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Friday,
October 8 at
6:30pm
Talk by JACQUES JULLIARD, directeur délégué, Le Nouvel
Observateur “LES ETATS-UNIS, LA FRANCE, L’EUROPE : UNE
AMITIE CONFLICTUELLE” Jacques Julliard is the author of
Clemenceau, briseur de greves: l’affaire de
Draveil-Villeneuve-Saint-Georges (1965); La IVe [i.e.
Quatrième] Republique (1974-1958) (1968); Fernand Pelloutier
et les origins du syndicalisme d’action directe, (1971); La
CFDT d’aujourd’hui/Edmond Maire et Jacques Julliard (1975);
Contre la politque professionnelle (1977); Georges Sorel en
son temps/sous la direction de Jacques Julliard et Shlomo
Sand (1985); Le genie de la liberte (1990); Chroniques du
septieme jour (1991); Ce fascisme qui vient (1994); La
droite & la gauche; qu’est-ce qui les distingue
encore?/Claude Imbert, Jacques Julliard (1995) ; L’annee des
dupes (1996); Dictionnaire des intellectuels francais: les
personnes, les lieux, les moments/sous la direction de
Jacques Julliard et Michel Winock (1996); Pour la Bosnie
(1996); La mort du roi: autour de Francois Mitterrand: essai
d’ethnographie politique comparee/sous la direction de
Jacques Julliard (1999); Le choix de Pascal: entretiens avec
Benoit Chantre (2003)
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Skylight Room A
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Thursday,
October 14 at
5:00pm
DARWIN SMITH of the CNRS "The Role of Christ in Medieval
French Passion Plays: What Can We Know?"
Co-sponsored by
Ph.D. Program in French, the Ph.D. Program in Theatre, and
the Medieval Studies Certificate Program
Third Floor Theater Lounge
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Friday,
October 22 at
6:30pm
JULIA KRISTEVA “ON FRENCH THEORY” Sponsors: Ph.D. Programs
in French, English, and Hispanic and Luso-Brazilian
Literatures and Languages, the Certificate Program in
Women’s Studies, and the Center for the Humanities.
Julia Kristeva, writer, psychoanalyst, and professor of
linguistics, Institut Universitaire de France/Université de
Paris 7, and visiting Professor, New School University. A
leading intellectual figure of our time, Julia Kristeva is a
pioneering thinker in the fields of semiotics,
psychoanalysis, and literature, which she has rethought and
reshaped, profoundly impacting the Humanities. She has
written over thirty books on a vast range of subjects, most
recently the three-volume Le Génie féminin, 1, Hannah Arendt
(1999), 2, Melanie Klein (2000), and 3, Colette (2002).
Harold M. Proshansky Auditorium |
Friday,
October 29 at
6:30pm
PETER CONSENSTEIN (BMCC, CUNY) “Why Oulipo?” Peter
Consenstein is a Professor at the Borough of Manhattan
Community College. He is the author of Literary Memory,
Consciousness, and the Group Oulipo.room 9206/9207 |
Friday, December 3,
4:00-5:30pm
French/Urban Education Lounge Faculty Work in Progress
Series
French/Urban Education Lounge |
Friday,
December 10, 1-7:30 PM
In Conjunction with International Human Rights Day and in
Commemoration of Ahmadou Kourouma’s life, literary work and
engagement towards human rights causes in Africa.
Homage to AHMADOU KOUROUMA (1927-2003).
Keynote Speaker: BONIFACE MONGO-MBOUSSA Sponsored by the
Ph.D. Program in French with the Ralph Bunche Institute and
The Graduate Center Africa Research Group.
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the program for this event.
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Preview of Events Spring
2005
Monday, February 14, 6:00pm
The Henri Peyre French Institute with the Ph.D.
Program in French Celebrate the publication of the Yale
Anthology of Twentieth-Century French Poetry, edited by Mary
Ann Caws, published in summer 2004 and of the Henri Peyre
Letters, edited by John D. Kneller, also with Yale
University Press, appearing in 2005.
Skylight Room
Friday, February 18 at 7:00pm
Jean-Racine: Bajazet
United States premier, presented by
the Ph.D. Program in French
The Ph.D. Program in French at the Graduate Center, CUNY
will present, in French, a fully staged presentation of
Jean-Racine’s tragedy Bajazet. This will be the United
States premier of the play in its original form.
The production will present a major work of one of
France’s greatest playwrights in a manner that is both
faithful to the original performing style and relevant to
today’s political and cultural environment. In order to
achieve this, the staging, declamation, and gestures
employed will carefully reflect seventeenth-century French
practice as revealed through several fundamental
seventeenth-century writings relevant to theatrical
performance including the Traité du récitatif of Jean
Léonore de Grimarest, the Conférence sur l’expression of
Charles LeBrun, and the memoirs of Louis Racine, the
playwright’s son. The production will also feature
seventeenth-century theatrical costumes.
In addition to respecting seventeenth-century performing
convention, this production will highlight several societal
concerns of seventeenth-century France which remain relevant
today, including issues of cultural and national identity
and othering, gender roles, the political role of women,
dictatorship, and the rights of the individual. These
topics, along with a discussion of the work, its
interpretation and significance, and production techniques
employed, will be discussed in a pre-performance lecture
presented by directors Desmond Hosford and Angèle Branca.
Grounded in solid academic research and sensitivity to
the theatrical conventions of seventeenth-century France,
this production will present for the first time in the
United States one of the great dramatic works of
seventeenth-century France, complete and in its integrity,
as a thought-provoking commentary on modern issues of global
importance. The performance will be free and open to the
public.
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Elebash Recital Hall
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