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Center for French Civilization and Culture, NYU
Corporate Members:
Air France, Arcelor, BNP Paribas, CALYON, Dassault Falcon, Lagardère, NATIXIS, Société Générale, Vivendi.
Sponsors:
The Florence Gould Foundation, American Society of the French Legion of Honor, The Grand Marnier Foundation, The Evelyn Sharp Foundation, The Cultural Services of the French Embassy, CulturesFrance.
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; Ins