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.
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
Fall 2004
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