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Events 2007-2008


Fall 07 | Spring 08


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 2007


 

 
Tu, Sep. 18
4:00
RLL
Martine Reid
Université Lille III

Des femmes en littérature : réflexions sur l'histoire de la littérature et de l'édition
   


Th, Sep. 20
4:00 PM
RLL
Françoise Melonio
Sorbonne, Paris

Qu'est-ce qu'une oeuvre?



 

 
Wed, Oct. 24
4:00 PM
RLL
 
Nicolas Weill
Journaliste, Le Monde

Le Moment antitotalitaire réévalué. L'"effet Goulag" et les intellectuels français des années 1970 et au-delà



 

 
Th, Oct. 25
1:00 PM
RLL
Yale French Studies Brown Bag Lunch From an Idea to a Volume:  The Editorial Process of Yale French Studies
   
Th, Oct. 25
4:00 PM
RLL
Bettina Lerner, co-editor of YFS 111
"Myth and Modernity," and Alyson Waters, Managing Editor of Yale French Studies

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Yale French Studies Lecture

Bettina Lerner

CCNY

Notes on the Popular, or Reading Sensibility in Nineteenth-Century France


 

 
Tu, Oct. 30
4:00 PM
WLH 309
Présentée par la Délégation générale de l’Alliance Française de Paris aux Etats-Unis> Evelyne Bloch-Dano

Madame Proust



 

 
Th, Nov. 1
4:00 PM
Beinecke
Reading by poet/performer Christian Bök


 

 
Wed, Nov. 7
4:00 PM
RLL
Olga Borovaya
Stanford University


The Functions of French in Sephardi Culture in the Late Ottoman Period



 

Th to Sat
Nov 8-10
26th Annual Conference

Society for Interdisciplinary French
Seventeenth-Century Studies


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Représentation théâtrale:
Le mariage forcé de Molière

Info and reservation



 

 
Mon, Nov. 12
4:00 PM
WHC
Naomi Schor Memorial Lecture SeriesLinda Nochlin

Institute of Fine Arts (NYU)

Dislocating Tradition: Women Artists and the Body from Cassatt to Whiteread




 

 
Tu, Nov. 13
5:00 PM
RLL
Chocolate Lecture

John Merriman
Yale Department of History

Émile Henry, the Café Terminus and the Origins of Modern Terrorism in
Fin-de-Siècle Paris



 

 
Th, Nov. 15
7:00 PM
York 212
Avant-Garde Film Series

CORPORA LUMINUM
The Body in New French Experimental Cinema
Oeuvres présentées:

Empreinte de Xavier Bært
(16mm, 12min, 2004)

Hymen de Carole Arcega
(16mm/vidéo, 10min, 2003)

Tchao Mambo de Delphine Lest
(16mm/vidéo, 4min, 2003)

Dissolutions de Philippe Cote
(16mm, 23min, 2001)

Questions should be directed to:
<grant.wiedenfeld@yale.edu>




Th, Nov. 29
4:00 PM
RLL
Jérôme Game
American University in Paris

Temporality and Political Bodies : A Study of Jean Eustache's La Maman et la putain 




Wed, Dec. 5
4:00 PM
WHC, Rm 208

Froma Zeitlin
Charles Ewing Professor of Classics and Comparative Literature
Princeton University

Martyrdom Transfigured: The Holocaust and André Schwarz-Bart's The Last of the Just (Le dernier des justes)

Sponsored by the Judaic Studies Department




Tu, Dec. 11
4:00 PM
RLL
Pascale Casanova
CRAL-EFISAL, Paris

Le Méridien de Greenwich littéraire: Réflexions sur le temps de la littérature




Spring 08





Th, Jan 24
4:00 PM
RLL
Stefanos Geroulanos
Johns Hopkins University

Blanchot on Freedom, Between Theology and Literature




Tu, Jan 29
4:00 PM
RLL
Yue Zhuo
New York University

Par-delà la société: les lieux fantasmés du dernier Barthes




Th, Jan 31
4:00 PM
RLL
Brian Reilly
Yale University

Getting the Blues in Old French Literature




Fr, Feb 1
WHC &
212 York
Co-sponsored with Film Studies Program Cinema at the Whitney

2pm: Disorder (Olivier Assayas, 1986)
3:30pm: Discussion with Olivier Assayas and Kent Jones
7pm: Cold Water (Olivier Assayas, 1994)
9pm: Clean (Olivier Assayas, 2004)




Mon, Feb 4
4:00 PM
RLL
Marie Dollé
Université d'Amiens

Langues d'exil, langues d'accueil. Ces écrivains qui changent de langue




Tu, Feb. 19
4:00 PM
RLL
Alice Kaplan
Duke University

A Camus Syndrome



March - April





Mon, Mar 31
4:00 PM
Location TBA
Sponsored by the History Department

Dominique Kalifa
Universite de Paris I

Les bagnes coloniaux de l'armee francaise




3, 11, 18, 24, 29, April 08
212 York St.

Tournee Film Festival (a FACE program)
Co-sponsored by Dept. of French, PIER, & Film Studies Program

April 3
6:00 PM: Workshop in French: "Tools for teaching a film in a language class"
7:00 PM: Comme une image, Dir Agnes Jaoui, 2004

April 11
7:00 PM: Daratt, Dir. Mahamat Saleh Haroun, 2006

April 18
6:00 PM: Workshop in English"Technique for Analyzing a film"
7:00 PM: Stupeur et Tremblements, dir Alain courneau, 2003

April 24
7:00 PM: Le Grand Voyage, Dir. Ismael Ferroukhi, 2004

April 29
7:00 PM: Mondovino, Jonathan Nossiter, 2004




Tu, Apr 15
4:00 PM
RLL
GAFS LECTURE

Lawrence Kritzman
Dartmouth

Hauntological Mater and Sartre's Family Romance




Tu, Apr 22
4:00 PM
RLL
Judith Mayne
Ohio State University



Strangers in the House:  Continental Films and French Occupation Cinema. 






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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