Events and Lectures

2006-2007

Lectures, Seminars & Colloquia , Films

Chocolate Lectures
(info: Susannah Carson)

Graduate Student Conference

Please check web site regularly for updates

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

Fall 2006

M, Oct 9 4:00 PM RLL	Chocolate Lecture Peter Brooks Professor of Comp. Lit. , Yale University Henry James goes to Paris


Th, Oct 12 4:00 PM WLH 309 100 Wall St.	Caroline Weber Prof. Barnard College Author or the recent Queen of Fashion Marie-Antoinette, Queen of Fashion


M, Oct 16 4:00 PM RLL	Chocolate Lecture Julia Prest Professor of French, Yale University Silencing the Supernatural: La Devineresse and the Affair of the Poisons


Th, Oct 19 4:00 PM RLL	GAFS Sponsored Lecture Tom Conley Professor, Harvard University Cartography and its Relation to "Le cinéma d'auteur"


Th, Oct 26 4 PM RLL	Patrick Wald Lasowski Professeur Paris 8 Yale Visiting Professor Guillotinez-moi Sur l'inscription de la guillotine dans l'imaginaire romanesque du XIXème siècle



F, Oct 27 4:00 PM RLL	Chocolate Lecture Maurice Samuels Professor of French, Yale University French Jews and the Literature of Modernity"


M, Oct 30 4:00 PM RLL	Chocolate Lecture Robert Harms Professor of History, Yale University Pierre Savorgnan de Brazza and the Congo Rubber Scandals


M, Nov 6 4:00 PM RLL	Chocolate Lecture Patrick Wald Lasowski Professeur Paris 8 Yale Visiting Professor Grande et petite détresse de Guy de Maupassant


Tu, Nov 7 4:00 PM RLL	Marielle Macé Professeur Université Paris IV Chargée de recherche au CNRS-EHSS Lire, espérer: littérature et émotions


M, Nov 13 4:00 PM RLL	Chocolate Lecture Anders Winroth Professor of History, Yale University Nuts about Vikings


M, Nov 27 4:00 PM RLL	Chocolate Lecture Giuseppe Gazzola Department of Italian, Yale University And Vergil--was he French or Italian? The Congrégation des Bénédictins de Saint-Maur, Muratori, Tiraboschi, and the Origin of Canon Wars


Th, Nov 30 4:00 PM RLL	Bernard Cerquiglini Professor Louisiana State University Comment le XIXè siècle inventa l’ancien français


Th, Nov 30	French-American Ambassade de France Chamber of Commerce aux Etats-Unis Internships and Career Development Opportunities in France 4:00 PM UCS 55 Whitney Ave, Room 369


M, Dec 4 4:00 PM RLL	Chocolate Lecture Scott Hiley Graduate Student Department of French Dante, Aquinas, Aristotle: The Physics and Politics of Usury in Inferno XVII


	Spring 2007


Th, Feb1 4:00 PM RLL	Soraya Tlatli Professor, UC Berkeley L'impossible tombeau de l'histoire en Algérie


M, Feb 5 4:00 PM RLL	Chocolate Lecture Laure Marcellesi Graduate Student, Yale Dept. of French Rousseau's Reality Check


Th, Feb 15 4:00 PM RLL	Alexandra Gueydan Graduate Student, Yale Dept. of French Visions contemporaines de l'Algérie: un carnet de voyage


F, Feb 16 4:00 PM RLL	Chocolate Lecture Ronan Chalmin Invention of Corruption (1715-1794)


M, Feb 12 4:00 PM WHC 53 Wall St.	CANCELLED Naomi Schor Memorial Lecture Nina Totenberg NPR Supreme Court Reporter Inside the Supreme Court


Feb 23-24	Graduate Student Conference La volonté de paraître:The Cult and Cultivation of Appearances in French and Francophone Literature and Culture


M, Feb 26 4:00 PM WLH 309	Chocolate Lecture John Lytle Graduate Student, Yale Dept. of French Romantic Anecdotes and the Construction of the Past in Aloysius Bertrand's Gaspard de la Nuit


Tu, Feb 27 4:00 PM RLL	Andrea Goulet Professor, University of Illinois at Urbana Champagne Terrains Vagues: Murder Maps from Gaboriau to Butor


M, Apr 2 4:00 PM RLL	CANCELLED Chocolate Lecture Ora Avni Dept. of French, Yale U. Lectures, contextes et idéologies


Tu, Apr 3 4:00 PM RLL	Noël Peacock Professor, University of Glasgow Specular encounters of the three kinds: reflections of Molière on screen


Th, Apr 5 7:00 PM WHC Fri, Apr 6 4:00 PM RLL	Film: Le Fils (Directed by Luc & Jean-Pierre Dardenne) Introduction by Philip Mosley Professor, Pennsylvania State University ----------------------------------------- Philip Mosley Maurice Maeterlinck and the Nature Essay


M, Apr 9 4:00 PM RLL	Chocolate Lecture Kathleen Harvill-Burton Adjunct Professor, U. of Bridgeport The Misuse of Faith: The Religious Elements of Nazism and Their Legacy in Militant Islam


Th, Apr 12 4:00 PM RLL	GAFS Lecture Peggy McCracken Professor, University of Michigan The Love of the Dead in the Prose Lancelot


M, Apr 16 3:00 PM RLL	CANCELLED Chocolate Lecture Jack Abecassis Professor of French, Pomona College Visiting Prof. of French, Johns Hopkins U. Meditations pascaliennes: la Machine/Automate and Bourdieu's Habitus


M, Apr 23 4:00 PM RLL	Chocolate Lecture R. Howard Bloch Sterling Professor of French, Yale U. Frontality: The Imperial Look from Christ the Pantocrator to Napoleon Bonaparte


W, Apr 25 4:00 PM RLL	Chocolate Lecture Tirza Latimer Visiting Professor, Lesbian and Gay Studies, Yale U. Claude Cahun and Marcel Moore: Past and Present


M, Apr 30 4:00 PM RLL	Chocolate Lecture Walter Goffart Senior Research Scholar & Lecturer History Department, Yale U. Prof. Emeritus of History, U. of Toronto "Notre nom de Francais [est] un nom de conquerants et d'envahisseurs": How German Were the Origins of France?


W, May 2 4:00 PM RLL	Pierre Capretz Director, Language Studio Development Yale U. Title TBA


M, May 7 4:00 PM RLL	Chocolate Lecture Catherine Labio Associate Professor in Comp Lit & French Yale U. The House of Comics


Tu, May 8 4:00 PM RLL	Dominique Rabaté Professeur, Université Bordeaux III Title TBA

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.

Yale University

French

Events and Lectures

2006-2007