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                   A Multi-Year Program on the Sixties
                        on Both Sides of the Atlantic

Sponsored by the PhD Program in French
With Support from the Henri Peyre French Institute and the Service Culturel of the French Embassy

March 27: The New Wave

May 5: Philosophies and Ideologies

 

 


                       Thursday, March 27 at 12-8pm
                                 GC, C201-202-203-204

The New Wave
Projection of three movies followed by discussion, presentations and a panel on the ways French films in the Sixties and after foreshadowed or reflected the events of 1968
12.00-2.30 pm: projection, Le Diable probablement (1978) by Robert Bresson

Followed by a presentation on post-68 disillusionment by Ivone Margulies, Associate Professor in the Film and Media Studies department at Hunter College and member of the Ph.D. program in Theatre at the Graduate Center
3.00-5.00 pm : opening sections of La Maman et la Putain (1973) by Jean Eustache

Followed by a presentation of the movie and its connection to the aftermath of May ‘68 by Sam Di Iorio, Associate Professor of French at Hunter College of CUNY
5.15-6.45 pm : projection Pierrot le Fou (1965) by Jean Luc Godard

Followed by a discussion and presentation on the premises of a cultural revolution in Godard’s masterpiece by Royal S. Brown, Chair of European Languages and Literatures at Queens College, and Professor of French, Film, and Music, at Queens College and the Graduate Center of CUNY
7.00- 8.00 pm : Panel discussion with faculty and doctoral students on film and the Sixties

 

    Monday, May 5 at 6pm
  GC,  Rooms 9206-9207

 

The Sixties: Philosophies and Ideologies

Emmanuelle Loyer and Peter Carravetta in conversation      
                            

Emmanuelle Loyer is professor of contemporary history at the Institut d'Etudes Politiques, Paris, and the author of, among other works, Mai 68 dans le texte (Complexe, 2008) Paris à New York: Intellectuels et artistes français en exil (1940-1947) (Hachette, 2007), and Le Théâtre citoyen de Jean Vilar, une utopie d'après-guerre (PUF, 1997).

Peter Carravetta is A. D'Amato Professor of Italian Studies at Stony Brook, and author, among other works, of Prefaces to the Diaphora: Rhetorics, Allegory, and the Interpretation of Postmodernity (Purdue University Press, 1991), Il Fantasma di Hermes: saggio su metodo, retorica, interpretare (Milella, 1996) and The Sun and Other Things (Guernica, 1998).


                           

Sponsored by the Ph.D. Program in French, and with support from the Service Culturel of the French Embassy
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