
JACK LANG
Member of the French National Assembly; Former French Minister of Culture and Minister of Education
A Dialogue on Culture, Politics, France today...
(in French)
with Tom Bishop, NYU
Through April 8, M – F, 10 a.m. – 6 p.m.
EXHIBITION
Duende: Visages et Voix du Flamenco
Photographs by
ARIANE DELACAMPAGNE
From the volume published by L’Archange Minotaure, 2007. Text by Christian Delacampagne.
April 10 – 12
CONFERENCE
Catastrophe and Caesura:
Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe Today
Organized by Denis Hollier and Avital Ronell
Thursday, April 10 - 6:30 p.m.
Location: Cardozo Law School, 55 Fifth Avenue
Introduction: Peter Goodrich
Keynote Lecture: Jean-Luc Nancy
Après la tragédie - After Tragedy (in French; English translation available)
Friday, April 11
Location: La Maison Française, NYU
10:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. (In French)
Discussion:
Marie-Hélène Huet, moderator (Princeton)
Richard Sieburth (NYU)
François Rigolot (Princeton)
Claire Nancy (Paris)
Michel Deutsch (Strasbourg)
Michel Deguy (Paris)
2:30 – 5:30 p.m.
Micaela Kramer, moderator (NYU)
Anthony Vidler (Cooper Union)
Sam Weber (Northwestern)
Jeff Fort (UC Davis)
Jean-Christophe Bailly (Paris)
Saturday, April 12
Location: La Maison Française
10:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.
Anthony Abiragi, moderator (NYU)
Susan Bernstein (Brown)
Kevin McLaughlin (Brown)
Shireen Patell (NYU)
John Hamilton (NYU)
Eduardo Cadava (Princeton)
12:30 p.m.
Concluding Remarks
Peter Banki, moderator (NYU)
Ann Smock (UC Berkeley)
Christopher Fynsk (Aberdeen)
Sponsored by NYU (Departments of French, German., and Comparative Literature; Center for French Civilization and Culture; Dean of Humanities; The Humanities Initiative); Princeton University (Department of French and Italian; Office of the President); Cardozo Law School; TVTS; Cultural Services of the French Embassy.
Tuesday, April 15 – 7:00 p.m.
SPECIAL EVENT
COLLEGE DES BERNARDINS:
A New Center in Paris for Cultural Dialogue on 21st Century Issues
Presentation by
FATHER PATRICK DUBOIS
President, Yahad-in-Unum; director, French Bishops’ Conference for Jews; adviser to the Vatican’s Commission for religious relations with Jews; director of research, Collège des Bernardins
Built in the 13th century, by the Cistercian monks, the Collège des Bernardins was for many centuries a center of Western thought. It is currently undergoing a spectacular renovation to recover its original beauty. At the initiative of the Catholic Church, it will become a special place for dialogue, debate and research on critical issues in today’s society.
Wednesday, April 16 - 6:30 p.m.
Institute of French Studies Colloquium
SIHEM HABCHI
President, Ni Putes, Ni Soumises
Le Mouvement Ni Putes, Ni Soumises aujourd'hui
Thursday, April 17 – 7:00 p.m.
Co-sponsored by the Department of Comparative Literature
TIMOTHY J. REISS
Professor Emeritus of Comparative Literature, Distinguished Scholar in Residence, NYU; author of Against Autonomy: Global Dialectics of Cultural Exchange; Mirages of the Selfe: Patterns of Personhood in Ancient and Early Modern Europe
“From the birds I learned ...”:
Jean de Léry on Violence, Religion, and the Colonial
Monday, April 21– 7:00 p.m.
LINDA NOCHLIN
Lila Acheson Wallace Professor of Modern Art, Institute of Fine Arts, NYU; author of Realism and Tradition in Art, 1848-1900; The Politics of Vision; Representing Women; Bathers, Bodies, Beauty; Courbet
Courbet’s Realism
Thursday, April 24 – 7:00 p.m.
FREDERIC VIGUIER
Sociologist; assistant director, Institute of French Studies, NYU
De la Cause du peuple à la cause des pauvres
Monday, April 28 – 7:00 p.m.
A Florence Gould Lecture
GUY SORMAN
Journalist, economist, philosopher; author of Le progrès et ses ennemis; Made in USA; L’Année du coq; The Empire of Lies
The Truth About China in the 21st Century
Wednesday, April 30, 1:00 p.m.
PEN World Voices:
The NY Festival of International Literature
Co-sponsored by La Maison Française, The Banff Centre, and the Délégation Générale du Québec
A Servant of Two Masters:
Bringing Theater to New Audiences in Translation
MICHEL TREMBLAY
Playwright, novelist, screenwriter; author of Les Belles-soeurs; A Toi, pour toujours, ta Marie-Lou; Hosanna; Bonjour, là, bonjour; Albertine, en cinq temps; Encore une fois, si vous le permettez
in conversation with
LINDA GABORIAU
Translator
MICHAEL MOORE
Chair, PEN America Translation Committee
See www.pen.org for full schedule of PEN World Voices events.
Friday, May 2 – 8:00 p.m.
CONCERT
THE DAN TEPFER TRIO
Improvisational Contemporary Jazz
Dan Tepfer, piano; Jorge Roeder, double bass; Richie Barshay, drums
Tickets: $10. Reservations: 212-998-8750
New York-based pianist Dan Tepfer is the Cole Porter Fellow of the American Pianists Association and won first prize as well as the audience prize in the 2006 Montreux Jazz Festival Solo Piano Competition. Originally from Paris, he has been touring and performing internationally with Peruvian bassist Jorge Roeder and American drummer Richie Barshay for more than four years. The concert will feature original compositions and new arrangements of jazz standards that emphasize improvisational freedom.
Monday, May 5 – 7:00 p.m.
A Florence Gould Event
French Literature in the Making
Simultaneous translation available. More info...
MICHEL SCHNEIDER
Writer; magistrate, Cour des Comptes; psychoanalyst; former director of music, French Ministry of Culture; author of Marilyn, dernières séances (Prix Interallié); La Tombée du jour; Maman; Morts imaginaires (Prix de l’Essai Médicis)
in conversation with
OLIVIER BARROT
Journalist, Un livre un jour (France 3); publisher, Senso
Presented with the support of Directours, l’Avion, the Cultural Services of the French Embassy, and CulturesFrance.
Monday, September 8 – 7:00 p.m.
A Florence Gould Event
French Literature in the Making
In French.
SYLVAIN TESSON
Writer; geographer; author of Petit Traité sur l’immensité du monde; Eloge de l’énergie vagabonde
in conversation with
OLIVIER BARROT
Writer; journalist; Un livre un jour (France 3); publisher, Senso
The author, Sylvain Tesson, is a geographer and a world traveler. On foot, on bicycle, and on horseback, he has explored the steppes of Central Asia, Siberia, and many other areas of the earth that have been relatively neglected. He has published numerous accounts of his expeditions and his Petit traité sur l'immensité du monde (Equateurs, 2005) and Eloge de l'énergie vagabonde (Equateurs, 2006) have been hailed as veritable manifestos. Sylvain Tesson is an honorary member of the Institut de Recherche sur les Expériences Extraordinaires and a member of the Executive Committee of the French Society of Explorers.
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Presented with additional support from L’Avion, Directours, CulturesFrance, and the Cultural Services of the French Embassy.
September 15 – 20
Simone de Beauvoir Week
A Florence Gould Event
International conference, performances, and films. In French and in English.
Complete schedule of events here
Monday, September 22 - 6:00 p.m.
Co-sponsored by La Maison Française of NYU and the AIA – New York
Location: The Center for Architecture, 536 LaGuardia Place, between West 3rd and Bleecker Streets
Reservations: rsvp@aiany.org
ALISTAIR LENCZNER
Partner, Foster + Partners
The Viaduct at Millau, France, by Foster + Partners
Completed in 2004, the Millau Viaduct is a first wonder of the 21st Century. The highway viaduct, which spans the Tarn River valley in the southwest of France, is the world’s tallest bridge and has overtaken the Eiffel Tower as France’s highest structure. The last link in the A75 autoroute from Paris to Barcelona, it is the product of a long planning process to find the most compatible route across the deep valley in the Parc Naturel Régional des Grands Causses. Since its opening, the project has been widely acclaimed for its synthesis of engineering and architectural design, and the bridge has established itself as a major tourist destination in its own right.
Alistair Lenczner, partner with Foster + Partners and supervising architect for the Millau Viaduct project, will present a detailed account of viaduct design development, including the collaboration with its French engineer, Michel Virlogeux. He will describe how the viaduct was built and its impact on both the local environment and the community of Millau, France. He will also provide a review of other infrastructure design work by Foster + Partners.
Related links: http://www.aiany.org/ - http://www.fosterandpartners.com
Wednesday, September 24 – 6:30 p.m.
Institute of French Studies Colloquium
ESTHER BENBASSA
Professor of History, Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, Paris; visiting professor, NYU; author of The Jews of France
Les Juifs en France aujourd’hui: Portrait historique d’un groupe minoritaire en mutation
In French.
Thursday, September 25 – 7:00 p.m.
A Florence Gould Event
DENISE EPSTEIN
in conversation with
Olivier Corpet and Emmanuelle Lambert of IMEC (l’Institut Mémoires de l’édition contemporaine)
Denise Epstein will discuss the work of her mother, Irène Nemirovsky, author of Suite française.
50 years after her mother's death, Denise Espstein discovered and transcribed the first two parts of the remarkable, unfinished five-part novel, Suite française, now a worldwide bestseller.
In French.
Friday, September 26 - 4:00 p.m.- 6:00 p.m.
“Feeding Frenzy”
Education of a Chef: What does French training mean for chefs today?
A round table discussion with Olivier Muller (DB Bistro Moderne), Alexandra Guarnaschelli (Butter Restaurant), Peter Hoffman (Savoy Restaurant), Cynthia Billeaud (HR Director for the Restaurants of Daniel Boulud), Mitchell Davis (Vice President, The James Beard Foundation), Marvin Taylor, (moderator; Director, Fales Library and Special Collections NYU).
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This event is part of the interdisciplinary conference “Feeding Frenzy: Explorations in Food and Culture," which is co-sponsored by the Departments of Cinema Studies and of Performance Studies in the NYU Tisch School of the Arts and by NYU Steinhardt School’s Department of Nutrition, Food Studies, and Public Health.
Thursday, October 2 – 7:00 p.m.
Co-sponsored by the Vice Provost for Globalization and Multicultural Affairs
and the AIA-NY
Film Screening
Location: Cantor Film Center, 36 East 8th Street
In English.
Maison Tropicale
(2008; 58 minutes)
A film by MANTHIA DIAWARA
University Professor, NYU; author of We Won’t Budge recently translated in French as Bamako, Paris, New York; documentary filmmaker
Discussants: Richard Sennett, NYU; Anthony Vidler, Cooper Union
In the late 1940’s, builder and architect Jean Prouvé designed three prefabricated aluminum maisons tropicales as prototypes for the housing of French colonial administrators in Africa. One was sent to Niamey, Niger and two to Brazzaville, Congo. Recently they were removed and have since been exhibited in Europe and North America, and sold for millions of dollars.
In 2007, Ângela Ferreira made an installation on the maisons tropicales for the Portuguese Pavilion at the Venice Biennale. Manthia Diawara’s documentary is a complement to the Ferreira artistic project, and brings to life the hidden stories and memories of those left behind in Africa when the maisons tropicales were removed. It is a postcolonial excavation into African identity, art, and the notion of cultural patrimony.
October 3 & 4
Institute of French Studies Colloquium. Organized by The National September 11 Memorial & Museum and Le Mémorial de Caen
Memory and Trauma: The Stakes of a Memorial Museum
In French.
Friday, October 3
9:30 a.m.
Introduction:
Denis Peschanski, CNRS
History, Memory, Resilience, Event and Representation : The Stakes of Research
Panel 1 - Perception and Representation
Max Page, University of Massachusetts-Amherst
The Future of the City’s End: New York’s Fears and Fantasies After 9/11
Gérard Rabinovitch, CNRS
A Memorial Challenge : The Distinction Between Terrorism and Resistance
Henry Rousso, CNRS
What Future for Memory?
2:00 p.m.
Panel 2 - History and Memory
David Blight, Yale University
The Divided United States : War and Race as the Faultlines of American Memory
Annette Becker, University of Paris X
From the Great War to September 11th : Cultures of war and memories
James Young, University of Massachusetts-Amherst
Historical Events and Their Memorial Stages : Berlin and New York
Jean-Marcel Humbert, the Directorate of Museums of France
Memory and History in French Museums
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Saturday, October 4
10:00 a.m.
Panel 3 - Trauma and Resilience
Gretty Mirdal, University of Copenhagen
Dis-membered memories – Re-membered memories in post-traumatic reactions.
Grady Bray, Disaster Human Services, Inc.
Community Resilience : The Trauma That Does Not Bleed
Patrick Weil, CNRS
Traumatic Memories : Jews, Blacks and Algerians
Henri Parens, Jefferson Medical College
Resilience in Coping With Trauma
12:30 p.m. - Lunch
2:00 p.m.
Panel 4 - Making the Memorial Museum
Richard Jezierski, Memorial Center of Oradour-sur-Glane
Memories of Civilians : Oradour
Kari Watkins, Oklahoma City National Memorial & Museum
A Lesson in Hope : The Resilience a City Found in Creating the Oklahoma City National Memorial & Museum
Stéphane Grimaldi, Director, Le Memorial de Caen
Communicating with new publics : What kind of memorial for those weren’t there ?
Alice Greenwald, National September 11th Memorial & Museum
Passion on All Sides: Planning a Memorial Museum at Ground Zero
Monday, October 6 – 5:00 p.m. (note time)
FREDERIC VALABREGUE
Writer; author of La Ville sans nom; Agricole et Béchamel; Le Vert-Clos; Asthme; Les Mauvestis
Using Vernacular Language
In French.
Thursday, October 9 – 7:00 p.m.
Round Table
The 50th Anniversary of the French New Wave:
The Crossroads of Film and Politics
In English.
Dudley Andrew, (Yale); Philip Watts, (Columbia); Alan Williams, (Rutgers); Ivone Margulies, (Hunter); Sam Di Iorio, (Hunter); Ludovic Cortade, (NYU; moderator)
Monday, October 13 – 7:00 p.m.
A Florence Gould Event
French Literature in the Making
In French with simultaneous translation.
BENOIT DUTEURTRE
Writer; music critic; author of Gaieté parisienne; Le Voyage en France (Prix Médicis), La Petite Fille et la cigarette
in conversation with
OLIVIER BARROT
Writer; journalist; Un livre un jour (France 3); publisher, Senso
Presented with the additional support of Directours, L’Avion, CulturesFrance, and the Cultural Services of the French Embassy
Tuesday, October 14 – 7:00 p.m.
**CANCELLED**
EDOUARD GLISSANT
Writer; Distinguished Professor, CUNY Graduate Center
Speaking on Aimé Césaire (1913-2008)
In French.
Wednesday, October 15 – 6:30 p.m.
Institute of French Studies Colloquium
JEAN-ROBERT DANTOU
Photographer; author of Paysages de campagne
Paysages de campagne: Les élections présidentielles en France et aux Etats-Unis
In French.
Thursday, October 16 – 7:00 p.m.
Lecture / Concert
TRISTAN MURAIL
Composer; Professor of Music, Columbia University; Grand Prix du Président de la République, Académie Charles Cros (1992)
MARILYN NONKEN
Pianist; director, Piano Performance Studies, NYU
In English.
Tuesday, October 21 – 7:00 p.m.
BENOIT BOLDUC
Associate Professor of French, NYU; author of Andromède au rocher. Fortune théâtrale d’une image en France et en Italie (1587-1712)
Jouer vrai: pratiques actuelles de déclamation, gestuelle et scénographie “baroques”
in French.
Monday, October 27 – 7:00 p.m.
A Florence Gould Lecture
PASCAL BRUCKNER
Essayist; novelist; author of La Tentation de l’innocence; L’Amour du prochain; La Tyrannie de la pénitence
Faut-il aimer son pays?
In French.
Tuesday, October 28 – 7:00 p.m.
VINCENT DEBAENE
Assistant Professor of French, Columbia University; editor, Claude Lévi-Strauss, Oeuvres (Bibliothèque de la Pléiade, 2008)
Claude Lévi-Strauss. A propos d’une Pléiade et d’un centenaire
In French.
Wednesday, October 29 – 6:30 p.m.
Co-sponsored by the Institute of French Studies
Claude Lévi-Strauss Across the Disciplines
Vincent Debaene (French, Columbia); Thomas O. Beidelman (Anthropology, NYU); Denis Hollier (French, NYU), Susan C. Rogers (Anthropology, NYU), Suzanne Said (Classics, Columbia)
In English.
Thursday, October 30 – 7:00 p.m.
GUY WALTON
Professor Emeritus of Fine Arts, NYU; author of Louis XIV’s Versailles
When Versailles Was Furnished in Silver
In English.
Thursday, November 6 – 7:00 p.m.
Illustrated Lecture
MICHELE CONE
Professor of Art History, School of Visual Arts; author of Artists under Vichy; French Modernisms
Surrealist Masculinity
Friday, November 7 – 4:00 p.m.
ALAIN BADIOU
Philosopher; author of La Théorie du sujet; L’Etre et l’événement; Le Siècle
Théâtre et philosophie
Discussants:
Martin Puchner
Professor of English, Columbia University; editor, English edition of Alain Badiou’s Rhapsodie pour le théâtre, forthcoming in Theatre Survey, 49:2
Bruno Bosteels
Associate Professor of Romance Studies, Cornell University; translator, Rhapsodie pour le théâtre
In French.
Presented with support from the Dept. of Comparative Literature, the Dept. of French, the Humanities Initiative at NYU, and the NYU Council for Media and Culture.
Monday, November 10 – 7:00 p.m.
A Florence Gould Event
French Literature in the Making
MARIE NIMIER
Novelist; author of Sirène (Prix de l’Académie française); La Girafe; Anatomie d’un chœur; La Reine du silence (Prix Médicis); Les Inséparables
in conversation with
OLIVIER BARROT
Writer; journalist, Un Livre un jour (France 3); publisher, Senso
Marie Nimier is widely acclaimed as a writer in multiple
genres. She has written extensively for the stage, has
penned lyrics for several composers, has written works for
children and young adults. But she is best known as a
novelist. Her first novel, Sirène earned her prizes both
from the Académie Française and the Société des Gens de
Lettres (1985) ; for La Reine du silence, an evocation of
her father, the novelist Roger Nimier, she was awarded
the Prix Médicis (2004). Other novels (all at Gallimard)
include La Girafe, Vous dansez ?, and, this fall, Les
Inséparables (Prix Georges Brassens).
In French. Simultaneous translation available for this event.
Presented with the additional support of Directours, L’Avion, CulturesFrance, and the Cultural Services of the French Embassy.
Wednesday, November 12 – 6:30 p.m.
Institute of French Studies Colloquium
Film screening
Paris: Vélo Liberté
Karena Albers and Tad Fettig (Kontentreal, 2008, 30 min.)
Round table
Bike Share: From Paris to New York?
Véronique Bernard
Senior Producer, Kontentreal
Rosemary Wakeman
Fordham University
Caroline Samponaro
Director of Bicyle Advocacy, Transportation Alternatives
Ellen Cavanagh
Urban Planner, Governors Island Preservation and Education Corporation
Thursday, November 13 – 7:00 p.m.
Co-sponsored by the Institut des Hautes Etudes Scientifiques
MARC CHAPERON
Mathematician; professor, Université de Paris 7 – Denis Diderot
Art and Catastrophes: René Thom’s Legacy
Illustrated lecture on the influence of René Thom’s theories on various art forms; held in conjunction with the scientific conference at the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences.
Friday, November 14 – 4:00 p.m.
Co-sponsored by L’Opéra Français de New York (OFNY)
Kurt Weill in Paris
A discussion, with musical selections, investigating the life and artistic output of Kurt Weill during his 18-month exile in Paris.
Yves Abel
Conductor; music director, OFNY
Jean-Philippe Clarac and Olivier Deloeuil
Stage directors; artistic directors, OFNY
Kim Kowalke
President, Kurt Weill Foundation for Musics
Presented in conjunction with the U.S. premiere of Marie Galante, Weill’s only work in French, at the French Institute Alliance Française: www.fiaf.org
Monday, November 17 – 7:00 p.m.
Surrealism and the Caribbean
A discussion of Martinique – Charmeuse de Serpents, by André Breton and André Masson, to celebrate the publication of the first full English translation.
David Seaman
Professor of French, Georgia Southern University; translator, Martinique Snake Charmer (University of Texas Press, 2008)
Martica Sawin
Art historian and critic; author of Surrealism in Exile and the Beginning of the New York School
J. Michael Dash
Professor of French, NYU; author of The Other America: Caribbean Literature in a New World Context
Thursday, November 20 – 7:00 p.m.
Illustrated lecture
PHYLLIS GALEMBO
Artist/Photographer; author of Divine Inspiration from Benin to Bahia; Vodou: Visions and Voices of Haiti
Magic of the Masquerade: Africa and the Caribbean
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| Phyllis Galembo, Okpo Masquerade, Calabar South, Nigeria, 2005 | |
Presented in conjunction with the exhibitions The Poetics of Cloth: African Textiles/Recent Art (Grey Art Galley); The Essential Art of African Textiles: Design Without End (Metropolitan Museum of Art) and Shrines and Masquerades (Washington Square East Galleries)
Friday, November 21 – 4:00 p.m.
Illustrated Lecture in French.
NICOLAS DE CRECY
Writer and illustrator of graphic novels: Le Bibendum céleste; Léon La Came; Prosopopus; Période glaciaire
Bandes Dessinées
Tuesday, November 25 – 6:00 p.m.
Co-sponsored by the AIA – New York
Albi Cathedral and the Architecture
of Louis Kahn
The program will present Albi Cathedral and explore Louis Kahn’s life-long fascination with and inspiration by the paradoxical ideal of thick-walled structures as givers of light. The lecture will focus on Kahn’s trip to Europe in the summer of 1959 to attend the CIAM 11 conference in the Netherlands, after which he visited Albi and the nearby walled town of Carcassonne; as well as on the design by Kahn which was most directly related to this ideal of the light-giving walls: the Mikveh Israel Synagogue in Philadelphia. This generative ideal in Kahn’s work will also be explored through brief examinations of projects and built works including the Trenton Jewish Community Center Bath House, the University of Pennsylvania Medical Research Towers, the First Unitarian Church in Rochester, the Meeting House at Salk Institute, the Bangladesh National Capital at Dhaka, and the Exeter Library. The general theme of the lecture will be on the manner in which Kahn engaged history, not as a source of formal influence, but rather as an eternal yet living tradition in which he was deeply immersed, and out of which he forged appropriate spaces for our time.
Opening Remarks
Nathaniel Kahn, Documentary Filmmaker My Architect
Carol Krinsky, Professor of Architectural History, NYU Department of Art History
Fortified Gothic, Not Textbook Gothic
Robert McCarter, Ruth & Norman Moore Professor of Architecture, Washington University in St. Louis;
author of Louis I. Kahn and other books on 20th century architecture
Embossings of the Sky: Louis I. Kahn and the Light Giving Wall
Respondents
Sue Ann Kahn, Musician & Flute Faculty, Mannes College the New School for Music
Alexandra Tyng, Artist & Author of Beginnings: Louis I. Kahn’s Philosophy of Architecture
This program is part a Global Dialogues series on the art and architecture in France organized by AIA New York with La Maison Française of NYU, and is supported by the AIA New York 2008 Inaugural Fund.
Location: Center for Architecture, 536 LaGuardia Place, between West 3rd and Bleecker Streets
RSVP: To register, go to the Calendar at www.aiany.org
Tuesday, December 2 – 7:00 p.m.
MICHEL DEGUY
Poet; philosopher; critic; editor, Po&sie; author of Biefs; Interdictions du séjour; Figurations; Tombeau de Du Bellay
Fin de la culture française? Faux-problème, erreur de jugement ou médisance?
In French.
Thursday, December 4 – 7:00 p.m.
ROBERT HARVEY
Professor of French and Comparative Literatures, SUNY at Stony Brook; author of Search for a Father: Sartre, Paternity and the Question of Ethics; Témoins d'artifice
Why Beckett Never Gave up on English, Despite (His) French
THEATER
Sunday, December 7 – 3:00 p.m.
Monday, December 8 – 7:00 p.m.
Les Justes by Albert Camus
Dramatic reading by NYU students. In French.
Center for French Civilization and Culture, NYU
Corporate Members:
Air France, Arcelor, BNP Paribas, CALYON, Dassault Falcon, Lagardère, NATIXIS, Vivendi
Sponsors:
The Florence Gould Foundation, The American Society of the French Legion of Honor, The Grand Marnier Foundation, The Evelyn Sharp Foundation, The Cultural Services of the French Embassy, CulturesFrance