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Hors-D'Śuvre

Exhibitions

March 19 - 24

March 26 - 31

April 2 - 7

April 9 - 14

April 16 - 21

April 23 - 28

April 30 - May 5

P.S.

Venues*

NYU participants

HORS-D'ŚUVRE

March 8 - 10, Thursday - Saturday: "Rendez-Vous with French Cinema 2001." All films are subtitled.
March 8, Thursday: Film by Philippe Faucon, "Samia." 7 pm at Cantor*. The director will be present for discussion with the audience following this screening.
March 9, Friday: Film by Patricia Mazuy, "Saint Cyr." 6 pm at Cantor*.; Film by Agnès Obadia and Jean-Julien Chervier, "Du poil sous les roses." 8:30 pm at Cantor*.
March 10, Saturday: Film by Philippe Le Guay, "Trois huit." 2 pm at Cantor*.; Film by Agnès Obadia and Jean-Julien Chervier, "Du poil sous les roses." 4 pm at Cantor*.; Film by Patricia Mazuy, "Saint Cyr." 6 pm at Cantor*.; Film by Philippe Le Guay, "Trois huit." 8:30 pm at Cantor*.; La Maison Française & Directors' Series, TSOA in cooperation with the French Film Office/Unifrance U.S.A.

March 9, Friday: Televideo Conference. "Decentralized Cooperation in Urban Development: The Case of the Lille-Rio Urban Waste Management Project" with le Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers, Paris and l'Ecole Nationale des Travaux Publics de l'Etat, Lyon. Wagner School of Public Service. 10-11:30 am, Televideo Conference Room, 7 East 12th Street; Celia Britton (University of Aberdeen), "Psychoanalysis, Surrealism, and Ethnography in Césaire's review Tropiques (1940-1945)." French Department. 3pm at LMF*

Exhibitions

March: Philippe Apeloig, "Posters for Museums / Le musée s'affiche." La Maison Française. M-F, 10 am-6 pm at LMF*

March 19 - May 5: "A Beckett Chronology: Samuel Beckett's Work in Images and Words." Bobst Library. Bobst*, B level

April 5 - May 10: Louis Monier, "Photographs of French Writers." La Maison Française. M-F, 10 am-6 pm at LMF*

April 19 & 20: "New Visions of the European City: Immigrant Neighborhoods in Brussels." Center for European Studies. 9am-5 pm, Vernon Center for International Affairs*

March 19 - 24

19 Monday: Panel. "Caring for Persons with Long-Term Mental Illness in Paris & New York." Joyce Wale, Pierre Bailly-Salin, Patrick Mordelet, Martin Gittelman, Victor Rodwin. Wagner School of Public Service. 5-7:30 pm at LMF*

21 Wednesday: Jean-Claude Ziv, "Re-Inventing Government in Translation: The Case of French Public Transport." Wagner School of Public Service. 8:30-10 am, Wagner Commons Room, 4 Washington Square North

22 Thursday: Gerald Weissmann, M.D., "The Doctor with Two Heads: From Baudelaire to the Assistance Publique." Biotechnology Study Center. 3 pm at LMF*; Timothy Reiss, "Writing Love, Writing Anger: Literature and the Origins of the European Contractual State." Comparative Literature Department. 6 pm at LMF*

23 Friday: Jeanne Wolff Bernstein, "Echoes from the Other Side: A Look at the Concept of the Other in Freud and Lacan." Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis. 7 pm at LMF*

March 26 - 31

26 Monday: Edward Altman, Kenneth Froewiss, Rosemary Anne Mathewson, "Executive Education for a Global Community - the NYU/HEC/LSE Partnership." TRIUM, Stern School of Business. 5:30-6:30 pm at the Cantor Boardroom, 44 West 4th Street, 11th floor; Film by Emmanuel Finkiel, "Voyages." Introduced by Sharon Pollack. Institute of French Studies & La Maison Française. 6:30 pm at Cantor*

27 Tuesday: Bryant Ragan (Fordham University), "Representing Female and Male 'Homosexuality' in Early Modern France." History Department. 12:30-2:00 pm at KJCC*, room 607; Jean-Paul Colleyn, "Mali-Kow, an Exhibition as a Praxis of Visual Anthropology." Africana Studies. 6 pm at 269 Mercer Street, room 601. Info: 212 998 2130; Hector Feliciano, "Nazi Looting and the French Museums." Program in Museum Studies. 7 pm at LMF*

29 Thursday: Tom Bishop, "Beckett's Work for Television." French Department. 5-7 pm, Bobst*, Avery Fisher Center, East Room; Ulrich Baer, "Trauma and the Experience of Modernity in Baudelaire and Celan." German Department & Deutsches Haus. 8:30 p.m. at LMF*

30 Friday: Maurice Gross (Université Paris VII), "A Computational Analysis of Syntax, Lexical Structures, and Idioms in French Literature." Linguistics Department. 4 pm, Waverly*, room 369

31 Saturday: French Graduate Student Association, "Aliénation ou exil: le sujet décentré" (in French). French Department. LMF*.
9:30 a.m. - 10:30 a.m. Keynote Lecture: Michael Dash, Professor of French, NYU. "Les sables fertiles: Exile and Errency in French Caribbean Literature."
10:30 a.m. - 12 p.m. L'Exil au féminin: Alison Rice, UCLA, "Liberating Language: Exile and Identity in Nancy Huston's Lettres Parisiennes and Nord Perdu."
Kate Elkins, UC Berkeley, "No Return: Memory as Exile in Maryse Condé."
Helen Flewelling, NYU, "Identity, Resistance, and the Aesthetic of Madness."
1:30 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. Coïncidences géopolitiques: Wendy Leynse, NYU, "Madame M's Story: A "Pied-Noir" Narrative of Alienation and Belonging in the Loire Valley."
Jennifer Kaplan, NYU, "Seeking a Home of One's Own: A Reading of Home and Algerian Exile in Post-Independence Algeria and France."
Nils Froment, NYU, "Exclusion et assimilation de l'Ecole de Paris par la critique française."
3:30 p.m. - 5:30 p.m. Recherches postcoloniales du centre: Mikko Tuhkanen, SUNY-Buffalo, "Bergson and Fanon: Notes Towards Postcolonial Becoming."
Iris Bachman, Frankfurt University, "Is Prestige Essential? A Perspective on Translating into Creole Languages."
Carrie Landfried, NYU, "Nationalité: immigré? La question identitaire: formes d'expression et stratégies réconciliatrices dans des textes littéraires et sociologiques beurs."

April 2 - 7

2 Monday: Poetry Reading. Galway Kinnell & Carolyn Kizer. Galway Kinnell will include readings of his translations of François Villon and Yves Bonnefoy. Creative Writing Program. April 2, 7 pm, Greenberg Lounge, School of Law, 40 Washington Square South

3 Tuesday: Pepe Karmel, "The Would-Be Barbarian: Jean Dubuffet." Fine Arts Department. 8 pm, Main*, room 300

4 Wednesday: Mohammed Arkoun, "An Introduction to Islam: Religion, Thought and Culture." Global Law Program, School of Law. 4pm, d'Agostino, Lipton Hall, 110 West 3rd Street; Suzanne Berger (MIT), "France without Borders?" Leo Gershoy Lecture. Institute of French Studies. 8:30 pm at LMF*

6 Friday: Concert. Louis Karchin, "Mallarmé and Music." Songs by Maurice Ravel and Louis Karchin. Commentary by Richard Sieburth. Music Department, FAS. 3 pm, Main*, room 220; Desi Wilkinson, "Breton Connections: Traditional Music in Brittany and its Irish Influences." Ireland House & La Maison Française. 7 pm at LMF*

April 9 - 14

9 Monday: Sylvia Huot, "Abject Insanity, Madness Sublime: Representations of Madness in Medieval French Literature." Center for Research in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance / The Medieval and Renaissance Studies Program (CRMAR/MARS). 6:30 pm, Bobst*, Fales; Film by Erick Zonca, "La vie rêvée des anges." Introduced by William Wolf. Institute of French Studies & La Maison Française. 6:30 pm at Cantor*; Panel. "Invitations au voyage: French-Latin American Intersections, 1925-1945." Gerard Aching, Eduardo Subirats, Sylvia Molloy & Michael Dash, moderator. Spanish and Portuguese Department. April 9, 8:30 pm at LMF*

10 Tuesday: Julian Zugazagoitia (Guggenheim Museum), "Monet/Rodin/Mallarmé and the Total Work of Art." Fine Arts Department. 8 pm, Main*, room 300

12 Thursday: Marc Chenetier and Paul Auster. Marc Chenetier, "Of Silence, Space, Stones and Speed: The Poetics of Paul Auster." Followed by a discussion with Paul Auster. English Department. 4 pm at Main*, room 809; Paul Gans, "Sadi Carnot, France, and the Rise of Thermodynamics." Chemistry Department. 4 pm, Main*, room 1003; Richard Howard, "The Other Maupassant." French Department & La Maison Française. 8:30 pm at LMF*

April 16 - 21

17 Tuesday: Kenneth Silver, "Making Paradise: Art, Modernity and the Riviera." Fine Arts Department. 8 pm, Main*, room 300

18 Wednesday: Herrick Chapman, "The Nicholas Wahl Papers at Bobst Library: Possibilities for Research." Bobst Library & Institute of French Studies. 12:30-1:30 pm at IFS*

19 Thursday: Film by Tay Lan Barman and Mourad Boucif, "Kamel." Center for European Studies. 5-6 pm at Casa Italiana*; Noëlle Châtelet, "La femme et les apparences" (in French). French Department & La Maison Française. 8:30 pm at LMF*

20 Friday

Conference. "The New Face of the European City: Immigration in an Urban Perspective."

Spacial Relations and the European City (topics addressed: ghettos, housing, gangs, religion and the urban landscape)
Immigants and Urban Politics (topics addressed: machines, associations, consultative institutions )
Immigrants and Culture (topics addressed: music, carnivals, markets, theaters, religious festivals)
Immigrants, Crime and Violence
The Immigrant Economy
Schools and Immigration (topics addressed: schools and incorporation, social and religious conflict, issues of discrimination/segregation
Policies of Integration and Incorporation (topics addressed: cities and incorporation, institutions, policies, results)

Center for European Studies. 9:30 am-5:45 pm, Vernon Center for International Affairs*

Robert Dimit, "Getting Descartes...Wrong: An Undisciplined Reading." Draper Program. 2 pm at Draper Conference Room, 14 University Place

20 - 21 Friday & Saturday: Colloquium. "Migration, Memory and Trace: Writing in French Outside the Hexagon." Speakers include Michael Dash, Gisèle Pineau, Maryse Condé, Edouard Glissant, Chris Miller, Réda Bensmaďa. French Department, NYU & The Graduate Center, CUNY. Friday 20, 10:30 am-6 pm at La Maison Française*, NYU. Saturday 21, 10 am-7 pm at The Graduate Center, CUNY, 365 Fifth Avenue. Info: 212 992 9550

April 23 - 28

23 Monday: Film by Cédric Klapisch, "Chacun cherche son chat." Introduced by Stéphane Gerson. Institute of French Studies & La Maison Française. 6:30 pm at Cantor*

24 Tuesday: Anne François, "Africa, the Father in Maryse Condé's Heremakhonon and the Last of the African Kings."
Curtis Small, "The Notion of Paternity in Literary Constructions of the Haitian Revolution."
Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies (CLACS). 12:30-2 pm, KJCC*, room 404W; Antoine Vigne, (Cultural Attaché of the French Embassy in New York), "About a Few Young French Artists." Fine Arts Department. 8 pm, Main*, room 300; L. Jay Oliva, President of the University, "Russia and the French: Enlightenment and Revolution." 8:30 pm at LMF*

26 Thursday: LaRue Allen & Suzanne Carothers, "L'école maternelle: Pre-School with a Difference." Applied Psychology Department. 4-6:30 pm at LMF*; Symposium. "Jews and Judaism in Medieval France."
Lawrence Schiffman, "The Meiri's Defense of Provencal Customs."
James Robinson, "The Ibn Tibbon Family - A Dynasty of Translators in Medieval France."
Elliot Wolfson, "Sefer Ha-Bahir, Provencal Elal Kabbalah, and Jewish-Christian Polemic."
Elka Klein, "King of the Jews? The Nasi of Narbonne in Context."
Robert Chazan, "French Jewry - The First Serious Intellectual Confrontation with Christianity in Western Christendom."
Skirball Department of Hebrew and Judaic Studies. April 26, 4-7 pm at Casa Italiana*; Eric Fassin (Ecole Normale Supérieure), "The Authority of Anthropology – Comparative Uses of Anthropology in Same-Sex Marriage Politics, France/United States." Anthropology Department. 4:55 pm-6 pm, Main*, room 713

27 - 28 Friday & Saturday: Conference. "1951-2001: Transatlantic Perspectives on The Colonial Situation." Institute of French Studies. 9:30 am-5:30 pm at LMF*. Info: 212 998 8754

28 Saturday: Symposium. Linda Nochlin, Martha Lucy, W.J.T. Mitchell, Kathleen Pyne, George Levine, Barbara Larson, George Hersey, Alexander Nemerov. "The Darwin Effect: The Impact of Darwin and the Theory of Evolution on Art in France, England, and the United States." Institute of Fine Arts. 10 am-4 pm at IFA*

April 30 - May 5

30 Monday: "Dance France: A Symposium." Deborah Jowitt, moderator, with Yorgos Loukos, José Montalvo & Angelin Preljocaj. Dance Department, TSOA in collaboration with the France Moves Contemporary Dance Festival. 1:30 to 3 pm, 111 Second Avenue, 5th floor theater. Reservations required: 212 998 1982 (M-F 1-4 pm)

1 Tuesday: Colloquium. Alain Blondel, "Quest for the Higgs and other New Physics from LEP." Physics Department. 4 pm, Meyer*, room 122

4 Friday: "French Piano Music: Student Recital." Music and Performing Arts Department, School of Education. 7 pm at LMF*

P.S.

May 14, Monday: Seminar. Claude Desplan, "Evolution of Developmental Strategies for Patterning the Embryonic Antero-Posterior Axis." Biology Department. 4 pm, Main*, room 1003

Venues*

Bobst = Bobst Library, 70 Washington Square South
Cantor = Cantor Film Center, 36 East 8th Street, 212 998 4100
Casa Italiana = 24 West 12th Street
IFA = Institute of Fine Arts, 1 East 78th Street, 212 772 5800
IFS = Institute of French Studies, 15 Washington Mews
KJCC = King Juan Carlos I of Spain Center, 53-54 Washington Square South
LMF = La Maison Française, 16 Washington Mews (corner of University Place), 212 998 8750
Main = 100 Washington Square East / 33 Washington Place
Meyer = 2-4 Washington Place
Vernon Center for International Affairs = 58 West 10th Street
Waverly = 24 Waverly Place

New York University Participants