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 Cinema
 Business
 Psychology & Psychoanalysis
 Literature & Linguistics
 Dance
 Law
 Fine Arts
 History & Social Sciences 		 Music
 Science, Medicine & Public Service
 Education
 The Francophone World
 Exhibitions
 Venues*
 NYU participants

french áccents, consisting of lectures, conferences, round tables, readings, films, performances, and exhibits over the span of ten weeks, reflects the strong presence of France and the Francophone world in New York University's various disciplinary and interdisciplinary pursuits across its many schools, centers, and departments.

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

    Film by Emmanuel Finkiel, "Voyages." Introduced by Sharon Pollack. Institute of French Studies & La Maison Française. March 26, 6:30 pm at Cantor*

    Film by Erick Zonca, "La vie rêvée des anges." Introduced by William Wolf. Institute of French Studies & La Maison Française. April 9, 6:30 pm at Cantor*

    Film by Tay Lan Barman and Mourad Boucif, "Kamel." Center for European Studies. April 19, 5-6 pm at Casa Italiana*

    Film by Cédric Klapisch, "Chacun cherche son chat." Introduced by Stéphane Gerson. Institute of French Studies & La Maison Française. April 23, 6:30 pm at Cantor*
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    Business
       Edward Altman, Ken Froewiss, Rosemary Anne Mathewson, "Executive Education for a Global Community - the NYU/HEC/LSE Partnership." TRIUM, Stern School of Business. March 26, 5:30-6:30 pm at the Cantor Boardroom, 44 West 4th Street, 11th floor
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    Psychology & Psychoanalysis
       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. March 23, 7 pm at LMF*
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    Literature & Linguistics
       Timothy Reiss, "Writing Love, Writing Anger: Literature and the Origins of the European Contractual State." Comparative Literature Department. March 22, 6 pm at LMF*

    Tom Bishop, "Beckett's Work for Television." French Department. March 29, 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. March 29, 8:30 p.m. at LMF*

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

    Conference. French Graduate Student Association, "Aliénation ou exil: le sujet décentré" (in French). French Department. March 31 at 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."

    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

    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). April 9, 6:30 pm, Bobst*, Fales

    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*

    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. April 12, 4 pm at Main*,room 809

    Richard Howard, "The Other Maupassant." French Department & La Maison Française. April 12, 8:30 pm at LMF*

    Noëlle Châtelet, "La femme et les apparences" (in French). French Department & La Maison Française. April 19, 8:30 pm at LMF*

    Robert Dimit, "Getting Descartes...Wrong: An Undisciplined Reading." Draper Program. April 20, 2 pm at Draper Conference Room, 14 University Place
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    Dance
       "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. April 30, 1:30 to 3 pm, 111 Second Avenue, 5th floor theater.
    Reservations required: 212 998 1982 (M-F 1-4 pm)
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    Law
       Mohammed Arkoun, "An Introduction to Islam: Religion, Thought and Culture." Global Law Program, School of Law. April 4, 4pm, D'Agostino, Lipton Hall, 110 West 3rd Street
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    Fine Arts
      

    Hector Feliciano, "Nazi Looting and the French Museums." Program in Museum Studies. March 27, 7 pm at LMF*

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

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

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

    Antoine Vigne, (Cultural Attaché of the French Embassy in New York), "About a Few Young French Artists." Fine Arts Department. April 24, 8 pm, Main*, room 300

    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. April 28, 10 am-4 pm at IFA*
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    History & Social Sciences
      

    Bryant Ragan (Fordham University), "Representing Female and Male 'Homosexuality' in Early Modern France." History Department. March 27, 12:30-2:00 at KJCC*, room 607

    Jean-Paul Colleyn, "Mali-Kow, an Exhibition as a Praxis of Visual Anthropology." Africana Studies. March 27, 6 pm at 269 Mercer Street, room 601. Info: 212 998 2130

    Suzanne Berger (MIT), "France without Borders?" Leo Gershoy Lecture. Institute of French Studies. April 4, 8:30 pm at LMF*

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

    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. April 20, 9:30 am-5:45 pm, Vernon Center for International Affairs*

    L. Jay Oliva, President of the University, "Russia and the French: Enlightenment and Revolution." April 24, 8:30 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. April 26, 4:55 pm-6 pm, Main*, room 713

     

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    Music
      

    Concert. Louis Karchin, "Mallarmé and Music." Songs by Maurice Ravel and Louis Karchin. Commentary by Richard Sieburth. Music Department, FAS. April 6, 3 pm, Main*, room 220

    Desi Wilkinson, "Breton Connections: Traditional Music in Brittany and its Irish Influences." Ireland House & La Maison Française. April 6, 7 pm at LMF*

    "French Piano Music: Student Recital." Music and Performing Arts Department, School of Education. May 4, 7 pm at LMF*
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    Science, Medicine & Public Service
      

    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. March 9, 10-11:30 am, Televideo Conference Room, 7 East 12th Street

    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. March 19, 5-7:30 pm at LMF*

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

    Gerald Weissmann, M.D., "The Doctor with Two Heads: From Baudelaire to the Assistance Publique." Biotechnology Study Center. March 22, 3 pm at LMF*

    Paul Gans, "Sadi Carnot, France, and the Rise of Thermodynamics." Chemistry Department. April 12, 4 pm, Main*, room 1003

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

    Seminar. Claude Desplan, "Evolution of Developmental Strategies for Patterning the Embryonic Antero-Posterior Axis." Biology Department. May 14, 4 pm, Main*, room 1003
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    Education
       LaRue Allen & Suzanne Carothers, "L'école maternelle: Pre-School with a Difference." Applied Psychology Department. April 26, 4-6:30 pm at LMF*
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    The Francophone World
       Celia Britton (University of Aberdeen), "Psychoanalysis, Surrealism, and Ethnography in Césaire's review Tropiques (1940-1945)." French Department. March 9, 3pm at LMF*

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

    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). April 24, 12:30-2 pm, KJCC*, room 404W

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

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

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

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

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

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    New York University Participants
      

    BOBST LIBRARY; DRAPER PROGRAM; SCHOOL OF EDUCATION: Applied Psychology, Music and Performing Arts; FACULTY OF ARTS AND SCIENCE: Africana Studies, Anthropology, Biology, Center for European Studies, Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies (CLACS), Center for Research in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance/Medieval and Renaissance Studies Program (CRMAR/MARS), Chemistry, Comparative Literature, Creative Writing Program, Deutsches Haus, English, Fine Arts, French, German, Hebrew and Judaic Studies, History, Institute of French Studies, Ireland House, La Maison Française, Linguistics, Music, Physics, Program in Museum Studies, Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis, Spanish and Portuguese; INSTITUTE OF FINE ARTS; SCHOOL OF LAW: Global Law Program; SCHOOL OF MEDICINE: Biotechnology Study Center; STERN SCHOOL OF BUSINESS: TRIUM; TISCH SCHOOL OF THE ARTS: Dance, Director's Series; WAGNER GRADUATE SCHOOL OF PUBLIC SERVICE; OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT OF NEW YORK UNIVERSITY

     
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     made possible through the generous support of the FLORENCE GOULD FOUNDATION
     with assistance from the Cultural Services of the French Embassy