Events 2008-2009
Fall 08 | Spring 09
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
| Tu, Sept.16 4:00 RLL |
Christian Delage Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales Presenting his film: "Nuremberg: The Nazis Facing their Crimes" (2007) Screening followed by Q&A |
| Tu, Sept.23 4:00 RLL |
Andrew Curran Wesleyan University "Enlightenment Meditations:On the Human and Human Merchandise" |
| Tu, Oct. 14 4:00 RLL |
Sarah Kay Princeton "Parrots and nightingales: lyric insertion, lyric quotation, and the evolution of European poetry" |
| Th, Oct. 23 4:00 PM RLL |
Elisabeth Hodges Department of French & Italian Miami University “The Poetics of Eccentricity” |
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| Nov 2-3 WHC |
Whitney Humanities Center Sponsored by Film Studies Program & French Cultural Services Visit by Director Claire Denis  Sunday, Nov. 2 7pm : 35mm screening of Beau Travail (2000) Monday, Nov. 3 2pm: 35mm screening 4:30pm: Claire Denis talks Cinema with Jean-Michel Frodon (Editor, Cahiers du Cinema) 6:30pm: 35mm Screening of L’Intrus (The Intruders, 2004) introduced by Claire Denis |
| Th, Nov 6 4:00 PM RLL |
Christophe Wall-Romana University of Minnesota "Poetry’s Imaginary After The Romantic Imagination" |
| Tu, Nov. 11 2:10-4:00PM Law School Rm 109 |
Sponsored by the Law School Pierre Legrand Universite Paris I "What Derrida Can Teach Comparatists-at-Law" |
| Nov. 13, 14 & 15 |
Off Brodaway Theater Britannicus |
| Dec. 5-6 4:00 PM TBA |
Co-sponsored with Film Studies Bazin Colloquim |
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| Spring 09 | |
| Th, Jan 22 4:00 RLL |
Karen Santos Da Silva New York University "Aux marges de la fiction: contextualisation de la pensée morale chez la Bruyère" |
| Tu, Jan 27 4:00 RLL |
Isabelle Mullet New York University "Théâtre de la pensée et scénographie des sciences chez Fontenelle" |
| Th, Jan 29 4:00 RLL |
Sylvaine Guyot Université Paris III "Trouble dans la représentation : Racine et les corps tragiques. (Pour une esthétique de l'action théâtrale)" |
| Wed, Feb 4 4:00 PM RLL |
Pierre Pachet "Baudelaire et les complots" |
| Tu, Feb 17 4:00 PM RLL |
Edwige Tamalet UC San Diego "Mediterranean Modernities and the Quandary of Nationalism in Late Colonial Algerian Literature." |
| Wed, Feb 18 4:00 PM RLL |
Sponsored by the Film Studies Program & Department of French Dominique Bluher Harvard University Joseph Morder's "Memoirs of a Tropical Jew" (1986): memoirs, journal, autobiography, or autofiction? |
| Wed, Mar 25 4:00 PM RLL |
Charlotte Simonin "Un nouveau regard sur le théâtre du 18ème siècle: le théâtre à travers la Correspondance de Françoise de Graffigny (1695-1758)" |
| Th, Mar 26 4:00 PM Room 119A McDougal Ctr HGS |
GAFS Lecture David Carroll University of California, Irvine "Torture or Democracy? - French Intellectuals' Responses to the Question" |
| Tu, Mar 31 4:00 PM RLL |
Florence Delay & Jacques Roubaud "Graal Théâtre" |
| Th, Apr. 9 4:00 PM RLL |
Yale French Studies Lecture Ari Blatt University of Virginia "Thinking Photography in Film: The Suspended Cinema of Agnes Varda and Jean Eustache" |
| Mon, Apr 13 4:00 PM WHC |
Sponsored by Whitney Humanities Center, Department of French, The Women Faculty Forum and The Women’s, Gender & Sexuality Studies Program Naomi Schor Lecture Series Judith Butler University of CA at Berkeley "What Does Gender Want of Me?" |
| Th, Apr 16 4:00 PM RLL |
Ronnie Scharfman SUNY Purchase College "Aimé Césaire: Recollecting the Man, Revisiting the Poetry" |
| Th, Apr 23 4:00 RLL |
Stéphane Gerson New York University "Thinking Against Nostradamus, 1750-1900." |
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.>
