Wednesday, February 8, 2012: Archipelagos and Words: A Tribute to Édouard Glissant
Friday, February 24, 2012: Annual Graduate Conference, Ph.D. Program in French: "Sentimental Geographies"
Friday, March 2, 2012: “An Incandescent Atmosphere”: Internationalist Cinema for Today, a talk by
Professor Nicole Brenez (University of Paris 3/Sorbonne Nouvelle)
Friday, March 16, 2012: Reception with the French Embassy. Room 4202. |
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Event Descriptions
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Archipelagos and Words: A Tribute to Édouard Glissant
Wednesday, February 8, 2012
Join us to celebrate the works and words of Édouard Glissant, one of the most original and illuminating thinkers of the 20th and 21st centuries. A reading by students from his courses and poetry clubs (in French with parts in translation), will be punctuated by musical interludes performed by his son Olivier Glissant. Mary Ann Caws will open and close the reading.
Martin Segal Theatre, 6:00-8:00pm
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Annual Graduate Conference, Ph.D. Program in French: "Sentimental Geographies"
Friday, February 24, 2012
A graduate conference organized by the Ph.D. Program in French, featuring research presentations and a poetry reading by Sylvie Kandé.
Martin Segal Theatre |
“An Incandescent Atmosphere”: Internationalist Cinema for Today, a talk by
Professor Nicole Brenez (University of Paris 3/Sorbonne Nouvelle)
Friday, March 2, 2012
"An Incandescent Atmosphere" explores the theory and practice of Internationalist Cinema, a historically-anchored form of political filmmaking which emerges from the belief that isolated sites of struggle are linked by a profound continuum of social and aesthetic concerns.
"One speaks of political passion as of an immediate impulse to action which is born on the permanent and organic terrain of economic life but which transcends it, bringing into play feelings and hopes in an incandescent atmosphere in which the very calculation of individual human life obeys laws different from those of individual profit."* [Antonio Gramsci, Carnets de prison 6-9, tr. M. Aymard and P. Fulchignoni, Paris, Gallimard, 1983, p. 334. Quotation from Carnet 8, written in 1931-32.]
This talk is one of the inaugural events in “French Cinema: History, Theory, Politics,” an ongoing series of cross-campus lectures sponsored by Columbia University and the Graduate Center. It is being held in conjunction with a ten-day retrospective of Internationalist Films curated by Nicole Brenez for Anthology Film Archives, and with a talk Professor Brenez will give at Columbia University on Thursday, March 1st.
Room 4202, 4:00-6:00pm
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