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 20 – 6:30 p.m.
JEAN-PHILIPPE CLARAC
OLIVIER DELŒUIL
Artistic directors, L’Opéra Français de New York; directors of Pelléas et Mélisande (performances
January 19 and 21 at French Institute Alliance Française)
Modernité de Maeterlinck et Debussy
SPECIAL EVENT
Friday, January 21 – 4:00 p.m.
NEW YORK REMEMBERS DERRIDA
A Tribute: Jacques Derrida (1930 – 2004)
Location: Hemmerdinger Hall, Silver Center, 32 Waverly Place, Ground Floor
Organized by
Tom Bishop, NYU
Avital Ronell, NYU
With
Gil Anidjar, Columbia University
Emily Apter, NYU
Ulrich Baer, NYU
Michel Beaujour, NYU
Mary Ann Caws, Graduate Center, CUNY
Drucilla Cornell, Rutgers University
Judith Friedlander, Hunter College, CUNY
Peter Goodrich, Cardozo Law School
Anselm Haverkamp, NYU
Beatrice Longuenesse, NYU
Shireen Patell, NYU
Gayatri Spivak, Columbia University
Tuesday, January 25 – 7:00 p.m.
MARK FRANKO
Dancer, choreographer; professor, UC Santa Cruz; author of The Dancing Body in Renaissance
Choreography; Dancing Modernism/Performing Politics; Dance as Text: Ideologies of the
Baroque Body
Power, Force, and Mourning in French Court Ballet
Friday, January 28 – 7:00 p.m.
FRANCE ON FILM
Sponsored by La Maison Française and the Institute of French Studies
Location: Cantor Film Center, 36 East 8th Street
$5, or $3 with NYU i.d. In French with English subtitles
Depuis qu’Otar est parti / Since Otar Left
Julie Bertuccelli, 2003, DVD, 102 min.
Grand Prize, Cannes Film Festival, 2003
This Tournées program made possible with the support of the Cultural Services of the French
Embassy and the French Ministry of Culture (CNC).
Thursday, February 3 – 6:30 p.m.
Institute of French Studies Colloquium
STEVEN ENGLUND
Writer; author of Napoleon, A Political Life; Grace of Monaco, An Interpretive Biography; The
Inquisition in Hollywood: Politics in the Film Community, 1930-1960
Presenting Napoleon in the 21st Century: A Challenge to the Mere Biographer
Friday, February 11 – 7:00 p.m.
FRANCE ON FILM
Sponsored by La Maison Française and the Institute of French Studies
Location: Cantor Film Center, 36 East 8th Street
$5, or $3 with NYU i.d. In French with English subtitles
Raja
Jacques Doillon, 2003, DVD, 112 min.
with Pascal Greggory, Najat Benssallem
This Tournées program made possible with the support of the Cultural Services of the French
Embassy and the French Ministry of Culture (CNC).
Tuesday, February 15 – 12:30 to 2:00 p.m.
Co-sponsored by La Maison Française; Center for Media, Culture, and History; Institute of
French Studies
JEAN-PIERRE BERTIN-MAGHIT
Historian, Université de Bordeaux ; author of Le Cinéma français sous Vichy; Le Cinéma français sous l’Occupation; Les Documenteurs des années noires
La Reconstruction d’une mémoire: les documentaires de propagande, France 1940-1944
Wednesday, February 16 – 6:30 p.m.
Institute of French Studies Colloquium
JEAN-PIERRE AZEMA
Historian, Sciences Po, Paris; author of Jean Moulin: le rebelle, le politique, le resistant; 6 Juin
1944 (with Paxton & Burrin); La France des années noires (with Bédarida)
Mémoires de Jean Moulin
Thursday, February 17 – 7:00 p.m.
CORI ELLISON
Dramaturg, New York City Opera
On French Opera
Wednesday, February 23 – 7:00 p.m.
DOMINIQUE CABRERA
Filmmaker: Nadia et les hippopotames; Le Lait de la tendresse humaine; Folle embellie
Presentation by the director following screening of
Demain et encore demain
1997, DVD, 80 min.
CHRISTOPHER PRENDERGAST
Honorary Professor, University of Copenhagen; Fellow of King’s College, Cambridge; general
editor, In Search of Lost Time (new translation, Penguin, 2002); author of The Triangle of
Representation; Writing the City: Paris and the 19th Century; The Order of Mimesis
PROUST’S SKEPTICISM
Lecture Series
Co-sponsored by La Maison Française; Department of French; Department of Comparative
Literature
Monday, February 28 – 7:00 p.m.
Elstir’s Optical Illusions
Thursday, March 3 – 7:00 p.m.
Location (this date only): 19 University Place, Rm. 222
Walking on Stilts
Tuesday, March 8 – 7:00 p.m.
The Allegorical Body
Location: March 3 at 19 Univ.Place, Rm. 222
March 8 at La Maison Française
Tuesday, March 1 – 7:00 p.m.
ELIANE VIENNOT
Université de Saint-Etienne; author of Marguerite de Valois: histoire d’une femme, histoire d’un mythe
De l’usage des mythes de femmes de pouvoir
Wednesday, March 2 – 6:30 p.m.
Institute of French Studies Colloquium
ZEEV STERNHELL
Political Scientist; The Hebrew University of Jerusalem; author of La Droite révolutionnaire 1885-1914; Ni droite, ni gauche; contributor to France in the Era of Fascism
Le Mythe de l'allergie française au fascisme
Thursday and Friday, March 10 and 11
Rendez-Vous with French Cinema 2005
Co-sponsored by La Maison Française and the Directors Series, Tisch School of the Arts, in cooperation with the French Film Office/Unifrance USA, The Film Society of Lincoln Center, Cultural Services of the French Embassy
Location: Cantor Film Center, 36 East 8th St.,
between Univ,.Place and Greene St.
Free admission: priority to those with NYU i.d.
All films in French, with English subtitles.
The directors will be present for discussion with the audience following each Rendez-Vous screening.
Thursday, March 10 – 7:00 p.m.
Clara et Moi / Clara and Me
Arnaud Viard, 2004, 35 mm, 86 min.
A contemporary love story, with two of France’s up-and-coming young stars, Julie Gayet and Julien Boisselier.
Friday, March 11 – 7:00 p.m.
J’me sens pas belle / Tell Me I’m Pretty
Bernard Jeanjean, 2004, 35 mm, 85 min.
A romantic comedy, with Marina Foïs and Julien Boisselier.
Tuesday, March 22 – 7:00 p.m.
MICHEL MAÏOFISS
Photographer (see EXHIBITION)
interviewed by
CAROLE NAGGAR
Writer, artist; author of George Rodger: An Adventure in Photography, 1908-1995; Dictionnaire des photographes
Wednesday, March 23 – 6 :30 p.m.
Institute of French Studies Colloquium
FARHAD KHOSROKHAVAR
Sociologist, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales; author of L’Islam dans les prisons; Les nouveaux martyrs d’Allah; L’Islam des jeunes
The New European Muslim Citizens
Wednesday, March 23 - 6:30 p.m.
Co-sponsored with Africana Studies
Location: 269 Mercer Street, 6th Floor
LOUIS-PHILIPPE DALEMBERT
Novelist, poet; author of Le Crayon du bon Dieu n’a pas de gomme; L’Autre face de la mer; L’Ile du bout des reves
Désir d’ailleurs et vagabondage
Thursday, March 24 – 7:00 p.m.
ETIENNE BALIBAR
University of California, Irvine; Emeritus Professor of Philosophy, Université de Paris-X; author of We, the People of Europe? Reflections on Transnational Citizenship; Politics and the Other Scene; Masses, Classes, Ideas
Constructions and Deconstructions of the Universal
Tuesday, March 29 – 7:00 p.m.
JEAN-CHARLES DARMON
Professor of French Literature, Université de Versailles-Saint-Quentin; author of Le Songe libertine; Philosophies de la fable: La Fontaine et la crise du lyrisme
Pensée libertine et crise de l’exemplarité à l’âge classique: la trace de Montaigne
Wednesday, March 30 – 6:30 p.m.
Institute of French Studies Colloquium
IRENE THERY
Sociologist, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales; visiting professor, NYU; author of Le démariage, justice et vie privée; Recomposer une famille, des rôles et des sentiments
Le PaCS : une exception française en Europe, ses raisons et ses limites
Thursday, March 31 – 6:30 p.m.
Keynote lecture, French Graduate Student Association Conference (April 1 and 2)
PETER HALLWARD
Professor of Philosophy, Department of Philosophy, University of Middlesex; author of Absolutely Postcolonial: Writing between the Singular and the Specific; Badiou: A Subject to Truth
The Politics of Prescription
EXHIBITION
March 22 to May 13
Photographs by MICHEL MAÏOFISS
March 2005 events at La Maison Française of New York University are included in the month-long celebration of Francophonie entitled "Around the French-speaking world"-- the first Francophonie Festival in New York. The festival is the initiative of a Francophone coalition of 30 organizations and 12 governments. Concerts, movies, performances,lectures, conferences, exhibitions, contests for students, etc., at a range of NYC institutions, are included. Visit http://www.francophonieny.org for more information.
March 31 – April 2
GRADUATE STUDENT CONFERENCE
Departments of French and Comparative Literature
REVOLUTION: Figure, Fiction, Event
April 4 and 5
Florence Gould Lectures
MAREK HALTER
Writer; artist; human rights activist; author of Le Fou et les rois; La Mémoire d’Abraham;
Le Vent des Khazars; Sarah; Zipporah
Monday, April 4 – 7:00 p.m.
La Shoah, comment préserver la mémoire?
(in French)
Tuesday, April 5 – 7:00 p.m.
And Woman Created God – Moses’ Black Wife
(in English)
CONFERENCE
Friday, April 8
Co-sponsored by the Department of French, NYU; The Humanities Council, NYU; and the Philosophy Department, New School for Social Research
ON INEQUALITY
A conference to celebrate the 250th anniversary of the publication of Rousseau’s Discourse on the Origin and Foundations of Inequality Among Men
Organizers:
Anne Deneys-Tunney, Department of French, NYU
Simon Critchley, Department of Philosophy, New School for Social Research
9:30 – 11:00 a.m.
Introduction: Anne Deneys-Tunney, NYU; James Miller, New School; Paul Audi, Paris
11:30 a.m. – 1:30 p.m.
Pierre Hartmann, Strasbourg; Robert Bernasconi, Memphis; Fred Neuhouser, Columbia
3:30 – 5:30 p.m.
Simon Critchley, New School;Elie Friedlander, Tel Aviv/Princeton;Helena Rosenblatt,
Hunter College
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Friday, April 8 – 8:00 p.m.
Theater performance of Narcisse
by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Directed by Anne Deneys-Tunney, member of the Lincoln Center Director’s Lab
Location: Theater for the New City, 155 1st Avenue, NY, NY 10003
T: 212-254-1109
Admission: $10.
Tuesday, April 12 – 6:30 p.m.
Co-sponsored by Institute of French Studies and NYU Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality
DIDIER ERIBON
Writer, philosopher, historian; author of Hérésies. Essais sur la politique de la sexualité;
Une Morale de minoritaire; Michel Foucault, 1926-1984
Same Sex Marriage Debates in France
Response by RICHARD KIM, American Studies, NYU
Wednesday, April 13 – 7:00 p.m.
A Florence Gould Lecture
FREDERIC BEIGBEDER
Novelist, editor; author of Windows on the World; Rester normal; 99 Francs
Are Novels Windows on our World?
April 18 and 19
PEN World Voices: The New York Festival of International Literature
Conversations co-sponsored by La Maison Française
Monday, April 18 – 12:00 to 1:30 p.m.
ADAM GOPNIK
Essayist; New Yorker staff writer; author of Paris to the Moon; editor, Americans in Paris:
A Literary Anthology
in conversation with
ANDREÏ MAKINE
Novelist; author of Le Testament français (Dreams of My Russian Summers); La Musique d’une vie; Requiem pour l’est; La Terre et le ciel de Jacques Dorme
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Tuesday, April 19 – 12:00 to 1:30 p.m.
ASSIA DJEBAR
Novelist; filmmaker; Professor of French and Francophone Studies, NYU; author of La Disparition de la langue française; Les Nuits de Strasbourg; Le Blanc de l’Algérie
in conversation with
LYONEL TROUILLOT
Novelist; Professor of Literature, Université de la Caraïbe, Haïti; author of Bicentenaire; Les Enfants des héros; Thérèse en mille morceaux
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Tuesday, April 19 – 2:00 to 3:30 p.m.
SIRI HUSTVEDT
Novelist; author of The Blindfold; The Enchantment of Lily Dahl; What I Loved
in conversation with
NANCY HUSTON
Novelist; author of L’Empreinte de l’Ange; Prodige; Dolce Agonia; Une Adoration
Wednesday, April 20 – 7:30 p.m.
FRANÇOIS DELATTRE
Consul General of France in New York
L’Etat et les perspectives de la relation franco – américaine
Tuesday, April 26 – 7:00 p.m.
Round Table
Rethinking 19th Century French Studies: Problems, Methods, Interdisciplinary Approaches
EMILY APTER, CLAUDIE BERNARD, STEPHANE GERSON,
DENIS HOLLIER, RICHARD SIEBURTH
Department of French, NYU
LINDA NOCHLIN
Institute of Fine Arts, NYU
MAURICE SAMUELS
Department of French, University of Pennsylvania
Wednesday, April 27 – 6:30 p.m.
Institute of French Studies Colloquium
CLAUDE GRUNITZKI
Editor, TRACE Magazine; co-founder, TRUE Agency; author of Transculturalism: How the World is Coming Together
Transculturalism: How Is It Changing American and French Societies?
Response by PATRICK WEIL, CNRS, co-author of Dual Nationality, Social Rights, and Federal Citizenship in the U.S. and Europe
Friday, April 29 – 7:00 p.m.
FRANCE ON FILM
Sponsored by La Maison Française and the Institute of French Studies
Location: Cantor Film Center, 36 East 8th Street
L’Auberge espagnole
Cédric Klapisch, 2002, DVD, 129 min.
$5, or $3 with NYU i.d. In French with English subtitles.
This Tournées program made possible with the support of the Cultural Services of the French Embassy and the French Ministry of Culture (CNC).
EXHIBITION
Photographs by MICHEL MAÏOFISS
Through May 13
Monday – Friday, 10:00 a.m. – 6:00 p.m.
Fall 2005
Thursday, September 15 – 7:00 p.m.
CATHERINE TUROCY
Director, choreographer
and the NEW YORK BAROQUE DANCE COMPANY
Allez Sallé !
Honoring the 250th anniversary of Marie Sallé’s death and her innovative choreographies from the 1730's and 40's. A behind the scenes look at her shocking themes, costume innovations, and dramatic movements, as described in period sources and eyewitness accounts. With dancers Sarah Edgar, Caroline Copeland, and Tim Kasper, in period costume, performing excerpts from the company's upcoming NYC concerts.
In English. Limited seating. Doors open at 6:30 p.m.
Tuesday, September 20 – 7:00 p.m.
FRANÇOISE LAVOCAT
Professor of Comparative Literature, University of Paris VII- Denis Diderot; author of Arcadies malheureuses. Aux origins du roman moderne; Syrinx au Bûcher, Pan et les satyres à la Renaissance et à l’âge baroque
Un Crime indiscernable. Frères et sœurs dans le théâtre de la Renaissance
Wednesday, September 21 – 7:00 p.m.
A Florence Gould Lecture
PASCAL BRUCKNER
Philosopher; essayist; novelist; author of L’Euphorie perpétuelle; Misère de la prospérité; L’Amour du prochain
Les Maladies culturelles de la démocratie
Monday, September 26 – 7:00 p.m.
Le Portrait Croisé de Simone de Beauvoir et de Jean-Paul Sartre
(1967, Radio Canada. 60 min.) In French with English subtitles.
presented by Madeleine Gobeil-Noël
Journalist; former director of arts, UNESCO
Wednesday, September 28 – 6:30 p.m.
Institute of French Studies Colloquium
MARCELA IACUB
Legal scholar, philosopher, CNRS; author of L’Empire du ventre. Pour une autre histoire de la maternité; Qu’avez-vous fait de notre libération sexuelle ?
La Sexualité dans le droit français
Thursday, September 29 - Saturday, October 1
Center for French Civilization and Culture. A Florence Gould Event
SITUATING / SITUATION DE SARTRE 2005
Conference organized by DENIS HOLLIER and TOM BISHOP
Thursday, September 29
at La Maison Française
7:00 – 10:00 p.m.: Situating Sartre
Michel Rybalka, Emeritus, Washington U.
Situation de Sartre et des études sartriennes en 2005
François Noudelmann, U. of Paris-VIII
Vies, morts et renaissance de Sartre
Keynote Lecture: Michel Contat, C.N.R.S.
Le Théâtre de la politique
Friday, September 30
at La Maison Française
10:00 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.: Sartre and Literature (I)
Jeffrey Mehlman, Boston U.
His Mallarmé and Ours
Robert Harvey, SUNY, Stony Brook
from “The Image Family” to the Family as Image
Suzanne Guerlac, U. of California, Berkeley
Sartre “au bord de l’image”
Gilles Philippe, U. of Grenoble-III
Sartre et la langue littéraire
2:30 – 4:30 p.m.: Sartre and Philosophy
Thomas Nagel, NYU
Sartre and the Problem of Other Minds
Béatrice Longuenesse, NYU
Sartre on Self-Consciousness
Christian Delacampagne, Johns Hopkins U.
Sartre “au bord de l’image”
6:00 p.m.: Keynote Lecture at Kimmel Center, 60 Washington Square South, Room 914
Bernard-Henri Lévy, philosopher, author, Paris
Sartre et les Juifs
Saturday, October 1
at La Maison Française
10:00 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.: Sartre and the Theater
John Ireland, U. of Illinois, Chicago
Suffering for Real on the Sartrean Stage
Tom Bishop, NYU
Situating Sartre’s Theater of Situations
Denis Hollier, NYU
Limelight
Jean-François Louette, U. of Lyon-II
Sartre: un théâtre d’idées, sans idées de théâtre ?
2:30 – 5:30 p.m.: Sartre and Literature (II)
Françoise Gaillard, U. of Paris-VII
La Nausée: une philosophie célibataire
Michel Deguy, philosopher, poet, Paris
La Relation de Sartre aux poètes (Baudelaire, Mallarmé, Ponge) peut-elle être jugée mauvaise par un poète aujourd’hui ?
Martine Reid, U. of Versailles
Elle et lui: représentations sexuées dans les romans de Sartre
Serge Doubrovsky, NYU
Sartre: autobiographie/autofiction ?
This conference is made possible through the generous principal support of the Florence Gould Foundation, with additional support from the Humanities Council and the Faculty of Arts and Science of New York University, and the Cultural Services of the French Embassy.
Wednesday, October 5 – 7:00
ABDELWAHAB MEDDEB
Writer; poet professor, Université de Paris-X; producer, Cultures d’Islam, France-Culture; editor, Dédale; author of La Maladie de l’Islam; L’Exil occidental
L’Islam et la guerre des références
Thursday, October 6 – 7:00 p.m.
OLIVIER CORPET
Founder and director, IMEC
L’Archive du contemporain: l’expérience de l’Institut Mémoires de l’Edition Contemporaine
Tuesday, October 11 – 7:00 p.m.
GILLES PHILIPPE
Université de Grenoble-III; author of Sujet, verbe, complément. Le moment grammatical de la littérature française (1890 – 1940)
JULIEN PIAT
Université de Grenoble-III; co-editor, La Langue, le style et le sens
Pour une autre histoire de la littérature française: la langue littéraire de Gustave Flaubert à Claude Simon
Tuesday, October 18 – 7:00 p.m.
ANKA MUHLSTEIN
Writer, biographer; author of A Passion for Freedom: The Life of Astolfe de Custine; Elizabeth d’Angleterre et Marie Stuart: ou les perils du mariage
Proust and His Publishers
Wednesday, October 19 – 6:30 p.m.
Institute of French Studies Colloquium
ANTHONY LACOUDRE
Author of Ici est né l’impressionisme
Impressionism Was Born Here: On the Path of Monet and his Friends in Bougival, Chatou, Louveciennes
SPECIAL EVENT
Monday, October 24 – 6:00 p.m.
An “Act French” Event
Actress ISABELLE HUPPERT
(Ma Mère, The Piano Teacher, Madame Bovary, Passion, The Lacemaker)
in conversation with
Judith Miller (NYU) and Tom Bishop (NYU). In English.
Note change of location for this event to:
Kimmel Center, 10th Floor - Rosenthal Pavilion
60 Washington Square South (corner LaGuardia Place)
Doors open at 5:30 p.m.
Tuesday, October 25 – 7:00 p.m.
CANCELLED
FRANÇOIS BON
Novelist, playwright, essayist, theater critic; author of Daewoo; Rolling Stones, une biographie; Mécanique; Pour Koltès
Daewoo : La fiction sans le roman
COLLOQUIUM ON FRANCOPHONE THEATER
CONFERENCE
Friday, October 28
Organized by JUDITH MILLER, Chair, Dept. of French, NYU
2:00 – 3:15 p.m.:
Sylvie Chalaye
Drama critic, professor,Université de Rennes and Paris-III
An Overview of Francophone Theater of Africa and the Caribbean
3:30 – 5:30 p.m. Roundtable discussion
Francophone African and Caribbean Writers and Playwrights
Gerty Dambury
Professor of English, poet, playwright, theater director
Assia Djebar
de l’Académie Française; writer; professor of Francophone literature, NYU
Koffi Kwahulé
Playwright; author of Bintu, Big Shoot, Jaz, Misterioso
7:00 p.m.
Gerty Dambury
Dramatic Reading of Koffi Kwahule’s JAZ (in French)
Related “Act French” events:
Reading of Koffi Kwahule’s Misterioso-119 in English, October 27 at the
LARK THEATER, 939 Eighth Ave. www.larktheatre.org or 212-246-2676.
The José Pliya Project, presented Nov. 1 – 6 by Soho Think Tank at the
OHIO THEATER, 66 Wooster St. Coordinated by Philippa Wehle and Ellen Lampert-Gréaux. Included are staged readings of several Pliya plays and a full production of Enslaved (Le Complexe de Thénardier). www.sohothinktank.org or 212-966-4844.
Monday, October 31 – 7:00 p.m.
A Florence Gould Lecture
FERNANDO ARRABAL
Playwright, novelist, poet, filmmaker; author of Guernica; And They Put Handcuffs on the Flowers; The Architect and the Emperor of Assyria
Théâtre panique et théâtre pataphysique
September 26 – October 14
EXHIBITION
SARTRE 1905 – 1980
Highlights of the life and work of Jean-Paul Sartre: An exhibition of posters
Association pour la Diffusion de la Pensée Française, Ministère des Affaires Etrangères
“Act French” events are part of Act French: A Season of New Theater from France.
Six months of intriguing ideas and performances from the frontlines of French culture in adventurous theaters citywide, July 15 - December 15, 2005.
For additional information: www.actfrench.org
"Act French" is made possible by the Cultural Services of the French Embassy in the United States, Association Française d’Action Artistique (AFAA), The French Ministry of Culture and Communication, FACE (French American Cultural Exchange), Etant donnés: The French-American Fund for the Performing Arts. Generous support provided by PLAYBILL, The Berlys Foundation, May and Samuel Rudin Family Foundation, Inc.
Tuesday, November 1 – 6:00 p.m.
Presented in cooperation with the Bard Graduate Center for Studies in the Decorative Arts, Design, and Culture
ELIZABETH HYDE
College of New Jersey; author of Cultivated Power
Cultivated Power: Flowers, Culture, and Politics in the Reign of Louis XIV
Wednesday, November 2 – 6:30 p.m.
Institute of French Studies Colloquium
ESTHER BENBASSA and JEAN-CHRISTOPHE ATTIAS
Historians, Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, Paris; co-authors of Israel, the Impossible Land; The Jews and their Future; The Jew and the Other
Israelis and Palestinans in the Middle East, Jews and Arabs in France
and
Diaspora-Israel Relations: An Ethical Issue
Thursday, November 3 – 7:00 p.m.
SERGE DOUBROVSKY
Professor of French, NYU; critic; novelist; author of Laissé pour conte; L’Après vivre; Le Livre brisé (Prix Médicis 1989)
Pourquoi l’autofiction
See also November 29.
Wednesday, November 9 – 6:30 p.m.
Institute of French Studies Colloquium
ARNAUD BLIN
Political Analyst, Ecole de la Paix, Grenoble; author of Histoire du terrorisme: de l’Antiquité à Al Qaïda; Le désarroi de la puissance: les Etats-Unis vers la guerre permanente? (with G. Chaliand); Géopolitique de la paix démocratique
The Impact of Terrorism upon History
ROUND TABLE
Thursday, November 10 – 7:00 p.m.
Rethinking 19th Century French Art: New Approaches to Sexuality and Feminism
EMILY APTER
Professor of French, NYU
CAROL ARMSTRONG
Doris Stevens Professor of Women’s Studies and Professor of Art and Archaeology, Princeton University
ANNE D’SOUZA
Assistant Professor of Art History and Women’s Studies, Binghamton University
ANNE HIGONNET
Professor of Art History, Barnard College, Columbia University
SHARON MARCUS
Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature, Columbia University
LINDA NOCHLIN
Wallace Professor of Modern Art, Institute of Fine Arts, NYU
Tuesday, November 15 – 7:00 p.m.
A Florence Gould Lecture
ALAIN BADIOU
Philosopher, Ecole Normale Supérieure and Collège International de Philosophie; author of Being and Event; Ethics: An Essay on the Understanding of Evil; Saint Paul: The Foundation of Universalism; Le Siècle
Le Mathème LPP: Littérature, politique, philosophie
Wednesday, November 16 – 6:30 p.m.
Institute of French Studies Colloquium, in cooperation with NYU’s program “Dialogues: Islamic World - U.S. - The West”
MOHAMED CHARFI
Emeritus Law Professor, Tunis University; president, Tunisian League for the Defense of Human Rights; former Tunisian Minister of Education; author of Les Ministres de Bourguiba; Islam et Liberté
Islam et modernité: comment être musulman au XXIème siècle ?
Thursday, November 17 – 7:00 p.m.
SYLVERE LOTRINGER
Professor of French Literature, Columbia University; editor, Semiotext(e)
Cioran: In Praise of the Jews
Tuesday, November 29 – 7:00 p.m.
SERGE DOUBROVSKY
Professor of French, NYU; critic, novelist; author of Laissé pour conte; L’Après vivre; Le Livre brisé (Prix Médicis 1989)
Molière: critique et subjectivité See also November 3.
Friday, December 2 – 8:00 p.m.
Harpsichord Concert & Lecture
CONCERT
PHILIPPE FRITSCH
Eros, Thanatos et Narcisse chez François Couperin.
Principe structurel: le « Vingt-quatrième Ordre » des pièces de clavecin
$10. or $5. with current NYU i.d. Reservations: 212-998-8750
Thursday, December 8 – 7:00 p.m.
RICHARD SIEBURTH
Professor of French and Comparative Literature; editor of Ezra Pound’s Poems and Translations (Library of America) and Pisan Cantos (New Directions)
and
MICHEL BEAUJOUR
Professor of French, New York University; author of Terreur et rhétorique; Désublimation: de la transmutation à la rhétorique; translator of Pisan Cantos into French (forthcoming)
Translating Ezra Pound: A Conversation (with readings)