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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:
His Life in
Letters, edited by John D. Kneller, also with Yale
University Press, appearing in 2005.
Welcoming remarks will be followed by readings of
selected letters, readings of selected translated poems, and
a reception.
Skylight Room, 9100, The Graduate Center
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Friday, February 18 at 7:30pm
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 Ph.D. Program in French at the C.U.N.Y. Graduate
Center will present a fully staged presentation of
Jean-Racine’s tragedy Bajazet. This will be the American
premiere 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 period
writings relevant to theatrical performance including Bary’s
Méthode pour bien prononcer un discours, Le Gras’s
La Rhétorique françoise, Grimarest’s Traité du
récitatif, Poisson’s Réflexions sur l’art de parler,
the Conférence sur l’expression of Charles Le Brun,
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 French
performing conventions, 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 personal agency.
These topics, along with a discussion of the work, its
interpretation and significance, and the production
techniques employed, will be explored in a pre-performance
discussion presented by directors Desmond Hosford and Angèle
Branca.
Grounded in solid academic research and sensitivity to
French theatrical conventions of the seventeenth century,
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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Monday, March 7, at
5:00pm
Christopher Prendergast Lecture:
Proust's Allegorical Body
Christopher Prendergast, Fellow of King's College Cambridge
and Honorary Professor at the University of Copenhagen.
He is the
General Editor for the new Penguin translation of Proust's
novel, In Search of Lost Time, and is the author of The
Triangle of Representation; Writing the City: Paris and the
Nineteenth Century; The Order of Mimesis
rooms 9204-9205
Wednesday,
March 9, at 6:30pm
Lecture by Emmanuel Moses
Emmanuel Moses will give a lecture, as guest of
Professor Marilyn Hacker, in the context of her Translation
course. Sponsored by the Ph.D. Program in French.
Emmanuel Moses was born in Casablanca in 1959, spent his
early childhood in France, lived in Israel from the ages of
ten to eighteen, when he returned to France where he still
lives. He is the author of four collections of poems and two
novels. He received the prix Max Jacob in 1993 for l "Les
Bâtiments de la compagnie asiatique" (Editions Obsidiane,
Paris 1993). He is also a translator -- of German, of
English, and of contemporary Hebrew poetry, notably of
Yehuda Amichai. A bilingual collection of his poems in
English, Last News of Mr. Nobody, with translations
by Marilyn Hacker, C.K. Williams, Kevin Hart and others, was
just published in the United States by the Other Press.
room 3306
Thursday,
March 10, at 6:00pm
Meet the 2005 MLA President Domna Stanton
The Ph.D. Program in French at The Graduate Center, CUNY
invites you to an evening around the work of the Modern
Languages Association with the MLA's new president for 2005,
Distinguished Professor Domna Stanton.
Martin Segal Theater
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Friday, April 22, from
2:00 to 6:00pm.
Patronage and Performance: Women Rulers and Spectacle in the
Renaissance
This Colloquium is cosponsored by the Ph.D. Program in
French and the Renaissance Studies Certificate Program. The
program includes:
Dympna Callaghan (English, Syracuse University) "Women as
Instigators and Audience of Early Modern Poetry"
Honey Meconi (Music, University of Rochester, Eastman
School of Music) "Marguerite of Austria and Music"
Break
Anthony Feros (History, University of Pennsylvania)
"Court, Representation and Patronage in 17th century Spain."
Malcolm Smuts (History, University of
Massachusetts-Boston) "Theater and Political Culture in the
Entourage of Henrietta Maria"
Recital Hall
Preview of Fall 2005 Events
Saturday, October 29, 2005
Fall 2005 Student Conference
"French Orientalism: Culture,
Politics, and the Imagined Other."
Please click on the above title to view the call for
proposals.
Martin Segal Theatre
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