February 4
(Friday)






















3:00 PM

Opening symposium of the exposition
"The Illustrated Book in Belgium: 1918-2003"

1:30 to 4 p.m.
Sterling Memorial Library Lecture Hall, 130 Wall St

Jan Baetens
University of Leuven (Belgium)
“North and South”

David Berona
University of New Hampshire
“The Magic of Woodcuts in the Book Illustrations of Frans Masereel and Olivier Deprez”

Olivier Deprez
Belgian artist and critic
“Un cas particulier de ressemblance dans les relations intersémiotiques : écrire à coups de gouges, des coups de gouges pour écrire”

Michael Kasper
Amherst College
“Belgian Surrealist Page Design”

Jean-Marie Apostolides
William H. Bonsall Professor of French, Standord University
"Tintin and the myth of the superchild"

The exposition will run from February 4 through April 29, 2005.

François Rouget
Professor, Queen's University,
Ontario, Canada

4:00 p.m.
Romance Languages Lounge
82-90 Wall Street

"Ronsard en son œuvre: portraits et auto-portraits"

March 29
(Tuesday)

Francophone Film Festival (#3/4)

Carnages
Dir: Delphine Gleize / 2002
Whitney Humanities Center, 53 Wall St, 7:00 PM

Presented as part of the Tournées program and made possible with the support of the Cultural Services of the French Embassy and the French Ministry of Culture (CNC).
Co-sponsored by the Alliance Française de New Haven
In French with English subtitles.
Free and, open to the public.

In conjunction with the
Department of Comparative Literature

C. Jon Delogu
Professeur, Universite Lyon III -- Jean Moulin
Visiting Instructor, The Writing Program, Boston

"Return of the Native: Notes of an American Visiting Professor from France on Institutional Practices in the Literary Humanities"

4:00 pm
Location TBA

Philippe Lejeune

Title TBA

4:00 pm

Romance Languages Lounge
82-90 Wall Street

April 29, (Friday)

4:00 & 7:00 PM

Filmmaker Ousmane Sembenene, founder of African Cinema introducing his new film "Moolaadé" followed by Q&A with filmmaker

Photos of the events



Set in a village in Burkina Faso, this latest film tackles the subject of female genital mutilation, but its political resonance is hardly limited to the parts of Africa where that custom is practiced. Colle (Fatoumata Coulibaly), the tough-minded second wife of a village elder, offers protection to four young girls who have fled the knives and starts a revolution. In chronicling her struggle with male power and deeply-rooted tradition, Mr. Sembene also paints a rich and complex tableau of village life, which gives the film, in spite of its harsh topic, a remarkable buoyancy of spirit. Unflinching both in its condemnation of genital mutilation and in its warm-hearted optimism, "Moolaade" is an example of humanist cinema at its finest, a movie that reminds you of the dignity and heroism of ordinary life.

Sponsored by the Film Studies Program, the French Department, the African American Studies Department, the Initiative in Race, Gender & Globalization and the Council on African Studies

September
23-25

Petrarch Symposium

Power of the Word

(Cosponsored by the Italian Department, Beinecke Library and the Whitney Humanities Center)

September 30
(Thursday)

Boubacar Boris Diop
Novelist, Poet, Journalist
Dakar, Senegal
Visiting Professor, Rutgers University

"Rwanda: écrire l'oubli"

4:00 p.m.
Romance Languages Lounge
82-90 Wall Street

October 19 (Tuesday)

Jean-Michel Espitallier

"De la poésie contemporaine en France: nouveaux enjeux, nouvelles formes"

October 25 (Monday)

Alan Williams
Professor, Department of French, Rutgers University

"Polarities and Boundaries in French Cinema History"

In association with the
Alliance Française de New Haven

French Film Festival

"La trilogie" directed by Lucas Belvaux

- Part 1: Cavale (On the Run)
Thursday, October 28, 7:30 PM

- Part. 2: Un Couple Epatant (An Amazing Couple)
Friday, October 29, 7:30 PM

- Part. 3: Apres la vie (After life)
Samedi, October 30, 7:30 PM

Whitney Humanities Center, 53 Wall St.

Presented as part of the Tournées program and made possible with the support of the Cultural Services of the French Embassy and the French Ministry of Culture (CNC).
In French with English subtitles.
Free and, open to the public.

November 2
(Tuesday)

Richard Cooper
Professor, Brasenose College, Oxford

Editing Marguerite de Navarre: New Poems and Old Prose.

4:00 p.m.
Romance Languages Lounge
82-90 Wall Street

November 9
(Tuesday)

The Naomi Schor Memorial Lecture

Françoise Gaspard
Professor, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris
Representative of France to the United Nations Committee on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women

"Universalism and Diversity--French Feminism and the Veil."

4:00 p.m.
Slifka Center
80 Wall Street

Martine Reid
Professeur Université de Versailles-Saint Quentin en Yvelines

"George Sand au féminin"

4:00 p.m.
Romance Languages Lounge
82-90 Wall Street

November
12-14
(Friday to Sunday)

Napoleon's Legacies: 1804-2004
An Interdisciplinary Conference

French Collections at Yale Library Commemorate Napoleon and France at War