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Events 2009-2010


Fall 09 | Spring 10


Lectures, Seminars & Colloquia , Films

Please check web site regularly for updates

Most lectures take place in the Romance Languages Lounge (RLL), 82-90 Wall St, 3rd Floor


Fall 2009


 

 
M, Oct 5
5:00 PM
WHC 208
Jacqueline Cerquiglini-Toulet
Université Paris IV

"Qu'est-ce qu'un auteur au Moyen Age?"

 

 
M, Oct 19
5:00 PM
Beinecke

Humanities Lecture

Stephen Nichols
Johns Hopkins University


"The Digital Romance of the Rose"

 

 
Tu, Oct 27
4:00 PM
RLL
Patrick Weil
CNRS, Paris I-Sorbonne, Yale Law School

"How to be French: Old and New Challenges Around French Citizenship"

 

 
Oct 30-31

GAFS Conference

"Besoin de désirer: Appetite between Wants and Needs"


Poster


Program

 

 
Tu, Nov 10
4:00 PM
RLL

Brian Reilly
Departmental Alumnus Audio Archivist in Charge of Restoration, Digitalization, and Re-Archivization

"Les Voix du Passé: A Presentation of the Yale French Department's Audio Archive"

 

 
W, Nov 11
8:00 PM
WHC
Auditorium
François Woukoache
Cameroonian Filmmaker

Screening

We Aren’t Dead Anymore/Nous ne sommes plus morts
(part one)

on the genocide in Rwanda
www.africine.org “

Woukoache searches for signs of hope amid the horror. He talks with four teenage girl students, a group of writers and intellectuals, and some young male drifters who seem oddly fearless …

The most powerful film I saw [at the Berlin Film Festival], it has a tempered optimism that, under the circumstances, takes great courage.”Amy Taubin, The Village Voice

Introduction by François Woukoache

Q&A Session following the screening

 

 
Tu, Nov 17
4:00 PM
RLL

Roger Grenier
Ecrivain et editeur

"Gaston Gallimard à
la recherche de Marcel Proust"

 

 
Wed, Dec.2
5:00 PM
Slifka Center

Alice Kaplan will engage Maurice Samuels in a discussion of his new book:

"Inventing the Israelite: Jewish Fiction in Nineteenth-Century France" (Stanford UP)

Open to the public.

Refreshments will be served.

 

 
Spring 10

 

 
Tu, Mar 23
4:00 PM
RLL
Cecile Alduy
Stanford

Title TBA
 

 

 
Wed, Mar 31
4:00 PM
RLL
Gary Ferguson
University of Delaware

Title TBA
 

 

 
Th, Apr 1
4:00 PM
WHC
Naomi Schor Memorial Lecture

Alice Kaplan

Yale University

"Susan Sontag's Parisian Year"
 

 

 
Th, Apr 22
4:00 PM
RLL
Rose Rejouis
New School for Liberal Arts

Title TBA
 

 

 

 

 

 


 
FALL 10

 

 
Oct 14-16, 2010

19th Century Conference

 

 



 

 



 

 



 

 



 

 
   

Please contact Agnes Bolton for the French department's schedule of events. A schedule of events at Yale can be found in the Yale Bulletin and Calendar.>

 
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