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Friday, October 6th at 8am
Annual student conference: "Locating Empire: Seduction, Domination and Revolt in the French Cultural Reach."
Keynote address by Eloise Brière, State University of New York at Albany.
Conference will feature a concert of 17th and 18th century music from France and Nouvelle-France on period instruments.
Sponsored by the PhD program in French and the Doctoral Students' Council.
Conference Program
Martin Segal Theatre and Room 4202.
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Wednesday, October 18th at 4pm-6pm
Pedagogy Seminar: L'enseignement des langues étrangères à partir de réflexions trouvées chez Charles Bally, successeur de Ferdinand de Saussure.
Guest speaker: Claire Forel, from l'Université de Genève.
Room 4202. |
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Friday, October 20th at 8am
Interdisciplinary Group for French 17th Century Studies annual conference:
"Fortune and Fatality: Performing the Tragic in Early Modern France (1655-1715)."
Keynote address by Distinguished Professor Domna Stanton.
Conference will feature a concert of 17th and 18th century French music on period instruments.
Conference Program
Martin Segal Theatre and Room 4202.
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Thursday, October 26th at 5pm
"The Legacy of Silence"
A talk by Marie-Célie Agnant (in English)
Born in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Marie-Célie Agnant has been living in Quebec since 1970. She is the author of the novels La Dot de Sara (1995; 2000), Le Livre d'Emma (2001, 2004) and Un Alligator nommé Rosa (2006) ; the novellas Le Silence comme le sang (1997), Le vieil homme à moitié pierre (1997), as well as several youth novels, short stories and a poetry collection. Her work has been translated in several languages including English, Spanish and Dutch.
French Department Lounge, Room 4202
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Monday October 30 from 5:00 to 7:00 pm
David Lepoutre
Professor of Sociology, University of Amiens
"The 'Banlieue': Adolescent Street Culture in a Working-Class Housing Project in a Parisian Suburb"
Room 9204
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Wednesday, November 15th at 5pm
J. Michael Dash, Professor of French at New York University
"Martinique is (not) a Polynesian Island: The Detours of French West
Indian Identity"
Rooms 9204-9205
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Friday, December 1st at 12pm-2pm
The PhD in French Program invites you to its fourth event in our Pedagogy Series: "The Challenges of Teaching French in a Four-Year Liberal Arts College.” Our invited speaker is Binita Mehta, (Ph.D. CUNY Graduate Center, 1997), Manhattanville College.
French Department Lounge 4202
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Friday, December 15th at 5pm
End of the semester party for French faculty and students.
French Department Lounge 4202
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Monday, January 22nd at 5:30pm-7:30pm
The Dreyfus Affair
A seminar with
Antoinette Blum, Professor of French at Lehman College and the Graduate Center; Deputy Executive Officer of the French Ph.D. Program at the Graduate Center; International Secretary of the Société Internationale d'Histoire de l'Affaire Dreyfus (SIHAD)
Lorraine Beitler, Professor Emeritus, CUNY; Curator of the Dreyfus Collection at the University of Pennsylvania
James Melo, ERC's musicologist and Senior Editor at RILM
When the Jewish captain Alfred Dreyfus was accused of treason in 1894 by a French military tribunal and imprisoned, French society erupted into a fireball of anti-Semitism and political partisanship that called into question the very nature of French identity. This tragic private drama played out in a very public arena; not only the press but also artists, writers, and musicians became entangled in a controversy that lasted almost two decades and continues to resonate to this day. The seminar will address the cultural, political, and musical repercussions of the Dreyfus Affair and its relevance for today's political climate. Images from the extensive Dreyfus Collection of the University of Pennsylvania will be shown and discussed.
Elebash Recital Hall
Free for CUNY students, faculty, and staff
General Admission: $10
For more information: 212-817-8606; jmelo@gc.cuny.edu
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