Conceived and directed by Cécile Cotté.
Music by Stéphane Scott.
Two performances: 6:00 p.m. & 8:30 p.m.
Reservations for the play only: 212-998-8750
September 16 – 18
Films on Simone de Beauvoir
Tuesday, September 16
2:00 p.m. La Maison Française
Le Deuxième Sexe (French, no subtitles, 60 min.)
La Femme rompue (Josée Dayan; French, no subtitles, 90 min.)
7:00 p.m . La Maison Française
Simone de Beauvoir – Une Femme actuelle (Dominique Gros; French, no subtitles, 52 min.)
Je veux tout de la vie (Pascale Fautrier/Pierre Séguin; French, no subtitles, 52 min.)
Wednesday, September 17
2:00 p.m. La Maison Française
Simone de Beauvoir “Un Siècle d’écrivains” (Valérie Stroh/Pascale Fautrier; French, no subtitles, 51 min.)
La Femme rompue (Josée Dayan; French, no subtitles, 90 min.)
7:00 p.m. Cantor Film Center, Theater 102
Portrait croisé “Sartre/Beauvoir” (Madeleine Gobeil; French, English subtitles, 60 min.)
Daughters of Beauvoir (Imogen Sutton; English, 60 min.)
Thursday, September 18
2:00 p.m. La Maison Française
Simone de Beauvoir – Une Femme actuelle (Dominique Gros; French, no subtitles, 52 min.)
Le Deuxième Sexe (French, no subtitles, 60 min.)
International Conference
SEPTEMBER 18 - 20
ALL SAID AND DONE
TOUT COMPTE FAIT
Simone de Beauvoir 1908-2008
Thursday, September 18
Session 1
7:30 p.m. – 10:00 p.m.
13-19 University Place, Auditorium 102
Introduction: Dean Catharine Stimpson (GSAS NYU), Judith Miller (Chair, Dept.of French, NYU)
Conference organizers: Tom Bishop (NYU), Denis Hollier (NYU), Pascale Fautrier (Univ. du Havre)
Keynote Address
Toril Moi (Duke)
Why Write? Simone de Beauvoir and Literature
Film
Daughters of Beauvoir
(Imogen Sutton; English, 60 min.)
Friday, September 19
Session 2 10:00 a.m. – 12:00 noon
La Maison Française
Session in French
Françoise Gaillard (Univ. Paris VII) – Voyage en Amérique
Christine Fauré (CNRS) – Le classicisme du Deuxième sexe et le post-modernisme
Martine Reid (Univ. de Versailles/Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines) – Lire Le deuxième sexe en 1949
Film
12:00 noon – 1:00 p.m.
La Maison Française
Portrait croisé “Sartre/Beauvoir”
(Madeleine Gobeil; French, English subtitles, 60 min.)
Session 3 2:30 p.m. – 5:30 p.m.
La Maison Française
Fiction & Auto/Biography
Catherine Cusset (novelist, critic) – Simone de Beauvoir and Suffering
Deirdre Bair (biographer) – Simone de Beauvoir’s “Truth of the Story” in Her Autobiography
Annie Cohen-Solal (Tisch School of the Arts, NYU) – The Beaver, Sartre and the United States: Some New Elements on the Mythical Couple
Denis Hollier (NYU) – Is Writing a Solution?
Session 4
7:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m.
La Maison Française
Sartre & Philosophy and Politics
Hazel Rowley (biographer, author) – Simone de Beauvoir and Sartre: Passion and Generosity
Sonia Kruks (Oberlin) – The Politics of Dehumanization in the Work of Beauvoir
Susan Suleiman (Harvard) – Memories of the Occupation in Les Mandarins
Saturday, September 20
La Maison Française
Session 5
10:00 a.m. – 12:00 noon
The Second Sex
Elisabeth Ladenson (Columbia) – Colette and The Second Sex
Fabrice Rozié (playwright, critic) – The Feminist Model in The Second Sex
Yolanda Patterson (Pres., Int’l. Simone de Beauvoir Society) – Beauvoir and the So-Called “Silent Generation” of American Women
Film
12:00 noon – 1:00 p.m.
Je veux tout de la vie
(Pascale Fautrier/Pierre Séguin; French, no subtitles, 52 min.)
Session 6 2:30 p.m. – 5:30 p.m.
SESSION IN FRENCH
Michel Contat (CNRS) – La collaboration Beauvoir - Sartre
Pascale Fautrier (Univ. du Havre) – La liberté selon Simone de Beauvoir: hier, aujourd’hui
Jean-Louis Jeannelle (Paris-Sorbonne) – Les Mandarins ou la crise du dialogue intellectuel
Danièle Sallenave (biographer, author) – Passion, folie et mort dans l’œuvre de Simone de Beauvoir
Yvette Roudy (former Minister for Women’s Rights) – Ma rencontre avec le Castor
This conference is made possible
with the generous support of
the Florence Gould Foundation,
Faculty of Art and Science, NYU,
and the
Cultural Services of the French Embassy.
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