Event Descriptions

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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Monday, March 5, 6:30-8:00pm
After '68:French Film, History, and Politics in the 1970s
A discussion to launch a film series on the Seventies French Cinema with
Jean-Michel Frodon, Editor-in-Chief of Cahiers du Cinéma and
Lynn Higgins, Parents Distinguished Research Professor in French and Italian at Dartmouth College and author of New Novel, New Wave, New Politics: Fiction and The Representation of History in Postwar France
Moderated by Sam DiIorio, French, Hunter College and Ivone Margulies, Film and Media Studies, Hunter College and The Graduate Center, CUNY.

Co-sponsored by the Alliance Francaise, the Film Studies Certificate Program,

the PhD Program in French, and the Henri Peyre French Institute

For more information on the film series, see http://www.fiaf.org/.

The Skylight Room (9100)

The Graduate Center, CUNY

365 Fifth Ave (btwn 34th & 35th)

FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC

No registration. Please arrive early for a seat. 212-817-2005 / ch@gc.cuny

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Thursday, April 19th at 5pm
From Native American 'Savages' Into Civilized French Catholics:
The Foundation of France's Assimilation Policy in the 17th Century

Sara Melzer, University of California at Los Angeles

Room 4202

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