International Conference at the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library

Alexis de Toqueville

9:00 a.m. to 5 p.m.
BRBL Mezzanine
121 Wall Street

Free and Open to the Public
Registration Required
Info: http://highway49.library.yale.edu/tocqueville/

Jean Renoir's La Grande Illusion (1937)

7:00 p.m.
WHC Auditorium
53 Wall Street

35 mm - Free and Open to the Public

Michel Deguy

Poèmes en pensée / Penser en poèmes

A reading in French and English

4:30 p.m.
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library - 121 Wall St., New Haven, CT

"Political Details, or, The Distraction of History in the Age of Performance"

4 p.m.
Whitney Humanities Center,
53 Wall Street, New Haven

Oct. 14-15
(Fri & Sat)

Sponsored by the Department of
Comparative Literature and
the Whitney Humanities Center

"Jacques Derrida at Yale"

12-5 PM on the 14th (papers),
10-12 AM on the 15th (round table).

Jacques Derrida, an indefatigable and generous scholar, whose work contains so many reflections on hospitality, the stranger, and friendship, was a frequent guest in the United States, first as a "visiting scholar" during his student years, then as lecturer and "visiting professor" at numerous universities. A gracious recipient of hospitality, he was always an engaged teacher who made room for countless students. His yearly visits to Yale continued for more than a decade and coincided with a new orientation in the humanities in which he was a prominent figure. We wish to honor the influence of Derrida's work, still "at Yale," and world-wide.

Sponsored by the British Art Center

R. Howard Bloch
Sterling Professor of French, Yale University

Weaving to Byzantium: The Bayeux Tapestry and the World of Byzantine Silks

5:30 pm
Yale Center for British Art 1080 Chapel Street (at the corner of High Street)

First-run screening of

The Ister
(David Barison, Daniel Ross, 2004, 189 mins)

7 p.m.
LC 101
Free and Open to the Public
Info: http://www.frif.com/new2005/ist.html
& istermediakit.htm

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

Sponsored by the Whitney Humanities Center

Autobiography Across the Disciplines

an academic conference featuring world-renowned theoreticians and practitioners
of autobiography.

Info

7:00 p.m.
WHC Auditorium
53 Wall Street

35 mm - Free and Open to the Public

Sponsored by the Film Studies Program

On Set with Arnaud Desplechin and French Cinema

Yale University Humanities Center
53 Wall St.

Sunday, Nov. 13, 4:30 & 7pm
Screening: Kings and Queens
(Arnaud Desplechin, 2004)

Monday, Nov. 14
10am-12:30pm: WHC Theater Space, 1st floor
Workshop: Directing Actors For Film (reservations: susan.hart@yale.edu,
436-4668)

3:30pm: Auditorium
Forum: A Directors Take on Films and the Cinema

Interview with Arnaud Desplechin

Nov. 15
(Tu)

Martine Reid
Professeur, Université Versailles-St.Quentin
Visiting Professor, Yale Department of French

"Deux ou trois choses sur Jean-Paul Sartre"

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

Richard Watts
Professor, Tulane University

"Judging Books by Their Covers"

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

Sponsored by the Film Studies Program

Symposium

Conceptions of Film and Theater in France: "The usher's Flashlight and the Crystal Changelier"

Referencing André Bazin’s two great essays, “Film and Theater,” published in Esprit in 1951, nine scholars, some from Yale, will discuss the relation of these two artforms, especially in the French context.

French Book Club "Cafe Litteraire"

The Council on African Studies at Yale University presents VISIONS OF AFRICA: Contemporary African Cinema

Please check web site regularly for updates

French and Francophone Studies Colloquium
Talks usually take place on Mondays at 4:00 pm

Maurice Samuels
Professor, University of Pennsylvania

Prostitutes, Bankers, and Other Jews in Balzac's Splendeurs et misères des courtisanes

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

CANCELLED

GAFS Sponsored Lecture

Tom Conley
Professor, Harvard University

Co-sponsored by the Department of Comparative Literature

David Heller-Roazen
Professor, Princeton University

The Inner Touch:  Archaeology of a Sensation 

4:00 p.m.
The Comparative Literature Library,
Bingham Hall, Old Campus, 8th Floor

Co-sponsored by The Department of African American Studies and the Council of African Studies (see poster)

Emmanuel Dongala
Writer from Congo-Brazzaville
Professor at Simon’s Rock College of Bard

Witness to Post-Colonial Africa : How I Became a Writer

4:00 p.m.
WLH 208
100 Wall Street

Listen to an interview with Dongala:
Fresh Air (April 12, 2001 ) www.npr.org

Elizabeth Ladenson
Visiting Professor Columbia University

Barbey d'Aurevilly and the Esthetics of Materiality

5:00 p.m.
Romance Languages Lounge
82-90 Wall Street

Co-sponsored by the Program of Hellenic Studies

Vassilis Alexakis

Langue maternelle/Langue d'adoption
Mother tongue/other tongue

4:30 p.m.
Luce Hall Auditorium
34 Hillhouse Avenue

Suzanne Toczyski
Professor, Sonoma State University

Navigating the Seas of Alterity:  Jean-Baptiste Labat's Voyage aux isles

4:00 PM
Whitney Humanities Center, Room 208
53 Wall Street

Jean-Marie Gleize

Post-poésie

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